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Essential Living Skills: Basic Family Communication

Charlotte Shoup Olasen

Kansas State University, K-State Research and Extension (2016), 40 pp.

"Basic Family Communication is designed for families who are seeking to improve everyday communication among family members. This educational program emphasizes skill-building for improving family communication and interaction. It is NOT a replacement for families who need counseling or therapy to d ... more

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Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics

Dawn Mannay

London; New York: Routledge (2016), ix, 152 pp.

"This book is concerned with the process of applying visual methods as a tool of inquiry from design, to production, to analysis and dissemination. Drawing on research projects which reflect real-world situations, you will be methodically guided through the research process in detail, enabling you t ... more

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Handlungsempfehlungen für eine diversitätssensible Mediensprache

Frankfurt am Main: Goethe-Universität (2016), 94 pp.

"Im ersten Teil der Broschüre geht es um übergreifende Themen wie die Verwobenheit der Diversitätsdimensionen, die Möglichkeit, Diversität durch Binnenpluralität herzustellen, den Zusammenhang von Bildkomposition und Hierarchien und um die Besonderheiten des Mediums Video. Der zweite Teil beha ... more

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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change

Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.

"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr ... more

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Guidance Note on Use of Victims' Images
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Liberty Asia (2016), 25 pp.

"This Guidance Note is provided by Liberty Asia to NGOs across the Asia region as a suggested statement of best practice and guidance in relation to obtaining and using images of victims of human trafficking, slavery and forced labour. In addition to the Guidance Note, Liberty Asia has also provided ... more

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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female

Azmat Rasul, Arthur A. Raney

International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287

"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio ... more

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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums

Igor Krstic

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp.

"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse ' ... more

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Ratings, the State and Globalization: The Politics of Television Audience Measurement in Israel

Jérôme Bourdon, Nahuel Ribke

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 2 (2016), pp. 159-174

"This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the 'People Meter' (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neoliberal state, which brought about a new relation ... more

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Out of Syria, Inside Facebook

Dona Abboud

Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst (2016), 224 pp.

"During her studies at the University for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, Dona Abboud had mostly only contact via Facebook with her family and friends in Syria. The book presents 10 Syrian men and women with almost 2000 photos of their Facebook pages, supplemented by interviews and short biographi ... more

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Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space

Gisela Cánepa Koch, Ingrid Kummels (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2016), 242 pp.

"Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologie ... more

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Informe Regional sobre Transición a la TV Digital y Diversidad en Latinoamérica 2016

Observacom (2016), 5 pp.

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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State

Jacob Olidort

Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), xii, 76 pp.

"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons ... more

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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance

Can Candan, Suncem Kocer

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.

"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as ... more

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La comunicación pensada desde América Latina, 1960-2009

Erick Torrico Villanueva

Salamanca: Comunicación Social (2016), 268 pp.

"La Comunicación pensada desde América Latina (1960-2009) aborda las contribuciones a la constitución moderna del campo conceptual de la comunicación durante el periodo 1960-2009, así como los límites del pensamiento teórico comunicacional latinoamericano expresado en libros, artículos y tex ... more

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40.doc: Una historia del documental argentino en 40 películas

Gustavo Noriega, Marcelo Panozzo

Buenos Aires: Margen Izquierdo (2016), 307 pp.

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Nollywood Central

Jade L. Miller

London: Palgrave Macmillan;British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), 175 pp.

"Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue. ... more

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Public Libraries: Their New Role. Workshop Documentation

Barbara Lison, Natascha Reip, Frank Huysmans, Dan Mount

European Parliament, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, Culture and Education (2016), 138 pp.

"This briefing paper provides a short analysis of the impact that public libraries can have on the intellectual and cultural development of citizens with a particular focus on their vital role in providing an open public space for learning, culture and social communication. Following on from the ana ... more

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Area studies: Regionalstudien in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Carola Richter

In: Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz; Michael Meyen (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), pp. 95-108

"Area Studies sollen helfen, regionalspezifische Erklärungen für Kommunikationsprozesse zu finden, gleichzeitig aber auch die Integration dieser Erkenntnisse in regional übergreifende Forschung zu erlauben. Dies dient der Validierung bestehender Theoriekonzepte und trägt zu ihrer Erweiterung üb ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2016: (re)invention of TV Fiction Genres and Formats

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2016), 540 pp.

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Lifestyle TV

Laurie Ouellette

New York; London: Routledge (2016), vii, 186 pp.

"Lifestyle TV analyzes a burgeoning array of lifestyle formats on network and cable channels, from how-to and advice programs to hybrid reality entertainment built around the cultivation of the self as project, the ethics of everyday life, the mediation of style and taste, the regulation of health a ... more

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Guidance Note on Use of Victims' Images
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