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Lexique de la ville durable: 80 mots pour comprendre la ville en devenir

Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2016), 42 pp.

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The Scramble for Textbooks in Tanzania

Sonia Languille

African Affairs, volume 115, issue 458 (2016), pp. 73-96

"In 2014, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) government in Tanzania decided to discontinue the market-based system for textbook provision that was established in the early 1990s and revert to full state control. Drawing on the theory of political settlements and the literature on Tanzania's industrial po ... more

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Hands Off my Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries

Kendra Dupuy, James Ron, Aseem Prakasha

World Development, volume 84 (2016), pp. 299-311

"Many resource-strapped developing country governments seek international aid, but when that assistance is channeled through domestic civil society, it can threaten their political control. As a result, in the last two decades, 39 of the world’s 153 low- and middle-income countries have adopted la ... more

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Effects of Foreign Soap Operas on Young People: Case of Tangaza University College

Lounoi Santino

Tangaza: Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Tangaza University College, Thesis (2016), 51 pp.

"This study in a way established that soap operas have some positive contributions to the society. For example, the study shows that youth become more confident and social after watching soaps. However, in agreement with the objectives of this study, the negative effects of soap operas on young peop ... more

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Solar Powered Transmission: A Case Study from South Sudan

Issa Kassimu, Natalie Chang, Ann Charles

The Radio Community (TRC);Internews (2016), 62 pp.

"This document takes an in-depth look at the conversion to 100% solar power operation at a small community radio station called Mayardit FM in Turalei, South Sudan. Since the installation of the solar system in March 2016, the station has operated on 100% solar power (including its transmission), br ... more

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Repensando la investigación en ciencias sociales: Guía de trabajos de grado para comunicadores sociales

Rafael Loayza Bueno, Guadalupe Peres Cajías

La Paz: Universidad Católica Boliviana;Plural Editores (2016), 174 pp.

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Fixiert: Fotografische Quellen zur Verfolgung und Ermordung der Juden in Europa. Eine pädagogische Handreichung

Christoph Kreutzmüller, Julia Werner

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 63 pp.

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The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch (ed.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), xviii, 921 pp.

"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament; ... more

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Ethics and Visual Research Methods: Theory, Methodology, and Practice

Deborah Warr, Marilys Guillemin, Susan Cox, Jenny Waycott (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxi, 266 pp.

"This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of ethical issues associated with visual research methods. Considering the work of researchers across a range of disciplines using visual methods in research, it offers practical and thoughtful discussions of emerging methodological and ethic ... more

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Olhares em foco: Fotografia participativa e empoderamento juvenil

Daniel Meirinho

Covilhã (PO): Universidad da Beira Interior (2016), 366 pp.

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Länderbericht Israel

Gisela Dachs (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 765 pp.

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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
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Noha Mellor, Khalil Hanna Rinnawi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.

"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa ... more

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The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique

Pramod K. Nayar

London: Routledge (2016), xvi, 212 pp.

"This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre's engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretica ... more

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Der Vergleich als Metamethode in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Barbara Thomaß

In: Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft

Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz; Michael Meyen (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), pp. 49-65

"Der Beitrag stellt die Erkenntnisgewinnung durch Vergleich als das zentrale Merkmal komparativer Forschung vor und erläutert, wie das Komparative als Kern eines Forschungsvorhabens in der Kommunikationsforschung einzulösen ist. Er zeichnet die bisherige Entwicklung der komparativen Kommunikations ... more

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Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing, Essays in Honour of Dr Henry Chakava at 70

Kiarie Kamau, Kirimi Mitambo (eds.)

Henry Chakava (honoured person)

Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers (2016), xxvii, 288 pp.

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Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

Ramon Ramon Lobato, James Meese (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2016), 203 pp.

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Sociological Perspectives on Media Piracy in the Philippines and Vietnam

Vivencio O. Ballano

Singapore: Springer (2016), xiv, 259 pp.

"This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systems by applying sociological perspectives to examine the socio-economic forces behind the advent of piracy in the regio ... more

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Handbuch Werbeforschung

Gabriele Siegert, Werner Wirth, Patrick Weber, Juliane A. Lischka (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), 772 pp.

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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Hillary L. Chute

Cambridge, Mass.; London: Belknap Press;Harvard University Press (2016), 359 pp.

"In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by d ... more

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The International History of Communication Study

Peter Simonson, David W. Park (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2016), xvii, 527 pp.

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