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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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The State of News Photography: A Survey of Photojournalists’ Attitudes Toward Work Practices, Technology and Life in the Digital Age

Adrian Hadland, Paul Lambert, Camilla Barnett
University of Stirling; World Press Photo Foundation (2016), 27 pp.
"There has been a significant change in the employment arrangement of photographers from 2015 to 2016. The number of photojournalists working for themselves (self-employed) has declined from 60% in 2015 to 54% of respondents in 2016. Fewer respondents are working full-time as photographers, down mar ... 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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National Survey Into the Reading and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans 2016

South African Book Development Council; TNS (2016), 103 pp.
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Clásicos del cine mexicano: 31 películas emblemáticas desde la época de oro hasta el presente

Christian Wehr (ed.)
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2016), 656 pp.
"El objetivo que se ha perseguido con esta antología es el de presentar el desarrollo histórico del cine mexicano durante 80 años, así como también el de dar a conocer la riqueza de los temas y géneros que caracteriza la producción cinematográfi ca de México, desde sus principios hasta las ... more
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Hacia la comunicación decolonial

Erick R. Torrico Villanueva
Sucre: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2016), 194 pp.
"[...] el nuevo pensamiento crítico latinoamericano se plantea remontar los constreñimientos largamente establecidos por el occidentocentrismo a la vez que despejar la ruta de vetustas o frescas promesas mesiánicas. En lo que concierne a la Comunicación se trata, en lo básico, de reexaminar el ... more
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A Journalist's Guide to Working with Social Sources

Claire Wardle
First Draft (2016), 56 pp.
"Increasingly, the most powerful images from a news event are captured by eyewitnesses. The proliferation of smartphones and the popularity of social networks means that before a professional camera crew can arrive at the scene, there will almost always be footage of events already uploaded to the l ... more
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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelaca, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 492 pp.
"The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The boo ... more
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How ‘sustainable’ is development communication research?

Jan Servaes
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 7 (2016), pp. 701-710
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Estudios sobre consumos culturales en la Argentina contemporánea

Mabel Grillo, Vanina Papalini, Sebastián Benítez Larghi (eds.)
PISAC; CLACSO; Consejo de Decanos (2016), 247 pp.
"Este libro muestra los resultados de una investigación cuyo objetivo fue explorar la producción académica sobre Consumos Culturales en la Argentina en el período 2000-2012. Con el fin de poder delimitar el alcance del estudio, en un primer momento se definieron las dimensiones que esta indagaci ... more
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Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter

Kai Merten, Lucia Krämer (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2016), 262 pp.
"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony ... more
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Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

Arthur Asa Berger
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage, 4th ed. (2016), xvii, 417 pp.
"Media and Communication Research Methods, Fourth Edition is a concise and practical text designed to give students a step-by-step introduction to conducting media and communication research. Offering real-world insights along with the author’s signature animated style, this text makes the discuss ... more
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Participatory Action Research for Civic Engagement

Marcus Foth, Martin Brynskov
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Eric Gordon, Paul Mihailidis (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 563-580
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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda

Hannah Mathews
Save the Children (2016), 57 pp.
"A qualitative study into the readership preferences of children in Rwanda, from the perspective of over seventy children under the age of nine from around the country, and ten key publishing houses in Kigali." (Abstract)
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Arab Book Publishing

Christof Galli
In: Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
De Gruyter Saur (2016), pp. 1-27
"The persistence of print publishing means that librarians must continue to collect and pay attention to publishing developments in this type of material. The fractured environment and lack of unified distribution mechanisms, a situation that is only exacerbated by ongoing turmoil in the region will ... more
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Media Audience Research: A Guide for Professionals
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Graham Mytton, Peter Diem, Piet Hein van Dam
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 3rd ed. (2016), xvi, 281 pp.
"This book outlines all the methods for conducting research—both active and passive as well as quantitative and qualitative—in all forms of media, including new media such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media. It explains the ways in which media audiences are measured, understood and ... more
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El desarrollo de las bibliotecas en Bolivia

Luis Oporto Ordóñez
Ciencia y Cultura (La Paz), volume 20, issue 36 (2016), pp. 47-80
"Breve estudio sobre el desarrollo de las bibliotecas públicas en Bolivia. Primero se revisan la serie de leyes que el Estado ha ido promulgando para fomentar su desarrollo, y consecuentemente, la política cultural del país, incluyendo a los libros como parte del patrimonio cultural. Luego se ana ... more
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Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide

Hua Zhu (ed.)
Chichester; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 347 pp.
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Eritrea: From Liberation to Oppression

Katja Dorothea Buck, Mirjam van Reisen (eds.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2016), 167 pp.
"This publication will contribute to ensuring that the breadth of human rights violations in Eritrea becomes known, and that the issue of human trafficking migrates more strongly upwards into the public eye." (Back cover)
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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