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Online Video Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 85 pp.

"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries ... more

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Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Patricia White

Durham: Duke University Press (2015), ix, 270 pp.

Researching Children’s Rights Globally in the Digital Age: Report of a Seminar Held on 12-14 February 2015

Sonia Livingstone, Jasmina Byrne, Monica Bulger

London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE);UNICEF (2015), 37 pp.

Grassroots Comics as Participatory Communication in the Khwe Community, South Africa

Andrew Dicks

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 109-132

"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato ... more

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From Jesus to the Internet: A History of Christianity and Media

Peter Horsfield

New York: Wiley (2015), 336 pp.

"From Jesus to the Internet is the first systematic survey of the historical relationship between Christianity and media. Although many see the relationship between religion and media as a distinctly modern phenomenon, in this book the scholar Peter Horsfield examines Christianity through its histor ... more

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Asian Comics

John A. Lent

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.

"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp ... more

Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 268 pp.

"Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu's impact on Korea's nationa ... more

Eritrea: Von der Befreiung zur Unterdrückung

Katja Dorothea Buck, Mirjam van Reisen (eds.)

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2015), 152 pp.

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Quality Criteria in Children TV: Narrative and Script Writing for Children's TV 0-6

Valerio Fuenzalida

Santiago de Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile;Libros Patagonia (2015), 40 pp.

"This text is a review of some changes that have recently taken place in literary creation and script writing in TV programs for children 0-6; a complex set of different influences has triggered changes on children conception; a new image of the child has emerged, different from the old behaviorist ... more

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An Ever-Widening Screen

Peter Malone

Ballarat: Connor Court Publishing (2015), 501 pp.

"We all have many strands in our lives. In this memoir, Peter Malone takes us through his various strands. He is a man of a certain vintage, mainly Irish heritage. He grew up as a Catholic in a pre-Vatican II Church. His call was to a religious congregation from the late 1950s and to priesthood from ... more

From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

Maja Kominko (ed.)

Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.

"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide ... more

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Visionäre Afrikas: Der Kontinent in ungewöhnlichen Porträts

Moustapha M. Diallo (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 366 pp.

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Investigación latinoamericana de recepción: Un largo camino andado, una historia viva para contar

Nilda Jacks, Guillermo Orozco Gómez

In: La contribución de América Latina al campo de la comunicación: historia, enfoques teóricos, epistemológicos y tendencias de la investigación

César Bolaño; Delia Crovi Druetta; Gustavo Cimadevilla (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros (2015), pp. 101-130

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Remaking 'area Studies' in Journalism Studies

Silvio Waisbord

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 30-36

Deutscher Kolonialismus - ein vergessenes Erbe? Postkolonialität in der rassismuskritischen Bildungsarbeit

Susanne Heyn, Deborah Krieg, Mendel Meron

Frankfurt am Main: Bildungsstätte Anne Frank (2015), 48 pp.