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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment

HarrisX;Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.

"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi ... more

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Cartooning for Peace = Dessins pour la Paix
Inspiring Practice

Paris: Cartooning for Peace (2023)

"Cartooning for Peace is an international network of committed press cartoonists who use humour to fight for respect for cultures and freedoms: 344 cartoonists in 78 countries [...] Our values. Cartooning for Peace is attached to the respect for pluralism of cultures and opinions. In the events we ... more

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The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries

George Ogola (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 233 pp.

"This book explores how television in the global South is 'future-proofing' its continued relevance, addressing its commercial, social and political viability in a constantly changing information ecosystem. The chapter contributions in the book are drawn from countries in East, South and West Africa ... more

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A Century of Struggle: Afghanistan's Media Development Under Monarchies

Chen Qiang, Qurban Hussain Pamirzad

Xi' an Jiaotong Unviersity - School of Journalism and New Media (2023), 23 pp.

"This paper has used a series of historical sources, mainly in the Persian language, to explore the one-century history of Afghanistan’s media. The country has 150 years of media history, of which a century has occurred during the monarchy's political system. This study explains the chronological ... more

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Informe Cuatrienal SELAAC

Cáritas América Latina y El Caribe (2023), 131 pp.

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Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture

S. M. Shameem Reza, Ratan Kumar Roy (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 250 pp.

"Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan ... more

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Media activism, artivism and the fight against marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South communication

Andrea Medrado, Isabella Rega

New York: Routledge (2023), 186 pp.

"This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South. The authors, Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega, emphasise the urgent need to engage in South-to-South dialogues in order to create more sustainable connections ... more

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Communication Science in Türkiye: How Communication Research and Education Developed Over the Years

Füsum Alver, Aynur Sarisakaloglu

Publizistik, volume 68 (2023), pp. 89-108

"In Türkiye, communication science falls under the category of social sciences and is regarded as an interdisciplinary scientific field focused on empirical research. The field is influenced by communication science developments of the West in terms of developing theories and methodology, and it fa ... more

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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture

Seok-Kyeong Hong, Dal Yong Jin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 238 pp.

"This book observes and analyses transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing ... more

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Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity

Md Azalanshah Syed, Christine Runnel, Rosya Izyanie Shamshudeen

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120

"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I ... more

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio

Kathryn McDonald, Hugh Chignell (eds.)

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2023), xiv, 554 pp.

"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to po ... more

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Francisco José Virtuoso y la crisis de la democracia en Venezuela

Francisco José Virtuoso

Andrés Cañizález (comp.)

Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB);ABediciones;Fundación Centro Gumilla (2023), 279 pp.

"Hay que agradecer al profesor Andrés Cañizález el esfuerzo de haber hecho una selección y curaduría de un conjunto de textos del pensamiento del rector Francisco José Virtuoso, SJ, sobre el proceso político vivido en Venezuela desde finales de la década de los 80 hasta alcanzar el período ... more

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Fotografie in der kulturellen Kinder- und Jugendbildung

Alfred Holzbrecher, Jan Schmolling (eds.)

Weinheim; Basel: Beltz Juventa (2023), 281 pp.

"Fotografie ist das Individual- und Massenmedium unserer Zeit. Durch die Digitalisierung hat es für die Bildungsarbeit zusätzliche Relevanz erhalten. Mit dieser Publikation wird Fotopädagogik im Kontext von Kultureller Bildung entlang der Schlüsselbegriffe Subjektorientierung, Teilhabe, wertsch� ... more

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Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations

Souvik Mukherjee

London: Bloomsbury (2023), ix, 247 pp.

"The book Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent. Development, Culture(s) and Representations is the first ever comprehensive presentation and discussion of material spanning over all nations of South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Discussed b ... more

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Instant Messaging meets Diary Studies: Employing WhatsApp in Audio Diary Research with Female Journalists in Burkina Faso

Viviane Schönbächler

ZQF Zeitschrift für qualitative Forschung, volume 24, issue 1 (2023), pp. 139-155

"This paper discusses the challenges and opportunities of using instant messaging (IM) technologies for diary studies. The discussion shows that IM as well as diary methods are both highly adaptable and flexible tools for qualitative data collection. In combination, they allow for innovative designs ... more

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Documentaries and China's national image

Yi Chen

London; New York: Routledge (2023), viii, 245 pp.

"Based on theoretical frameworks of media sociology, political economy of communication and cultural studies, the book traces the development of Chinese documentary and discusses social transformation and cultural representation embodied in documentaries related to China. It is revealed how these wo ... more

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Über das Verbrennen von Büchern

Erich Kästner

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 51 pp.

"Am 10. Mai 1933 ließen die Nationalsozialisten in rund 20 deutschen Universitätsstädten die Bücher „undeutscher“ Autoren verbrennen. Besonders öffentlichkeitswirksam inszeniert wurde die Büchervernichtung unter tatkräftiger Beteiligung Studierender und in Anwesenheit von Joseph Goebbels ... more

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Social media images and conflicts

Mette Mortensen, Ally McCrow-Young (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 137 pp.

"This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in rela ... more