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Theories of the Information Society

Frank Webster

London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2014), xii, 404 pp.

"Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information Soci ... more

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Fragebogen: Ein Arbeitsbuch

Rolf Porst

Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 4. Aufl. (2014), 210 pp.

"Dieses Buch ist ein „Praxisbuch“ im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Es soll Forscherinnen und Forschern, die sich bei ihrer empirischen Forschungsarbeit sozialwissenschaftlicher Befragungen bedienen wollen, Hilfestellung geben bei der Entwicklung ihrer Fragebogen, ganz konkret und im Detail. In dem ... more

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Grundbegriffe der interkulturellen Kommunikation

Hamid Reza Yousefi

Konstanz: UVK (2014), 126 pp.

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The Integrity of the Image: Current Practices and Accepted Standards Relating to the Manipulation of Still Images in Photojournalism and Documentaty Photography

David Campbell

World Press Photo Academy (2014), 20 pp.

"The research is based on a survey of 45 industry professionals from 15 countries [...] The principal finding is that there is a de facto global consensus on how media organizations understand the manipulation ofimages. Manipulation is seen as involving material changes to an image through the addit ... more

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Advances in African and Arab Science Journalism: Capacity Building and New Newsroom Structures Through Digital Peer-To-Peer Support

Jan Lublinski, Inka Reichert, Augustin Denis, Jean-Marc Fleury, Olfa Labassi, Christoph Spurk

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 4-22

"Journalists who regularly cover science, health, environment and technology in Africa and the Arab world face a number of difficulties: Lack of elementary resources for journalistic research, and newsroom environments that are not always supportive of specialised reporting. Also a need for capacity ... more

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The Political Economic History of the Introduction of Television in Kenya

George Ngugi King'ara

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 73-86

"This article explores the factors surrounding the introduction of television broadcasting in Kenya, and those issues that have historically instigated how television producers in Kenyan television conceptualise audiences. It highlights that the political economic legacy of the beginnings of broadca ... more

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The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), xiii, 586 pp.

"The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globali ... more

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Cultura y desarrollo económico en Iberoamérica

Ernesto Espíndola (coord.)

Madrid: Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI);Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) (2014), 345 pp.

"La cultura es la riqueza de los pueblos que defienden su identidad y que tratan de reinventarse en un mundoglobalizado, multicultural y diverso. Es imprescindible, pues, impulsar la reflexión sobre el papel de la cultura en su desarrollo. Esta segunda edición del estudios "Cultura y desarrollo ec ... more

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Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East

Anthony Downey (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2014), 359 pp.

"Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of c ... more

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Slum Discourse, Media Representations and Maisha Mtaani in Kibera, Kenya

Brian Ekdale

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 92-108

"This article examines the discourse surrounding Kibera, a highly populated low-income community in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on 11 months of fieldwork and interviews with 56 Kibera residents, this article discusses the disconnect between the lives experienced by residents and the hyperbolic and essenti ... more

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Mali oder das Ringen um Würde: Meine Reisen in einem verwundeten Land

Charlotte Wiedemann

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2014), 301 pp.

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Discussing the Igbo Language on the Igbo Internet Radio: Explicating Ethnolinguistic Vitality

Uchenna Onuzulike

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 285-298

"There is a growing concern about the decline and possible extinction of the Igbo language. The Igbo are primarily located in the south-eastern part of Nigeria. This study analysed four interviews on Igbo Radio, an Igbo Internet radio station, to ascertain how Internet radio is being utilized in dis ... more

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Al-Jazeera and the Arab Uprisings: The Language of Images and a Medium's Stancetaking

Assem Nasr

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 7, issue 4 (2014), pp. 397-414

"This study (a) investigates the complex set of emergent meanings from Al-Jazeera's visual narratives about itself, and (b) analyzes how Al-Jazeera's visual texts articulate a broader set of nationalist meanings concerning Qatar, its home country. Rather than a content analysis of language, visual e ... more

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China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century

Matthew D. Johnson, Keith B. Wagner, Tianqui Yu, Luke Vulpiani (eds.)

New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xvi, 349 pp.

"Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur cultu ... more

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Der Fragebogen in der Sozialforschung

Thomas Petersen

Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 322 pp.

"Wie sieht ein guter Fragebogen in der Sozialforschung aus? Thomas Petersen kennt aus seiner Praxis als Projektleiter am Institut für Demoskopie in Allensbach alle Anforderungen, aber auch die Tücken. Ausführlich geht er auf Fragetypen und -techniken, Fragebogenlogik und -sprache sowie auf die Dr ... more

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Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East: A Six-Nation Survey

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 122 pp.

"Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East is the result of survey research in six Arab nations involving more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews in nationally representative samples—citizens and expatriates alike—and conducted in Arabic, English and French. The result is a portrait of how peop ... more

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Directory of World Cinema: Latin America

Isabel Maurer Queipo (ed.)

Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2013), 251 pp.

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African Literary NGOs: Power, Politics, and Participation

Doreen Strauhs

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 256 pp.

"Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies." (Publisher ... more

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Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

Nigel Eltringham (ed.)

New York: Berghahn (2013), vi, 183 pp.

"The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military o ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.

"After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center of world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for thi ... more