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De-Westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment

Silvio Waisbord, Claudia Mellado
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 361-372
"The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the "de-westernization" of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge." (Abstract)
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Fernando Birri: Eine Bibliographie

Hans-Jürgen Wulff, Ludger Kaczmarek, Franz Obermeier
Westerkappeln: DerWulff.de (2014), 22 pp.
"Fernando Birri wurde als Nachkomme italienischer Auswanderer am 13.3.1925 in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (Argentinien) geboren. Er ist nicht nur (Dokumentarfilm-) Regisseur, sondern auch Theoretiker, Dichter und Puppenspieler. Birri studierte Film am Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rom; schon ... more
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Information for All: European Standards for Making Information Easy to Read and Understand

Brussels: Inclusion Europe (2014), 38 pp.
"These standards are to help people make their information easy to read and understand. We have made these standards as part of a project that took place in Europe. People from 8 European countries met several times to write these standards. The project which brought these people together was called ... more
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BBC Media Action’s Governance Research: Emerging Evidence and Learning

Josephine Casserly, Sara Elias, Zoe Fortune
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 57 pp.
"The paper synthesises findings from quantitative and qualitative data from across African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries. The second section draws on baseline data from Bangladesh, Burma, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories and Sierra Leone to explore the media and governance contex ... more
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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.
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Caricaturistes: Fantassins de la démocratie

[Arles]: Actes Sud; Cartooning for Peace (2014), 415 pp.
"Caricaturistes - Fantassins de la démocratie est publié à l’occasion de la sortie du film-événement éponyme, co-écrit et produit par Radu Mihaileanu et réalisé par Stéphanie Valloatto, qui présente douze grands caricaturistes internationaux, reconnus pour leur courage et leur engagemen ... more
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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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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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Content Analysis: Measuring the Success of Journalism Capacity Building

Christoph Spurk, Jan Lublinski
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 8 pp.
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The Return of the Cultural Exception and its Impact on International Agreements

Marlen Bartsch
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2014), 12 pp.
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An Atlas of the Sahara-Sahel: Geography, Economics and Security

Paris: OECD (2014), 254 pp.
"Historically, the Sahara plays an intermediary role between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commercial and human exchanges are intense and based on social networks that now include trafficking. Understanding their structure, geographical and organizational mobility of criminal groups and migra ... more
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Enjoying books together: A guide for teachers on the use of books in the classroom

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Save the Children (2014), 35 pp.
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Ratings Analysis: Audience Measurement and Analytics
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James G. Webster, Patricia F. Phalen, Lawrence W. Lichty
New York; London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2014), xvi, 328 pp.
"This 4th edition of Ratings Analysis describes and explains the current audience information system that supports economic exchange in both traditional and evolving electronic media markets. Responding to the major changes in electronic media distribution and audience researchin recent years, Ratin ... more
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Grundbegriffe der interkulturellen Kommunikation

Hamid Reza Yousefi
Konstanz: UVK (2014), 126 pp.
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Filmanalyse

Oliver Keutzer, Sebastian Lauritz, Claudia Mehlinger, Peter Moormann
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2014), vi, 313 pp.
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Storytelling in virtuellen Welten

David Lochner
Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 297 pp.
"David Lochner gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten des Erzählens im virtuellen Raum. Ob Animationsfilm, digitales Spiel oder interaktiver Film – sie alle bieten Autoren und Produzenten neue Wege, Geschichten zu erzählen: Visionen, Träume und Welten zu entwickeln, die da ... more
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Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics

Joshua Lerner
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2014), viii, 267 pp.
"In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable pro ... more
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Der Buchmarkt in Slowenien

Steffen Hillebrecht
Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Buchwissenschaft (2014), 24 pp.
"Die Faszination des slowenischen Buchmarkts ergibt sich aus mehreren Merkmalen. Zum einen handelt es sich europaweit gesehen um den kleinsten abgrenzbaren Buchmarkt, wenn man von Island absieht. Kleinstaaten wie Liechtenstein, Monaco oder San Marino gehören sprachlich zu dem größeren deutschen b ... more
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Playing with Religion in Digital Games

Heidi A. Campbell, Gregory Price Grieve (eds.)
Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2014), ix, 301 pp.
"Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game 'Okami' to the internationally popular 'The Legend of Zelda' and 'Halo', many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the ... more
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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present

Dan Mazur, Alexander Danner
London: Thames & Hudson (2014), 319 pp.
"The book traces comics’ evolution up to the emergence of today's global, digital scene and the medium’s likely future. Robert Crumb and Gabrielle Bell, Jack Kirby and Alan Moore, Moebius, Yumiko Oshima and Osamu Tezuka are just a few of the hundreds of artists and writers included – making it ... more