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Tibet Media Use 2012: Word-of-Mouth a Top Source for Reliable Information

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2012), 46 slides

"Television is the most widely used media among this population: 9 out of 10 interviewed reported watching it at least once last month; satellite dishes are the dominant way of receiving television signal in rural areas (Cable more prevalent in urban areas). Chinese channels are largely reserved for ... more

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Global science journalism report: Working conditions & practices, professional ethos and future expectations

London: SciDevNet (2012), 38 pp.

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Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences

Lior Gideon (ed.)

New York: Springer (2012), 520 pp.

"Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in ... more

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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 1: Forms

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2012), xi, 208 pp.

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Der Nahe Osten in hundert Köpfen: Biografische Skizzen zu Zeitgeschichte und Gegenwart

Daniel Gerlach, Christian H. Meier (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 211 pp.

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Nur mit klarer Strategie zum Erfolg: Drei lateinamerikanische Fachbuchverlage in kirchlicher Trägerschaft im Vergleich

Christoph Dietz

Communicatio Socialis, volume 45, issue 2 (2012), pp. 167-176

"Der Artikel skizziert und vergleicht die Marktstrategien und die ökonomische Entwicklung der Verlage Abya-Yala, Ecuador (Ethnologie und Sozialwissenschaften), CEP, Peru (Theologie) und La Crujía, Argentinien (Kommunikationswissenschaft). Er kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Fachbuchverlage erfolgreich s ... more

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Manual del editor: Cómo funciona la moderna industria editorial

Manuel Pimentel

Berenice, 3a ed. revisada y ampliada (2012), 266 pp.

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Radio: Eine Einführung

Hans J. Kleinsteuber et al.

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2012), 367 pp.

"Diese Einführung geht von der These aus, dass Radio das Vielfältigste aller Medien darstellt. Dies ist u. a. der Tatsache geschuldet, dass niemand so genau weiß, wo die äußeren Grenzen des Phänomens Radio liegen. Manches nennt sich heute Radio - z. B. Internetradio oder Radio-on-Demand -, da ... more

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Ibero-American Observatory on Television Fiction Obitel 2012: Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries

Guillermo Orozco Gómez, Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes (eds.)

São Paulo: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2012), 618 pp.

The general analysis of this Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introductory chapter that contains a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view that makes it possible to observe the developmen ... more

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The Rise of E-Reading

Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden, Joanna Brenner

Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, Internet & American Life Project (2012), 68 pp.

"The rise of e-books in American culture is part of a larger story about a shift from printed to digital material. Using a broader definition of e-content in a survey ending in December 2011, some 43% of Americans age 16 and older say they have either read an e-book in the past year or have read oth ... more

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Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods

Matthew J. Smith, Randy Duncan (eds.)

New York et al.: Routledge (2012), xviii, 310 pp.

"Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fan ... more

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I Got It! What Children Get Out of an Educational Programme: Reception of a Co-Production from 9 Southeast Asian Countries for 9 Southeast Asian Countries

Maya Götz, Judith Schwarz

Televizion, issue 25 (2012), pp. 23-25

"An study among 1,564 children from Cambodia, Thailand, and the Philippines tested the increase of knowledge among viewers of the Southeast Asian programme "I Got It". Initiated by why the Goethe Institutes in Southeast Asia, this first regional knowledge programme for children was produced in 9 Asi ... more

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Using Participatory Video for Action Research: Negotiating the Space Between Social Process and Research Product

Jackeline Shaw

Open University (2012), 9 pp.

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Santiago de Chile: Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (2012), 14 pp.

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Spanish Cooperation in Culture and Communication: An Overview of a Decade of Exchanges with Ibero-America

Luis A. Albornoz, M. Trinidad García Leiva

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2012), pp. 65-80

"The article presents the main results of the investigation, ‘Current Situation and Prospects of Spanish Cooperation in Culture and Communication with the Rest of Ibero-America, 1997–2007’. The text offers an overview of the initiatives which took place during the period studied, by country, c ... more

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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

Alma Swan

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 76 pp.

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Thailand

Watcharas Leelawath, Danupon Ariyasajjakorn, Poonsri Sakhornrad

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2012), 76 pp.

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Zimbabwean Diaspora Politics and the Power of Laughter: Humour as a Tool for Political Communication, Criticism and Protest

Jenny Kuhlmann

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 295-314

"Zimbabwean journalists and civil society activists in the diaspora have employed humour not merely to mock or ridicule but to conscientize people, and to raise attention for and awareness of the situation in Zimbabwe, including the social, economic and political realities and everyday life concerns ... more

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Comparing Health Communication

John C. Pollock, Douglas Storey

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 161-182

"This review of available scholarship in international health communication reveals a curious disconnect between an abundance of material available in selected nations and regions (e.g., Australia, southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States), on the one hand, and relatively little atten ... more

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Changing the Financial Landscape of Africa: An Unusual Story of Evidence-informed Innovation, Intentional Policy Influence and Private Sector Engagement

Simon Batchelor

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 84-90

"This article uses the Steven Framework to show the influence of research on the policies and practices of mobile money transfer and mobile phone-enabled payments in Africa. While it is a muchdiscussed subject, few people know the wider narrative by which products such as M-Pesa were intentionally c ... more