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Politics and Social Media in China
Russia's Public Foreign Policy Narratives
Russian Analytical Digest, issue 229 (2018), 15 pp.
"This Russian Analytical Digest issue examines Russian public narratives about foreign policy. More specifically, Sarah Oates and Sean Steiner first decode Russia’s strategic narrative, noting that while its roots are in Soviet propaganda, its contemporary storylines are more organic and dynamic.
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Russia's Liberal Media: Handcuffed But Free
New York; London: Routledge (2018), 221 pp.
"This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study, which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for evaluati
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Social Media in China
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxii, 293 pp.
"Redefining the concept of new media in China, this cutting edge book discusses the impact of social media on Chinese public life. Examining its characteristics and the different forms of social media, such as internet and mobile phone media, weibo, wechat and micro-blogging, it considers how public
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Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment After Communism
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2018), 446 pp.
"This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and rang
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From Media Systems to Media Cultures: Understanding Socialist Television
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2018), xiii, 369 pp.
"[The authors] delve into the fascinating world of television under communism, using it to test a new framework for comparative media analysis. To understand the societal consequences of mass communication, the authors argue that we need to move beyond the analysis of media systems, and instead focu
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District Thailand: Identification, Spectatorship, and The Hunger Games in Thailand
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 88-107
"On May 22nd 2014, The Kingdom of Thailand experienced its latest successful military coup. A few months later, in November 2014, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was released in Thai cinemas sparking new protests using symbols from the series. With this article, I seek to examine the reception o
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Negotiating the Boundaries of News Reporting: Journalists’ Strategies to Access and Report Political Information in China
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 35-51
"As Chinese politicians hold the power to control the dissemination of political information, beat journalists must guard their relationship with the authorities to expand the boundaries of news reporting; that is, to gain more access to political information and report more sensitive news. What rem
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Online Activism in the Middle East: Political Power and Authoritarian Governments from Egypt to Kuwait
London: Tauris (2017), xiv, 402 pp.
"This book provides empirical analysis of the day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-200
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Cyber China: Upgrading Propaganda, Public Opinion Work and Social Management for the Twenty-First Century
Journal of Contemporary China, volume 26, issue 103 (2017), pp. 85-100
"The first two years of the Xi Jinping administration saw a thorough reconfiguration of Internet governance. This reconfiguration created a centralized and integrated institutional framework for information technologies, in support of an ambitious agenda to place digital technologies at the heart of
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Thought Work Contested: Ideology and Journalism Education in China
China Quarterly, issue 230 (2017), pp. 399-419
"This article examines the dynamic evolution of China's ideology work through the prism of journalism education. Official sensitivity about both student activism and the media makes journalism education a critical sector for observing how the Party attempts to instil ideology. The article interrogat
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The Instrumentalisation of Mass Media in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Russia's Presidential Election Campaigns of 2000 and 2008
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2017), viii, 283 pp.
"Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election? What effects do these strategies have on news content? Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008
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Compromising Connectivity: Information Dynamics Between the State and Society in a Digitizing North Korea
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2017), 97 pp.
"The information and media environment in North Korea continues to evolve quickly. This report demonstrates that the depth and diversity of information and media access channels have grown markedly since the release of A Quiet Opening in 2012. More North Koreans have greater access to a larger varie
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Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of Peace Research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
"[...] To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jo
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Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media: Between Capture and Commercialization
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2017), 174 pp.
"In the period after the fall of communism, peculiar new obstacles to media independence have arisen. They include the telltale structure of media ownership, with news reporting being concentrated in the hands of politically engaged business tycoons, the fuzzy and contradictory legislation of the me
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China's Media in the Emerging World Order
Deep Insights
Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press (2017), 259 pp.
"China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already fo
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Emergent Voices and Evolving Agendas: Writing Realities in Cuba’s New Media Landscape
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 25 pp.
"This paper aims to understand the motivations, decision-making processes, and missions of the producers of new Cuban media using interviews with journalists recruited from the wider group of twenty non-governmental publications. In ten semi-structured interviews, participants described their person
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In Repressive Countries, Citizens Go 'dark' to Share Independent News
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017)
"CIMA’s analysis of audience data from nearly 40 countries yields a statistically significant correlation between freedom of the press and reliance on dark social sharing: the more repressive the media environment, the more likely the audience is to access news through dark social. Even more illus
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Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin
London; New York: Routledge (2017), viii, 363 pp.
"This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachev’s glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured,
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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive
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