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The Marketization of Foreign News

Bella Mody

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-115

"Audience segmentation is generally associated with strategic communication (such as advertising and public relations), where content is manipulated to suit reader preferences. News has generally been considered truth-telling unvarnished by such concerns. This article compares how news of the same h ... more

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A Survey and Critical Analysis of Council of Europe Strategies for Countering "Hate Speech"

Tarlach McGonagle

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Péter Molnár (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 456-498

"To summarize a very expansive set of standards and concomitant strategies, it can be said that the three main prongs to the Council of Europe's approach to countering "hate speech" are: (1) the prevention / prohibition / punishment of certain types of expression (e.g., incitement to hatred, racist ... more

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Newspaper Coverage of the 2011 Protests in Egypt

Nawaf Abdulnabi AlMaskati

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 342-366

"This study analyses the coverage of the 2011 Egyptian protests provided by Al Ahram (Egypt), Arab News (Saudi Arabia), China Daily (China), Guardian International (UK), International Herald Tribune (USA) and Jerusalem Post (Israel), with regard to the type and intensity of the coverage, potential s ... more

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Socio-Economic Incentives, New Media and the Boko Haram Campaign of Violence in Northern Nigeria

Aliyu Odamah Musa

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 111-124

"This article seeks to analyse and explain the emergence of the extremists Islamist Boko Haram sect that is currently perpetuating a reign of violence in Northern Nigerian cities and factors that have aided its rise. It takes a look at the changing political and socio-economic situations in the coun ... more

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Measuring Peace in the Media 2011

Sydney; New York; Washington, DC: Institute for Economics & Peace (2012), 42 pp.

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Netzwerk-Journalismus: Zur veränderten Vermittlerrolle von Journalisten am Beispiel einer Case Study zu Twitter und den Unruhen in Iran

Thomas Plotkowiak, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Jana Ebermann, Miriam Meckel, Matthes Fleck

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 60, issue 1 (2012), pp. 102-124

"Partizipative Internettechnologien sorgen für ein verändertes Aufgabenprofil und Rollenbild von Journalisten. Besonders in Krisensituationen oder bei politischen Konflikten können Informationen, die über die sozialen Plattformen des Webs verbreitet werden, wichtige Quellen journalistischer Arbe ... more

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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.

"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more

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The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
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Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xxiv, 544 pp.

"The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from ... more

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Analyzing the Spell of War: A War/peace Framing Analysis of the 2009 Visual Coverage of the Sri Lankan Civil War in Western Newswires

Rico Neumann, Shahira Fahmy

Mass Communication & Society, volume 15 (2012), pp. 169-200

"The goal of this study was to analyze the extent to which the visual coverage of the final stages (April=May 2009) of the long-lasting Sri Lankan Civil War relied on war and peace frames. Based on the revolutionary conceptual work of Norwegian scholar Johan Galtung, who viewed war and peace journal ... more

Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

Philip Lee, Pradip Thomas (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.

"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are ... more

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La imposible neutralidad: Radios educativas y comunitarias en el contexto de conflictos socioambientales

Jorge Acevedo Rojas

Quito: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 18 pp.

"El presente artículo ofrece los principales resultados de una investigación orientada a conocer y analizar la actuación de dos emisoras educativas y comunitarias: Radio Cutivalú de Piura y Radio Marañón de Jaén, en el contexto del conflicto socioambiental generado por el proyecto minero Río ... more

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Speak Up, Speak Out: A Toolkit for Reporting on Human Rights Issues
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Jean Fairbairn

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), viii, 174 pp.

"This publication is both a human rights reference guide and a workbook. It draws on a variety of research, training, and experience - especially that of the United Nations (UN) and the International Centre for War and Peace Reporting. Section 1 on "Human rights knowledge" introduces human rights, t ... more

Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study

Juliette Harkin, Kevin Anderson, Libby Morgan, Briar Smith

Washington, DC: Internews;Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 40 pp.

"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co ... more

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Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

Des Freedman, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xiii, 322 pp.

"Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the world's media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and user-friendly with lively and current case studies, it is a perfect student text and is an ... more

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Country Case Study: South Sudan. Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained

Kate Noble, Carol Morgan

London: BBC Media Action (2012), 20 pp.

Presenting the challenges in meeting the information needs of the people of South Sudan, this report highlights a need for long-term and harmonised efforts to support media.

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Helpdesk Research Report: Theory of Change Approaches to Post-Conflict Governance Programming

Freida M’Cormack, Sumedh Rao

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC), University of Birmingham (2012), 13 pp.

"This research report considers the application of ToC to governance programmes in post-conflict and fragile states. It should be noted that, because of what information is available, the examples reviewed in this report are from post-conflict and least developed (though not necessarily fragile) sta ... more

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