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Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe
Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2018), xvii, 130 pp.
"A RAND Corporation study examined Russian-language content on social media and the broader propaganda threat posed to the region of former Soviet states that include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and, to a lesser extent, Moldova and Belarus. In addition to employing a state-funded multilingu
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International Communication: Essential Readings
Cognella, 2nd revised ed. (2018), viii, 228 pp.
"Designed as a text with introductions to each section and chapter, the volume brings together diverse perspectives on globalization and communication and includes significant emerging aspects of International Communication research such as diaspora audience and global publics." (Publisher descripti
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Internationalisation of China’s Television: History, Development and New Trends
"In general, the internationalisation of China's television in the past several decades can be divided into four intertwined paths. The first is importing media and cultural products from other countries, which initiated the exchange of China's television with the outside world, and so far is still
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The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Whose News?
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 266 pp.
"Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating
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"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social
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A Toolkit for Researching Women’s Internet Access and Use
London: GSMA; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); World Wide Web Foundation; Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2018), 44 pp.
"This toolkit is aimed at a wide range of audiences interested in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on women’s internet access and use. The primary target audience are researchers and research agencies who have skills and practice in conducting quantitative and/or qualitative r
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Die internationale Öffentlichkeitsarbeit von NGOs im 21. Jahrhundert
"Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über relevante Ansätze und Erkenntnisse zur Koordination und Organisation internationaler PR von NGOs. Darüber hinaus werden Befunde einer empirischen Studie vorgestellt, in der die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit internationaler NGOs vor dem Hintergrund der generisch
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Exporting the French Co-Production Model: Aide Aux Cinémas Du Monde and Produire Au Sud
In: European Film and Television Co-Production: Policy and Practice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 223-239
"This chapter examines how the Aide aux cinemas du monde fund and the Produire au Sud workshop aim at strengthening France’s central position in the co-production of world cinemas. The Aide aux cinemas du monde provides funding to French co-producers of films from all over the world, while the Pro
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Reporting Africa: Media and the Africa Story
Nairobi: African Media Initiative (AMI) (2018), 43 pp.
Soft Power Made in China: The Dilemmas of Online and Offline Media and Transnational Audiences
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxi, 236 pp.
"This book analyzes the ways in which China’s soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China’s transnational soft power-field expansion lies in the intersection of its source and receiving countries. The author discusses how transna
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ISolezwe’s Coverage of the May 2008 Xenophobic Riots: An Irresolute Start and an Ambivalent End
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 297-315
"IsiZulu is one of South Africa’s Lingua francas and has two successful news publications, iLanga and iSolezwe, both written in isiZulu but vastly different in how they convey, craft and package news. This article aims to examine how iSolezwe, an isiZulu-language tabloid, used two editorials to sh
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Freer But Not Free Enough? Chinese Journalists Finding Their Feet in Africa
Journalism, volume 18, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1049-1063
"The high-profile appearance of Chinese media organizations in Africa has attracted considerable attention. How Chinese correspondents in Africa actually go about their work is, however, little understood. A posting in Africa gives journalists at Xinhua News Agency or China Central Television a degr
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Visual Global Politics
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xii, 398 pp.
"Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments an
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Mediatized China-Africa Relations: How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xv, 218 pp.
"This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa's biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores Afri
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Communicating National Image Through Development and Diplomacy: The Politics of Foreign Aid
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xii, 272 pp.
"This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid. While development communication and public diplomacy are established research fields, there is little scholarship that seeks to understand how the two areas relate to one another
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Korrespondenten des Wandels: Lokale Akteure der globalen Nachrichtenindustrie
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 325 pp.
"Der Auslandsjournalismus des 21. Jahrhunderts stützt sich zunehmend auf lokale Akteure der globalen Nachrichtenindustrie, die häufig als lokale »Stringer« oder »Fixer« bezeichnet werden. Auf Basis von Feldforschungen in Indien und Europa untersucht Martin Heidelberger diese lokale Teilhabe an
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How Influential Are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231
"This article uses data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy. We show that Chinese media have little impact on students’ information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward
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Tiangao or Tianxia? The Ambiguities of CCTV's English-Language News for Africa
"Sustained media interest in African countries, funded from deep pockets in Beijing, may well attract admirers if the coverage is positive or uncritical. The forward-looking narrative promoted by 'constructive' or 'positive' reporting may help developing nations by not crushing them under too much e
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Who's Reporting Africa Now? Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xiv, 280 pp.
"As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations have begun to expand into news reporting. But why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What are the effects of this on the kinds of stories told about Africa?
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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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