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Priorities in Global Media Policy Transfer: Audiovisual and Digital Policy Mutations in the EU, MERCOSUR and US Triangle

Katharine Sarikakis, Sarah Ganter

European Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 1 (2014), pp. 17-33

"This article investigates the flow of communication policy principles across the supranational, international and national levels, through the lens of policy transfer. Policy transfer is a new concept for the field of media and communication studies. The article utilizes and expands on the concept ... more

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Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales

Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney (eds.)

Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2014), viii, 376 pp.

"How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book ... more

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Expansion of International Broadcasting: The Growing Global Reach of China Central Television

Si Si

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 28 pp.

Understand China’s Media in Africa from the Perspective of Constructive Journalism

Zhang Yanqiu

Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2014), 12 pp.

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A quiet revolution: The moral economies shaping journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa

Katherine Wright

London: University of London, Goldsmiths, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 495 pp.

"Building a body of empirical evidence about why and how journalists use such multimedia and the consequences of this for journalism, NGO-work and those represented, is the central focus of this thesis. Unlike previous research on news coverage of Africa and journalists’ use of NGO-provided multim ... more

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Comparing the United Kingdom's Guardian Newspaper with its Co-Owned South African Mail & Guardian Online: Towards Productive Global North–South Collaborations in the Digital World Information Order

Bella Mody

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 74-91

"This article highlights how one online news organisation in the global south, with no more than three staff and no foreign correspondents, strategically used multiple wire service feeds to successfully cover a significant story more comprehensively than its better-endowed co-owner. It compares the ... more

TV5Monde: La chaîne culturelle francophone mondiale

Paris: TV5Monde (2014), 95 pp.

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A Multilayered Transnational Broadcasting Television Industry: The Case of Latin America

Juan Piñón

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 3 (2014), pp. 211-236

"The transformation of the U. S. Hispanic and Latin American television industrial landscape is slowly reshaping the composition of interregional programming flows, with an increasing presence of transnational corporations competing in different modalities in national markets. While long-standing do ... more

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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices

Tendai Chari

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110

"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat ... more

La frontera amazónica de Colombia con Brasil y Perú: Elementos para comprender la pertinencia de la integración y la cooperación fronteriza

Edgar Andrés Londoño Niño

Revista Colombia Amazónica, issue 7 (2014), pp. 115-128

"Éste artículo tiene como objetivo analizar cómo ha sido el proceso de integración fronteriza que tiene Colombia con sus vecinos amazónicos, Brasil y Perú, alrededor del territorio de la Triple Frontera compartida por los tres países. Por medio de revisión bibliográfica, una visita de campo ... more

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„Soft Power“ und Imagepflege aus Moskau: Leichtes Spiel für PR-Offensive in der Medienkrise
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Gemma Pörzgen

Osteuropa, volume 64, issue 1 (2014), pp. 63-88

"Russland versucht seit Jahren, sein Image zu verbessern. Für dieses Ziel werden Auslandsmedien ausgebaut und PR-Firmen beauftragt. Aber es fehlt eine Gesamtstrategie und das Grundverständnis, wie demokratische Öffentlichkeit funktioniert. Trotz teilweiser Erfolge wird Moskau ohne einen politisch ... more

China’s “Soft Power” and on Editorial Agendas in South Africa

Herman Wasserman

Beijing: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2014), 16 pp.

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Changing the Narrative: China‘s Media Offensive in Africa

Sergio Grassi

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 9 pp.

"China’s media offensive in Africa is an expression of the need to create advantageous conditions for its own trade relations and for strategic alliances, for example in international organizations. At the same time, China’s global charm offensive or »charm defensive« is also a reaction to wha ... more

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Zynismus mit journalistischem Antlitz: Russlands Medien, die Macht und die Ukraine

Johannes Voswinkel

Osteuropa, volume 64, issue 5-6 (2014), pp. 175-191

"Seit Januar 2014 bietet Russlands Fernsehen einen besonderen Blick auf die Ukraine. In ihrer Aggressivität und Demagogie ist die Berichterstattung beispiellos. Sender rücken vermeintliche „Konzentrationslager für prorussische Aktivisten“ ins Bild, sprechen von einem „Genozid“ an den russ ... more

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Qatar Between Marketing and Realpolitik

Gidon Windecker, Peter Sendrowicz

KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2014), pp. 83-102

"Qatar remains a vulnerable micro-state wedged between its large neighbours, Saudi Arabia and Iran. In the long-term this cannot be gilded by its smart advertising strategy. Long-term success can only be achieved with a labour market that is not dependent on gas revenues and a qualified local workfo ... more

Mainstream Iranian Media Coverage of the Syrian Conflict: A Content Analysis

Kristine Anderson, Melike Karlidag Heather Hughes et al.

Syria Research and Evaluation Organization (SREO) (2014), iii, 20 pp.

Russian News Media Coverage of the Syrian Conflict: A Content Analysis Report

Kristine Anderson, Heather Hughes

Syria Research and Evaluation Organization (SREO) (2014), 24 pp.

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Beyond State-Centric Frameworks: Transversal Media and the Stateless in the Burmese Borderlands

Lisa Brooten

In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Joseph D. Straubhaar; Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 142-162

"Transversal dissent by communities whose actions and identities are no longer primarily state centric but, rather, have shifted to cross identity boundaries is one of the most important developments for understanding how politics is being transformed today. Burmese media groups, political activists ... more

Understand China’s Media in Africa from the Perspective of Constructive Journalism. Paper presented at the international conference China and Africa Media, Communications and Public Diplomacy

Zhang Yanqiu

Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI);Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies (2014), 12 pp.

"China’s quest to improve its international image has increased exponentially in the last decade through cultural diplomacy and the media. However, the expansion of China’s state-led media has received mixed reactions and even stereotypes in Africa. By examining scholarly responses towards China ... more

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