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The Rise of China’s State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa

Yu-Shan Wu

Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2012), 31 pp.

"Traces China's media engagement in Africa since the 2000s, including a list of financed projects (pp. 13-15), and explains how strategies have changed. While the extension of hardware assistance continues to play an important role, China's media engagement in Africa started to diversify after the 2 ... more

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The Geography of Foreign News on Television: A Comparative Study of 17 Countries

Jürgen Wilke, Christine Heimprecht, Akiba Cohen

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 301-322

"The project investigated foreign TV news in 17 countries from five regions in the world: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States of America. The data of the content analysis in all ... more

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The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad

Anjali Gera Roy (ed.)

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.

"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy ... more

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KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies

Sverker Finnström

Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 127-135

"The global success of the film KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., manifests far greater magical powers than those of Joseph Kony and his ruthless Lord’s Resistance Army, which it portrays. The most prominent feature of the Invisible Children lobby is the making and constant remaking of a mast ... more

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Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais;Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales;Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities;Diasporas, migrations, technologies de la communication et identités transnationales

Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), 527 pp.

"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna ... more

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Bollywood en Perú: Culturas populares y globalización de las emociones

Martin León Geyer

Nueva Sociedad, issue 241 (2012), pp. 133-148

"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n ... more

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Cross-Border Media and Nationalism: Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia

Stefano DellaVigna, Ruben Enikolopov, Vera Mironova, Maria Petrova, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

[authors] (2012), 66 pp.

"This paper documents the effect of Serbian public radio on the voting behavior and nationalistic anti-Serbian sentiment of Croats in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, a post-conflict region of modern Croatia on the border with Serbia. We find that the exposure to the Serbian public radi ... more

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The Globalization of Chinese Television: The Role of the Party-State

Hong Zhang

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 7 (2011), pp. 573-594

"China’s television sector has undergone rapid transformation since the country’s reform and opening-up in the late 1970s. This article presents the main results of a recently completed PhD project, aiming to understand the role of the Chinese party-state in this transformation. The project supp ... more

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Believe it or Not: Understanding the Credibility and Effectiveness of Radio Sawa in the UAE

Thomas B. Christie, Andrew M. Clark

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 4 (2011), pp. 359-371

"As part of an overall strategy to influence public opinion in the Muslim world, the US government implemented two new international broadcasting tools — Radio Sawa and Alhurra (a satellite television network). In the face of declining support of US government policies in the Muslim world, this st ... more

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Voice of America in the Post-Cold War Era: Opportunities and Challenges to External Media Services Via New Information and Communication Technology

Shaojung Sharon Wang, Junhao Hong

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 4 (2011), pp. 343-358

"This study examines Voice of America’s (VOA) services in the post-Cold War era within the framework of the information revolution and globalization. The use of new information venues has caused VOA to evolve from a pure propaganda machine to a notion of informational soft power. However, this stu ... more

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Consumption of US Television and Films in Northeastern Mexico

José-Carlos Lozano

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 8 (2011), pp. 685-705

"This article explores the consumption patterns of local and foreign film and television content of Mexican audiences living in the Northeast region of the country, a region bordering with the United States. Based on telephone surveys in four of the largest cities in the area (Reynosa, Monterrey, Sa ... more

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Wider die Symbiose: Plädoyer für die Professionalisierung der Verhältnisse zwischen Hilfsorganisationen und Journalisten

Lutz Mükke

Publizistik, volume 56, issue 3 (2011), pp. 327-340

"The analysis deals with the presentation of hunger and related emergencies in the mass media. It focuses on problems and structures of journalistic production processes and symbiotic relationships between the media and the aid industry. Mass media often create the impression that “hunger” occur ... more

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"Ugly Betty" and the Emergence of the Latina/o Producers as Cultural Translators

Juan Pinon

Communication Theory, volume 21, issue 4 (2011), pp. 392-412

"A critical examination of Betty's adaptation process sheds light on the disjuncture between global television distribution trends and national television markets' business cultures. The process of bringing the "ugly duckling" format to the English-language mainstream media market can be better unde ... more

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Trust in international news media in partially free media environments: A case study of five markets in Africa and South Asia

Anne Geniets

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 92 pp.

"This report is focused on attitudes to trust in international media. It collates findings from 36 focus groups and 11 immersion interviews conducted in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mumbai (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) in the summer and autumn of 2010 [...] The report explores th ... more

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Ethics and International Propaganda

Philip M. Taylor

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 912-932

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Audience Research at the BBC World Service 1932-2010

Graham Mytton

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 75-103

"This article examines the changing ways in which intelligence about the BBC’s international audiences has been gathered and used since the advent of the Empire Service in 1932. It is written from the perspective of a former Head of Audience Research (1982-96) at the BBC World Service. In BBC dome ... more

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Audience Research in Extremis: Cold War Broadcasting to the USSR

R. Eugene Parta

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 104-131

"How could Western broadcasters during the Cold War learn about their audiences in the USSR when they were denied the possibility of conducting surveys within the country? In response to this quandary, second-best approaches were developed at Radio Liberty employing interviews with travellers outsid ... more

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A Resource Guide to Public Diplomacy Evaluation

Robert Banks

Los Angeles: Figueroa Press (2011), 149 pp.

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The new foreign correspondent at work: Local-national 'stringers' and the global news coverage of conflict in Darfur

Mel Bunce

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 36 pp.

"[...] Explores the role played by local-nationals in covering the crisis for global audiences and how these journalists differed from the traditional, Western-born foreign correspondents who worked alongside them. The research draws on two methods: in-depth, semi-structured interviews with foreign ... more

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Minorities in the Hungarian Media: Campaigns, Projects and Programmes for Integration

Borbála Tóth

Budapest: Center for Independent Journalism (2011), 45 pp.

"The number of foreigners in Hungary (as a proportion of the total population) is a negligible two percent. The majority of immigrants are Hungarian nationals coming from the neighbouring countries. Given to the low number of foreign citizens, the ‘man in the street’ in Hungary relatively rarely ... more