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"Do You Really Think Russia Should Pay Up for That?" How the Russia-Based TV Channel RT Constructs Russian-Baltic Relations

Nils S. Borchers

Javnost: The Public, volume 18, issue 4 (2011), pp. 89-106

"Mediated public diplomacy plays an important role in achieving foreign policy objectives by trying to influence public opinion in other countries. The Russia-based global TV channel RT serves as a central tool of Russian mediated public diplomacy. Its objective is not only to present the Russian pe ... more

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Independent Media in Exile
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Bill Ristow

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 43 pp.

"This report offers four recommendations for addressing some of the complex challenges of independent media in exile: donor groups should expand and formalize coordination of their exile-media support [...]; organizations providing international media training should actively seek to train exile-med ... more

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The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xiv, 579 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays f ... more

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Interactivity, the Global Conversation and World Service Research: Digital China

Hugh Mackay, Jingrong Tong

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 48-74

"This paper examines the relationship between a broadcaster’s research methods and aspects of the environment in which it operates, specifically its accountability to its funders and the growth of interactivity by its users. It is concerned with (1) how the BBC World Service’s funding by the UK ... more

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The Emergent Supranational Arab Media Policy Sphere

Marwan M. Kraidy

In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell; Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 293-305

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Public Diplomacy and Soft Power in East Asia

Sook Chong Lee, Jan Melissen (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), viii, 279 pp.

"This book discusses the question of soft power and public diplomacy challenges in East Asian context. Both concepts originate in the West, and in a sense this book can therefore be seen as an exercise in critically assessing soft power and public diplomacy in a different geographical and cultural s ... more

Deutsch-türkische Medienbeziehungen (1999 bis 2009)

Seref Ates

Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (2011), 134 pp.

"Die Medienbeziehungen zwischen der Türkei und Deutschland stehen alles andere als still. Vielmehr haben sie sich seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts drastisch verändert. Das Verhältnis der beiden Länder zueinander hat sich inzwischen derartig verdichtet, daß bei Medienberic ... more

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Migration aus Afrika in die EU: Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung in deutschen und senegalesischen Zeitungen

Florence Tsagué Assopgoum

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2011), 335 pp.

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Election Fallout: Iran’s Exiled Journalists on Their Struggle for Democratic Change

Marcus Michaelsen

Berlin: Hans Schiler Verlag;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 245 pp.

"The 2009 presidential elections and the surrounding events represent one of the most dramatic moments in contemporary Iranian history. The massive demonstrations over the official election results soon evolved into a broad protest movement demanding civil rights and political change, confronting th ... more

More Bad News from Israel

Greg Philo, Mike Berry

London: Pluto Press, Exp. and updated ed. (2011), viii, 475 pp.

"Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, 'More Bad News From Israel' examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how ... more

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Our Neighbour's View: Australian Media Coverage of Papua New Guinea

Martha Ginau, Evangelia Papoutsaki, Lee Duffield, Amanda Watson

In: Communication, Culture & Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem?

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Michael McManus; Patrick Matbob (eds.)

Madang: DWU Press, Divine Word University (2011), pp. 62-72

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From the Field: Co-Producing the Memory. Cinema Production Between Europe and the Middle East

Irit Neidhardt

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 1, issue 1 (2011), 13 pp.

"The media intervention programs and training initiatives for Arabs reflect hegemonies and dependencies. Taking into consideration the absence of a public cinema infrastructure in the Arab World and thus the lack of institutional representation or backing for film-makers leads one to question to wha ... more

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China in South Africa: The Media’s Response to a Developing Relationship

Herman Wasserman

Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2011), 20 pp.

"Literature about China’s role in Africa suggests that China’s presence on the continent is often viewed in stark binary terms, as either an exploitative, predatory force or a benevolent, development partner. An analysis of attitudes in the South African media over the last three years (if De Be ... more

How Distant Others Are Mediated by UK Television

Martin Scott

University of East Anglia, Doctoral Thesis (2011), 346 pp.

"The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate how UK television shapes spectators’ experiences of distant Others. Specifically, I aim to build on and extend existing work in this field, and particularly the work of Lilie Chouliaraki in Spectatorship of Suffering, in three directions. Firstly, ... more

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The Hierarchy of Global Suffering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Reporting on Foreign Natural Disasters

Stijn Joye

Journal of International Communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61

"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise ... more

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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

Thomas L. McPhail

Malden; Oxford: Blackwell, 3rd ed. (2010), xiv, 400 pp.