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Playing with Religion in Digital Games
Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2014), ix, 301 pp.
"Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game 'Okami' to the internationally popular 'The Legend of Zelda' and 'Halo', many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the
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Making Waves: Media’s Potential for Girls in the Global South
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.
"Argues that media — whether traditional or online — matters a great deal in the lives of girls in the developing world. It matters because it has the ability to be harmful to girls’ interests and selfesteem, and it matters because it can also be so effective in playing a positive role in girl
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Ringvorlesung Games: Retro-Games, Gamification, Augmented Reality
München: Hooffacker (2014), 128 pp.
"Chancen und Risiken von Computerspielen, Retro Gaming, Gamification, Sim Games und Augmented Reality: Im Wintersemester 2013/2014 haben sich Professorinnen und Professoren aus ganz Bayern an der ersten bayernweiten Ringvorlesung Games beteiligt. Der MedienCampus Bayern und Games/Bavaria haben für
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"This brochure addresses the role of African youth in peace work, the hurdles and sources of potential. The CPS networks in Africa place particular emphasis on working with young people. You may already have read articles about peace work by and with young people in other publications in the “Buil
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Konkorama: Radio Drama Raises Peace Awareness for Sierra Leonean Youth
"Since the end of the civil war in Sierra Leone the organisation Sierra Leone Adult Education Association (SLADEA), with its headquarters in Freetown and 13 branches all over the country, added Peace Building to its curriculum. In this field of work young people are a particular target group; youth
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Jovens conectados: A comunicação da Igreja Católica no contexto da Jornada Mundial da Juventude
Bauru, Estado São Paulo: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Faculdade de Arquitectura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC), Master Thesis (2014), 126 pp.
"Apresentam-se os objetivos e as impressões da pesquisa sobre a comunicação da Igreja Católica com os jovens, tendo como estudo de caso a Jornada Mundial da Juventude 2013. Avaliam-se as estratégias comunicacionais da instituição católica no Brasil direcionadas à juventude, seu potencial co
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Four Facets of Critical News Literacy in a Non-Democratic Regime: How Young Russians Navigate Their News
European Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 1 (2014), pp. 68-82
"Fuelled by the Arab Spring, the question of how the rise of internet-mediated communication affects authoritarian regimes has received unprecedented attention within the discipline of communications. However, in this debate, scholars have not yet turned to the concept of literacy and addressed the
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Maintaining Social Connectedness in a Fast-Changing World: Examining the Effects of Mobile Phone Uses on Loneliness Among Teens in Tibet
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 3 (2014), pp. 318-334
"This study examines how Tibetan teens use the mobile phone to maintain their social networks and how their social network connections via the mobile phone in turn affect their psychological well-being. In doing so, the study explores the effect of motives for mobile phone use and mobile phone skill
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Hijabers: How Young Urban Muslim Women Redefine Themselves in Indonesia
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 377-389
"This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through c
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Facebook for Self-Empowerment? A Study of Facebook Adoption in Urban India
New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 7 (2014), pp. 1122-1137
"This article presents an ethnographic study of the adoption and use of Facebook among urban Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Mobile-centric use of the Internet is widely prevalent here as general packet radio service (GPRS)-enabled mobile phones and data plans have bec
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Youth-Generated Media
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 439-452
"This chapter debates the relationship between youth and media by focusing on communication for social change and gives readers a sense of the history, development, and central concepts of youth-generated media. It offers a comprehensive framework for understanding young people's self-expressive art
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Global Citizenship in a Digital World
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.
"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation
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Rassembler les générations par le biais de la radio
Paris: UNESCO (2014), 61 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to introduce young people to an innovative theater methodology that creatively examines and transforms conflict. After working through the exercises in this manual, youth will be equipped to lead community dialogue as agents of positive change. The facilitation guide and th
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Youth in Cambodia: Media Habits and Information Sources
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 38 pp.
Rassembler les générations par les biais de la radio: Un guide pratique en provenance de l’Afrique à l’intention des professionnels de la radio qui travaillent avec des enfants et des jeunes
Paris: UNESCO (2014), 61 pp.
"Cette boîte à outils offre aux radios d'Afrique et d'ailleurs des propositions d'approches de programmation participatives afin d'assurer la présence des jeunes dans la radiodiffusion. La publication est divisée en quatre parties qui guident le lecteur à travers un processus étape par étape
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Salam from Pesantren: Santri’s Experience in Managing Media for Peace
Jakarta: Search for Common Ground (2014), 62 pp.
"The following stories come from ten pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in Indonesia that participated in Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia’s project to promote peace and tolerance in pesantren across Indonesia [...] Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia implemented this two-year pro
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Producing Citizenship in Contexts of Conflict: Citizenship Practices Among Youth Participating in Save the Children’s Media Production Programs in Colombia
Montreal: McGill University, Master Thesis (2014), 139 pp.
"This MA thesis explores the emergence of new citizenship practices among youth participating in two school-based media collectives in areas of Colombia marked by violence and conflict. I draw from Rodriguez’s (2001, 2011) citizens’ media theory, which highlights the role of performance in commu
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Discovering the Libyan Youth Movement’s Identity Through Facebook
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 12, issue 1 (2013), 15 pp.
"This study demonstrates that critical discourse analysis can be used to quickly discern the identity of a political actor and make accurate predictions about that actor’s intentions and goals, even in the context of a revolution. This study’s authors used critical discourse analysis to empirica
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