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Collective Memory and Oral Text
Berlin: Peter Lang (2020), 374 pp.
"The aim of this monograph is an attempt to examine the relationship between collective memory and oral texts. The material basis for this presentation consists of folklore oral texts, both prosaic and poetic, different as regards their genres (fairy tales, fables, recollections, traditions, legends
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Media and Governance in Latin America: Toward a Plurality of Voices
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 273 pp.
"This edited book aims at bringing together a range of contemporary expertise that can shed light on the relationship between media pluralism in Latin America and processes of democratization and social justice. In doing so, the authors of the book provide empirically grounded theoretical insight in
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Free Speech Theory: Understanding the Controversies
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), xiii, 255 pp.
"The rallying cry of "Free speech!" has long served as a touchstone for liberals and conservatives, alike, engaged in political polarization conflict and discourse. The democratization of media and the feverish pitch of political polarization, however, have contributed to the weaponization of free e
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Russian Regional Journalism: Struggle and Survival in the Heartland
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), x, 204 pp.
"The book examines 13 years of journalists' struggles for independence and meaning as they weigh their professional goals and community obligations against their growing dependence on local elite. Russia's sub-national levels - its provinces and communities -- remain understudied but important. Loca
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The Political Economy of Local Cinema: A Critical Introduction
Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2020), 257 pp.
"The essays in this collection focus on [...] the organization of material and immaterial resources necessary for local cinema to endure as a valuable and vibrant alternative to other forms of cinema. In line with the mission of applied research, the main normative goal inspiring our project is rath
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Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia
New York: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 296 pp.
"When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. 'Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia' becomes one-stop sho
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Mediatizing Secular State: Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland
Bern: Peter Lang (2019), 329 pp.
"The book provides an empirically based analysis of changes on how various political and denominational actors seek to influence the Church and state relationship, as well as how we understand the idea of the secular state. A set of case studies shows how and why changes in the coverage of the secul
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Major Theories of Media Effects
New York: Peter Lang (2019), xvii, 306 pp.
"In Major Theories of Media Effects, six major theories of media effects are thoroughly analyzed and then evaluated to construct a picture of the current state of knowledge about the scholarly field of media effects. These six theories are cultivation, agenda setting, framing, uses and gratification
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The Communication Strategy Handbook: Toolkit for Creating a Winning Strategy
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), xii, 174 pp.
" The Communication Strategy Framework introduced in this handbook has been designed to help professionals make targeted choices toward strategic communication. Taking an iterative approach and continually reflecting on whether your choices remain congruent enables you to continually adapt to changi
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Media Development and the Market for Loyalties
In: International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), pp. 20-29
"My goal in this chapter is to place media development efforts within a specific frame: namely the actions of great strategic communicators (states, religions, transnational corporations, for example) as they seek to increase support for their general positions in the world. Development efforts can
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Redefining Media Development: A Demand-Driven Approach
In: International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), pp. 30-41
"Media development specialists and activists need a concept of media development that understands and addresses the deeply political nature of the media as an institution. We also need a way to cope with rapidly changing technology and the media's increasingly global nature. Media development is as
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International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
Deep Insights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), xv, 277 pp.
"This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the field—both researchers and practitioners—to reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to s
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Polish Media System in a Comparative Perspective: Media in Politics, Politics in Media
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2019), 286 pp.
"The main subject of this work is the dynamically evolving Polish media system, which is under the influence of institutions and external stakeholders. Thanks to this, it is easier to understand that the "crossroads" is not only a problem of the Polish media system, but a global one. For this reason
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Monitoring Media Sustainability: Economic and Business Revisions to Development Indicators
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 243-256
"Robert G. Picard describes the evolvement of UNESCO's media development indicators. The chapter describes a growing focus on economic, financial and managerial dimensions, since, it argues, they pave the fundament to any sustainable, commercial or non-commercial journalistic venture. What Picard cr
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A Global Media Resource Model: Understanding News Media Viability Under Varying Environmental Conditions
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 221-242
"[The authors] introduce a conceptual model for organizations and other stakeholders wishing to monitor and evaluate sustainable journalism. Their chapter provides a theoretical foundation for the argument that journalistic media competes for a wide range of resources that determine their success an
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Mapping the World's Digital Media Ecosystem: The Quest for Sustainability
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 257-276
"Over the past years, a range of different databases have been constructed, and research efforts have been made to find the key to making digital news ventures successful. Many of them have searched for best practices, or a secret recipe for a business model that would make the news business economi
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What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
Deep Insights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xxxiii, 374 pp.
"This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, the Brundtland Report pointed out economic growth, social equality and envi
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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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Sustainable War Journalism and International Public Law
In: What is Sustainable Journalism? Integrating the Environmental, Social, and Economic Challenges of Journalism
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 199-217
"[This chapter] primarily devotes analytical attention to mainstream news media's ability, or rather lack of ability, to report violations against international public law in the context of war and conflict reporting, and their continuing vulnerability to propaganda and manipulation. In the introduc
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Peace Through Media
New York: Peter Lang (2018), x, 201 pp.
"This book equips students and practicing journalists with information on why and how to implement a course of action for Peace Journalism. Secondary literature and primary examples are used within all chapters to offer a personal examination of the importance of applying concepts of Peace Journalis
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