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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

James Griffiths

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.

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Citizen Journalism in China

Xin Zeng, Stuart Allan, Savyasaachi Jain, An Nguyen (eds.)

Global Media and China, volume 4, issue 1 (2019), pp. 3-124

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It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating

Amir Hetsroni, Meric Tuncez (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2019), 219 pp.

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The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

Jessica Retis, Roza Tsagarousianou (eds.)

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), xviii, 602 pp.

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Political Street Art: Communication, Culture and Resistance in Latin America

Holly Eva Ryan

London; New York: Routledge (2019), 148 pp.

"This book explores the evolving political role of street art in Latin America during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It examines the use, appropriation and reconfiguration of public spaces and political opportunities through street art forms, drawing on empirical work undertaken in ... more

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This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
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kollektiv orangotango+ (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript;Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2018), 352 pp.

"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous ter ... more

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Mission So Possible: Investigative Journalism in Bulgaria

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2018), 5 pp.

"For a motivated journalist in Bulgaria it is easy to detect, investigate and collect proof of corruption and abuse of power. But currently, when making their findings public, instead of a gratify ... more

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Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Pawel Surowiec, Václav Stetka (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xvi, 207 pp.

"This book surveys current developments in social media and politics in a range of Central and Eastern European countries, including Ukraine and Russia. It explores the process of adoption of social media by politicians, journalists and civic activ ... more

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Open Wall Churches: Catholic Construction of Online Communities

Míriam Díez Bosch, Josep Lluis Micó Sanz, Josep Maria Carbonell Abelló, Jordi Sánchez Torrents, Alba sabaté Gauxachs

Prisma Social, issue 19 (2017), pp. 298-323

"From the Vatican itself, specifically through the Pope’s profiles on social media, Catholicism has proven to have an increasingly responsive presence on the web, although Catholics are usually creative without breaking the rules in the ways they extend their religiosity into new platforms. Newly ... more

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From a Refugee Perspective: Discourse of Arabic Speaking and Afghan Refugees and Migrants on Social Media from March to December 2016

UNHCR (2017), 46 pp.

"The main thing I really liked about this project is that UNHCR invested the resources for proper qualitative social media monitoring, as opposed to the purely quantitative analyses that we see so often and which rarely go beyond keyword counting. To complement the social media information, the team ... more

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End of an Era and the Debacle of Cross-Border Media Building Projects in Africa

Sam Phiri

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 401-414

"In the 1990s following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the death of Apartheid in South Africa, several cross-national initiatives were undertaken in Africa to strengthen the role of the media in nascent democracies. Some 30 years la ... more

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Evaluation of the East Africa and Indian Ocean Islands Beneficiary Communications Program

Hans Kuntner

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) (2017), 25 pp.

"Beneficiary Communication is a program which emphasizes the use of communication equipment in passing relevant, timely and accurate lifesaving information to communities. The program supports an environment of transparency and accountability throu ... gh creation of feedback mechanism. It is about providing practical, useful information at the right time, listening to people’s needs and opinions and using this information to improve the programming and operations of Partner national society (PNS), National Society (NS) and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Beneficiary Communication program utilizes technology like SMS, Radio, Mobile Cinema, Posters, Sound tracks, Wall painting or traditional channels like drama and community meetings to pass lifesaving information to communities. The impacts listed in this report cannot be solely attributed to the use of beneficiary communication tools. The impact is the contribution of the tools to the realization of the results of the projects in which the tools were mainstreamed. Indeed, the results of the programs in which beneficiary communication tools was mainstreamed are the impact of the use of tools by proxy. The levels of knowledge of the beneficiaries with regards to causes of malnutrition and prevention of diseases which are caused by unhygienic conditions such as cholera have increased tremendously. This is evident from the results obtained through the pre and post mobile cinema evaluation on the above mentioned thematic areas, from the sites where the Red Cross Societies have implemented projects aimed at addressing malnutrition and hygiene. The activities of the beneficiary communication program were well received by the target communities in all the five countries. The communities appreciated the mobile cinema and drama perhaps due to ease of learning from audio visual or observation. The putting to practice the knowledge gained in various thematic areas is another way of determining how well the beneficiaries have received beneficiary communication activities. A random check of households by personnel in-charge of community health in Rwanda revealed that nine in ten beneficiaries put to practice the knowledge they acquired from the mobile cinema shows. The use of audio visuals and drama in local languages in all the countries sampled has proved to be an effective way of training both literate and illiterate members of the society. This is because both illiterate and literate members of the community simply learn through listening and observation." (Executive summary) more

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights

Howard Tumber, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 520 pp.

"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. Thi ... more

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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
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Robyn S. Goodman, Elanie Steyn (eds.)

Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas;World Journalism Education Council (2017), xviii, 468 pp.

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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.

"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book dr ... more

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The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective

Jan Servaes, Toks Oyedemi (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxiv, 269 pp.

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The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film

Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch (ed.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), xviii, 921 pp.

"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected ... more

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Geoblocking and Global Video Culture

Ramon Ramon Lobato, James Meese (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2016), 203 pp.

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Citizen Journalism: A Retrospective on What We Know, an Agenda for What We Don’t

Melissa Wall

Digital Journalism, volume 3, issue 6 (2015), pp. 797-813

"This article reviews the state of research on citizen journalism over the past decade. The key areas covered include the ways traditional journalism has responded to this phenomenon from its early criticisms and later clumsy embrace of citizen content; the promises and perils of hyper-local citizen ... more

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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.

"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspect ... more

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