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Politics in Cyberspace: New Media in Malaysia

Meredith L. Weiss

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 56 pp.

"There seems little evidence that the rise and increasing availability and range of new media have given real reason to expect different political outcomes on grounds of new patterns of mobilization, particularly given a persistent “digital divid ... more

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Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide
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Charles Abraham, Marieke Kools (eds.)

London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2012), xv, 175 pp.

"[This] is a practical guide to producing effective written materials. The book presents easy-to-understand, evidence-based guidance on providing information, presenting persuasive messages and promoting behaviour change. Topics include: message fr ... more

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Beyond Powerful Radio: A Communicator's Guide to the Internet Age. News, Talk, Information & Personality for Broadcasting, Podcasting, Internet, Radio

Valerie Geller, Turi Ryder

New York; London: Focal Press, 2nd ed. (2011), xvii, 512 pp.

"Beyond Powerful Radio is a complete guide to becoming a powerful broadcast communicator on radio or internet! This how-to cookbook is for broadcasters who want to learn the craft and improve. Thi ... more

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Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators

Cecile Kusters

Simone van Vugt; Seerp Wigboldus; Bob Williams; Jim Woodhill (contrib.)

Wageningen: Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research Centre (2011), 118 pp.

"Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little done to bring about change within organisations. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations contribute to empowering stakeholde ... more

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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 what degree the director can control her/his story. Or in other words, to what extent the films, which are read as national works, can reflect debates or atmospheres in their country of origin at all? The decoding of films, not only from the Middle East, is in many cases national, as the case of Paradise Now showed. Critics’ reactions to Waltz with Bashir suggest that the reading of the film is connected to the actual political experience within the region versus political assumptions about it, a rather regional reading. An aspect entirely missing in the Western decoding process of films from the Middle East is the question who was involved in the encoding. The critics, who translate the film to the wider audience, focus on the films’ subjects or manipulations, rather than on the economic and institutional backing of the creation and thus interests behind it. After completing the film it is solely the director who has to defend the work as a statement from and about her/his country. Regardless of formal ownership and the involvement of co-producing states these films are marketed as documents from and about the country in which the story takes place. The majority of co-productions by directors from the Middle East, like the majority of films produced at all, get little attention. It is the films with international recognition, be it by box office numbers or debates that are remembered. One could easily assume that Paradise Now will become part of a Palestinian collective memory. Yet, without physical archives in the Arab countries, and Palestine not even being a state, how long will the co-produced movies be accessible as part of cultural heritage? In French and German archives the film rolls will be stored and made accessible, it is in Europe where Arabs will still have to look for their cultural memory in the distant future." (Conclusion, page 11-12) more

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Tok Bilong Ol Grassruts: Tok Pisin & Wantok

Alphones Aime, Geraldine Vilakiva, Philip Cass, Evangelia Papoutsaki

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

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

Madang; Auckland: DWU Press, Divine Word University;Pacific Media Centre, Auckland University of Technology (2011), pp. 48-61

"Tok Pisin [one of the three national languages] has played a significant role as an agent of change and development in Papua New Guinea. It bridged the gap between the rural and the urban communities and brought confidence to people who are now ab ... more

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Investigative Journalism Manual

Gwen Ansell et al.

Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR);WITS University;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 220 pp.

"These first chapters form the core of what is planned as a growing guide to investigative journalism over the next two years. To begin, we have assembled the basics: definitions of the field and some key techniques and resources. We will add to th ... more

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Food Security Communications Toolkit
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Rome: FAO (2011), 213 pp.

"This toolkit is geared towards helping food security professionals develop a communication strategy and communicate more effectively with their target audiences. Specific sections of the toolkit focus on policy makers and the media, because of the ... more

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Mojo: Mobile Journalism in the Asian Region
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Stephen Quinn

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), 3d ed. (2011), 73 pp.

"Mobile journalism means journalism using mobile phones. Mobile journalists, or mojos, extend the newsgathering options for a news organisation, especially for breaking news, says Stephen Quinn. By citing examples not only from Asia, but also the U ... more

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Elections and the Media in Postconflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace?
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Marie-Soleil Frère

London; New York: Zed Books (2011), xiv, 289 pp.

"In democracies with adjectives, the freedom of press also comes with adjectives." If the political regime is situated between a pure democracy and despotism, the freedom of press is also stuck in an in-between-situation. This statement sums up the ... more

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Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy Through Communication

Jian Wang (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), 221 pp.

"The book provides a glimpse into how China has tried to tell its story to the world. The introduction chapter outlines the broader context for the examination of Chinese public diplomacy. It discusses some of the emerging themes concerning the spi ... rit and practice of the country’s image-building efforts. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the trends and developments in Chinese public diplomacy, and discusses how China’s authoritarian system has benefits as well as drawbacks for its soft power pursuits. In the next three chapters, we examine some of the major Chinese external propaganda and communication platforms, including Beijing Review, CCTV International (renamed CCTV News in April 2010), and government news conferences and spokespersons [...] Chapter 6 takes on a relatively new topic of the increasing role of Chinese corporations in the process of public diplomacy. It examines the complex interplay between corporate branding and nation branding in the example of a leading Chinese company’s corporate social responsibility engagement in Africa. The ensuing two chapters cover China’s image promotion related to the Beijing Olympics from two different vantage points. Chapter 7 discusses the promotion of the Olympics to the Chinese domestic public, who were expected to be model citizens helping to deliver a positive image of China during the Games. This can be viewed as a case of how “charm offensive” begins on the home front. Chapter 8 sheds light on the role of the ever more active Chinese diaspora in national image management through its mobilization in defense of China’s image during the international leg of the Olympic torch relay. To provide some historical context to the discussion of China’s contemporary endeavor, Chapter 9 examines how the conception of “international propaganda” was formulated and institutionalized in early twentieth century China. It highlights the role of Chinese intellectuals in promoting China’s international communication. Our last essay explores higher education as a site of image-construction. It ref lects on how American college students read and evaluate China based on their perspectives and news sources. It ends with an imaginary dialogue between a Chinese journalist and an American journalist on mutual misperceptions, and possibilities for change, providing an “enjoyable and hopeful” conclusion to the book." (Preface, pages ix-x) more

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The Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods

Eric Margolis (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (2011), xxi, 754 pp.

"This 42 chapter volume represents the state of the art in visual research. It provides an introduction to the field for a variety of visual researchers: scholars and graduate students in art, sociology, anthropology, communication, education, cult ... more

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Guidelines for Easy-To-Read Materials

The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (2010), 29 pp.

"These guidelines have three main purposes: 1) to describe the nature of and the need for easy-to-read publications; 2) to identify the main target groups for these publications; and 3) to offer suggestions to publishers of easy-to- ... more

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Toolbox Journalism Training, Discrimination & Diversity

Carole Recih, Reynald Blion (eds.)

Council of Europe (2010), 93 pp.

"The guiding principle behind the development of this tool has been to produce a ‘user-friendly’ resource for journalism educators who want to include what we might term as ‘anti-discrimination or human rights awareness’ dimension into thei ... more

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Politicians and the News Media: How Elite Attacks Influence Perceptions of Media Bias

Glen R. Smith

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 15, issue 3 (2010), pp. 319-43

"When political elites receive unfavorable news coverage, a common strategy is to attack the source. Past research suggests that attacks on the news media increase perceptions of media bias, but it remains unclear how this occurs. Using two experim ... more

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Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran

Yahya R. Kamalipour (ed.)

Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield (2010), xxiv, 314 pp.

"Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication te ... more

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Confusion, Contradiction and Irony: The Iraqi Media in 2010

Deborah Amos

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy (2010), 45 pp.

"After the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, Iraq's news media environment transformed almost overnight from the tightly controlled propaganda arm of Saddam Hussein's rule into one of the most diverse and unrestricted news environments in the Middle East. Built in an atmosphere of chaos and conflict ... more

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The Digital World of Young Children: Impact on Emergency Literacy

Jay Blanchard, Terry Moore

Pearson Foundation (2010), 35 pp.

"This white paper takes a first look at the everyday world of digital tools and media in the lives of three- to five-year-old children, with a particular focus on non-intentional learning opportun ... more

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Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story!

Herman Wasserman

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), xvi, 218 pp.

"Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the country by storm. One of these papers—the Daily Sun—is now the largest in the country, but it has generated controversy for its perceived lack ... more

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Theorising Media and Practice

Birgit Bräuchler, John R. Postill (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2010), xii, 351 pp.

"Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and S ... more

Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide Key Guidance

Food Security Communications Toolkit Key Guidance

Mojo: Mobile Journalism in the Asian Region Key Guidance

Elections and the Media in Postconflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace? Top Insights

Writing Health Communication: An Evidence-Based Guide
Key Guidance

Food Security Communications Toolkit
Key Guidance

Mojo: Mobile Journalism in the Asian Region
Key Guidance

Elections and the Media in Postconflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace?
Top Insights