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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
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Yoel Cohen (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.

"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on- ... more

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Soft Power Made in China: The Dilemmas of Online and Offline Media and Transnational Audiences

Claire Seungeun Lee

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxi, 236 pp.

"This book analyzes the ways in which China’s soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China’s transnational soft power-field expansion lies in the intersection of its source and receiving countries. The author discusses how transna ... more

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Politics and Social Media in China

Lars Wilnat, Lu Wei, Jason A. Martin

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 181-202

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A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance

Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 217-238

"This chapter employs the cyberconflict perspective (Karatzogianni 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012a: 52-73, 2012b: 221-46; Karatzogianni and Robinson 2010) to offer an in-depth analysis of Chinese dissidents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focusing particularly on the 2000s. A distinction is drawn ... more

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Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda, Bruce Mutsvairo, Gerard Goggin (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.

"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ... more

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Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China

PEN America (2018), 90 pp.

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Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

Carola Richter, Anna Antonakis, Cilja Harders (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), vi, 189 pp.

"In times of increasing mediatization and digitalization media play an important role in political and societal transformation processes. The authors of this volume take an actor-centered perspective to shed light on current cases in Arab and Asian countries. They inquire into the ways processes of ... more

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Tiangao or Tianxia? The Ambiguities of CCTV's English-Language News for Africa

Vivien Marsh

In: China's Media Go Global

Daya Kishan Thussu; Hugo de Burgh; Anbin Shi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 103-121

"Sustained media interest in African countries, funded from deep pockets in Beijing, may well attract admirers if the coverage is positive or uncritical. The forward-looking narrative promoted by 'constructive' or 'positive' reporting may help developing nations by not crushing them under too much e ... more

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Chinese International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Gary D. Rawnsley

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 460-475

"There are five key reasons why China encounters problems in trying to manage the global conversation. First, the power and scope of conversation is not under China's control, but rather resides in the audience [...] Second, the audience's image of China is conditioned by the politics of the country ... more

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‘The Big Brother We Appreciate’ or a ‘mafioso’? The Emergence of Stereotypes Concerning China and the Chinese in Angola

Jaroslaw Jura, Kaja Kaluzynska, Paulo de Carvalho

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 251-271

"This article aims to analyse the process of emergence of China-related stereotypes in Angola, which have started to appear with an increasing number of Angolans establishing direct and non-direct contacts with the Chinese. The article investigates this issue based on the content of China-related ar ... more

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Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia

Kiran Prasad (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), ix, 199 pp.

"This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of cont ... more

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Journalist Social Media Practice in China: A Review and Synthesis

Guowei Jian, Ting Liu

Journalism, volume 19, issue 9-10 (2018), pp. 1452-1470

"The growing influence of social media on journalistic work has attracted scholarly attention worldwide in recent years. However, due to cultural and language barriers, we lack comprehensive understanding of the journalist social media practice in non-Western countries. To help fill this gap, this s ... more

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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

Yunze Zhao, Ping Sun

London; New York: Routledge (2018), 176 pp.

"Arranged in chronological order mainly, this book examines the initial development of Chinese journalism in ancient times, which from then manifested strong political attributes. After the Opium War in 1840, missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals in ... more

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China's Media Go Global

Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh, Anbin Shi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 324 pp.

"As part of China’s ‘going out’ strategy, China is using its media to promote its views and vision to the wider world and to counter negative images in the US-dominated international media. China’s Media Go Global, the first edited collection on this subject, evaluates how the unprecedented ... more

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Freer But Not Free Enough? Chinese Journalists Finding Their Feet in Africa

Iginio Gagliardone, Nyíri Pál

Journalism, volume 18, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1049-1063

"The high-profile appearance of Chinese media organizations in Africa has attracted considerable attention. How Chinese correspondents in Africa actually go about their work is, however, little understood. A posting in Africa gives journalists at Xinhua News Agency or China Central Television a degr ... more

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Digital Asia

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 40 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.

"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more

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How Influential Are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales

International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231

"This article uses data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy. We show that Chinese media have little impact on students’ information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward ... more

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Chinese Media in Africa: Between Promise and Reality

Emeka Umejei

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 104-120

"This article examines the relationship between journalism in Africa and foreign investment in the African media space through an analysis of newsroom practices and the power relations that inform such practices in Chinese media organisations based in Africa. It illustrates the discrepancies between ... more

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Social Media in China

Wenbo Kuang

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxii, 293 pp.

"Redefining the concept of new media in China, this cutting edge book discusses the impact of social media on Chinese public life. Examining its characteristics and the different forms of social media, such as internet and mobile phone media, weibo, wechat and micro-blogging, it considers how public ... more

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