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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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Thought Work Contested: Ideology and Journalism Education in China

Maria Repnikova

China Quarterly, issue 230 (2017), pp. 399-419

"This article examines the dynamic evolution of China's ideology work through the prism of journalism education. Official sensitivity about both student activism and the media makes journalism education a critical sector for observing how the Party attempts to instil ideology. The article interrogat ... more

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Chinese Social Media: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications

Mike Kent, Kate Ellis, Jian Xu (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xvii, 245 pp.

"This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections between Chinese language social media ... more

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China-Africa Media Interactions: Media and Popular Culture Between Business and State Intervention

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 1 (2017), pp. 1-147

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Technology and Journalism: ‘dissolving’ Social Media Content Into Disaster Reporting on Three Chinese Disasters

Jingrong Tong

International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 3 (2017), pp. 400-418

"This article examines how three Chinese and two British newspapers sourced content from social media in their coverage of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the 2013 Ya'an Earthquake, and the 2015 Tianjin Explosion. The media outlets citing of social media content present different patterns in line with ... more

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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
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Katie Ellis, Mike Kent (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xxii, 340 pp.

"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global ... more

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Digital Culture and Religion in Asia

Sam Han, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir

London: Routledge (2017), 129 pp.

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Comics Art in China

John A. Lent, Ying Xu

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2017), xiii, 234 pp.

"This volume encompasses political, social, and gag cartoons, lianhuanhua (picture books), comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and humor periodicals, and donghua (animation) while exploring topics ranging from the earliest Western-influenced cartoons and the popular, often salacious, 1930s humor ... more

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Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies

Dal Yong Jin (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2017), vi, 247 pp.

"This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but als ... more

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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)

New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.

"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more

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Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays

Guy Hodgson (ed.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017), vi, 168 pp.

"This collection of essays explores the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. It concentrates on the journalists, photographers and film-makers, reflecting not only the motivations behind their work, but also the ps ... more

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Negotiating the Boundaries of News Reporting: Journalists’ Strategies to Access and Report Political Information in China

Xianwen Kuang

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 35-51

"As Chinese politicians hold the power to control the dissemination of political information, beat journalists must guard their relationship with the authorities to expand the boundaries of news reporting; that is, to gain more access to political information and report more sensitive news. What rem ... more

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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

Stephen M. Croucher (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), vii, 376 pp.

"What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geograph ... more

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Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media

Sean Macdonald

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 252 pp.

"By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book ... more

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Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen: Auswahl und Adaptionen deutscher Fernsehsendungen für den chinesischen Markt

Yuanchen Zhang

Berlin: Lit (2016), 230 pp.

"Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, welche deutschen Fernsehsendungen nach China importiert und wie diese in einer Gesellschaft aufgenommen werden, die kulturell vollkommen anders geprägt ist als die deutsche. Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf der Herausarbeitung von Kriterien für die Auswahl von Ferns ... more

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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China

Eileen Le Han

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.

"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.

"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more

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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power

Lisa Ann Richey (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.

"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding ... more

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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication

Ran Wei (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xv, 236 pp.

"This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weib ... more

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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.

"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more

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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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