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Technology and Journalism: ‘dissolving’ Social Media Content Into Disaster Reporting on Three Chinese Disasters
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
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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
Deep Insights
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
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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.
"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are
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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
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
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Beyond the Great Firewall: How China Became a Global Information Power
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Article 19 (2017), 41 pp.
Digital Culture and Religion in Asia
London: Routledge (2017), 129 pp.
Monitor, harass and discredit with Chinese characteristics: Foreign correspondents’ working condition in China
Media Asia, volume 44, issue 1 (2017), pp. 48-54
"Yuan Zeng analyses the mixed uncodified strategies that Chinese authorities use to obstruct the work of foreign journalists." (Abstract)
Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies
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
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Comics Art in China
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
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
Deep Insights
"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas
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Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xiii, 271 pp.
"Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than merely a passive mouthpiece or a dissident voice, the media in China also plays a critical oversight role, one more frequently associated with liberal democracies than with autho
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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
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
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Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.
"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien
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Chinese War Correspondents: Covering Wars and Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 204 pp.
"(1) How do Chinese journalists perceive their roles and practices in conflict zones outside China? (2) How do they cover armed conflicts overseas? (3) Who are the actors, and how do they influence Chinese war correspondence? (4) Do the Chinese news media practice peace or war journalism? To answer
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Journalists in China
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 5 pp.
"With regards to professional role orientations, Chinese journalists found it most important to report things as they are, to provide analysis of current affairs, to support national development, to provide advice, orientation and direction for daily life, and to be a detached observer. The relevanc
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Media Literacy Education in China
Singapore: Springer (2016), x, 179 pp.
"The Chinese government has long kept tight control on both traditional and new media to prevent potential challenges to its authority. But, for better or worse, China has now reached a stage where it is difficult to exercise political hegemony through laws and regulations and the control of the mas
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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil
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How the World Changed Social Media
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xxiv, 262 pp.
"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re
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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication
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
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Darkened Screen: Constraints on Foreign Journalists in China
New York: PEN America (2016), 75 pp.
