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Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In
Hamburg: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2013), 26 pp.
"This paper reflects the adaptation and transformation of the Chinese party-state's government strategy in the digital era. Through a discourse analysis of the current Chinese debate on the role of microblogs in China, it argues that China's political elites have revised their social management stra
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Half-Orchestrated, Half Freestyle: Soft Power and Reporting Africa in China
African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 102-124
"The discussion of soft power in China can be dated back to 1992, the year Nye's Bound to lead was translated into Chinese and published in Mainland China. Chinese scholars urged that restrictions on civil society be lifted, since China's lack of voluntary associations and NGOs drastically hindered
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The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering
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The Role of Public Sentiment and Social Media in the Evolving China-Africa Relationship
Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2013), 24 pp.
"The demands of public diplomacy have shifted with the development of social media technologies. Increasingly, governments are required to gauge and respond to public sentiment over and above the one-way communication of broadcast media. The social media and accompanying elevated public role have co
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Global eBook: A Report on Market Trends and Developments
O'Reilly, revised and updated ed. (2013), 111 pp.
"The report offers a status on the US and UK markets as well as close ups on ebook markets as they take shape across Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and in the Arab world. Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strate
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The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China
London: PEN International (2013), 61 pp.
"This report arises out of five years of research and targeted advocacy on behalf of writers and journalists who have been censored or persecuted for their work in the People’s Republic of China. It presents PEN International’s findings, compiled by our international researchers and by our colle
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.
Nationalism and Preferences for Domestic and Foreign Animation Programmes in China
International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 2 (2013), pp. 225-245
"Since China implemented animation control policies in 2004, foreign animation programmes have almost disappeared from Chinese television. At the same time, the Chinese government has invested enormous amounts of money in developing the animation industry as a creative industry. A questionnaire surv
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Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific
London: Routledge (2013), xii, 206 pp.
CCTV’s International Expansion: China’s Grand Strategy for Media?
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 37 pp.
"China Central Television has come a long way since its founding as a domestic party propaganda outlet in 1958. The domestic service has been supplemented by an international service, boasting three major global offices in Beijing, Washington, and Nairobi, and more than 70 additional international b
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China as a Persuader: CCTV Africa's First Steps in the African Mediasphere
African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 25-40
"China, in seeking greater engagement with African audiences, has dramatically boosted its potential to shape narratives in ways that can favour its image or interests abroad. Focusing on CCTV Africa, China’s flagship efforts to win hearts and minds on the continent, the article explains how this
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TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp.
"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has sin
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The Global Social Network Landscape: A Country-By-Country Guide to Social Network Usage
eMarketer (2013), 40 pp.
"Though Facebook’s near-ubiquitous lead might indicate that the global social network landscape is simplifying, it quickly becomes clear this is not the case. This report aims to help marketers assess the social network landscape in 27 countries by briefly examining four key factors: top social ne
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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a
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Internet Enemies Report 2012
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 72 pp.
The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 45-58
"This article investigates what the news says about inequity-driven civil wars and economic underdevelopment. Dewey argued that the lack of causal knowledge that distinguishes between symptoms and root causes would limit potential effective and transformative public action. Political scientists have
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The Rise of China’s State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa
Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2012), 31 pp.
"Traces China's media engagement in Africa since the 2000s, including a list of financed projects (pp. 13-15), and explains how strategies have changed. While the extension of hardware assistance continues to play an important role, China's media engagement in Africa started to diversify after the 2
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Differing Paradigms of Media Systems Development in Contemporary Africa: Does the ‘Chinese Model’ Have a Place?
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 52-67
"This article addresses the emerging patterns of contemporary media-based engagements between China and Africa and argues, after an examination of current media systems in both China and Africa, that, despite expressed worries to the contrary, because of reasons spanning from history to geo-politics
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Enquête exploratoire sur le web des Chinois d’outremer: Morphologie du web et production de la diaspora ?
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 14 pp.
"Cette enquête exploratoire s’inscrit dans une interrogation sur la façon dont des collectifs dispersés créent des mondes qui leur sont propres, l’objectif ici étant de voir comment l’usage de l’Internet configure leurs espace et temps singuliers (leurs mondes propres). Les résultats i
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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders
New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.
"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me
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