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How Media Companies Use Data to Sign Up Digital Subscribers (and Keep Them)

Michael Leitner

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 36 pp.

"Journalist fellow Michael Leitner takes a deep dive into media organisations who already use data to efficiently acquire, engage and furthermore keep subscribers. Do we need automated paywalls, and what data do we need to use to keep readers interested? Key Insights: Dynamic paywalls are no silver ... more

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Media and Development
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Richard Vokes

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xv, 300 pp.

"Drawing on case studies from all over the world – including: ‘hate radio’ in Rwanda; theatre for development in India; telenovelas in Latin America; mobile banking and money in Africa, and; GIS and humanitarianism in Haiti – thsi book will be of interest to all undergraduate and postgraduat ... more

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European and International Media Law

Jan Oster

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), lxx, 583 pp.

"This book is the first to incorporate current academic literature on European, transnational, and international media law into a comprehensive overview intended primarily for students. It introduces the legal framework for globalised communication via mass media, and considers the transformative ef ... more

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Media Reporting of Migrants and Migration

William Allen, Scott Blinder, Robert McNeil

In: World Migration Report 2018

Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2017), 27 pp.

"In this chapter, we aim to address four key questions: What do media around the world say about migration and migrants? What impacts does this coverage have on what members of the public, policymakers and migrants themselves think and do? How does the practice of journalism itself contribute to cov ... more

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Attacks on the Record: The State of Global Press Freedom 2017-2018

Freedom House (2017), 7 pp.

"Press freedom is facing new threats in major democracies as well as in repressive states, where authorities are focusing their efforts on social media and other online platforms after subduing the independence of major print and broadcast outlets. The analysis below—drawn from the findings of Fre ... more

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Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development

Tim Unwin

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), viii, 226 pp.

"ICTs undoubtedly have the potential to reduce poverty, for example by enhancing education, health delivery, rural develop and entrepreneurship across Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, all too often, projects designed to do so fail to go to scale, and are unsustainable when donor funding ceas ... more

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Global Media Giants
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Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gómez, Janet Wasko (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.

"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C ... more

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Expanding influences research to insecure democracies: How violence, public insecurity, economic inequality and uneven democratic performance shape journalists' perceived work environments

Sallie Hughes, Claudia Mellado, Jesús Arroyave, José Luis Benitez, Arnold de Beer, Miguel Garcés, Katharina Lang, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 645-665

"Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with many also featuring extreme economic inequality. These conditions have not been explicitly considered in comparative research on journalists' work environments, an omission that may obscure important rea ... more

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International Perspectives on the Funding of Public Service Media Content for Children

Jeanette Steemers

Media International Australia, volume 163, issue 1 (2017), pp. 42-55

"Funding original children’s television has never been easy because this is rarely a commercially attractive proposition unless you target a global audience and tap into ancillary revenues from licenced merchandise. As a case of market failure, policy makers who wish to ensure the production of a ... more

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The Mediatization of Foreign Policy, Political Decision-Making, and Humanitarian Intervention

Douglas Brommesson, Ann-Marie Ekengren

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xiii, 206 pp.

"This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic. The authors analyze media logic under three specific scope conditions: uncertainty, identity, resonance. First, they lay out the general adaptation of media logic in the general debate of the UN General Assembly ... more

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Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: Legitimizing the Use of Force Since the 1970s

Norbert Frei, Daniel Stahl, Annette Weinke (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 248 pp.

"The Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the Rwandan genocide and the Darfur conflict served as catalysts for debates which significantly changed the character and institutional frameworks of international politics and international law after the end of the Cold War. Humanitarian emergencies and grave human r ... more

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World Press Trends 2017: The Definitive Guide to the Global News Media Industry in Numbers, Trends and Changes

Frankfurt: WAN-IFRA (2017), 87 pp.

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Respecting Rights? Measuring the World’s Blasphemy Laws

Joel Fiss, Jocelyn Getgen Kastenbaum

Washington, DC: United States Commission of International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2017), ix, 138 pp.

"We have seen in our monitoring of religious freedom worldwide how blasphemy laws, in both theory and practice, harm individuals and societies. In commissioning the study found in the following pages, USCIRF sought to ascertain the prevalence of blasphemy laws worldwide and measure how the content o ... more

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Zur Legitimität militärischer Gewalt

Peter Rudolf

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2017), 184 pp.

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Atlas der Umweltmigration

Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva, François Gemenne

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 173 pp.

"Die Existenz des Menschen hängt von zureichenden klimatischen Bedingungen ab. Zumal haben Kulturen des globalen Südens sich in dieser Hinsicht im Lauf der Zeit an schwierige Umstände angepasst. Doch seit infolge des Klimawandels viele Regionen der Erde immer öfter katastrophalen Dürren oder Ü ... more

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Ungleichheit: Was wir dagegen tun können

Anthony B. Atkinson

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 474 pp.

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Blasphemy, Defamation of Religions and Human Rights Law

Jeroen Temperman

Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, volume 26, issue 4 (2017), pp. 517-545

"Blasphemy is a serious wrongdoing in all monotheistic world religions. Blasphemy prohibitions have been brought into being and enforced so as to protect the dominant religion specifically. Religions as such, however, are not protected by international human rights law. Human rights law protects and ... more

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Comparing Journalistic Cultures Across Nations

Folker Hanusch, Thomas Hanitzsch

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 525-535

"Comparative studies of journalism have become immensely popular in recent times, yet a range of methodological and logistical challenges persist in existing work. This introduction to the special issue on “Comparing Journalistic Cultures” provides a brief overview of these challenges, before pr ... more

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Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age
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Julie Posetti

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 191 pp.

"This study, which covers 121 UNESCO Member States, represents a global benchmarking of journalistic source protection in the Digital Age. It focuses on developments during the period 2007-2015. The legal frameworks that support protection of journalistic sources, at international, regional and coun ... more

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The Fake News Machine: How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the Public

Lion Gu, Vladimir Kropotov, Fyodor Yarochkin

Trend Micro (2017), 80 pp.

"The term “fake news” became increasingly common during the past year. While this concept has many synonyms—disinformation campaigns, cyber propaganda, cognitive hacking, and information warfare—it’s just one facet of the bigger problem: the manipulation of public opinion to affect the rea ... more

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