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OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015

Paris: OECD (2015), 284 pp.

"This report assesses how countries can maximise the potential of the digital economy as a driver for innovation and inclusive growth, and discusses the evolutions in the digital economy that policy makers need to consider as well as the emerging challenges they need to address as a part of national ... more

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Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage

John C. Pollock (ed.)

Lodon et al.: Routledge (2015), 166 pp.

"This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee right ... more

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Building Digital Safety for Journalism: A Survey of Selected Issues

Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Michelle Betz, Joanne M. Lisosky

Paris: UNESCO (2015), 101 pp.

"This publication identifies at least 12 digital threats, including illegal or arbitrary digital surveillance, location tracking, and software and hardware exploits without the knowledge of the target. Further examples that are considered are: phishing, fake domain attacks, Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) ... more

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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp

Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides

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Quality Models in Online and Open Education Around the Globe: State of the Art and Recommendations

Ebba Ossiannilsson, Keith Williams, Anthony F. Camilleri, Mark Brown

Oslo: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) (2015), 52 pp.

"The report provides the first global overview of quality models in online and open education, an overview which is very timely, delivered as it is for Global Education 2030, the new global educational agenda which replaces Education For All, EFA. The report paints with a broad brush the landscape o ... more

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Communication and Complex Emergencies: A Resource Guide

Andrew Skuse, Tait Brimacombe, Dianne Rodger

Adelaide: University of Adelaide, Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU);Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) (2015), 57 pp.

"This resource guide assesses the broad role of information and communication in disaster situations and complex emergencies. It highlights a number of distinct communication phases or cycles associated with emergency or crisis communication, as well as defining the broad range and diversity of init ... more

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East Meets West: Innovative Literacy Learning Concepts

Karin Plötz, Holger Volland (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main: Litcam;Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), 37 pp.

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ICT Facts and Figures

Geneva: ITU (2015), 8 pp.

"In 2015 there are more than 7 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide, up from less than 1 billion in 2000. Globally 3.2 billion people are using the Internet of which 2 billion are from developing countries. ICTs will play an even more significant role in the post 2015 development agenda a ... more

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Smartphones

Paul A. Soukup

Communication Research Trends, volume 34, issue 4 (2015), pp. 3-39

"Many of the research approaches to smartphones actually regard them as more or less transparent points of access to other kinds of communication experiences. That is, rather than considering the smartphone as something in itself, the researchers look at how individuals use the smartphone for their ... communicative purposes, whether these be talking, surfing the web, using on-line data access for off-site data sources, downloading or uploading materials, or any kind of interaction with social media. They focus not so much on the smartphone itself but on the activities that people engage in with their smartphones. Though most communication research examines on individual and group usage of smartphones, a few people outside of the more technical journals and books have sketched—at least in overview form—the key factors for smartphone success, what Goggin and Hjorth (2014b) identify as infrastructure, economics, and policy. Apart from the manufacture of the handsets, smartphones require an infrastructure of telecommunications operators, with systems across the world divided between national telecommunication services and competing privately owned companies (Curwen & Whalley, 2014; Feijóo, 2014). Secondly, smartphones depend upon both formal and informal economies, from the manufacture and sale of the phones themselves to the production and sale of the apps to the revenues supporting particular app services (music sales, data storage, on-demand services, and so on) (Lobato & Thomas, 2014). Goldsmith (2014) adds a bit of detail, describing an app ecosystem: “Each ecosystem consists of a core company, which creates and maintains a platform and an app marketplace, plus small and large companies that produce apps and/or mobile devices for that platform” (p. 171). Finally, both manufacturers and operators must negotiate agreed-on technical specifications for voice and data transmission, specifications that governments must approve both locally and perhaps in cross-border treaty agreements (Middleton, 2014). These factors lead to a more complex view of smartphones: not only do they function as communication devices and embodiments of technical negotiations, but they also take on identities as symbols of economic and cultural systems, as “moral objects” (whose value justifies their purchase price), as fashion accessories, and as lifestyle supports (Koskinen, 2012, p. 225)." (Introduction, pages 3-4) more

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2015 Corporate Accountability Index

Ranking Digital Rights (2015), 77 pp.

"Ranking Digital Rights’ inaugural Corporate Accountability Index evaluates 16 of the world’s most powerful Internet and telecommunications companies on their commitments, policies, and practices that affect users’ freedom of expression and privacy. By opening the door for greater corporate tr ... more

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Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
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Sirkku Kotilainen, Reijo Kupiainen (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2015), 301 pp.

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Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.

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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.

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Handbuch der Menschenrechtsarbeit

Felix Kirchmeier, Michael Krennerich (eds.)

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Forum Menschenrechte (2015), 425 pp.

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Humanitarianism, Communications and Change

Simon Cottle, Glenda Cooper (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 279 pp.

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Elements for the Formation of Salesians in Communication
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Salesians. Department for Formation, Salesians. Department for Social Communication (eds.)

Makati City - Manila: Don Bosco Press (2015), 336 pp.

"This book, not pretending to cover all issues, is divided into four complementary parts: the first puts the biblical and theological foundations of Christian communication; the second presents some significant experiences of communication developed by Don Bosco in Valdocco; the third offers some go ... more

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Beyond Books: How Publishing is Converging with the Global Information and Entertainment Business

Rüdiger Wischenbart

Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), 15 pp.

"This report explores how, in recent years, the book publishing industry has transcended limitations of format, scope, reach and audience, and has overcome its own culture and traditions, to integrate itself in the creation, production, distribution and consumption of media content, worldwide. It dr ... more

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Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places

Dale M. Hudson, Patricia Rodden Zimmermann

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xvi, 280 pp.

"Thinking through Digital Media" speculates on animation, documentary, experimental, interactive, and narrative media that probe human-machine performances, virtual migrations, global warming, structural inequality, and critical cartographies across Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Israel/Pa ... more

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Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), xiv, 322 pp.

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The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom

Joel Simon

New York: Columbia University Press (2015), x, 236 pp.

"Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Joel Simon calls for a global freedom-of-expression agenda. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrup ... more

Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014 Inspiring Practice

Elements for the Formation of Salesians in Communication Key Guidance

Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
Inspiring Practice

Elements for the Formation of Salesians in Communication
Key Guidance