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Stakes Are High: Essays on Brazil and the Future of the Global Internet

Ellery Roberts Biddle, Ronaldo Lemos, Monroe Price (eds.)

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2014), 41 pp.

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Freedom of Expression and Access to Information: Innovative Projects

Isabel Rodde, Friederike Brinkmeier

Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ);Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ);Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 5 pp.

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Terrorism and the Media

Michael Jetter

Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2014), 52 pp.

"Media attention devoted to terrorist attacks varies substantially across global conflict zones. This paper systematically analyzes what determines media coverage of terrorist attacks. One of the most important findings relates to suicide attacks: these particularly devastating forms of terrorism re ... more

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ICT Facts and Figures

Geneva: ITU (2014), 8 pp.

"The new figures show that, by the end of 2014, there will be almost 3 billion Internet users, two-thirds of them coming from the developing world, and that the number of mobile-broadband subscriptions will reach 2.3 billion globally. Fifty-five per cent of these subscriptions are expected to be in ... more

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Violence and Harassment Against Women in the News Media: A Global Picture

Alana Barton, Hannah Storm

Washington, DC; London: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF);International News Safety Institute (INSI) (2014), 37 pp.

"This report is based on the findings of a global survey on harassment and violence against female media workers, which was launched in August 2013 and completed by almost 1,000 women from around the world. Nearly two-thirds of survey respondents said they had experienced some form of intimidation, ... more

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By the Numbers: Tracing the Statistical Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democracy

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Lee B. Becker

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.

"Press freedom is a key component of the general level of democracy in a country. Most often, changes in the state of media freedom have happened in tandem with changes in broader freedoms, therefore making it a sensitive indicator of the overall health of a democracy. In some cases, its deteriorati ... more

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Soft Censorship, Hard Impact: A Global Review

Thomas R. Lansner (ed.)

Paris; Washington, DC: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA);Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 29 pp.

"Official “soft censorship” (or “indirect government censorship”) describes an array of official actions intended to influence media output short of legal or extra-legal bans, direct censorship of specific content, or physical attacks on media outlets or media practitioners [...] A crucial f ... more

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The Role of Broadcast Media in Disaster Preparedness Education: Lessons Learned in the Scientific Literature 2002–2012

Eila Romo-Murphy, Marita Vos

Media Asia, volume 41, issue 1 (2014), pp. 71-85

"This paper aims to clarify the role of broadcast media in disaster preparedness education concerning natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. This is done by means of a systematic review of the scientific literature on this topic over the last 10 years. The results show that media inform ... more

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Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal, Gary L. Kreps (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), 383 pp.

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The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, Helena Sousa (eds.)

Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2014), xiv, 611 pp.

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The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2014), 58 pp.

"This report provides analysis of the 593 killings of journalists as condemned by the Director-General of UNESCO between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2013 with an emphasis on cases which took place in 2012 and 2013. With 123 killings, 2012 constitutes the deadliest year for journalists since the r ... more

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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present

Dan Mazur, Alexander Danner

London: Thames & Hudson (2014), 319 pp.

"The book traces comics’ evolution up to the emergence of today's global, digital scene and the medium’s likely future. Robert Crumb and Gabrielle Bell, Jack Kirby and Alan Moore, Moebius, Yumiko Oshima and Osamu Tezuka are just a few of the hundreds of artists and writers included – making it ... more

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The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism

Cecil M. Robeck (ed.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2014), xiii, 340 pp.

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Closing the Feedback Loop: Can Technology Bridge the Accountability Gap?

Björn-Sören Gigler, Savita Bailur (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), xxiv, 303 pp.

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Individual and Contextual Correlates of Trust in Media Across 44 Countries

Yariv Tsfati, Gal Ariely

Communication Research, volume 41, issue 6 (2014), pp. 760-782

"The current investigation utilizes data from 44 diverse countries (n = 57,847), collected as part of the World Values Survey, to broaden our understanding of trust in media. The aim is two-fold-to learn about individual-level correlates across contexts and to demonstrate that macro-level factors pl ... more

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The Road to Justice: Breaking the Cycle of Impunity in the Killing of Journalists

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2014), 47 pp.

"CPJ’s analysis of global rates of impunity in journalist killings over the past seven years shows that they have for the most part gotten worse. There are some encouraging signs in the data. The number of convictions of suspects behind these crimes appears to be slightly on the rise, but thi s nu ... more

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Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries
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Rebecca MacKinnon, Elonnai Hickok, Allon Barr, Hae-in Lim

Paris: UNESCO (2014), 210 pp.

"The research showed that internet intermediaries are heavily influenced by the legal and policy environments of states, but they do have leeway over many areas of policy and practice affecting online expression and privacy. The findings also highlighted the challenge where many state policies, laws ... more