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Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East. Selected Data from Freedom House's Annual Press Freedom Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 40 pp.

"The improvements in the Arab world were the most significant findings of Freedom of the Press 2012: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the latest edition of an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980. The gains came on the heels of eight consecutive years of decline in the global ave ... more

Getting Away with Murder: CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2012), 13 pp.

"Deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index. The global index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage ... more

WIPO Studies on the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2012), 35 pp.

"In 2003 WIPO published common guidelines on carrying out such research throughout the world. This methodology outlines four groups of copyright industries, identified on the basis of their level of dependence on copyright material. It establishes a set of major indicators – contribution to GDP, e ... more

South-North Conversations: International Association of Media and Communication Research Conference 2012 South Africa

Durban: University of Kwazulu-Natal;International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2012), 91 pp.

Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media-House Policy. Book 1: Conceptual Issues

Sarah Macharia, Pamela Morinière (eds.)

Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 59 pp.

"This learning resource kit aims to provide an answer to the current gender gap in news content and lack of existing self-regulatory mechanisms to confront gender bias. It is organised in two books that may be read independently of each other. Book 1 discusses conceptual issues pertaining to gender, ... more

Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile

Washington, DC: World Bank (2012), xviii, 221 pp.

"Analyzes the growth and evolution of mobile telephony, including the rise of data-based services delivered to handheld devices through “apps” (applications) and other ways. Summarizing current thinking and seeking to inform the debate on the use of mobile phones to improve livelihoods, the repo ... more

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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders

Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf (eds.)

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 ... more

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Comparing Media Policy and Regulation

Manuel Puppis, Leen d'Haenens

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 221-233

"While some of the mentioned problems are inherent to any comparison of media policy and regulation and are hard to avoid (e.g., due to changing regulation or differences in regulatory regimes), other pitfalls may be bypassed and pave the way for future research. First, a theory-driven approach to a ... more

Communication and Human Rights

Aimée Vega Montiel (ed.)

Mexico, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades;International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2012), 175 pp.

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International Radio Regulation: An Overview

John Allen Hendricks, Montse Bonet, Lawrie Hallett, Svetlana Kulikova, Chwen Chwen Chen

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio

John Allen Hendricks (ed.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), pp. 17-37

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Handbook of Comparative Communication Research
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Frank Esser, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), xxi, 544 pp.

"The Handbook of Comparative Communication Research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of comparative communication research. It fills an obvious gap in the literature and offers an extensive and interdisciplinary discussion of the general approach of comparative research, its prospect an ... more

Child Safety Online: Global Challenges and Strategies

Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2012), 130 pp.

"The research explored children’s online behaviour, risks and vulnerability to harm, documenting existing preventive and protective measures to combat their online abuse and exploitation. The study draws on lessons from high- and middle-income countries, viewed through the lens of the dynamic that ... more

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Researching the News Agencies

Oliver Boyd-Barrett

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 333-351

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The World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication

William A. Hachten, James F. Scotton

Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 8th ed. (2012), xi, 249 pp.

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Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change

Mohan J. Dutta

West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press (2012), xviii, 325 pp.

"In this book, based on the culture-centered approach to social change, we listen to the voices of resistance across the globe that foreground alternative rationalities of social, political, and economic organizing, challenging the hegemony of neoliberal ideology in organizing global economies. Prim ... more

International Media Development Cooperation: A Guide to the Literature

Christoph Dietz

Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome), draft version (2012), 41 pp.

"This guide aims to bring together the most relevant literature on media development cooperation, both of practical and academic nature, and regardless of ideological background. It focuses on the role of external actors in media development. Included are publications which explicitly address the ro ... more

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Comparing Media Use and Reception

Uwe Hasebrink

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 382-399

Telenovelas / culebrones / novelas (das oito) / suds/sudsers — téléromans / feuilletons télévisés — teleromanzi / romanzi sceneggiati: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie der Sekundärliteratur

Ludger Kaczmarek, Hans Jürgen Wulff

Medienwissenschaft (Hamburg), volume 143 (2012), 577 pp.

"Die nachstehende Bibliographie versammelt Sekundarliteratur zur 'Telenovela' als einem seriellen melodramatischen Fernsehformat, sowohl dem Begriff als auch dem blosen Wort nach. Das bedeutet: es findet sich auch Literatur verzeichnet, deren Gegenstande von unterschiedlichen Experten nicht oder nur ... more

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Comparing Health Communication

John C. Pollock, Douglas Storey

In: Handbook of Comparative Communication Research

Frank Esser; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), pp. 161-182

"This review of available scholarship in international health communication reveals a curious disconnect between an abundance of material available in selected nations and regions (e.g., Australia, southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States), on the one hand, and relatively little atten ... more