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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

Amy Webb

New York: PublicAffairs (2019), 320 pp.

"The Big Nine who will determine the future of artifical intelligence (AI) - Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Facebook in America; and Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent in China - serve masters with conflicting interests. Wall Street wants profit now without regard to consequences. The Chinese g ... more

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China and the Global Media Landscape: Remapping and Remapped

Gabriele Balbi, Fei Jiang, Giuseppe Richeri (eds.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2019), vi, 196 pp.

"In the last decade, the Chinese media have imposed themselves in the global arena and have started to become a reference point, in business and cultural terms, for other national media systems. This book explores how the global media landscape was changed by this revolutionary trend, and why and ho ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication

Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge;Earthscan (2019), xxi, 412 pp.

"Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodo ... more

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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media

Samuel C. Woolley, Philip N. Howard (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp.

"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int ... more

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Membership in News & Beyond: What Media Can Learn from Other Member-Driven Movements

Emily Goligoski, Matt Thompson

Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2019), 45 pp.

"The traditional financial models for news are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival? We’re at a moment of profound transition and successive crisis for news. Our mission is to explore how membership models might help. A key takeaway ... more

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Comunicación, cultura de paz e igualdad: Tejiendo ciudadanía comunicativa

Claudia Cecilia Flores Pérez, Alex Iván Arévalo Salinas, Alejandro Barranquero Carretero (eds.)

Zacatecas, México: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas “Francisco García Salinas” (2019), 173 pp.

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Engaged Journalism: Practices for Building Trust, Generating Revenue, and Fostering Civic Engagement

Lindsay Green-Barber, Eric Garcia Mc Kinley

Impact Architects (2019), 61 pp.

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The Need for a New US Information Strategy for North Korea

Nat Kretchun

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 19 pp.

"Drawing on relevant literature, analysis of North Korean media and information control techniques, and interviews with refugees and defectors, this report argues that a new US information strategy is needed to alleviate the social isolation of the North Korean people and improve their long-term wel ... more

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Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

Patricia G. Lange

Louisville: University Press of Colorado (2019), 352 pp.

"The author demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, reciprocity, and community—apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange’s book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures. Lange draws on 152 interviews with YouTube participants at gather ... more

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Faith-Based Media Literacy Education, History

Rose Pacatte

In: The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy

Renee Hobbs; Paul Mihailidis (eds.)

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), pp. 457-472

"This limited survey of the history of faith-based media literacy education includes its development in some communities, especially mainstream Protestants and Catholics, while acknowledging its existence in others, in one form or another, where extensive data is not yet available. In general faith ... more

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Climate and Sustainability Communication: Global Perspectives

Donnalyn Pompper (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), x, 149 pp.

"Climate and Sustainability Communication builds upon traditional approaches to understanding the role of mass media in shaping social issues by amplifying diverse perspectives of opinion leaders, as well as voices of those affected by climate and sustainability issues. From South Korea and China, t ... more

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Reading, Feeling, Believing: Online Testimonies and the Making of Evangelical Emotion

Suzanne van Geuns

Journal of Contemporary Religion, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 97-115

"A personal relationship with God is central to Evangelical belief. It unfolds as believers interpret internal sensations as coming from outside—from God. How does the formulaic design of testimonies present the audience with a personal relationship with God as a pursuit that is both feasible and ... more

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Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
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Sarah Armour-Jones, Jessica Clark

Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2019), 50 pp.

"Both funding and making media are now dangerous in new ways: Foundations, publishers, editors and journalists across the world are facing not just familiar forms of repression and censorship, but new threats from breaches to digital privacy and a notably uncivil online culture. Funders need to work ... more

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Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture

Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor (eds.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019), x, 288 pp.

"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary ... more

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The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism

Patrick Ferrucci, Jacob L. Nelson

Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 4 (2019), pp. 45-55

"Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms ... more

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Digital Pay-Meter Playbook: How Today’s News Publishers Can Use Data, Best Practices, and Test-And-Learn Tactics to Build Better Pay-Meters

Nicco Mele, Matthew Skibinski, Matthew Spector

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy;Lenfest Institute for Journalism (2019), 35 pp.

"Our research suggests publishers should invest in capabilities to engage in constant testing and experimentation in digital — to build engagement among digital audiences and ultimately convert engaged readers into paying subscribers. For commercial and for-profit models in particular, publishers ... more

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Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use

Johanna L. H. Birkland

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2019), xv, 209 pp.

"The ICT User Typology categorizes older adults’ ICT use into one of five user types, each of which has a unique pattern of ICT introduction, use, display, and meaning they ascribe to technologies: The Enthusiast user type thinks ICTs and other forms of technology are great fun toys. They have won ... more

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The Associated Press Stylebook 2019 and Briefing on Media Law

Paula Froke, Anna Jo Bratton, Oskar Garcia, Jeff McMillan, Jerry Schwartz (eds.)

New York: Basic Books, 54th ed. (2019), 639 pp.

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Africa in the Media

Johanna Blakley, Adam Amel Rogers, Erica Watson-Currie, Kristin Jung

USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, The African Narrative (2019), 51 pp.

"Stories about Africa appeared infrequently on U.S. television: a mention appeared once in every five hours of TV programming. Viewers were seven times more likely to see references to Europe. Despite the low frequency of mentions, we know that there were more than 3.6 billion views of these depicti ... more

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Journalism Grantmaking: New Funding, Models and Partnerships to Sustain and Grow the Field

Sarah Armour-Jones

Philadelphia, PA: Media Impact Funders (2019), 13 pp.

"Since 2009, 3,106 funders gave $1.7 billion in journalism-related grants [in the U.S.]. Of that, $306 million was directed toward the Newseum. Excluding grants to the Newseum, the top 9 journalism funders to U.S.-based organizations have given $550 million, via 1,776 grants since 2009. Of the $1.7 ... more

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