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From the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action Through Documentary Media

Johanna Blakley, Beth Karlin et al.
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2017), 25 pp.
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Media Reporting on Human Trafficking

Washington, DC: United States Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (2017), 1 p.
"Just 15 years ago, human trafficking was an under-reported and often misrepresented issue and some reporting sensationalized the problem or even misinformed the public. In the last few years, a significant shift has occurred i n the media’s reporting of human trafficking, from dramatic exposés t ... more
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope
Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.
"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more
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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study

Scott Griffen
Barbara Trionfi (ed.)
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.
"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat ... more
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Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

Ulla D. Berg
New York; London: New York University Press, paperback ed. (2017), xv, 304 pp.
"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to cont ... more
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Can Foundations Solve the Journalism Crisis?

Rodney Benson
Journalism, volume 19, issue 8 (2017), pp. 1059-1077
"In the context of the ongoing financial crisis in U.S. professional journalism, philanthropic foundation-supported nonprofits are increasingly proposed as a solution to the under-provision of civic-oriented news production. Drawing on an analysis of the social composition of boards of directors and ... more
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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen
London; New York: Routledge (2017), ix, 178 pp.
"Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world. It is about examining development as a discourse that is based on the harmful contrast between the developed and the developing (or the underdevelo ... more
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Negotiating ‘non-profit’: The survival strategies of the Sesame Workshop

Helle S. Jensen, Katalin Lustyik
Media International Australia, volume 163, issue 1 (2017), pp. 97-106
"Our study focuses on Sesame Street and sets out to examine how Sesame Workshop, as a ‘nonprofit’ organization targeting children, has been able to continuously transform and make itself relevant in a predominantly commercial children’s television landscape dominated by transnational ownership ... more
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Disability Media Studies

Elizabeth Ellcessor, Bill Kirkpatrick (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.
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Pathways to Engagement: Understanding How Newsrooms are Working with Communities

Angela Das
Democracy Fund (2017), 15 pp.
"In this paper, we have documented a broad spectrum of efforts that help position communities at the center of journalism. Different approaches are outlined, along with useful examples from the field. We don’t seek to prioritize or rank these different models, but rather understand that each meets ... more
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Whistleblowing in the World: Government Policy, Mass Media and the Law

Carmen R. Apaza, Yongjin Chang (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xi, 90 pp.
"This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing. After examining th ... more
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Philanthrocapitalists and the Humanitarian Agenda: Motivations, Metrics, and Media Power

Garrett M. Broad
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 505-515
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Transborder Media Spaces: Ayuujk Videomaking Between Mexico and the US

Ingrid Kummels
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2017), xvii, 336 pp.
"Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how media forms like photography, video, radio, television, and the Internet have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. In producing and consuming self-determined medi ... more
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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

Adam Fish
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
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Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Practices and Places

Sarita Malik, Caroline Chapain, Roberta Comunian (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2017), xv, 286 pp.
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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
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Robyn S. Goodman, Elanie Steyn (eds.)
Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas; World Journalism Education Council (2017), xviii, 468 pp.
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Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
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Thomas H. Johnson
London: Hurst (2017), xxxvi, 376 pp.
"Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan Government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the infor ... more
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Media Localism: The Policies of Place

Christopher Ali
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2017), xiv, 254 pp.
"What does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism amo ... more
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Effective Communication During Disasters: Making Use of Technology, Media, and Human Resources

Girish Bobby Kapur, Sarah Bezek, Jonathan Dyal (eds.)
Oakville, Ontario; Waretown, NJ: Apple Academic Press (2017), xxvi, 284 pp.
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Thoughts on a Critical Theory of Rural Communication

Christopher Ali
Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 27 pp.
"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple ... more