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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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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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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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2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good; Public Interest Registry (2017), 15 pp.
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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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Exploring the Link Between Community Radio and the Community: A Study of Audience Participation in Alternative Media Practices

Lei Guo
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 10, issue 1 (2017), pp. 112-130
"Most alternative media research has examined media content and the production process, largely ignoring another important component: the audiences of alternative media. To narrow this gap, this study investigates audience participation in one alternative media outlet: community radio. Case studies ... more
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Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

Sujatha Fernandes
New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 212 pp.
"Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies. She argues that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams th ... more
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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

Heather McIntosh
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more
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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.
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Freedom of the Press 2017: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizon
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Jennifer Dunham
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2017), 28 pp.
"Press freedom worldwide deteriorated to its lowest point in 13 years in 2016, driven by unprecedented threats to journalists and media outlets in major democracies, intensified crackdowns on independent media in authoritarian settings, and moves by the Russian and Chinese regimes to increase their ... more
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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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Opening the News Gates? Humanitarian and Human Rights NGOs in the US News Media, 1990-2010

Matthew Powers
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 3 (2016), pp. 315-331
"This study examines whether changes in the media, political, and civic landscapes give leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) increased news access. Using longitudinal content analysis (1990-2010) of a purposive sample of US news outlets, it compares the prevalence, prominence, and story loc ... more
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more
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Journalistic Narrations for Deliberative Ends: A Country Comparison of Narrative News and its Contribution to the Deliberative Quality of Mediated Debates on Climate Change

Julia Lück
Mannheim: University of Mannheim, Doctoral Thesis (2016), viii, 199 pp.
"The dissertation investigates journalistic news narrations. It aims at assessing their deliberative qualities by applying a quantitative instrument for a content analysis of newspapers that focuses comparatively on climate change coverage in Brazil, Germany, and the United States . Results reveal t ... more
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Cybersecurity Policy and Law Making in the EU, US and Brazil

Gilberto Martins de Almeida
Computer Law Review International, volume 17, issue 3 (2016), pp. 71-75
"IT Governance requires public and corporate cybersecurity policies to improve fighting against cybercrime and other violations. The EU, the USA and Brazil have recently developed different regulatory approaches on the subject. Assessing how to design policies in line with them across geographies se ... more
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Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
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Mohamed Zayani, Suzi Mirgani (eds.)
London: Hurst (2016), xi, 254 pp.
"Bullets and Bulletins takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the wake of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with the research backed up by in-depth and rigorous case studies of the key countries of ... more
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Human Rights and Encryption
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Wolfgang Schulz, Joris van Hoboken
Paris: UNESCO (2016), 83 pp.
"Encryption is a hot topic in the current global discussion on Internet governance. This research delves into the subject, to outline a global overview of the various means of encryption, their availability and their potential applications in the media and communications landscape. The research expl ... more
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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.
"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more
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Global Media Literacy in a Digital Age: Teaching Beyond Borders

Belinha S. De Abreu, Melda N. Yildiz (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2016), vii, 298 pp.
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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.
"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more