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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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Anya Schiffrin (ed.)
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.
"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are ... more
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Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global

Joshua Neves, Bhaskar Sarkar (eds.)
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2017), viii, 360 pp.
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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more
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Philippine and global research on news media safety: Crossing disciplines, bridging gaps

Ramon R. Tuazon, Paz H. Diaz, Therese Patricia C. San Diego
Media Asia, volume 44, issue 1 (2017), pp. 8-16
"This chapter therefore proposes steps toward closing the gaps in the research on the safety of journalists and media workers in the Philippines and across the globe. While there is no absence of research on the subject, there is a preponderance of anecdotal research and a lack of empirical studies. ... more
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NGO Interpretation of Participatory Communication for Rural Cambodia: What is Lost in ‘translation’?

Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Journal of International Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2017), pp. 231-251
"Although the participatory communication is widely embraced by development agencies, few published studies critically examine how local NGOs interpret and implement the approach at the village level. This article analyses a Cambodian NGO’s attempts to engage grassroots involvement against key ten ... more
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Disaster Management in the Philippines: Media, Unions, and Humanitarian Action

Kim Scipes
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 321-328
"In this essay, a different way to approach reporting on natural disasters has been suggested. It requires news reporters and their editors to recognize that there are progressive unions and allied organizations that exist, and because of their rootedness in their various communities across the coun ... more
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Journalists in Thailand

Yubol Benjarongkij, Smith Boonchutima
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 5 pp.
"A majority of Thai journalists viewed all roles listed in the questionnaire as very or extremely important. The roles that ranked highest included to report things as they are (88.7%), to provide analysis of current affairs (85.5%), and to be a detached observer (82.1%) (see Table 1). There was lit ... more
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The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
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Ulla Carlsson, Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 363 pp.
"To support joint efforts to protect journalism, there is a growing need for research-based knowledge. Acknowledging this need, the aim of this publication is to highlight and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues ... more
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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Ian Aitken, Camille Deprez (eds.)
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more
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Analyzing the “Dhammakaya Case” Online

Patchanee Malikhao
In: Culture and Communication in Thailand
Patchanee Malikhao
Singapore et al.: Springer (2017), pp. 17-35
"This chapter attempts to assess the information discussed on digital social media such as Twitter, Internet, and Instagram related to the Dhammakaya Temple and its abbot. Content and contextual analyses will be conducted. The research findings will be discussed against the background of modernizati ... more
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Localizing Mobile Media: A Philippine Perspective

Raul Pertierra
In: The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media
Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), pp. 42-52
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International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
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Belinha S. De Abreu, Paul Mihailidis, Alice Y. L. Lee, Jad Melki, Julian McDougall (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 415 pp.
"At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world. Building on traditional media literacy frameworks in critical analysis, evaluation, and assessment, it incorporate ... more
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Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces

Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 267 pp.
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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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Challenged by the State and the Internet: Struggles for Professionalism in Southeast Asian Journalism

Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 18-34
"As in other regions, journalism in Southeast Asia is under pressure. Journalists in many of the region’s emerging markets have to develop their profession while struggling with changing market conditions, increasingly more demanding audiences, different degrees of authoritative states and growing ... more
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5th Conference on Media Development in Myanmar: Inclusive Independent Media in a New Democracy, 7–8 November 2016

Susan Cunningham
Yangoon: UNESCO (2017), 32 pp.
"Under the heading “Inclusive, independent media in a new democracy”, the 5th annual Myanmar Media Development Conference took place 7 – 8 November 2016 in Yangon, the first to be held under the new democratically elected government. The conference featured government representatives, media ow ... more
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Blasphemy Law and Public Neutrality in Indonesia

Victor Imanuel W. Nalle
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, volume 8, issue 2 (2017), pp. 57-62
"Indonesia has the potential for social conflict and violence due to blasphemy. Currently, Indonesia has a blasphemy law that has been in effect since 1965. The blasphemy law formed on political factors and tend to ignore the public neutrality. Recently due to a case of blasphemy by the Governor of ... more
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m ... more
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Challenges for Independent Media

Phnom Penh: Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) (2017), 14 pp.
"Only 11 percent of 75 surveyed journalists said Cambodian media was headed in the right direction, down from 71 percent in 2015. 83 percent said media freedom had decreased in the past year. 92 percent consider the shutdowns of independent media outlets this year to have been political. 38 percent ... more