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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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Família.com: Famílias, crianças (0-6) e tecnologias digitais

Rita Brito

Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior (2017), 274 pp.

"Através deste estudo exploratório, onde foram entrevistadas 15 famílias portuguesas com filhos até 6 anos, pretendeu-se conhecer as atividades das crianças com os meios digita, perceber como as tecnologias são entendidas pelos diferentes membros das famílias e como é feita a gestão da util ... more

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Madgermanes

Birgit Weyhe

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 236 pp.

"Vor allem aus wirtschaftlichen Erwägungen heraus warb die DDR Ende der 1970er Jahre tausende Vertragsarbeiter aus Mosambik an. Die jungen Frauen und Männer aus dem vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenen sozialistischen Bruderstaat, die voller Hoffnung auf eine gute Ausbildung nach Deutschland kamen, hatten ... more

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Media in Third-Wave Democracies: Southern and Central/Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Péter Bajomi-Lázár (ed.)

Paris; Budapest: L'Harmattan (2017), 238 pp.

"The media and political systems of former communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe share a number of similarities with those in Southern Europe. According to Karol Jakubowicz, these similarities also include late democratisation, a weak middle class, marked social and economic differences, a s ... more

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Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective

Eva Bakoy, Roel Puijk, Andrew Spicer

Bristol: intellect (2017), 300 pp.

"This edited collection focuses on successful small and medium-sized film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Using original interviews with company founders and other employees, contributors explore case studies of businesses that have made successfu ... 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 (2017), 267 pp.

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Community Action and Social Media: A Review of the Literature

Kevin Harris, Angus McCabe

Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) (2017), 70 pp.

"The literature on the social uses of social technologies is substantial and expanding. Using over 400 sources, the current review outlines the key themes emerging from academic, grey literature and online material in this field. Much of this literature argues for the transformative power of social ... more

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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
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Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, Chris Paterson (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.

"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp ... more

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Philanthropic Journalism Funding in Germany

Thomas Schnedler, Günter Bartsch

Maastricht: European Journalism Centre;Journalism Funders Forum (2017), 34 pp.

"As this study shows, many of the more than 21,000 German foundations contribute a wealth of ideas, and substantial funding, to a wide variety of journalistic projects and grants. But only around 120 foundations profess express support of journalism in their statutes. Unfortunately, the total moneta ... ry value of their activities remains in the dark. A project of the not-for-profit ZEIT-Stiftung makes the case in point what a focused engagement can look like. The area of interest is in Eastern Europe, where preconditions for independent reporting are entirely different from Germany, and where information is hard to get hold of, or cannot be accessed at all. Between 2000 and 2016, ZEIT-Stiftung has been awarding its prestigious “Gerd Bucerius Prize for a Free Press in Eastern Europe” for a total of 17 times (from 2004 in cooperation with Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation). In a trusting international cooperation, the two foundations have awarded 97 laureates – 40 journalists and 57 media outlets – with €1.7m overall. The aim: to strengthen independent journalism in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, both foundations have launched the follow up project “Free Media Awards. Supporting Independent Journalism in Eastern Europe“. It is well worthwhile further to encourage foundations to engage with projects that contribute to better journalism and plurality of opinion. Support for, and the defence of, press freedom; the free flow of information; and improving journalistic standards remain on top of the agenda. Notably, this is precisely not about steering opinion-forming processes, peddling of influence, or surreptitious lobbying. Moreover, foundations are not positioned to mitigate the adverse effects that come with the erosion of traditional business and distribution models. Nor can they develop alternative sources of media revenue. But as actors of civic society, foundations can uphold the importance of journalism. They can insist on the diversity, quality, and relevance of journalism – values that are constitutive for an open society. They can do so, for instance, through endowed journalism professorships, or by way of training and exchange programmes for mid-career journalists." (Foreword, pages 5-6) more

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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Jeroen Temperman, András Koltay (eds.)

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.

"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l ... 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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Spielend lernen! Computerspiele(n) in Schule und Unterricht

Wolfgang Zielinski, Sandra Aßmann, Kai Kaspar, Peter Moormann (eds.)

Düsseldorf; München: kopaed (2017), 198 pp.

"Computerspiele sind Kulturgut. Sie sind etablierte und treibende Kraft gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse in der Freizeitgestaltung und des Medienkonsums zu Unterhaltungszwecken. Aber lassen sich gerade in kommerziellen Spielen – sogenannten off-the-shelf games – auch Bildungspotenziale ... more

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Der Islam in Deutschland: Eine Bestandsaufnahme

Mathias Rohe

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2017), 416 pp.

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Acoso escolar: Bullying y ciberbullying

José Antonio Martínez Rodríguez

Barcelona: Bosch Editor (2017), 193 pp.

"En este estudio se analiza el acoso escolar y las graves consecuencias que está provocando a las víctimas de esta agresiva violencia en los centros educativos, que destruye la autoestima y la confianza de los menores acosados. En este trabajo de investigación también se abordael acoso escolar p ... more

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Mit spitzer Feder: Karikaturen zu zehn Themenfeldern

Madeleine Hankele, Siegfried Frech, Maximilian Clar (eds.)

Politik und Unterricht, volume 43, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 1-55

"Sie ist witzig, ironisch, bissig. Sie versucht, mit wenigen Strichen Dinge auf den Punkt zu bringen. Sie ist oftmals einseitig und parteiisch, in aller Regel löst sie sowohl Zustimmung als auch Widerspruch aus. Sie kann (und will) Tabus brechen, indem sie oftmals stillschweigend praktizierte gesel ... more

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10 Jahre „Islamisches Wort“ und „Forum am Freitag“: Rückblick und Ausblick auf Islam im Rundfunk

Raphael Rauch

Communicatio Socialis, volume 50, issue 3 (2017), pp. 391-405

"Die Islamkonferenz hat kritisch nach dem Beitrag der Medien für die Integration von Muslimen gefragt. 2007 machten der SWR mit der Radio-Sendung „Islamisches Wort“ und das ZDF mit der TV-Sendung „Forum am Freitag“ einen Anfang. Der NDR folgte später mit dem „Freitagsforum“ und der „ ... more

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Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention

Florian Zollmann

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xiv, 276 pp.

"Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of ... more

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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014

Emma Heywood

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220

"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a ... more

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