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Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Media Personnel Assigned to the Iraq War

Neil Greenberg, Dominic Murphy Samantha Thomas, Christopher Dandeker

Journalism Practice, volume 1, issue 3 (2007), pp. 356-371

"This paper investigates occupational stressors amongst media personnel assigned to work on covering the Iraq War via interviews with 54 journalists from the BBC and Reuters, who worked in Iraq between February and April 2003. A range of stressors were identified that could be categorized into three ... more

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Viewing the South: How Globalisation and Western Television Distort Representations of the Developing World

Emma Miller

Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2007), xi, 284 pp.

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Understanding the Local Media

Meryl Aldridge

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2007), 193 pp.

"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far ... short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, page 2-3) more

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Inclusion Through Media

Tony Dowmunt, Mark Dunford, Nicole van Hemert (eds.)

London: Goldsmiths, University of London (2007), 287 pp.

"The 'Inclusion Through Media' partnership has involved many imaginative and productive collaborations between creative media professionals and young and excluded people in cities and regions of the UK and Europe. Using media as a means of working with, and empowering marginalised people in their co ... more

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Kulturwirtschaft in der Auslandsförderung von Kultur

Bernd Fesel

Bonn: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2007), 120 pp.

"Die heute global agierenden Akteure in allen Kulturbranchen - von der Architektur bis zum Theater - bewegen sich im internationalen Kulturdialog immer öfter zwischen Kulturförderung und Kulturwirtschaft. Dabei ist deren Orientierung auf das Ausland keine kurzfristige Frage der besseren oder schle ... more

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Open Access: Chancen und Herausforderungen. Ein Handbuch

Barbara Malina (Red.)

Bonn: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2007), 136 pp.

"Die Transformation des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens von der Gutenberg-Galaxie in den Cyberspace verlangt allen Beteiligten eine Neudefinition ihrer Rolle in dem System ab. Bei den anstehenden Veränderungen ist eine Fülle technischer, rechtlicher und wirtschaftlicher Gegebenheiten zu ber� ... more

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Wie Computerspiele uns beeinflussen: Transferprozesse beim Bildschirmspiel im Erleben der User

Tanja Witting

München: kopaed (2007), 247 pp.

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Community Media: International Perspectives
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Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.

"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem ... more

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Bücher und Begegnungen: Öffentlich-private Partnerschaften in der Auswärtigen Kultur- und Bildungspolitik am Beispiel der Deutschen Bibliotheksinitiative für Mittel- und Osteuropa "Menschen und Bücher"

Berlin: Auswärtiges Amt (2007), 91 pp.

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News Around the World: Content, Practitioners, and the Public

Pamela J. Shoemaker, Akiba A. Cohen

New York: Routledge (2006), 409 pp.

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Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges

Gabriel Weimann

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press (2006), 309 pp.

"In this timely and eye-opening volume, Gabriel Weimann reveals that terrorist organizations and their supporters maintain hundreds of Web sites, taking advantage of the unregulated, anonymous, and accessible nature of the Internet to target an array of messages to diverse audiences. Drawing on an e ... more

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Biblioteca Don Bosco: Inaugurazione della nuova sede 31 gennaio 2006

Juan Picca (ed.)

Roma: Università Pontificia Salesiana (2006), 159 pp.

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Cinémas engagés

Manière de Voir (Le Monde Diplomatique), issue 88 (2006), 98 pp.

"Un panorama du « cinéma engagé » sous deux de ses aspects : en première partie, onze auteurs examinent la façon dont le cinéma, dans différents pays et à différents moments de son histoire, aborde le plus chargé de tous les thèmes sociaux, celui de la guerre. La seconde partie entrepren ... more

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Spur der Filme: Zeitzeugen über die DEFA

Ingrid Poss, Peter Warnecke (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 567 pp.

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Die fünfte Gewalt: Lobbyismus in Deutschland

Thomas Leif, Rudolf Speth (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 366 pp.

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Zwischen den Kulturen: Fernsehen, Einstellungen und Integration junger Erwachsener mit türkischer Herkunft in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Ergebnisse der Medienforschung

Claudia Schmidt (ed.)

Köln: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (2006), 63 pp.

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Medien im Alltag: Qualitative Studien zu Nutzungsmotiven und zur Bedeutung von Medienangeboten

Nathalie Huber, Michael Meyen (eds.)

Münster: Lit (2006), 290 pp.

"Medien sind in den Alltag eingewoben, fungieren als Tagesbegleiter und werden meist beiläufig und ohne große Anstrengung genutzt. Doch was treibt Menschen dazu, ihre Zeit medialen Angeboten zu widmen? Von welchen Faktoren wird die Mediennutzung beeinflusst? Gibt es gruppenspezifische Nutzungsmust ... more

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Media and the British Empire

Chandrika Kaul (ed.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), 266 pp.

"'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonis ... more

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Momo trifft Marsmädchen: Fünfzig Jahre Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

Hannelore Daubert, Julia Lentge (eds.)

München: Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur (2006), 188 pp.

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Kooperative Medienbildung: Offene Kanäle in Verbundsystemen

Hessische Landesanstalt für Privaten Rundfunk (LPR Hessen)

München: kopaed (2006), 228 pp.

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