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Conspiracy Theories: A Primer

Joseph E. Uscinski
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2020), ix, 159 pp.
"Analyzes current arguments and evidence while providing real-world examples so students can contextualize and visualize the debates. Each chapter addresses important current questions, provides conceptual tools, defines important terms, and introduces the appropriate methods of analysis"--
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Environmental Media Grantmaking: How Funders Are Tipping the Scales Toward Change

Sarah Armour-Jones
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2020), 32 pp.
"This report—which complements MIF’s in-person and online convenings throughout the year—aims to highlight trends in environmental media grantmaking, impact studies and examples of promising media projects, and insights from funders in the space. This report focuses on U.S. funders who give in ... more
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Theorising Media and Conflict

Philipp Budka, Birgit Bräuchler (eds.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.
"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun ... more
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Universalism in Public Service Media

Philip Savage, Mercedes Medina, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)
Nordicom (2020), 226 pp.
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Talking Back: Journalists Defending Attacks Against Their Profession in the Trump Era

Michael Koliska, Kalyani Chadha, Alison Burns
Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 11 (2020), pp. 1496–1513
"According to neo-institutional theory, the survival of institutions in society is predicated on a cultural discourse. Dubbed “the institutional myth,” this discourse reflects the core values, practices and aspirations of an institution and legitimizes its existence to internal and external stak ... more
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Decoding Media Impact: Insights, Advice and Recommendations

Katie Donnelly
Philadelphia, Penns.: Media Impact Funders (2020), 31 pp.
"This guide is meant to serve as a practical resource for funders who want to understand where to start. Informed by feedback from our network, it represents a synthesis of the past seven years of work we’ve done in the impact space, and includes examples of successful media impact evaluation, too ... more
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A digital scramble for Africa: US, EU and Chinese influences on internet regulation in Africa and their effects on freedom of expression and the right to privacy

David Fischer
Coimbra: University of Coimbra, European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Master Thesis (2020), 91 pp.
"Divisive Internet regulation is fragmenting the formerly worldwide web into numerous shards that follow their own rules. The US, the EU and China are influential in shaping regulation even beyond their own jurisdictions, with consequences for human rights, particularly in Africa. This paper argues ... more
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Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Tanner Mirrlees (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2020), v, 338 pp.
"Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change advances applied theoretical research on 21st century media imperialism. The volume includes established and emerging researchers in international communications who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural dimensions of 21st century me ... more
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Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire

Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2020), 357 pp.
"As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contrib ... more
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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

Thomas L. McPhail, Steven Phipps
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 5th ed. (2020), ix, 311 pp.
"[This book] has been thoroughly updated with new content, trends, and conclusions, all based on the latest data. The book examines broadcasting, mass media, and news services ranging from MSNBC, MTV, and CNN to television sitcoms and Hollywood export markets. It investigates the roles of the major ... more
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Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored

Eve Monique Zucker, David J. Simon (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xviii, 246 pp.
"This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also raises practical and ethical quest ... more
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Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Hyejung Ju
Lanham, MD et al.: Lexington Books (2020), vii, 131 pp.
"Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas' transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility. Ev ... more
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COVID-19 Vaccination Communication: Applying Behavioral and Social Science to Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Foster Vaccine Confidence

Sylvia Chou Wen-Ying, Caitlin E. Burgdorf, Anna Gaysynsky, Christine M. Hunter
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2020), 23 pp.
"This report, which was developed in consultation with leading experts in social and behavioral sciences and public health, outlines evidence-informed communication strategies in support of national COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts across federal agencies and their state and local partners. The ... more
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism

Graham Meikle (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2020), xvi, 419 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and communicat ... more
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Online Harassment and Its Implications for the Journalist–Audience Relationship

Seth C. Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, Mark Coddington
Digital Journalism, volume 8, issue 8 (2020), pp. 1047-1067
"Amid growing threats to journalists around the world, this study examines the nature of online harassment, the types of journalists most likely to experience it, and the most common forms of response to such abuse. Through a representative survey of U.S. journalists, we find that nearly all journal ... more
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What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nelsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 26 pp.
"Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten people (38%) across 40 markets say they typically trust most news. While trust has fallen by double digit margins in recent years in many places, including Brazil and the Unit ... more
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Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity

Jeannette A. Bastian, Andrew Flinn (eds.)
London: Facet (2020), xxiv, 190 pp.
"This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres. It also explores new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particu ... more
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Las „sectas“ protestantes y el espíritu del (anti-) imperialismo: Entrelazamientos religiosos en las Américas

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer
Kipu-Verlag (2020), 250 pp.
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Mob Censorship: Online Harassment of US Journalists in Times of Digital Hate and Populism

Silvio Waisbord
Digital Journalism, volume 8, issue 8 (2020), pp. 1030-1046
"Rising numbers of online attacks against journalists have been documented globally. Female, minority reporters and journalists who cover issues interwoven with right-wing identity anchors have been primary targets. This trend reflects growing forms of mob censorship linked to the demonization of jo ... more
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The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture

Peter M. Phillips
New York: Routledge (2020), 129 pp.
"This book [...] examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as it relates to Abby Day's concept of pe ... more