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Community Radio Contradictions in Canada: Learning from Volunteers Impacted by Commercialising Policies and Practices

Gretchen King, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 4, issue 4 (2019), pp. 20-36
"The increasing commercialisation of community radio in Canada, evident in changing station practices and regulatory policies, has resulted in the erosion of volunteer run governance and programming. This article draws on community media, anti-oppression, and third-sector studies literature to inves ... more
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Recommended Practices for Science Communication with Policy Makers

Elizabeth Suhay, Emily Cloyd, Erin Heath, Erin Nash
Washington, DC: American University, School of Public Affairs (SPA) (2019), 22 pp.
"This guide grows out of the research project “Evidence-based Science Communication with Policymakers” conducted by the four authors and sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Rita Allen Foundation. In order to write these recommendations, we spent over a year studying science com ... more
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The Effects of Journalistic Transparency on Credibility Assessments and Engagement Intentions

Alexander L. Curry, Natalie Jomini Stroud
Journalism, volume 22, issue 4 (2019), pp. 901-918
"Transparency is an oft-cited remedy for the public’s lack of confidence in the news media. Yet scant empirical evidence exists to support this claim. This article presents a test of the relationship between increased journalistic transparency and credibility evaluations of a news organization. Ex ... more
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Reading, feeling, believing: Online testimonies and the making of Evangelical emotion

Suzanne van Geuns
Journal of Contemporary Religion, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 97-115
"A personal relationship with God is central to Evangelical belief. It unfolds as believers interpret internal sensations as coming from outside—from God. How does the formulaic design of testimonies present the audience with a personal relationship with God as a pursuit that is both feasible and ... more
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Membership in News & Beyond: What Media Can Learn from Other Member-Driven Movements

Emily Goligoski, Matt Thompson
Austin: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (2019), 45 pp.
"The traditional financial models for news are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival? We’re at a moment of profound transition and successive crisis for news. Our mission is to explore how membership models might help. A key takeaway ... more
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Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use

Johanna L. H. Birkland
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2019), xv, 209 pp.
"The ICT User Typology categorizes older adults’ ICT use into one of five user types, each of which has a unique pattern of ICT introduction, use, display, and meaning they ascribe to technologies: The Enthusiast user type thinks ICTs and other forms of technology are great fun toys. They have won ... more
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Radio & Audio Grantmaking: Reaching New Audiences Through Old Platforms

Sarah Armour-Jones
Philadelphia, PA: Media Impact Funders (2019), 17 pp.
"Both radio and audio funding levels are growing, reflecting both overall funding trends in media and particular interest in using old and new sound-based formats in creative and compelling ways. Both formats are driving innovation across programming, with radio often serving as a curator of news an ... more
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The Need for a New US Information Strategy for North Korea

Nat Kretchun
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 19 pp.
"Drawing on relevant literature, analysis of North Korean media and information control techniques, and interviews with refugees and defectors, this report argues that a new US information strategy is needed to alleviate the social isolation of the North Korean people and improve their long-term wel ... more
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Observatório Ibero-americano da Ficção Televisiva (OBITEL) 2019. Modelos de distribuição da televisão por internet: Atores, tecnologias, estratégias
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)
Porto Alegre: Sulina (2019), 390 pp.
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Fragende Blicke: Neun Zugänge zu ethnografischen Fotografien. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Museum Fünf Kontinente in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Ethnologie der LMU München vom 07. Juli 2018 bis 05. Januar 2020

Paul Hempel, Anka Krämer de Huerta, Silvia Lamprecht (eds.)
München: Institut für Ethnologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2019), 126 pp.
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Radio Voices: How One Grant Changed a Public Radio Station. Case Study: KCRW

Laurie Trotta Valenti
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2019), 14 pp.
"National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate KCRW received a three-year grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in 2015 to spark public discourse about issues affecting disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in Los Angeles. It included initiatives to sponsor live events and to improve reporting acros ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more
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Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

Patricia G. Lange
Louisville: University Press of Colorado (2019), 352 pp.
"The author demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, reciprocity, and community—apply to sociality on YouTube. Lange’s book reconceptualizes and updates these concepts for video-sharing cultures. Lange draws on 152 interviews with YouTube participants at gather ... more
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Keeping it Local: Can Collaborations Help Save Local Public Interest Journalism?

Vanessa Wiltshire
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 72 pp.
"This research paper looks at the responsibilities of, and opportunities for, major media organisations to collaborate with regional and suburban media to break stories, cover local issues and promote democracy and asks how a collaborative model can practically work for journalists. Despite the angs ... more
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Friedenspotenzial von Freikirchen in den USA und Lateinamerika: Potenziale und Hindernisse für die internationale Zusammenarbeit

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2019), 168 pp.
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Journalism Grantmaking: New Funding, Models and Partnerships to Sustain and Grow the Field

Sarah Armour-Jones
Philadelphia, PA: Media Impact Funders (2019), 13 pp.
"Since 2009, 3,106 funders gave $1.7 billion in journalism-related grants [in the U.S.]. Of that, $306 million was directed toward the Newseum. Excluding grants to the Newseum, the top 9 journalism funders to U.S.-based organizations have given $550 million, via 1,776 grants since 2009. Of the $1.7 ... more
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Digital News Report 2019

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 153 pp.
"Despite the efforts of the news industry, we find only a small increase in the numbers paying for any online news – whether by subscription, membership, or donation. Growth is limited to a handful of countries mainly in the Nordic region (Norway 34%, Sweden 27%) while the number paying in the US ... more
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Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture

Michael Lawrence, Rachel Tavernor (eds.)
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019), x, 288 pp.
"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary ... more
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Vulnerable Landscapes: Case Studies of Violence and Disinformation

Megan Ward, Jessica L. Beyer
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2019), 19 pp.
"Disinformation existed in the past, but the growing ubiquity of social media grants political actors increasing capacity to spread dangerous rhetoric and imagery in their pursuit of power. Incendiary content has the potential to catalyze mob violence, riots, and vigilantes taking the law into their ... more
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Road to 2030: Access to Information in the Driver’s Seat

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Free Press Unlimited; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2019), 68 pp.
"Spotlight report on the state of public access to information in Canada, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Ukraine prepared for the 2019 cycle of the Voluntary National Reviews and the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum." (Subtitle)