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"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat ... more

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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.

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Thoughts on a Critical Theory of Rural Communication

Christopher Ali

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 27 pp.

"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple ... more

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Combatting Cultural ‘nerve Gas’: Maintaining Traditional Media and Culture Through Local Media Production in Australia, Canada and Mexico

Ian Watson

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 1-13

"In Australia in the 1980s, large numbers of remote Indigenous radio stations were established due to a perception that the introduction of ‘mainstream’ satellite programming in remote areas would act as a form of cultural ‘nerve gas’ (Remedio, 2012: 295) that would threaten ‘the very isol ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope

Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.

"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more

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Audience and Media Use Research: An International Perspective. Report

René Grossenbacher, Sonja Glaab-Seuken, Christian Stumm, Jesse Raymond Bächler

Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Swiss Federal Office of Communications);Publicom (2017), 121 pp.

"Currency research organisations, i.e. organisations conducting research into media use, whose results constitute a nationally valid standard (“currency”) for the advertising business, are of prime importance for developed media systems. In 2017, the global advertising market will reach a volume ... more

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Church, Market, and Media: A Discursive Approach to Institutional Religious Change

Marcus Moberg

London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2017), viii, 202 pp.

"In focusing on the twin processes of marketization and mediatization, the intention is by no means to argue that markets and media constitute the only factors shaping religion today. Nor is the intention to argue that a focus on marketization and mediatization would provide the “best” way to st ... more

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From the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action Through Documentary Media

Johanna Blakley, Beth Karlin et al.

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2017), 25 pp.

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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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Disability Media Studies

Elizabeth Ellcessor, Bill Kirkpatrick (eds.)

New York: New York University Press (2017), viii, 433 pp.

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Philanthrocapitalists and the Humanitarian Agenda: Motivations, Metrics, and Media Power

Garrett M. Broad

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

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 505-515

"This chapter has outlined the philosophical motivations and strategic practices of philanthrocapitalists, interrogating the key place of communication technology and media storytelling within their humanitarian activities. It also explored the central critiques of philanthrocapitalism that have eme ... more

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Coverage of Poverty by a Nonprofit News Outlet: A Comparative Study

Mohammad Yousuf, David Craig

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"This qualitative content analysis has examined coverage of poverty-related issues by Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit news organization with a mission of covering public problems, particularly those of disadvantaged people. The first set of coverage constituted the body of stories written on poverty fro ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2017: Press Freedom’s Dark Horizon
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Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2017), 28 pp.

"Press freedom worldwide deteriorated to its lowest point in 13 years in 2016, driven by unprecedented threats to journalists and media outlets in major democracies, intensified crackdowns on independent media in authoritarian settings, and moves by the Russian and Chinese regimes to increase their ... more

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Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), vi, 213 pp.

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Holocaust memory in a globalizing world

Jacob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 278 pp.

"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg ... more

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Exploring the Link Between Community Radio and the Community: A Study of Audience Participation in Alternative Media Practices

Lei Guo

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 10, issue 1 (2017), pp. 112-130

"Most alternative media research has examined media content and the production process, largely ignoring another important component: the audiences of alternative media. To narrow this gap, this study investigates audience participation in one alternative media outlet: community radio. Case studies ... more

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