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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.
"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more
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Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Global Influence

Omotayo O. Banjo (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xiii, 267 pp.
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Putting Faith in Hate: When Religion is the Source or Target of Hate Speech

Richard Moon
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), ix, 161 pp.
"Richard Moon examines the application of hate speech laws when religion is either the source or target of such speech. Moon describes the various legal restrictions on hate speech, religious insult, and blasphemy in Canada, Europe and elsewhere, and uses cases from different jurisdictions to illust ... more
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Anti-Western Propaganda

Tamar Kintsurashvili
Tblisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF); UN Association of Georgia; USAID (2018), 38 pp.
"As many as 1,967 anti-Western comments were detected in the 17 monitored media outlets in 2017. In contrast to 2016 and 2015, when negative messages targeted human identity and rights, in 2017, a dominant topic was the foreign policy with the messages aimed at increasing the polarization on the for ... more
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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
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Yoel Cohen (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on- ... more
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Journalism Without Profit: Making News when the Market Fails

Magda Konieczna
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), x, 252 pp.
"This widely accessible book by Magda Konieczna, an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University in the United States, provides a critical and broad examination of nonprofits in the American journalism landscape. Konieczna employs very rich and insightful case studies of three American non ... more
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Social Media und psychische Gesundheit: Am Beispiel der Identitätskonstruktion auf Instagram

Viera Pirker
Communicatio Socialis, volume 51, issue 4 (2018), pp. 467-480
"Jugendliche heute kennen kaum ein Leben ohne Social Media-Plattformen am Smartphone. Untersuchungen legen Zusammenhänge zwischen dieser Mediennutzung und psychischer Gesundheit in der Adoleszenz nahe. Es zeichnen sich positive und negative Effekte ab. Erkenntnisse aus US-amerikanischen und britisc ... more
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Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment As Negotiated Dissent

Paul Alonso
Oxford: Oxford University Press USA (2018), ix, 176 pp.
"Satiric TV in the Americas analyzes some of the most representative and influential satiric TV shows on the continent (focusing on cases in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, and the United States) in order to understand their critical role in challenging the status quo, traditional journalis ... more
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Digital News Report 2018

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 143 pp.
"The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth. Usage is down six percentage points in the United States, and is also down in the UK and France. Almost all of this is due to a specific decline in the discovery, posting, and sharing o ... more
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Democracy's Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism

James Hamilton
Cambridge, Mass; London: Harvard University Press, paperback ed. (2018), x, 368 pp.
"The book analyzes the market for investigative reporting by examining more than 12,000 prize competition entries from 1979 to 2010 in the annual awards contest of Investigative Reporters and Editors. The results show what these investigative works in the United States uncovered and their impacts, a ... more
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Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment

Dan O'Hair, Heather Chapman, Megan Sizemore (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2018), xxii, 351 pp.
"Broadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events-disease outbreaks, terrorist acts, and natural disasters-contexts where risk and health communication play a critical role. An evolving media landscape introduces both challenges and opportunities f ... more
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Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda, Bruce Mutsvairo, Gerard Goggin (eds.)
Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.
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Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity

Tracy R. Worrell
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Meinungsmache im Netz: Fake News, Bots und Hate Speech

Peter Limbourg, Ronald Grätz (eds.)
Göttingen: Steidl (2018), 198 pp.
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2018), xxiv, 572 pp.
"In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that ... more
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Civic Media Practice: Identification and Evaluation of Media and Technology That Facilitates Democratic Process

Eric Gordon, Gabriel Mugar
MaxArthur Foundation (2018), 34 pp.
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International Communication: Essential Readings

Vandana Pednekar-Magal (ed.)
Cognella, 2nd revised ed. (2018), viii, 228 pp.
"Designed as a text with introductions to each section and chapter, the volume brings together diverse perspectives on globalization and communication and includes significant emerging aspects of International Communication research such as diaspora audience and global publics." (Publisher descripti ... more
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Journalisme pour la paix et résolution de conflit dans les médias, tome 2 = Peace journalism and conflict resolution in the media = Periodismo de paz y resolución de conflictos en medios

Andi Faisal Bakti, Pierre Gigùere, Yves Théorêt (eds.)
Paris: Les Editions de l'Immatériel; ORBICOM (2018), 296 pp.
"Nouvel ouvrage de la collection Ecritures du Monde, cet ouvrage a été réalisé dans le cadre des rencontres annuelles des Chaires UNESCO en communication ORBICOM. Les objectifs de la rencontre annuelle étaient les suivants : 1) Identifier et analyser les conflits culturels et communicationnels ... more
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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective

Monroe Price, Nicole Stremlau (eds.)
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.
"This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech an ... more
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Funding Journalism, Finding Innovation: Success Stories and Ideas for Creative, Sustainable Partnerships

Dwight Knell Knell, Nina Sachdev, Jessica Clark
Philadelphia, Pa.: Media Impact Funders; Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2018), 19 pp.
"While this guide shows only a small sampling of how funders and publishers are working together to financially sustain the fourth estate, we hope that it nonetheless serves as a starting point for your own work by providing solid examples of groundbreaking funding efforts—ones that are both pione ... more