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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017–2021: Curtain Up! User Experience Takes Center Stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.
"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an ... more
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Philanthrocapitalists and the Humanitarian Agenda: Motivations, Metrics, and Media Power

Garrett M. Broad
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
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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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen
London; New York: Routledge (2017), ix, 178 pp.
"Developing News sets out to describe how development is articulated in the news and used by newspeople as an analytical category to explain the world. It is about examining development as a discourse that is based on the harmful contrast between the developed and the developing (or the underdevelo ... more
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Canadian Media and the Developing World: A Critical Mapping of Key Issues, Events, and Actors

Colette Brin, Josh Grinberg et al.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) (2017), 48 pp.
"The literature review indicates: media coverage remains the major source of news and information about the developing world for Canadians and can exert a strong influence over policymaking; there is a dearth of Canadian scholarship examining media coverage of international development issues; there ... more
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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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Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention

Florian Zollmann
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xiv, 276 pp.
"Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of ... more
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Media's Gender Gap: Investigating Relationships Between Women's News Production and Consumption

Alyssa Zeisler
USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2017), 13 pp.
"Women are underrepresented in newsrooms and are less likely to read political and international news. Preliminary data shows that news organizations with a higher share of women writing the news and in leadership positions also have a higher share of women in their audience. A number of academic st ... more
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Whistleblowing in the World: Government Policy, Mass Media and the Law

Carmen R. Apaza, Yongjin Chang (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xi, 90 pp.
"This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing. After examining th ... more
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Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
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Thomas H. Johnson
London: Hurst (2017), xxxvi, 376 pp.
"Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan Government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the infor ... 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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Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Practices and Places

Sarita Malik, Caroline Chapain, Roberta Comunian (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2017), xv, 286 pp.
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Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

Ulla D. Berg
New York; London: New York University Press, paperback ed. (2017), xv, 304 pp.
"Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to cont ... more
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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Jeroen Temperman, András Koltay (eds.)
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.
"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l ... more
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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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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

Heather McIntosh
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more
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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.
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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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Technoliberalism and the End of Participatory Culture in the United States

Adam Fish
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), ix, 217 pp.
"This new book examines whether television can be used as a tool not just for capitalism, but for democracy. Throughout television’s history, activists have attempted to access it for that very reason. New technologies—cable, satellite, and the internet—provided brief openings for amateur and ... more
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Effective Communication During Disasters: Making Use of Technology, Media, and Human Resources

Girish Bobby Kapur, Sarah Bezek, Jonathan Dyal (eds.)
Oakville, Ontario; Waretown, NJ: Apple Academic Press (2017), xxvi, 284 pp.