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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2016: (re)invention of TV Fiction Genres and Formats

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2016), 540 pp.

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Engaged Journalism: Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences

Jake Batsell

New York: Columbia University Press (2015), xxvii, 195 pp.

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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.

"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more

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Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context

Sonia Tascón

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiii, 248 pp.

"This book explores how human rights developed as a language located in history, space and time, and how the festivals continue with this tradition by adapting it for local audiences. The tensions produced by human rights' search for universality and the located-ness of the festivals are explored in ... more

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The Global Digital Divides: Explaining Change

James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2015), xxix, 386 pp.

"This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more

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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era

Moses Shumow (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.

"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co ... more

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Zwischen Hollywood und Bollywood: Das Autorenkino Mira Nairs

Lisa Marie Gadatsch

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 520 pp.

"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der ... more

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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

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Voices of Freedom - Western Interference? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe

Anna Bischof (ed.)

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2015), xii, 294 pp.

"International radio broadcasters took on a centrally important role during the Cold War. Founded at the beginning of the 1950s, Radio Free Europe (RFE) was to become both a political instrument for influencing public opinion and one of the few alternative sources of information for many people livi ... more

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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)

Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.

"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more

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The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals About Contemporary Foreign News Production

David Conrad

Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2015), pp. 275-288

"This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships - particularly between freelancers and nonprofits - are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa-funded by the Pulitzer Center on C ... more

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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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Aidan White (ed.)

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.

"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more

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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp

Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides

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Gaining Ground: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability

Miami: Knight Foundation (2015), 24 pp.

"Nonprofit news organizations offer the potential to become part of the bedrock of a strong local news and information ecosystem. The field of nonprofit news, as illustrated by the 20 organizations profiled in this study, has continued to scale its impact and inch closer toward more sustainable busi ... more

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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.

"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more

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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.

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Local News in a Digital Age

Pew Research Center (2015), 159 pp.

"This report was produced by the Pew Research Center and aims at understanding the news ecology of three distinct metropolitan areas in the United States: Denver, Colorado; Macon, Georgia; and Sioux City, Iowa. Data in this report are drawn from separate analyses, each with its own methodology: a su ... more

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Funder Perspectives: Assessing Media Investments

Media Impact Funders (2015), 22 pp.

"Media funders are still looking at questions of media assessment through many different lenses. The survey results indicated that the two biggest challenges facing this field are lack of consensus about what constitutes “impact” (33%) and lack of clarity about methods/measures within the media ... more

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Word on the Street: Examining What Characteristics of a Street Paper and its Host City Best Contribute to Success

Nicole Gorny

Syracuse (NY): Syracuse University, Honors Program Capstone Projects (2015), x, 88 pp.

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