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Die Presse in der Julikrise 1914: Die internationale Berichterstattung und der Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg

Georg Eckert, Peter Geiss, Arne Karsten (eds.)

Münster: Aschendorff (2014), 271 pp.

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The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis

Peter J. Anderson, George Ogola, Michael Williams (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), xi, 330 pp.

"This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds. Its detailed evaluat ... more

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Watching TV in Havanna: Revisiting the Local/global Television Past Through the Lens of the Television Present

Yeidy M. Rivero

In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Joseph D. Straubhaar; Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 50-65

Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.

"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more

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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.

"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic ... more

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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

P. W. Singer, Allan Friedman

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2014), viii, 306 pp.

"Given the Internet’s potential for full-spectrum surveillance and information disruption, the marshaling of computer networks represents the next stage of cyberwar. Indeed, it is upon us already. The recent Stuxnet episode, in which Israel fed a malignant computer virus into Iran’s nuclear faci ... more

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Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2014), xxvi, 271 pp.

Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.

"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more

Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

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

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more

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De-Americanizing Soft Power Discourse?

Daya Kishan Thussu

Los Angeles: USC Center on Public Diplomacy;Figueroa Press (2014), 31 pp.

Informe anual de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos 2013, vol. II: Informe de la relatoría especial para la libertad de expresión

Catalina Botero Marino

Washington, DC: Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) (2014), vii, 634 pp.

Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication

Barbara Reynolds, Matthew Seeger

Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014), xix, 424 pp.

Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact

Peter Plastrik, Madeleine Taylor, John Cleveland

Washington, DC; Covelo; London: Island Press (2014), 240 pp.

"This book offers eight orienting insights about network building; each one frames a separate chapter, backed by case studies, illustrations, and how-to information. 1. Know the Network Difference. Networks have unique capabilities for achieving social impact that distinguish them from other forms o ... more

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Messaging and Methods for Behavioral Change Media Campaigns: What Makes Effective Anti-Violence Media?

Frank Battaglini, Jamie Dougherty, John Klofas

Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Public Safety Initiatives (2014), 24 pp.

"Technological evolution has rewritten the books on media campaigns many times. However, some things have remained the same. First, media campaigns must come from multiple sources. They must employ printed materials, radio and television public service announcements, and internet technologies, such ... more

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Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine

Jérôme Bourdon, Cécile Méadel (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xiv, 274 pp.

Priorities in Global Media Policy Transfer: Audiovisual and Digital Policy Mutations in the EU, MERCOSUR and US Triangle

Katharine Sarikakis, Sarah Ganter

European Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 1 (2014), pp. 17-33

"This article investigates the flow of communication policy principles across the supranational, international and national levels, through the lens of policy transfer. Policy transfer is a new concept for the field of media and communication studies. The article utilizes and expands on the concept ... more

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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, Rachel Daniell (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.

"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A ... more

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The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism

Cecil M. Robeck (ed.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2014), xiii, 340 pp.

The 1% Rule in Four Digital Health Social Networks: An Observational Study

Trevor van Mierlo

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 16, issue 2 (2014), 10 pp.

"In recent years, cyberculture has informally reported a phenomenon named the 1% rule, or 90-9-1 principle, which seeks to explain participatory patterns and network effects within Internet communities. The rule states that 90% of actors observe and do not participate, 9% contribute sparingly, and 1 ... more

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