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"[...] This series thus proposes to unpack the concepts of transparency and volatility across three major arenas of international affairs: security, diplomacy, and development. Each issue-area features two essays, each focusing on different aspects of transparency and/or volatility. Two additional e ... more

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Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Ulla Carlsson, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom;UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (2013), 416 pp.

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Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the Independence of News Media

Michelle J. Foster

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 35 pp.

"At an international level, the media development community should advocate for standards governing media cross-ownership limitations, best practices in media licensing, and the licensing of the broadcast spectrum. States should adopt net neutrality and support increased uncensored access to social ... more

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U.S. and Finnish Journalists: A Comparative Study of Roles, Responsibilities, and Emotional Reactions to School Shootings

Klas Backholm, Marguerite Moritz, Kaj Björkqvist

In: School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age

Glenn W. Muschert; Johanna Sumiala (eds.)

Leeds: Emerald Publishing (2012), pp. 141-160

"In the chapter, journalistic work ethics on the scene during school shootings and journalists’ psychological stress reactions after such work is studied. Approach: Findings are based on several qualitative studies carried out separately at different time periods, spanning over a decade. Included ... more

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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

Bronwyn T. Williams, Amy A. Zenger

New York: Routledge (2012), xiv, 219 pp.

"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ ... more

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Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict

Paul Verschueren

New York: Hampton Press (2012), xiii, 199 pp.

"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a ... more

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Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis

Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller (eds.)

London: Reaktion Books (2012), 319 pp.

"From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach ... more

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100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons: The Role of Civil Society

Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University, Protection Project (2012), 122 pp.

"The Protection Project encourages the dissemination of information about the best ways to combat trafficking in persons by recommending five main components of civil society: (a) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), (b) corporations, (c) academia, (d) media, and (e) faith-based organizations. The ... more

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Global and Local Televangelism

Pradip Thomas, Philip Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.

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Mediating the Boundaries: Second-Generation Korean American Adolescents’ Use of Transnational Korean Media as Markers of Social Boundaries

David C. Oh

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 3 (2012), pp. 258-276

"This article builds on media use scholarship by focusing on an understudied population, second-generation Korean American adolescents, and their use of transnational media. The primary findings are that second-generation Korean Americans use transnational media as cultural resources through which t ... more

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Media Practice in Iraq

Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi

Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xi, 221 pp.

"A historical survey of the Iraqi media from its beginning up to the present day, focusing on the post-2003 media scene and the political and societal divisions that occurred in Iraq after US-led occupation. Investigates the nature of the media outlets and offers an analysis of the way Iraqi satelli ... more

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Building Support for International Development: Results and Recommendations from a Multi-Country Study Aimed at Understanding and Communicating with Key Policy Constituencies

Klara Debeljak

Washington, DC et al.: Intermedia;Gates Foundation (2012), 49 pp.

"The study focused on the following themes: how and under what conditions are priority target groups for engagement with development policy issues in China, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States most likely to engage; what factors influence and motivate both engagement and policy dec ... more

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The Rise of E-Reading

Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden, Joanna Brenner

Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, Internet & American Life Project (2012), 68 pp.

"The rise of e-books in American culture is part of a larger story about a shift from printed to digital material. Using a broader definition of e-content in a survey ending in December 2011, some 43% of Americans age 16 and older say they have either read an e-book in the past year or have read oth ... more

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Kirche im Web 2.0

Communicatio Socialis, issue 1 (2012), pp. 3-57

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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster a Free Press and an Open Internet Around the World
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), 2nd ed. (2012), 149 pp.

"This report examines seven central areas of media development—funding, digital media, sustainability, media law, journalists' safety, journalism education, and monitoring and evaluation. It also delves in-depth into four areas deserving of greater attention: citizen journalism, investigative jour ... more

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Digital News Report 2012: Tracking the Future of News

Nic Newman (ed.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2012), 64 pp.

"Based on a representative survey of online news consumers across five countries – UK, US, Germany, France and Denmark – the report is the start of an ambitious project to track changing digital news behaviour over the next decade. Key international findings: There are significant differences in ... more

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¿Cómo diseñar campañas políticas exitosas? Una mirada estratégica a las campañas ganadoras de los últimos tiempos

Alfredo Dávalos López, Víctor Polanco Frías, Carlos Galeas de la Vega, Alfonso Pérez

Quito: CIESPAL (2012), 249 pp.

"Tres son los principales objetivos de la presente obra: 1. El primero consiste en poner al alcance de los ciudadanos de América Latin a los conocimientos y herramientas indispensables para que comprendan de mejor manera la forma en que la Comunicación Política incide, en mayor o menor medida, en ... more

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