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Community Radio in the West: A Legacy of Struggle for Survival in a State and Capitalist Controlled Media Environment

Bart Cammaerts
International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 8 (2009), pp. 635-654
"In this article the legacy of struggle by community radio in the West is analysed from a comparative perspective. More specifically, the focus of this article is on Western media policies towards community radio. It is argued that while many community radio discourses, theories and policies are ori ... more
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Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.
"While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabli ... more
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Twenty-First Century Embedded Journalists: Lawful Targets?

W. Douglas Moore
Army Lawyer, issue July (2009), 32 pp.
"In light of the U.S. functionality test to Article 51(3), the role and use of today’s embedded journalist in international armed conflicts poses a direct threat to their civilian protections under Article 79 of Protocol I. Despite the fact that embedded journalism has helped to facilitate better ... more
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Das Islambild im internationalen Fernsehen: Ein Vergleich der Nachrichtensender Al Jazeera English, BBC World und CNN International

Susan Schenk
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 173 pp.
"Die Autorin vergleicht im vorliegenden Buch die Berichtserstattung der globalen Nachrichtensender der westlichen Welt BBC World und CNN International mit dem Sender Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera English ist der erste englisch-sprachige Nachrichtenkanal aus dem Nahen Osten, der via Satellit weltwei ... more
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Addressing the Effects of Assignment Stress Injury

Marla Buchanan, Patrice Keats
Journalism Practice, volume 3, issue 2 (2009), pp. 162-177
"The purpose of this article is to present the results of a qualitative study on assignment stress injury within journalism. Thirty-one Canadian journalists and photojournalists participated in the research study. The focus of this article is on recommendations offered by our participants to address ... more
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Auslandsmedien

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, issue 11 (2008), 38 pp.
"Breaking news überwinden dank Internet und Satellitenfernsehen in Sekundenschnelle Kontinente und Staatsgrenzen. Alles wird global verbreitet und kann in Blogs und Internetforen von jeder und jedem kommentiert werden. Längst nutzen auch totalitäre Staaten und global agierende Terroristen Medien ... more
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Introduction to Media and Politics

Sarah Oates
London: Sage (2008), ix, 230 pp.
"This highly accessible text compares media institutions and political experiences in countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, to enable students to think critically about the central questions in the study of media and politics. The book balances cont ... more
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International Film Guide 2008: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema

Ian Haydn Smith (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press, 44th ed. (2008), 424 pp.
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Television Studies: The Key Concepts

Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, Justin Lewis
Abingdon: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2008), xiv, 345 pp.
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Journalists, war crimes and international justice

Howard Tumber
Media, War & Conflict, volume 1, issue 3 (2008), pp. 261-269
"The examination of the ethical and moral issues surrounding the reporting of war crimes signals one of the outstanding problems facing journalism in the contemporary era. As the nature of war has changed, so has the nature of the journalism mandated to cover it, and the selection of war crimes tria ... more
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Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey
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Toby Mendel
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2008), 156 pp.
"This book is meant to present the basics of freedom of information or right to information, defined as the universal right to access information held by public bodies. It presents in an easy-to-understand and non-technical fashion the basic principles of freedom of information, such as maximum disc ... more
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"Worldmedia Inc.": Vision oder bereits Geschichte?

Josef Trappel
Media Perspektiven, issue 3 (2008), pp. 138-147
"Im Fazit lassen sich zwei Befunde festhalten: Erstens erweist sich die Medienkonzentration weiterhin als zentrale Bewegungsenergie für die Internationalisierung der Massenmedien. Sie wird nicht nur im klassischen Medienbereich von Fernsehen, Radio und Printmedien vorangetrieben, sondern erfährt e ... more
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Understanding Evangelical Media: The Changing Face of Christian Communication

Quentin J. Schultze, Robert Woods (eds.)
Downers Grove, Illin.: IVP Academic (2008), 347 pp.
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Empowering Independent Media: U.S. Efforts to Foster Free and Independent News Around the World
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Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2008), 96 pp.
"This report provides an assessment of U.S. international media development efforts, both public and private, and calls on future efforts to be more long-term, comprehensive, and need-driven. Recommending a more holistic assistance approach, the report looks at the international media development fi ... more
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Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media

Anna Everett
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2008), 197 pp.
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Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics

Pamela Wilson, Michelle Stewart (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2008), ix, 362 pp.
"Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By r ... more
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Media Democracy

Sajjad Malik
Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) (2008), 18 pp.
"Media democracy is a concept as well as an advocacy movement aiming at making the mainstream media more plural, and reflective of a broad set of ideas and opinions than churning out and propagating just routine socio-politico-economic news stories and articles in the name of news, information and e ... more
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Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs

Sheila Kinkade, Katrin Verclas
Washington, DC; Berkshire: United Nations Foundation; Vodaphone Group Foundation (2008), 59 pp.
"In this second publication in our Access to Communications Publication Series, the authors examine real-life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. The compelling stories por ... more
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Oral history and public memories

Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes (eds.)
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2008), xvii, 302 pp.
"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a ... more
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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11

Michael J. Barker
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130
"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead, ... more