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Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected

Tara McPherson (ed.)
Cambridge: MIT Press (2008), ix, 258 pp.
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Catholics in the Movies

Colleen McDannell (ed.)
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 362 pp.
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Gewalt als Gottesdienst: Religionskriege im Zeitalter der Globalisierung

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Medien und Kommunikationsforschung im Vergleich: Grundlagen, Gegenstandsbereiche, Verfahrensweisen

Gabriele Melischek, Josef Seethaler, Jürgen Wilke (eds.)
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Oral history and public memories

Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes (eds.)
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2008), xvii, 302 pp.
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TV-Serien: Schreiben fürs Fernsehen

Pamela Douglas
Andrea von Struve; Petra Post (Übs.)
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Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2008), 197 pp.
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Journalists, war crimes and international justice

Howard Tumber
Media, War & Conflict, volume 1, issue 3 (2008), pp. 261-269
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Michael J. Barker
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Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal
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Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, Justin Lewis
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Jesper Strömbäck, Lynda Lee Kaid (eds.)
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Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, issue 11 (2008), 38 pp.
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Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin (eds.)
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Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2008), 966 pp.