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Community Media: International Perspectives
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Linda K. Fuller (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.
"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem ... more
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Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping and Growing Audiences

Valerie Geller
Oxford: Focal Press (2007), xvi, 340 pp.
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People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities

Ted Hart, James Greenfield, Sheeraz D. Haji
Hoboken, New Jers.: Wiley (2007), 262 pp.
"This hands-on guide is filled with creative ideas, techniques, and suggestions to help readers harness the power of social networking for your charity, including: getting supporters to do more than give; evaluating your website; blogs — an important development in fundraising; the power of celeb ... more
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Through the Veil: The Role of Broadcasting in U.S. Public Diplomacy Toward Iranians

Mehdi Khalaji
Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2007), 19 pp.
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Exporting Press Freedom: Economic and Editorial Dilemmas in International Media Assistance
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Craig L. LaMay
New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers (2007), 310 pp.
"Exporting Press Freedom examines the history and practice of media assistance, and argues that the dilemma of media independence and sustainability is best understood as an economic problem rather than one of poor editorial standards or lack of will. It includes profiles of news and public affairs ... more
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An Imperative to Innovate: Sustainable Journalism Training in Central and Eastern Europe. Final Report to the Knight Foundation

Aaron Presnall (ed.)
Washington, DC: Jefferson Institute (2007), 52 pp.
"Our analysis will proceed along the following lines. First, it will show how media development promotes market-based democracy. Second, it examines the particular role of Central and East European journalist training centers in media development. Third, we broaden the scope beyond fixed training ce ... more
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Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan

Jill A. Edy, Patrick C. Meirick
Journal of Communication, volume 57, issue 1 (2007), pp. 119-141
"This paper attempts to measure the impact of naturally occurring media frames on public support for a policy. Content analysis of network nightly news during late October of 2001 reveals that U.S. media framed the events of September 11 in terms of both war and crime. A concurrent survey of 328 Ten ... more
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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction

John Sutherland
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2007), 127 pp.
"Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. It lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, examines what makes a book into a bestseller, and asks what separates bestsellers from ... more
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Media and Ethnic Identity: Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication

Ritva Levo-Henriksson
New York: Routledge (2007), xvii, 243 pp.
"Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture. The research data is built ... more
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Culturas y mercados de la ficción televisiva en Iberoamérica: Anuario OBITEL 2007

Lorenzo Vilches (ed.)
Barcelona: Gedisa (2007), 277 pp.
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Media Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Professional Development of Journalists. Working Group Report

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 19 pp.
"This report represents input from twenty-three practitioners who have observed, planned, and implemented media education programs of the U.S. and other Western governments, as well as those of private funders. The group discussed broad lessons learned and specific recommendations for policymakers, ... more
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Mit Pokémon in Harry Potters Welt: Medien in den Fantasien von Kindern
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Maya Götz (ed.)
München: kopaed (2006), 460 pp.
"Fernsehen tötet die Fantasie – so zumindest die Alltagstheorie zum Verhältnis von Medien und der Imaginationsleistung von Kindern. Bei genauerem Hinsehen ist das Verhältnis jedoch sehr viel komplexer, wie die hier vorgestellte Studie zu den Tagträumen der 8- bis 10-Jährigen zeigt. Fernsehen ... more
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Reflections in a Bloodshoot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas

Lawrence Pintak
London: Pluto Press (2006), xviii, 374 pp.
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Assessing Media Education: A Resource Handbook for Educators and Administrators

William G. Christ (ed.)
Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2006), 586 pp.
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Freedom of the Press Worldwide in 2006: Annual Report

[Paris]: Reporters Without Borders (2006), 150 pp.
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Retelling the News in Central Europe: Western Journalism as Democratic Discourse

James Miller
In: Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization
J. H. Brinks, Stella Rock, Edward Timms (eds.)
London: Tauris (2006), pp. 39-54
"This paper has shown that media assistance donors to Central Europe misplaced their emphasis on the trainign of journalistic craft skills as a principal means of introducing what they rather uncritically called 'democratic journalism' to post-Communist societies. There are many narrative choices in ... more
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We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People

Dan Gillmor
Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly (2006), xviii, 299 pp.
"Now that it's possible to publish in real time to a worldwide audience, a new breed of grassroots journalists are taking the news into their own hands. Armed with laptops, cell phones, and digital cameras, these readers-turned-reporters are transforming the news from a lecture into a conversation. ... more
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Community Journalism: Relentlessy Local

Jock Lauterer
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 3rd ed. (2006), xxii, 432 pp.
"No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don’t get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different style of reporting than the detached, impersonal approach expected of major international publications ... more
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Augenzeugen: Kriegsberichterstattung vom 18. zum 21. Jahrhundert

Ute Daniel (ed.)
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2006), 264 pp.
"Den Berichten"von der Front"in Wort und Bild kommt seit jeher entscheidende Bedeutung für die zeitgenössische Wahrnehmungund Legitimation eines Krieges zu. Diese erste Geschichte der Kriegsberichterstattung stellt deshalb die Akteure selbst in den Mittelpunkt: die Wort- und Bildkorrespondenten, i ... more
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Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media

Johanna Sumiala-Seppänen, Knut Lundby, Raimo Salokangas (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2006), 274 pp.
"The news media report global conflicts related to religion. New expressions of religiosity and spirituality appear in popular media culture. The relationship between media and the sacred has become an inevitable topic. This book offers new and fresh perspectives on the media, the sacred and religio ... more