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"Research on the effect of suicide stories in the media on suicide in the real world has been marked by much debate and inconsistent findings. Recent narrative reviews have suggested that research based on nonfictional models is more apt to uncover imitative effects than research based on fictional ... more

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Transnational Television Worldwide: Towards a New Media Order

Jean K. Chalaby (ed.)

London et al.: Tauris (2005), viii, 264 pp.

"This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels. It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe. Revealing great richness and diversity across some of the world’s main geocultural ... more

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Al-Dschasira: Ein arabischer Nachrichtensender fordert den Westen heraus

Hugh Miles

Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt (2005), 335 pp.

"Die aufgeklärte Öffentlichkeit im Westen hat neue Helden: die Journalisten und Macher des arabischen Nachrichtensenders Al-Dschasira. Ganz offensichtlich lassen sie sich weder von Anzeigenboykotten aus der arabischen Welt noch von Anfeindungen der amerkanischen Führung davon abbringen, ihnen zug ... more

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Kriegsberichterstattung im Vietnamkrieg

Jan Wölfl

Münster: Lit (2005), 200 pp.

"Der Vietnamkrieg (1960 - 1975) gilt auch heute noch als einer der bedeutendesten kriegerischen Konflikte der Nachkriegszeit. Beharrlich wird im aktuellen Irakkrieg der warnende Vergleich mit dem amerikanischen Trauma in Südostasien gewagt, ohne vielleicht genau zu wissen, welche Wirkungszusammenh� ... more

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Independent Media Development Abroad: Challenges Exist in Implementing U.S. Efforts and Measuring Results

Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) (2005), 49 pp.

"The Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development obligated at least $40 million in fiscal year 2004 for the development of independent media, including activities such as journalism and business management training and support for legal and regulatory frameworks. About 60 p ... more

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Der Bilderkrieg: Inszenierungen, Bilder und Perspektiven der "Operation Irakische Freiheit"

Gerhard Paul

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2005), 237 pp.

"Wie kein Krieg zuvor war der Irak-Krieg von 2003/04 ein »Bilderkrieg«, in dem die Kriegsparteien Bilder als Waffen einsetzten und via Bild kommunizierten. Im Anschluß an seine große Studie »Bilder des Krieges - Krieg der Bilder« (2004) untersucht der Flensburger Historiker und Sozialwissensch ... more

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USAID/OTI Afghanistan Program: Final Evaluation

Social Impact Inc.

Washington, DC: USAID (2005), 91 pp.

"The purpose of the final evaluation was to provide the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) and the U.S. Agency for International Development with an assessment of the relevance, effectiveness, and lessons learned from OTI’s mega-program in Afghanistan. Since evaluations of the media program ha ... more

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Media and Ethnic Minorities

Valerie Alia, Simone Bull

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2005), 204 pp.

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Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Charles A. Riley

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (2005), xviii, 258 pp.

"In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and prof ... itable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of “overcoming.” According to Riley, this cliché plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of “fixing” the disability and rendering the “sufferer” as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the “back of the book” health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends. Riley’s lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the “discovery” by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity." (Publisher description) more

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Wer beherrscht die Medien? Die 50 größten Medienkonzerne der Welt: Jahrbuch 2005

Lutz Hachmeister, Günther Rager

München: Beck (2005), 348 pp.

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Le droit d'informer: Le rôle des médias dans le développement économique

Banque Mondiale

Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2005), 406 pp.

"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut ... more

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The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church

Shane Hipps

Grand Rapids: Zondervan (2005), 176 pp.

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The Media and Peace: From Vietnam to the "War on Terror"

Graham Spencer

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2005), 212 pp.

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Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values

Patricia Pisters, Wim Staat (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2005), 224 pp.

"In Shooting the Family, twelve authors investigate the transfigured role of the family in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television, as well as through particularistic media like home movies and videos. "Shooting the Family" has a ... more

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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

Jim Downs (ed.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2005), 191 pp.

"This volume grew out of the Why We Write conference held at Columbia University in the spring of 2003. The conference was the second part of a series of conferences organized by graduate students in the history department that explored issues related to history, social change, and the politics of w ... more

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Media Coverage and Foreign Assistance: The Effects of US Media Coverage on the Distribution of US Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Recipient Countries

John S. Kim

Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2005), 45 pp.

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Praxishandbuch Fernsehen: Wie TV-Sender arbeiten

Jörg Schütte, Eric Karstens

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2005), 439 pp.

"Die aktualisierte und überarbeitete Neuausgabe dieses 1999 erstmals erschienenen Standardwerks entschlüsselt das komplexe System hinter den Bildschirmen und stellt dabei den Zusammenhang zwischen den verschiedenen Arbeits- und Themenbereichen innerhalb eines Senders her. Das "Praxishandbuch Ferns ... more

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Nonprofit Internet Strategies: Best Practices for Marketing, Communications, and Fundraising

Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Michael Johnston

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2005), 345 pp.