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Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistances

Pradip N. Thomas, Nain Zaharom (eds.)

Penang: Southbound (2004), 330 pp.

Beyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by War

Philip Seib

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004), 185 pp.

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Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children

Jack Zipes

New York; London: Routledge (2004), 219 pp.

"In his successful Creative Storytelling, Jack Zipes showed how storytelling is a rich and powerful tool for self-expression and for building children's imaginations. In Speaking Out, this master storyteller goes further, speaking out against rote learning and testing and for the positive force with ... more

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The Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Exellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe

Ellen Hume

Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp.

"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go ... more

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Media at War: The Iraq Crisis

Howard Tumber, Jerry Palmer

London: Sage (2004), 188 pp.

"International media coverage of the war in Iraq provoked public scrutiny as well debate amongst journalists themselves. Media at War offers a critical overview of the coverage in the context of other preceding wars, including the first Gulf War, and opens up the debate on the key questions that eme ... more

War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective

Yahya R. Kamalipour, Nancy Snow (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), 261 pp.

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Critical Readings: Media and Gender

Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2004), 366 pp.

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Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime

Stuart Allan, Barbie Zelizer (eds.)

Abingdon: Routledge (2004), 374 pp.

"Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. News media treatments of international crises, especially the one underway in Iraq, are increasingly becoming the subject of public controversy, and discussion is urgently needed. Each of this bo ... more

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Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research and Practice
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Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido (eds.)

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2004), xxii, 458 pp.

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Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation

Quentin J. Schultze

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2003), 440 pp.

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Wer spinnt denn da? Spin doctoring in den uSA und in Deutschland: Eine vergleichende Studie zur Auslagerung politischer PR

Christian Mihr

Münster: Lit (2003), 172 pp.

"Bleibt alles anders? Oder was ist wirklich neu in der viel beschworenen Berliner Medienrepublik? Die qualitative Studie untersucht explorativ und in komparativer Sicht (USA und Deutschland) die Auslagerung von Regierungs-PR zu Agenturen und Beratern sowie die Auswirkungen auf die Beziehung zum Poli ... more

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... And the Word Became Image: Taking on Television

Mediaforum (Catholic Media Council), issue 2-3 (2003), pp. 2-67

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Handbuch interkulturelle Kommunikation und Kooperation. Band 2: Länder, Kulturen und interkulturelle Berufstätigkeit

Alexander Thomas, Stefan Kammhuber, Schroll-Machl (eds.)

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2003), 399 pp.

Media Assistance: Best Practices and Priorities. Report on a USAID Workshop

Ellen Hume

Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2003), 17 pp.

"Determining that the time had come to derive lessons from past efforts, think afresh about media assistance, and perhaps add some new models - including approaches for Africa and Asia, where the cultural preconditions and economic prospects are quite different from those of Europe - USAID’s Burea ... more

Summary Report: Developing a Research Agenda for Entertainment Education and Multicultural Audiences

Sheia T. Murphy, Michael Cody

Santa Monica: Hollywood, Health and Society;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center (2003), 30 pp.

DPA Report: Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Final Draft

Rich Fuchs

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2003), 22 pp.

"The Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Program Area is one of the three (3) principal program lines at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The programming includes elements all of which are at or near their mid-point of current tenure. Within the Co ... more

Minority-Language Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE

Tarlach McGonagle, Bethany Davis Noll, Monroe Price (eds.)

Oxford; Amsterdam: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University;Institute for Information Law (IViR), Universiteit van Amsterdam (2003), 55 pp.

The Globalisation of Corporate Media Hegemony

Lee Artz, Yahya R. Kamalipour (eds.)

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (2003), 309 pp.