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Communicating for Change: Strategies of Social and Political Advocates

John P. McHale
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), 251 pp.
"This book explores the various ways social activists use media and communication strategies, including mass media, face-to-face/interpersonal communication, the telephone, group communication, events, papers or literature, and computer-mediated or online communication. Focusing on examples of advoc ... more
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The Media and Elections: A Handbook and Comparative Study

Bernd-Peter Lange, David Ward (eds.)
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2004), xvi, 264 pp.
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Catholic Radio Press Kit

Stephen Gajdoik
Greenbay: Catholic Radio Association (2004), 9 pp.
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USAID's Media Assistance: Policy and Programmatic Lessons

Krishna Kumar
Washington, DC: USAID, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination (2004), xiv, 20 pp.
"1. USAID media assistance was effective in promoting and strengthening independent media [...] 2. Comprehensive training programs had multiplier effects on upgrading the professional skills of journalists and instilling the norms of free press. But they suffered from implementation problems [...] 3 ... more
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Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture

Heather Hendershot
Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2004), 256 pp.
"This book moves beyond sensationalism to consider how the evangelical movement has effectively targeted Americans—as both converts and consumers—since the 1970s. Thousands of products promoting the Christian faith are sold to millions of consumers each year through the Web, mail order catalogs, ... more
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Media Empowerment Manual: A Guide to Understanding Media Power and Organizing for Media Justice in Your Community

Saskia Fischer, Margot Hardenbergh
Cleveland: United Church of Christ (2004), 47 pp.
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Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet

L. Lorne Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2004), 279 pp.
"Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core is ... more
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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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Media, Bureaucracies and Foreign Aid: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Japan

Douglas A. Van Belle, Jean-Sébastien Rioux, David M. Potter
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2004), ix, 179 pp.
"In many ways, this book is a simple and straightforward product of social science research. A conceptual expectation was created through the integration and extension of existing theory and research findings. The responsiveness argument presented in chapter 2 lead to the expectation that aid bureau ... more
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Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics

Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini
New York: Cambridge University Press (2004), xv, 342 pp.
"This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems ... more
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Youth Media’s Impact on Audience & Channels of Distribution: An Exploratory Study

Social Policy Research Associates
New York: Open Society Institute; Surdna Foundation (2004), 62 pp.
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Communicating Protected Areas

Denise Hamú, Elisabeth Auchincloss, Wendy Goldstein (eds.)
Gland (CH); Cambridge: IUCN (2004), 311 pp.
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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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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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Como apoderarse de los medios de comunicación: Una guía para comprender el poder de los medios de comunicación y organizarse por la justicia en los medios en su comunidad

Saskia Fischer, Margot Hardenbergh
Cleveland: United Church of Christ (2004), 48 pp.
"¿Cuál es su idea del rol que los medios de comunicación comunitarios deben jugar en su comunidad? ¿Qué podrían hacer en su barrio si tuvieran acceso a los medio? Si pudieran hablar y ser oídos por los dueños de los medios, que les dirían? ¿Qué les gustaría mirar, producir y distribuir? ... more
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Islam: Zerrbilder und Wirklichkeiten. Die Rezeption des Islam im Westen

Christine Steeger-Strobel (ed.)
Kai Hafez (introd.)
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), 5th ext. ed. (2004), 45 pp.
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Lawrence Lessig
New York: Penguin Press (2004), xvi, 345 pp.
"Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control ... more
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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2004/2005

Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 27th ed. (2004), 1200 pp.
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Das freie Wort und seine Feinde: Zur Pressefreiheit in den Zeiten der Globalisierung

Michael Haller (ed.)
Konstanz: UVK (2003), 226 pp.
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Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action

Arvind Singhal, Everett M. Rogers
New Delhi; London; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2003), 225 pp.
"The purpose of this book is to synthesize critical lessons learned about effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs, emphasizing the role of communication strategies. Combating AIDS focuses on communication strategies that could mobilize political action, target high-risk groups, and overcome stigma. T ... more