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Taming the People: Comparing Protests and Populism in Arab and American Politics

Sahar Khamis, Khalid Al-Jaber

Frontiers in Communication, volume 6, issue 780317 (2022), 11 pp.

"The spread of social media platforms ushered the beginning of an unprecedented communication era, which is borderless, immediate, widespread, and defies restrictions and censorship. Digital technology aided the spread of democracy and freedom of expression and helped to overthrow some Arab regimes ... more

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When Journalists are Voiceless: How Lifestyle Journalists Cover Hate and Mitigate Harassment

Gregory Perreault, Kaitlin Miller

Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 15 (2022), pp. 1977-1993

"Often trivialized within the broader journalistic field, lifestyle journalists would seem to have the dream job: the opportunity to get paid to do what they love. The present study explores an under-discussed but material aspect of the job; namely, how lifestyle journalists undertake issues of host ... more

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“Who’s Going to be a Creep Today?” Understanding the Social Media Experiences of Women Broadcast Journalists

Stefanie Davis Kempton, Colleen Connolly-Ahern

Social Media + Society, volume 8, issue 2 (2022), 10 pp.

"Reports of the online harassment of journalists have continued to increase as more newsrooms place higher emphasis on social media engagement with audiences. However, this harassment is subject to gendered dynamics, as women journalists are most often the target of online abuse, and the attacks the ... more

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Kirsten Eddy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.

"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr ... more

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Russian Information Warfare

Russian Analytical Digest, issue 282 (2022), 23 pp.

"Over the past decade, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has employed unorthodox foreign policy tools with increasing frequency, intensity, and success. Perhaps the most effective of these tactics has been the use of information warfare designed to affect decision-making in countries Russia considers to be ... more

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WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

Wanning Sun, Haiqing Yu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 273 pp.

"WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, en ... more

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Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse

Sara Shaban

Lanham: Lexington Books (2022), vii, 137 pp.

"Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse explores how U.S. news and social media discourse hierarchies overshadow transnational feminist politics and reinforce femonationalist narratives, thereby unpacking how protesters' voices on the ground are obscured in favor of elite sourc ... more

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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.

"The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise sign ... more

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Breaking Cultures of Silence: Learnings from a Participatory Community-Centred Approach to Leveraging and Researching Documentaries for Social Change

David Conrad-Pérez, Caty Borum, Jacqueline Olive, Lisa Flick Wilson, Vanessa Jackson, Shakita Brooks Jones

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-22

"This article offers new learnings and recommended practices for documentary-centred grassroots engagement and social change research. These learnings were developed through a community engagement effort in 2020 that centred around a documentary film about racial violence and injustice, 'Always in S ... more

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Cyber War and Cyber Peace: Digital Conflict in the Middle East

Eliza Campbell, Michael Sexton (eds.)

London: Tauris (2022), xii, 212 pp.

"[...] this is the first anthology to specifically investigate the history and state of cyber warfare in the Middle East. It gathers an array of technical practitioners, social science scholars, and legal experts to provide a panoramic overview and cross-sectional analysis covering four main areas: ... more

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Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
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Eric Hoenes del Pinal, Marc Roscoe Loustau, Kristin Norget (eds.)

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 240 pp.

"This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North Amer ... more

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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic

Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.

"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ... more

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Mobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide for Multimedia Journalism

Anthony Adornato

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xix, 365 pp.

"Merging theory and practice, the book includes checklists and practical activities in every chapter, enabling readers to immediately build the mobile and social media skills that today's journalists need and that news organizations expect. The second edition retains a focus on journalism's core val ... more

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Understanding Nascent Newsroom Security and Safety Cultures: The Emergence of the “Security Champion”

Jennifer R. Henrichsen

Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1829-1848

"This paper utilizes concepts from new institutionalism to help explain journalists’ and news organizations’ resistance to implementing security-related practices despite a deteriorating safety and security environment for journalists in the United States. Through 30 interviews with journalists, ... more

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Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations

Alice Lovejoy, Mari Pajala (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2022), ix, 312 pp.

"Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War E ... more

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An Intersectional Analysis of U.S. Journalists’ Experiences With Hostile Sources

Kelsey Mesmer

Journalism & Communication Monographs, volume 24, issue 3 (2022), pp. 156-216

"Given rising hostility toward journalists in the United States, this monograph illuminates how journalists experience hostility from news sources. Drawing on 38 in-depth interviews with U.S. journalists, this project uses the theory of intersectionality to understand how journalists experienced hos ... more

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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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Heidi A. Campbell, Ruth Tsuria (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.

"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual ... more

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Hassprediger Gottes: Der amerikanische Radio-Priester Father Charles Coughlin

Helmut Klumpjan

Alibri Verlag (2022), 321 pp.

"Es ist erstaunlich, dass der römisch-katholische Radio-Priester Charles Coughlin – Vertreter der amerikanischen Religiösen Rechten, Antikommunist, Antisemit, Demagoge und Zeitzeuge der ersten America First-Bewegung – hierzulande so gut wie unbekannt ist. Ebenso erstaunlich ist, dass er bis vo ... more

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Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe

Mark G. Pomar

Lincoln: Potomac Books (2022), xv, 307 pp.

"This book is a fascinating look at how the United States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Mark G. Pomar served in senior positions at VOA and RFE/RL from 1982 to 1993, during which time the Reagan and B ... more

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Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities

Duncan McCue

Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press (2022), xviii, 268 pp.

"Duncan McCue's Decolonizing Journalism is the only text in Canada that teaches aspiring journalists how to build respectful, reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities when researching and sharing their stories. It is a textbook adaptation of an online guide from one of Canada's leading i ... more

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