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Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Lanham, Maryland et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xiv, 281 pp.
"The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed "foreign Islam"), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority group
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Television Production in Small Nations
Journal of Popular Television, volume 4, issue 1 (2016), pp. 69-147
Public Service News and Digital Media
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 42 pp.
"In this report, we examine how public service media in six european countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom) are delivering news in an increasingly digital media environment. The analysis is based on interviews conducted between december 2015 and February 2016 [..
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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.
"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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Digital News Report 2015
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 109 pp.
"We see the smartphone more clearly as the defining device for digital news with a disruptive impact on consumption, formats, and business models. Our data suggest it provides an environment dominated by a few successful brands, with others struggling to reach a wider audience, both via apps and bro
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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
Deep Insights
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.
"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo
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Applied Theatre: Development
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2015), x, 291 pp.
"At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered t
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Distant Suffering Online: The Unfortunate Irony of Cyber-Utopian Narratives
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 7 (2015), pp. 637-653
"The internet is often celebrated for the abundant opportunities it appears to offer citizens to become more informed about and inspired to act on issues related to international development and distant suffering. But to what extent do users actually make use of such opportunities? And what social p
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Journalism, Audiences and Diaspora
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xix, 256 pp.
"This collection takes the study of diasporic communication beyond the level of simply praising its existence, to offering critical engagements and analysis with the systems of journalistic production, process and consumption practices as they relate to people who are living outside the borders of t
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Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law
Oxon: Routledge (2015), xii, 180 pp.
"Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to human rights and what has become of the orig
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Video Games Around the World
Deep Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2015), xiv, 697 pp.
"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur
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The Media: Improving How People with Mental Health Problems Are Represented in the Media. Summary of Impact and Learning.
Time to Change (2015), 5 pp.
"Our media advisory service was set up to provide advice and support on mental health storylines and documentaries. We inputted into 75 soap opera storylines, as well as mental health seasons for BBC 3 and Channel 4. We also developed an online resource for media professionals, and supported media o
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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
New York, London: Routledge (2015), xiii, 269 pp.
"This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Ro
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"The report examines what role the internet plays in trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation. It considers in particular methods of online job recruitment and looks at cases studies from several EU Member States – Czech Republic, UK, Ireland, and Romania – and discusses to what exten
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Child Safety Online. A Practical Guide for Providers of Social Media and Interactive Services
UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) (2015), 59 pp.
"The way you design your service can have a real impact on children and young people. The type of safeguards shown in this guide lead to immediate positive benefits (e.g. limiting exposure to inappropriate content) and longer-term effects (such as helping users to understand how to share their infor
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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.
"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co
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Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning Domestic Support for the Afghan War
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2015), xxvii, 380 pp.
"This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, str
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
Deep Insights
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that
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Making Waves Behind Bars: The Story of the Prison Radio Association
Bristol: University of Adelaide, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 318 pp.
"Prison radio is a particularly valuable contribution to the investigation of opportunities for social activism and the potential of radio for social change, able to support prisoners through their sentences and contribute to reducing re-offending. This study is the first to document the growth of U
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