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The Mediation of Poverty: The News, New Media and Politics

Joanna Redden

Goldsmiths, University of London, Doctoral Thesis (2011), 265 pp.

"This thesis considers how the mediation of poverty in Canada and the United Kingdom influences responses to the issue of poverty. The thesis focuses in particular on the issue dynamics concerning children as constructions of a “deserving poor” and immigrants as constructions of an “undeservin ... more

Alternative and Mainstream Media: The Converging Spectrum

Linda Jean Kenix

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2011), viii, 216 pp.

"Alternative media have historically been a central force in social change. Kenix argues, however, that they do not uniformly subvert the hierarchies of access that have always been fundamental to mainstream media. In fact, their journalistic norms and routines have always drawn on the professional ... more

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Journalism and the Political: Discursive Tensions in News Coverage of Russia

Felicitas Macgilchrist

Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2011), xiv, 248 pp.

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Media and Memory

Joanne Garde-Hansen

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011), vii, 174 pp.

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The Practice of Public Diplomacy: Confronting Challenges Abroad

William A. Rugh

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xviii, 262 pp.

"Relying heavily on scores of first-hand accounts collected through interviews, the studies examine the practice of public diplomacy largely from the perspective of American practitioners in different countries. The analyses follow the standard field officer approach, asking systematically: what iss ... more

Local Radio, Going Global

Guy Starkey

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xv, 202 pp.

"An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and locally-accountable commercial radio stations to fall into the hands of national and international media groups. Starkey traces the early development of local radio through to prese ... more

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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.

"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more

Netzpolitik aus internationaler Perspektive: Länderberichte aus den USA, Großbritannien, Spanien, Polen, Indien und Korea

Tobias Wangermann, Helmut Reifeld (eds.)

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 114 pp.

"Die Forderung nach Sicherheit im Internet, besonders in Hinblick auf die persönlichen Daten, die Gewährung der Freiheit dieses Mediums ohne staatliche Eingriffe, die Diskussion um adäquate Formen des Urheberrechts und seiner Durchsetzung sowie eine Fokussierung auf die Risiken verbunden mit eine ... more

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New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches: Contributions to the Research Forum at the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth 2010

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson, Catharina Bucht

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2011), 275 pp.

More Bad News from Israel

Greg Philo, Mike Berry

London: Pluto Press, Exp. and updated ed. (2011), viii, 475 pp.

"Building on rigorous research by the world-renowned Glasgow University Media Group, 'More Bad News From Israel' examines media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East and the impact it has on public opinion. The book brings together senior journalists and ordinary viewers to examine how ... more

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Journalism Education, Training and Employment

Bob Franklin, Donica Mensing (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2011), xii, 236 pp.

"During this period of rapid and significant change in journalistic practices, journalism educators are re-examining their own profession and contributing to the invention of new models and practices. This edited volume of studies by respected international scholars describes the diverse issues jour ... more

How Distant Others Are Mediated by UK Television

Martin Scott

University of East Anglia, Doctoral Thesis (2011), 346 pp.

"The overall aim of this thesis is to investigate how UK television shapes spectators’ experiences of distant Others. Specifically, I aim to build on and extend existing work in this field, and particularly the work of Lilie Chouliaraki in Spectatorship of Suffering, in three directions. Firstly, ... more

The Neglect of Africa and the Power of Aid

Suzanne Franks

International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 1 (2010), pp. 71-84

"Using exclusive access to the BBC archive, the article examines how and why media coverage of Africa has been misleading and misinformed in the postcolonial period. It examines the extent to which the close relationship between media coverage and aid agencies has damaged the cause of informing the ... more

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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World

Angela Romano (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2010), ix, 251 pp.

"This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across t ... more

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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2010), xvi, 617 pp.

"Internet censorship and surveillance becomes more sophisticated. The first-generation controls like China's "Great Firewall" are being replaced by techniques that include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, take-down notices and stringent terms-of-usa ... more

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Social Issues in Television Fiction

Lesley Henderson

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2010), vi, 200 pp.

"The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexua ... more

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Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere. Vol. I: Creating New Communication Spaces

Clemencia Rodríguez, Dorothy Kidd, Laura Stein (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2010), x, 338 pp.

Protecting the News: Civil Society and the Media

Tamara Witschge, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman

London: Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland;Goldsmiths University;Carnegie UK Trust (2010), 43 pp.

"News and current affairs journalism that purports to be for the public good, and in the public interest, can survive, grow and flourish but not through market forces and new technology alone. To survive, news media will have to adjust and adapt to changes in technology and a harsher commercial envi ... more

Media Policies and Regulatory Practices in a Selected Set of European Countries, the EU and the Council of Europe

European Commission;Mediadem (2010), 524 pp.

"This collective report examines the principal dimensions of media policy in 14 European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the UK), probing into the historical forces, national traditions and distinct politi ... more