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Afrikanisch-Europäische Medienbeziehungen

Medien & Zeit, volume 31, issue 2 (2016), pp. 2-57
"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country“ (Wainaina, 2012) – was der kenianische Autor und Gründer des Literaturmagazins Kwani Binyavanga Wainaina in seiner satirischen Gebrauchsanweisung How to Write about Africa SchriftstellerInnen empfiehlt, wird in Medienbeiträgen zu Afrika be ... more
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance

Can Candan, Suncem Kocer
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.
"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as ... more
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Journalists in Bangladesh

Mohammad Sahid Ullah, Rawshon Akhter
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.
"While answering questions about their professional roles, journalists in Bangladesh preferred being assertive with social issues. An overwhelming majority of the Bangladeshi journalists work to promote tolerance and cultural diversity (87.0%). They also put importance on advocacy for social change ... more
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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions
Deep Insights

Xiaoling Zhang, Herman Wasserman, Winston Mano (eds.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 237 pp.
"This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media." ... more
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The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective

Jan Servaes, Toks Oyedemi (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxiv, 269 pp.
" This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical analysis of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics examined here include poverty in the media in Britain and Tur ... more
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A Digital Culture Ministry: A Case of the Korean Church

Ignatius Kim Min-soo
Religion and Social Communication, volume 14, issue 1 (2016), pp. 40-59
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Elderly People's Choice of Media and Their Perceived State of Loneliness

Erdem Öngün, Feride Zeynep Güder
Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), pp. 35-47
"This study aims at finding the relationship between elderly people’s perceived state of loneliness and their choice of (old and/or new) media instruments. The sample of the study consists of randomly selected 300 elderly people over 60 who reside in rest homes in two different cities, Hatay and ... more
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Digital News Report 2016

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.
"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and ... more
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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China

Eileen Le Han
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc ... more
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A Textual Processing Model of Risk Communication: Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan

Raul P. Lejano, Joyce Melcar Tan, A. Meriwether W. Wilson
American Meteorological Society, volume 8, issue 4 (2016), pp. 447-463
"As the world's urban poor increase in numbers, they become acutely vulnerable to hazards from extreme weather events. On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck the province of Leyte, Philippines, with casualties numbering in the thousands, largely because of the ensuing storm surge that swept the c ... more
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Journalists in Indonesa

Nurhaya Muchtar, Maskudi
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"With regards to professional roles, Indonesian journalists found it most important to report things as they are, educate their audience, promote tolerance and cultural diversity, let people express their opinions and advocate for social change. Interviewed journalists also found it very important t ... more
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China in Africa: An Analysis of the Effect of Chinese Media Expansion on African Public Opinion

Catie Snow Bailard
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 21, issue 4 (2016), pp. 446-471
"In 2006, Chinese officials revealed an extensive plan to increase the nation’s soft power in Africa through a number of initiatives to increase the presence and relevance of Chinese media in Africa. However, the question remains: Has China been successful in enhancing its soft power via its news ... more
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Open Mic Nepal: Tracking Rumors in Post-Earthquake Nepal

Internews (2016), 13 pp.
"In July 2015, Internews launched Open Mic Nepal, a project designed to track and debunk rumors in the earthquake-afected communities. Based on previous pilots of this approach in Gaza and Liberia, the project set out to assess and address information needs by using minimally structured qualitative ... more
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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.
"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more
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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin
London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.
"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more
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"As Good as Dead": The Impact of the Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan

London: Amnesty International (2016), 66 pp.
"This report details how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws violate human rights, both in their substance and their application – whether this is violations of human rights by the state, or abuses of the laws by non-state actors. The laws do not meet human rights standards and lack essential safeguards t ... more
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Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen: Auswahl und Adaptionen deutscher Fernsehsendungen für den chinesischen Markt

Yuanchen Zhang
Berlin: Lit (2016), 230 pp.
"Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, welche deutschen Fernsehsendungen nach China importiert und wie diese in einer Gesellschaft aufgenommen werden, die kulturell vollkommen anders geprägt ist als die deutsche. Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf der Herausarbeitung von Kriterien für die Auswahl von Ferns ... more
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"They Can Arrest You at Any Time": The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Burma

Linda Lakhdhir et al.
Human Rights Watch (2016), 87 pp.
"Focusing largely on the period since retired general Thein Sein assumed the presidency in 2011, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Processions Act, the Telecommunications Act, the News Media Law, the Electronic Transactions Act, and various Penal Code pro ... more
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Folklore, religion and the songs of a Bengali madman: A journey between performance and the politics of cultural representation

Carola Erika Lorea
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2016), xvi, 332 pp.
"This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if ex ... more
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Sociological Perspectives on Media Piracy in the Philippines and Vietnam

Vivencio O. Ballano
Singapore: Springer (2016), xiv, 259 pp.
"This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systems by applying sociological perspectives to examine the socio-economic forces behind the advent of piracy in the regio ... more