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Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

Jingrong Tong

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiv, 204 pp.

"Modernisation becomes a hegemonic ideology in Chinese society, while China faces enormous environmental problems. Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China argues that investigative journalism has constructed a discourse of environmental risk that is in contrast wi ... more

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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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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 ... urnalism is a tool routinely used by politicians at election time. The same is true in India. In other countries, including Nigeria, Philippines, and Colombia the precarious working conditions of news staff provide fertile conditions for corruption and “brown envelopes” or under-the-table cash payments to reporters and editors which are a routine feature of journalistic work. The struggles facing journalists in settled democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Denmark, are less brazen, but no less challenging and in a range of countries across the Western Balkans with a shared and painful history, media corruption hinders aspirations to break free from the legacy of war, censorship and political control during decades of communist rule. The story is of an uphill struggle. Everywhere there is a crisis of confidence inside newsrooms caused by crumbling levels of commitment to ethics, a lowering of the status of journalistic work and a pervasive lack of transparency over advertising, ownership and corporate and political affiliations. Government control over lucrative state advertising, which is often allocated to media according to their political bias, remains widespread. At the same time, the elimination in most countries of the invisible wall separating editorial and advertising has created a surge of so-called “native advertising,” hidden advertorials and paid-for journalism. It was this conflict of interest that plunged the crisis-prone UK press into a new bout of handwringing in February 2015 when Peter Oborne, a leading political journalist, quit his job at the Daily Telegraph accusing the management of censoring stories about HSBC bank, a leading advertiser caught up in a tax scandal. These reports tell essentially the same story of deep cuts in editorial investment, undue pressure on newsrooms, and media increasingly dependent upon atypical models of ownership in which media have become the trophy possessions of powerful figures and institutions in pursuit of wider corporate and political objectives." (Introduction, page iii-iv) more

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Audio-Visual Religion in Asia

Material Religion, volume 11, issue 4 (2015), pp. 415-549

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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)

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 ... more

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Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurter Buchmesse (2015), 7 pp.

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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.

"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more

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Im Gegenlicht: Gesellschaftskritik im Spielfilm

iz3w, issue 384 (2015), pp. 17-40

"Gerade in Ländern des Globalen Südens gibt es eine beeindruckende Vielfalt kritischer Spielfilme aller Genres, vom Roadmovie bis zur Groteske. Mal sind sie explizit politisch, mal eher angedeutet und metaphorisch, um die Zensur zu umgehen oder um eindimensionale Interpretationen zu unterlaufen. I ... more

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Changing Cultures and Religious Practices in Asia

Binod C. Agrawal (ed.)

Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2015), 162 pp.

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Digital Inequality and Second-Order Disasters: Social Media in the Typhoon Haiyan Recovery

Mirca Madianou

Social Media + Society, volume 1, issue 2 (2015), 11 pp.

"This article investigates the intersection of digital and social inequality in the context of disaster recovery. In doing so, the article responds to the optimism present in recent claims about “humanitarian technology” which refers to the empowering uses and applications of interactive technol ... more

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Zwischen Hollywood und Bollywood: Das Autorenkino Mira Nairs

Lisa Marie Gadatsch

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 520 pp.

"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der ... more

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Social Media and Collective Remembrance: The Debate Over China’s Great Famine on Weibo

Hui Zhao, Jun Liu

China Perspectives, issue 1 (2015), pp. 41-48

"This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in articulating individuals’ experiences and memories and (re-)shaping collective memory in contemporary China. It investigates how social media enable and facilitate the participation of ordinary citizens in distributing an ... more

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Online Video Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 85 pp.

"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries ... more

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The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15

New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 113 pp.

"The year under review in this report (May 2014 to April 2015) shows that journalists and media workers remain victims and, too often, targets in the deadly power struggles on which that they report. Within this time period, 14 journalists lost their lives, mostly in targeted attacks. Pakistan was t ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2015

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2015), 28 pp.

"Global press freedom declined in 2014 to its lowest point in more than 10 years. The rate of decline also accelerated drastically, with the global average score suffering its largest one-year drop in a decade. The share of the world’s population that enjoys a Free press stood at 14 percent, meani ... more

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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion

Kim J. Andreasson (ed.)

Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.

"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu ... more

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Public Perceptions of the Christian Minority in Turkey

London: Screen Changers (2015), 55 pp.

"The report reveals that for most respondents, Christianity is a concept that is foreign to Turkish culture. Whilst this situation is a consequence of the low numbers of Christians, it is also influenced by educational content and the media. Despite the rich history of Christianity in Turkey, the ex ... more

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Globalizing Communication/journalism Studies

Shelton A Gunaratne (ed.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 409-515

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Enlightening Communication Analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media Studies, Ethics and Law Using a Buddhist Perspective

Mark Pearson

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 456-470

"A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before ex ... more

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Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
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Sirkku Kotilainen, Reijo Kupiainen (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2015), 301 pp.

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Asian Comics

John A. Lent

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.

"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp ... more

Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom Top Insights

Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration Top Insights

Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe Top Insights

Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014 Inspiring Practice

Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
Inspiring Practice