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Digitale Illusio: Online-Journalisten in Argentinien, China, Deutschland und den USA

Alexis von Mirbach

Berlin; Münster: Lit (2014), 285 pp.

"Führen Globalisierung und Digitalisierung bei Journalisten zu einer weltweit einheitlichen Rollenvorstellung (= Illusio)? Rund 70 Leitfaden-Interviews mit Online-Journalisten zeigen das Fortbestehen nationaler und internationaler Unterschiede - aber auch eine klare Tendenz: Auf der Suche nach mög ... more

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Maintaining Social Connectedness in a Fast-Changing World: Examining the Effects of Mobile Phone Uses on Loneliness Among Teens in Tibet

Xun Liu, Xinchuan Liu, Ran Wei

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 3 (2014), pp. 318-334

"This study examines how Tibetan teens use the mobile phone to maintain their social networks and how their social network connections via the mobile phone in turn affect their psychological well-being. In doing so, the study explores the effect of motives for mobile phone use and mobile phone skill ... more

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Framing Sustainability: A Case Study Analysis of the Environment and Sustainability Discourse in the Indian English Language Press

Prithi Nambiar

Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2014), pp. 93-110

"Using elements of framing and grounded theory, a qualitative interpretive case study analysis of environment and sustainability related articles from a leading English language fortnightly magazine in India reveals that highly emotive frames are being used in media construction of the environment a ... more

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The Campaign for Justice: Press Freedom in South Asia 2013-14

Laxmi Murthy (ed.)

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2014), 81 pp.

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Windows of Opportunity: The Transformation of State Media to Public Service Media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia

Jan Lublinski, Erik Albrecht, Petra Berner, Laura Schneider, Merjam Wakili, Jackie Wilson

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.

"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz ... more

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Media Use in Cambodia

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2014), 2 pp.

"A majority (57%) of Cambodians say they watch TV news at least weekly, with urban residents considerably more likely than their rural counterparts to do so. Radio follows, used for news by 42,9% overall and equally prevalent in urban and rural areas. About one in 10 Cambodians overall now say they ... more

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Pocket Guide to Reporting on Disability in Indonesia

Jakarta: International Labour Organization (ILO) (2014), 50 pp.

"This guide has been created to provide a practical resource to media professionals interested in reporting on the issues facing people with disabilities in Indonesia. It is a ‘one-stop’ source for information on global disability statistics, and provides practical guidance on appropriate termin ... more

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Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide

Forest Woody Horton (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed. (2014), 668 pp.

"We are very, very pleased to advise you that we have added dozens of new languages to our multilingual database, more than doubling the 42 which appeared in the first edition. At the same time, we are very happy to report that there is a great deal of interest in maintaining this database as an imp ... more

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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.

"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic ... more

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Cyber Security in Developing Countries, a Digital Divide Issue: The Case of Georgia

Ellada Gamreklidze

Journal of International Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2014), pp. 200-217

"Based on the case study of the cyber war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, this paper is a theoretical deliberation in an attempt to illustrate connection between the Digital Divide and cyber security. Through a qualitative study of cyber warfare between the two countries, one on the devel ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more

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Period of Grace for Asian Newspapers: The Internet Revolution Has Yet to Come to the Continent

Torben Stephan

KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2014), pp. 36-50

"The newspaper market in China, India and Indonesia is booming. In their euphoria, many media representatives, however, overlook the fact that the Internet revolution has yet to come to this part of the world. In places where people have good access to the Internet, such as Japan and Singapore, Asia ... more

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Hijabers: How Young Urban Muslim Women Redefine Themselves in Indonesia

Annisa R. Beta

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 377-389

"This paper analyzes the dissemination of ‘Hijaber’ style through different forms of cyber media (blogs and social network sites) in order to determine how young, computer savvy Muslim Indonesians explore their gender and religious identities while working in the ‘creative economy’ through c ... more

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Community / Audience Survey Report Eastern Samar, Philippines: Summary of Key Findings with a Brief Analysis and Discussion

John Goslino

Internews (2014), 5 pp.

"The purpose of the survey was to understand the listenership and value of Radio Bakdaw, the information needs of the community and sources people would use to address specific information needs." (Page 1)

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Examining How Presumed Media Influence Affects Social Norms and Adolescents' Attitudes and Drinking Behavior Intentions in Rural Thailand

Shirley S. Ho et al.

Journal of Health Communication, volume 19, issue 3 (2014), pp. 282-302

"This study uses the influence of presumed media influence model as the theoretical framework to examine how perceived social norms (i.e., descriptive, subjective, and injunctive norms) will mediate the influence of pro- and antidrinking media messages on adolescents' intention to consume alcohol in ... more

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The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism

Cecil M. Robeck (ed.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2014), xiii, 340 pp.

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Looking at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes, Cambodia, on Flickr and YouTube

Stephanie Benzaquen

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 6 (2014), pp. 790-809

"'During the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-9) the Tuol Svay Prey high school in Phnom Penh was used under the codename S21 as a torture-and-execution centre. In 1979, the government of the newly established People's Republic of Kampuchea had it refurbished as memorial. Today, people from all over the wor ... more

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China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century

Matthew D. Johnson, Keith B. Wagner, Tianqui Yu, Luke Vulpiani (eds.)

New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xvi, 349 pp.

"Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur cultu ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.

"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more

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Our Voice, Our Power: Empowering Women Through Community Media in Bangladesh

Fahmida Akhtar, Protiva Banerjee (eds.)

Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) (2014), 27 pp.

"The book contains profiles of 12 women between the ages of 18 and 26 that were selected to follow a 3-month journalism fellowship and work at community radio stations. The program was designed and implemented by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in cooperation with 11 comm ... more