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La radio en Afrique au XXIe siècle: Mutations et enjeux

Étienne Damome (dir.)

RadioMorphoses, issue 3 (2018), pp. 2-79

"Introduite dès les années 1930 sur les terres africaines et durablement ancrée au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, la radio s’est peu à peu adaptée à l’environnement culturel, social et politique africain. Ses évolutions successives ont suivi la courbe des mutations culturelles ... more

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Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism

Adrija Dey

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp.

"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a ... more

Environmental Education and Communication and the Agenda 2030

Bangkok: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 29 pp.

"The Agenda 2030 strives for a transformative approach that requires a broad shift in values, norms, beliefs, attitudes and practices towards more sustainable societies. In this debate on sustainable development, environmental communication and learning processes are driving forces for success. Crit ... more

Content Analysis of the Representation of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova in the Media of Kyrgyzstan in 2017

Elira Turdubaeva

Bishkek: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 39 pp.

"In sum, the representation of the several discussed topics – regional unions, regional cooperation organizations such as the EAEU, CIS, CSTO; Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations, Kyrgyz-Kazakh border conflict, Kyrgyz-Tajik relations and border issues, Central Asian integration, Central Asia and Caucasus, Cent ... more

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'No News is Bad News' Programme: Internal Mid-Term Evaluation Pakistan

Free Press Unlimited (2018), 18 pp.

"The No News Is Bad News (NNIBN) programme started in January 2016. The aim of the NNIBN Programme is to work towards the following vision: media and journalists, as independent players in civil society, constitute a diverse and professional media landscape and function as change catalysts. This is ... more

The Business Environment for News Media in Myanmar: 2018

Michelle Foster

Newsgain;Internews (2018), 27 pp.

"Until the state and its aligned media operate in a fair and competitive media market, there will be little space for independent news media to survive, much less make the investments needed to innovate and survive in this raucous, frontier environment. Myanmar has a much smaller overall advertising ... more

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Reimagining Community Media: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Khabar Lahariya in Central India

Annapurna Sinha, Kanchan K. Malik

Media Asia, volume 45, issue 3-4 (2018), pp. 102-113

"Based on an in-depth case study of “Khabar Lahariya” – a community newspaper located in Central India, this research paper analyses its decade-and-a-half journey and examines the metamorphosis it has undergone over the years. The paper borrows from Tanja Bosch’s (2010) synthesis of Gilles D ... more

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Is Community Radio an Alternative Media? An Ethnographic Study of Audience Participation in RadioJU

Sushmita Pandit, Saayan Chattopadhyay

Media Asia, volume 45, issue 2-3 (2018), pp. 89-101

"While studies on alternative media and community radio stations have primarily focused on the media content and production techniques, scant attention has been paid to audience participation, a crucial aspect of community radio. This paper is based on ethnographic interview with the listeners and p ... more

Re-Evaluating China’s Global Media Expansion

Vivien Marsh (ed.)

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 13, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-142

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Internationalisation of China’s Television: History, Development and New Trends

Junhao Hong, Youling Liu

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 427-445

"In general, the internationalisation of China's television in the past several decades can be divided into four intertwined paths. The first is importing media and cultural products from other countries, which initiated the exchange of China's television with the outside world, and so far is still ... more

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Citizen Journalists as an Empowering Community for Change: A Case Study of a Taiwanese Online Platform ‘PeoPo’

Chen-ling Hung

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 161-177

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Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press

Yuntao Zhang

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 67-78

"For over a thousand years, Chinese journalism was dominated by the official gazette called DiBao (Peking Gazette). This organ of the imperial state comprised edicts, news of government appointments and court affairs, and served a small privileged readership. It was not until 1815 that what could be ... more

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Chinese Investigative Journalism in the Twenty-First Century

Hugo de Burgh

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 100-116

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A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance

Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 217-238

"This chapter employs the cyberconflict perspective (Karatzogianni 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012a: 52-73, 2012b: 221-46; Karatzogianni and Robinson 2010) to offer an in-depth analysis of Chinese dissidents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focusing particularly on the 2000s. A distinction is drawn ... more

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Politics and Social Media in China

Lars Wilnat, Lu Wei, Jason A. Martin

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 181-202

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Chinese International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Gary D. Rawnsley

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 460-475

"There are five key reasons why China encounters problems in trying to manage the global conversation. First, the power and scope of conversation is not under China's control, but rather resides in the audience [...] Second, the audience's image of China is conditioned by the politics of the country ... more

A New Responsible Power China? China's Public Diplomacy for Global Public Goods

Ines Sieckmann, Odila Triebel (eds.)

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2018), 85 pp.

"Is China's engagement in the global governance of global public goods (GPGs) credible in terms of China's projected image as a new responsible power? Only through global cooperation can GPGs such as climate and security be effectively provided. International decision-making structures are currently ... more

An Unfavorable Business: Running Local Media in Myanmar's Ethnic States and Regions

New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 66 pp.

"Myanmar’s local media outlets face a variety of internal and external obstacles hampering their prospects for sustainability. Key among these today, and the focus of this report, are the business realities that every media outlet must tackle." (Introduction)