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Social Media and Social Movements: The Transformation of Communication Patterns

Bars Çoban

Lanham; Boulder: Lexington Books (2016), xix, 252 pp.

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Thirty Rising Media Markets 2016

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon ... 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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Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media

Sean Macdonald

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 252 pp.

"By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book ... more

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Journalists in South Korea

Min-Kyu Lee, Lydia Frost, Thomas Hanitzsch

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"With regards to professional role orientations, South Korean journalists found it most important to report things as they are, to provide analysis of current affairs, and to monitor and scrutinize business and political leaders. The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the interview ... more

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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences

Peter J. Bräunlein, Andrea Lauser (eds.)

Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill (2016), xiii, 295 pp.

"Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became m ... more

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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia

Larissa Hjorth, Olivia Khoo (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.

"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever ... more

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Communication, Generation and Cultural Memory: Insights from Fieldwork in Vietnam

Christina Sanko

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Leif Kramp; Nico Carpentier; Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)

Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 213-226

"The chapter examines the complex relations of communication processes, generations and cultural memory in the socio-cultural setting of North Vietnam. It critically reviews present scholarly work in the flourishing, but scattered, field of memory research in communication and media studies, and dis ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.

"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more

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Technology and Society as Embedded: An Alternative Framework for Information and Communication Technology and Development

Natascia Boeri

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 107-118

"An emerging topic in the development field is how information and communication technology (ICT) can be used for economic and social development. The general approach relies on technological determinism, whereby the discussion revolves around how and to what extent will ICT support development. It ... 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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Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

Jenny Hughes, Helen Nicholson (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2016), xiv, 278 pp.

"This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book illuminates theatre in a diverse range of global contexts and regions. Divided into three sections - histories and cultural memorie ... more

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The International History of Communication Study

Peter Simonson, David W. Park (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2016), xvii, 527 pp.

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Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka

Suvendrini Perera

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 133 pp.

"Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders." (Publisher description)

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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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Focus: New Media

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 187-318

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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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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication

Ran Wei (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xv, 236 pp.

"This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weib ... more

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Digital Journalism Start-ups in India

Arijit Sen, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 48 pp.

"In this report, we analyse six examples of digital journalism start-ups developing new editorial priorities, distribution strategies, and funding models for an increasingly digital Indian media environment. After years of slow growth, internet use and digital advertising has grown very rapidly in I ... 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

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