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Digital Kids Asia-Pacific: Insights Into Children’s Digital Citizenship

Tae Seob Shin, Hyeyoung Hwang, Jonghwi Park, Jian Xi Teng, Toan Dang

Paris: UNESCO (2019), xvi, 152 pp.

"The Digital kids Asia-Pacific (DKAP) Framework proposes a comprehensive and holistic set of competencies across five domains: Digital Literacy, Digital Safety and Resilience, Digital Participation and Agency, Digital Emotional Intelligence, and Digital Creativity and Innovation. The framework is al ... more

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Wir Herrenmenschen. Unser rassistisches Erbe: Eine Reise in die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte

Bartholomäus Grill

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2019), 299 pp.

"Auch wenn die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte mittlerweile öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfährt, wird die Herrschaft, die Deutschland in seinen "Schutzgebieten" in Afrika, China und der Südsee ausübte, oft immer noch als eher harmlose historische Episode abgetan. Der langjährige Afrika-Korrespondent ... more

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Digital Economies at Global Margins
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Mark Graham (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London; Ottawa: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), x, 378 pp.

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Security First, Technology Second: Putin Tightens his Grip on Russia's Internet, with China's Help

Andrej A. Soldatov

Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für auswärtige Politik (DGAP) (2019), 5 pp.

"Over the past seven years, the Russian government has employed various methods from censorship and surveillance to the intimidation of internet companies to tighten its control over the internet. The Kremlin undoubtedly considers the costs of control insignificant compared to the costs of political ... more

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Charitable Crowdfunding in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas?

Kellee S. Tsai, Qingyan Wang

China Quarterly, issue 240 (2019), pp. 936-966

"Social media in China has not only become a popular means of communication, but also expanded the interaction between the government and online citizens. Why have some charitable crowdfunding campaigns had agenda-setting influence on public policy, while others have had limited or no impact? Based ... more

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The Opportunity for Digital Sexuality Education in East Asia and the Pacific

Bangkok: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (2019), 55 pp.

"A growing body of evidence shows that young people are regularly using the digital world as a key source of information about sexuality. This review seeks to understand the opportunity for digital sexuality education by exploring what young people search for online, the range of digital sexuality e ... more

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The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas

Carlos Rojas, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, paperback ed. (2019), xvii, 709 pp.

"The volume is divided into three parts, focusing respectively on historical periodizations, categories that share formal characteristics, and structural elements involved in the production, distribution, and reception of the works themselves. In historical terms, topics range from the birth of Chin ... more

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Recognition and Transformation: Beyond Media Discourses on the BRICS

Tom Dwyer, Olivier Arifon

Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 27-47

"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of ... more

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The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web

Jing Wang

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.

"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)

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Communicating for Social Change: Meaning, Power, and Resistance

Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Dazzelyn Baltazar Zapata (eds.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xx, 413 pp.

"The book covers the trajectories and trends in social change communication, engaging the key theoretical debates on communication and social change. Attending to the concepts of communication and social change that emerge from and across the global margins, the book works toward offering theoretica ... more

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China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order
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Cédric Alviani

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2019), 51 pp.

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China’s Digital Silk Road: Strategic Technological Competition and Exporting Political Illiberalism

Clayton Cheney

Pacific Forum (2019), iv, 23 pp.

"The Digital Silk Road is the component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that aims to establish China as the global technological superpower. While the Belt and Road Initiative is generally understood to be a foreign policy initiative, it is important to view the Digital Silk Road as both a for ... eign and domestically focused aspect of the initiative. The first step to analyzing this component of the Belt and Road Initiative is to create a conceptual roadmap to understand the components of the Digital Silk Road. This paper argues that it comprises four interrelated, technologically focused initiatives. First, China is investing abroad in digital infrastructure, including next generation cellular networks, fiberoptic cables and data centers. Second, it contains a domestic focus on developing advanced technologies that will be essential to global economic and military power. These advanced technologies include satellite navigation systems, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Third, because China recognizes the importance of economic interdependence to international influence, the Digital Silk Road promotes e-commerce through digital free trade zones. Last, digital diplomacy and governance, including through multilateral institutions, are key to China creating its ideal international digital environment. After outlining a broad conceptual map of the Digital Silk Road, this paper focuses on how China’s investment in digital infrastructure and the strategic technological competition between China and the United States will shape the international orders in the Asia-Pacific region and globally. It argues that China perceives technological advancement as the sphere in which it can most adequately challenge the United States’ global power without creating direct confrontation, including possible military confrontation. Second, the United States seeks to constrain the Digital Silk Road and China’s technological ascendancy by presenting Chinese technology corporations as posing an unacceptable risk to international security. Third, China does not want to replace the current international order that has persisted since the end of the Second World War. Rather, it would like to maintain the liberal economic order that has permitted its economic rise and export its form of digital authoritarianism to create an illiberal political international order. Finally, through investing in data centers and pursuing data localization policies, China aims to achieve strategic geopolitical objectives by projecting sharp power abroad, which will be facilitated by big data." (Executive Summary) more

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From Western TV Sets to Chinese Online Streaming Services: English Language TV Series in Mainland China

Xiaoran Zhang

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2019), pp. 220-242

"In the age of multiple screens, online streaming has in the 2010s become the most significant way of consuming overseas television programs in Mainland China. Due to rather strict government policy and censorship, foreign television series are presently only legally distributed and circulated on li ... more

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Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture in the People's Republic of China

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2019), xii, 67 pp.

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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases

Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2019), ix, 246 pp.

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa ... more

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China's Digital Rise: Challenges for Europe

Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Mareike Ohlberg

Berlin: Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) (2019), 55 pp.

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Citizen Journalism in China

Xin Zeng, Stuart Allan, Savyasaachi Jain, An Nguyen (eds.)

Global Media and China, volume 4, issue 1 (2019), pp. 3-124

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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.

"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more

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The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

Jessica Retis, Roza Tsagarousianou (eds.)

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), xviii, 602 pp.

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Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents

Mehita Iqani, Fernando Resende

London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.

"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con ... more

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