commbox East Asia

"If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the "marketized" China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. TV China is the first antholog ... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

China in the African Mediascape: A Critical Injection

Fackson Banda

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 3 (2009), pp. 343-361

"This study sets out to historically contextualize Chinese support to the African mediascape, arguing that contemporary Chinese media interventions in Africa must be seen as part of China's long history of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggle in its project of national and international identifi ... more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (9)

Global Public Relations: Spanning Borders, Spanning Cultures

Alan R. Freitag, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (eds.)

Abingdon: Routledge (2009), xviii, 310 pp.

External Link (3)

STM-Publizieren in China: Branchenrahmenbedingungen und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen 2001–2006

Weizhong Cao

Erlangen: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Buchwissenschaft (2009), 172 pp.

"Sowohl die wirtschaftliche Größe als auch der Internationalisierungsgrad der chinesischen STM-Verlagsbranche sind mit der Branche in entwickelten Ländern nicht vergleichbar und halten mit den inländischen wissenschaftlichen und technologischen Entwicklungen nicht mit. Die Ursachen dafür liegen ... more

External Link (10)

International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics

Adrienne Russell, Nabil Echchaibi (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2009), x, 205 pp.

"Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place online ... more

External Link (6)

Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.

External Link (13)

Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar, Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom;International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp.

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u ... more

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (10)

Climate Change and the Media

Tammy Boyce, Justin Lewis (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), xvii, 277 pp.

External Link (9)

Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM);Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.

"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more

Google Scholar (12)

WorldCat (13)

Internationales Handbuch Medien
Quick Overview

Hans-Bredow-Institut

Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.

"While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabli ... more

External Link (14)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (12)

Television Studies After TV: Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay (eds.)

Abingdon: Routledge (2009), x, 214 pp.

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (9)

Media Education in Asia

Chi-Kim Cheung (ed.)

Dordrecht; London: Springer (2009), viii, 239 pp.

"Media education in Asia is a relatively young, but rapidly developing part of the curriculum. Research has been conducted and papers have been written on various issues concerning media education in Asia. The dominant models of media education in the world are broadly Western and most are drawn fro ... more

External Link (7)

Undermining Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians

Javier Corrales, Daniel Kimmage, Joshua Kurlantzick, Abbas Milani, Perry Link, Rashed Rahman

Washington, DC: Freedom House;Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty;Radio Free Asia (2009), 79 pp.

"Democracy Redefined: Leading authoritarian regimes are working to reshape the public understanding of democracy. A redefined and heavily distorted version of the concept is communicated to domestic audiences through state-dominated media. Especially on television, these regimes put forth a dual mes ... more

External Link (8)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

Media and Cultural Transformation in China

Haiqing Yu

London; New York: Routledge (2009), xi, 217 pp.

"This book examines the role played by the media in China's ongoing cultural transformation. It demonstrates that the media is integral to China's changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity." (Publish ... more

Download (1)

Mission et communication

Christian Bonnet et al.

Perspectives Missionnaires, issue 57 (2009), pp. 1-63

External Link (16)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (13)

Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)

London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.

"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more

Internationales Handbuch Medien Quick Overview

Internationales Handbuch Medien
Quick Overview