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The Representation of Rural Christianity in the Films of Gan Xiao’er
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 101-125
"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t
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The Evolution of Self-Censorship in Hong Kong Online Journalism: Influences from Digitalization and the State
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 1 (2023), pp. 143-163
"Studies about media self-censorship typically focus on its mechanism in traditional newsroom settings. But how media self-censorship may evolve in online journalism has remained largely unexplored. Using Hong Kong as a case, I examine the digital evolution of media self-censorship in a unique non-d
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Assessing China’s news coverage and soft power in Latin America in the wake of the Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2021)
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 80-96
"This study assesses the impact of China’s mediated communication strategies implemented in Latin America from 2013 to 2021. We content-analyzed the press coverage about China in nine countries and unveiled tones, topics, and frames which were then examined further across different sources. Public
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The everything everywhere censorship in China: China is exporting its model of Internet governance based on digital repression. The free world must protect our values and take back our Internet
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 51 pp.
"Democracies must say no to the technologies, platforms, standards, and frameworks shrewdly proposed by China in various international fora and technical or standards bodies in order to make our Internet more like the one in China. Internet governance must be kept open and participatory for all stak
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 158 pp.
"Across markets, only around a fifth of respondents (22%) now say they prefer to start their news journeys with a website or app – that’s down 10 percentage points since 2018. Publishers in a few smaller Northern European markets have managed to buck this trend, but younger groups everywhere are
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Sin and Divine Punishment: The Korean Series JIOK (HELLBOUND, KR 2021–), New Religious Movements, and a World Full of Guilt
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 87-99
"The TV series Jiok (Yon Sang-ho, 2021-), internationally known as Hellbound, is a recent and highly successful series that has been available on the streaming platform Netflix since November 2021. It is usually described as a "dark mystery thriller" or "dark fantasy film", which points to the gener
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Censorship from Plato to Social Media: The Complexity of Social Media's Content Regulation and Moderation Practices
Cham: Springer (2023), xiv, 189 pp.
"In many countries, censorship, blocking of internet access and internet content for political purposes are still part of everyday life. Will filtering, blocking, and hacking replace scissors and black ink? This book argues that only a broader understanding of censorship can effectively protect free
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Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii 314 pp.
"This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the
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Belt and Road Initiative-Supported Co-Production Films: Film Policy and Disoriented Remembrance of the Silk Road Past
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 48-62
"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even
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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.
"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global
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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.
"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic
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Asymmetrical discursive competition: China–United States digital diplomacy in Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 15-31
"This article examines China–US competition for narratives by analyzing whether and how Chinese and American diplomats engage each other in routine diplomatic outreach to African audiences on Twitter. Drawing on case studies of Kenya and South Africa, our study uncovers “asymmetrical discursive
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Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), xix, 470 pp.
"This study offers a systematic theory of the institutional solutions to the dictator’s dilemma, which arises from the incapacity to calibrate repression and concessions due to the lack of information about elite and popular discontent. Empirically, the book presents a detailed discussion of the t
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Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 342 pp.
"This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can't happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution
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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.
"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists,
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 167 pp.
"In many countries, especially outside Europe and the United States, we find a significant further decline in the use of Facebook for news and a growing reliance on a range of alternatives including private messaging apps and video networks. Facebook news consumption is down 4 percentage points, acr
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Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 218 pp.
"This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discou
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Governing the Interlinkages Between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 247 pp.
"The book [...] examines the dedicated policies targeting the SDGs, as well as political and institutional drivers of synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs in selected key areas – both cross-nationally and in specific country contexts. Their analysis moves beyond the focus on links between SDG
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Making the Long March Online: Some Cultural Dynamics of Digital Political Participation in Three Chinese Societies
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 1 (2023), pp. 160-183
"This study examines the authoritarian conditioning of political expression on social media in three Chinese societiesby analyzing three parallel surveys comprising 6942 respondents from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results demonstrate that the use of social media to gather political infor
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