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Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Deep Insights

Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone, Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), xix, 407 pp.
"Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country’s contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of th ... more
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Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
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Beatrice Dernbach, Beate Illg (eds.)
Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.
"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of ... more
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‘The Big Brother We Appreciate’ or a ‘mafioso’? The Emergence of Stereotypes Concerning China and the Chinese in Angola

Jaroslaw Jura, Kaja Kaluzynska, Paulo de Carvalho
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 251-271
"This article aims to analyse the process of emergence of China-related stereotypes in Angola, which have started to appear with an increasing number of Angolans establishing direct and non-direct contacts with the Chinese. The article investigates this issue based on the content of China-related ar ... more
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Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development
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Cao Yuanyuan
Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Doctoral Thesis (2018), xiv, 239 pp.
"Media in small emerging democracies face multiple obstacles caused by “smallness” and the state of “late democratization.” “Smallness” raises the question of how to develop financial independence in these countries. “Late democratization” gives rise to the challenge of maintaining p ... more
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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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Tiangao or Tianxia? The Ambiguities of CCTV's English-Language News for Africa

Vivien Marsh
In: China's Media Go Global
Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh, Anbin Shi (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 103-121
"Sustained media interest in African countries, funded from deep pockets in Beijing, may well attract admirers if the coverage is positive or uncritical. The forward-looking narrative promoted by 'constructive' or 'positive' reporting may help developing nations by not crushing them under too much e ... more
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The Perpetrator’s mise-en-scène: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide

Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
Journal of Perpetrator Research, volume 2, issue 1 (2018), pp. 65-94
"Rithy Panh’s film 'S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine' (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker’s camera. Yet, a crucial ... more
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Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation

Paul Clemens Murschetz, Roland Teichmann, Matthias Karmasin (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2018), xxx, 666 pp.
"This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the film industry such as industry ... more
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How Influential Are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231
"This article uses data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy. We show that Chinese media have little impact on students’ information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward ... more
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Digitalizing Islamic Lectures: Islamic Apps and Religious Engagement in Contemporary Indonesia

Moch Fakhruroji
Contemporary Islam, volume 13 (2018), pp. 201-215
"Contemporary mobile phone technology has brought millions of apps into the pockets of users, including a wide variety oriented towards religious concerns. Such apps appear to be creating new forms of religious engagement, a process that is particularly visible within Indonesia. This paper will exam ... more
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Conflicting Coverage: Insights Into the Media’s Coverage of Conflicts in Myanmar

Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen, Zarchi Oo
International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 19 pp.
"From the analysis of one week of conflict coverage in May 2018, this study found that the media relies on a limited number of sources to cover conflicts. Stories are often reported with a single or no sources and elite sources are preferred over people who have experienced the conflict and its cons ... more
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Soft Power Made in China: The Dilemmas of Online and Offline Media and Transnational Audiences

Claire Seungeun Lee
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxi, 236 pp.
"This book analyzes the ways in which China’s soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China’s transnational soft power-field expansion lies in the intersection of its source and receiving countries. The author discusses how transna ... more
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2018), xxiv, 572 pp.
"In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that ... 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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Failing to Prepare? Journalism Ethics Education in the Developing World: The Case of Cambodia

Fergal Quinn
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 33, issue 1 (2018), pp. 50-65
"This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases ... more
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How Influential are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231
"The increased presence of Chinese media in Africa has been the focus of much debate since the early 2010s. Discussions tend to revolve around issues of production and content, providing little evidence on the way audiences decode media messages aimed at extending China’s “soft power.” This ar ... 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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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.
"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more
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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

Yunze Zhao, Ping Sun
London; New York: Routledge (2018), 176 pp.
"Arranged in chronological order mainly, this book examines the initial development of Chinese journalism in ancient times, which from then manifested strong political attributes. After the Opium War in 1840, missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals in ... more
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Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia

Kiran Prasad (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), ix, 199 pp.
"This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of cont ... more