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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus

Gregory Price Grieve (ed.)
New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), viii, 232 pp.
"Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the ... more
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Gendering Leadership in Vietnamese Media: A Role Congruity Study on News Content and Journalists’ Perception of Female and Male Leaders

Hong Tien Vu, Tien-Tsung Lee, Hue Trong Duong, Barbara Barnett
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 95, issue 3 (2018), pp. 565-587
"This study combines two research methods to explore how female leaders are portrayed in the news in Vietnam, and Vietnamese journalists’ perception of female and male leaders. Content analysis indicated that female leaders are under- and misrepresented. Female leader sources seldom appear in the ... more
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How Effective is Communication in the Rohingya Refugee Response? An Evaluation of the Common Service for Community Engagement and Accountability

Nicola Bailey, Mahmuda Hoque, Katherine Michie, Fuad Ur Rabbi
London: BBC Media Action (2018), 30 pp.
"A survey, conducted in July 2018, interviewed 750 people from the Rohingya community and 750 people from the host community (local Bangladeshi citizens) about how they access information, what they think of the information and how they communicate with aid providers. The survey tracked how perceive ... more
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Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Stefania Travagnin (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 303 pp.
"This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland ... more
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Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

Janina Falkowska, Krzysztof Loska (eds.)
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2018), 268 pp.
"This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. Th ... more
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Pressefreiheit: Nicht überall erhältlich

iz3w, issue 365 (2018), pp. 13-36
"Die iz3w erscheint in einem Land mit einer »guten Situation« für Presseerzeugnisse (globaler Index der Reporter ohne Grenzen). In vielen Ländern ist die Lage infolge von Repressionen »sehr ernst«, zum Beispiel in China, in Iran oder Sudan. Auch in Ländern zwischen diesen Extremen kann freier ... more
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Chinese Media Engagement in South Africa

Dani Madrid-Morales, Herman Wasserman
Journalism Studies, volume 19, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1218-1235
"China’s footprint in Africa’s media sector over the last decade has reached dimensions that make it impossible to go unnoticed. In South Africa, one of the countries where this imprint is most diversified, Chinese media have been engaged in a varied range of activities, including content produc ... more
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Russia's Public Foreign Policy Narratives

Sarah Oates, Sean Steiner, Tina Burrett, Tatiana Dubrovskaya
Russian Analytical Digest, issue 229 (2018), 15 pp.
"This Russian Analytical Digest issue examines Russian public narratives about foreign policy. More specifically, Sarah Oates and Sean Steiner first decode Russia’s strategic narrative, noting that while its roots are in Soviet propaganda, its contemporary storylines are more organic and dynamic. ... more
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Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion

Asbjørn Dyrendal, David G. Robertson, Egil Asprem (eds.)
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2018), xiii, 556 pp.
"Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). ... more
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Mediatized China-Africa Relations: How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order

Shubo Li
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xv, 218 pp.
"This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa's biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores Afri ... more
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Journalist Social Media Practice in China: A Review and Synthesis

Guowei Jian, Ting Liu
Journalism, volume 19, issue 9-10 (2018), pp. 1452-1470
"The growing influence of social media on journalistic work has attracted scholarly attention worldwide in recent years. However, due to cultural and language barriers, we lack comprehensive understanding of the journalist social media practice in non-Western countries. To help fill this gap, this s ... 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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Faith on Trial: Blasphemy and ‘lawfare’ in Indonesia

Kari Telle
Ethnos, volume 83, issue 2 (2018), pp. 371-391
"This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in ‘religion-making’ in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia’s ... more
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Mapping Media Development in Myanmar

Jane Madlyn McElhone et al.
Yangon: UNESCO; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2018), viii, 49 pp.
"This mapping of the Myanmar media development sector is informed by three activities: a status update of the recommendations in the 2016 Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar report based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators, an online survey conducted in March and April 2018, and a seri ... more
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Cambodia 2040: Culture and Society

Sok Udom Deth, Bradley J. Murg, Virak Ou, Michael Renfrew (eds.)
Future Forum; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2018), ix, 224 pp.
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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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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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Women Into Politics! Greater Female Participation in Cambodia: A Best-Practice Handbook 2016–2018

Kyle James
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2018), 35 pp.
"Women are a great untapped potential in Cambodia. That is the driving idea behind the EU-funded project “Women into Politics! Greater female participation in Cambodia”. This three-year project reached women from different regions in Cambodia and gave them the communications skills they needed t ... more
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Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press

Yuntao Zhang
In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 67-78
"For over a thousand years, Chinese journalism was dominated by the official gazette called DiBao (Peking Gazette). This organ of the imperial state comprised edicts, news of government appointments and court affairs, and served a small privileged readership. It was not until 1815 that what could be ... 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