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Chinese War Correspondents: Covering Wars and Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century

Shixin Ivy Zhang

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 204 pp.

"(1) How do Chinese journalists perceive their roles and practices in conflict zones outside China? (2) How do they cover armed conflicts overseas? (3) Who are the actors, and how do they influence Chinese war correspondence? (4) Do the Chinese news media practice peace or war journalism? To answer ... more

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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.

"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more

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Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction

Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 307 pp.

"Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups ... more

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Journalists in Indonesa

Nurhaya Muchtar, Maskudi

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"With regards to professional roles, Indonesian journalists found it most important to report things as they are, educate their audience, promote tolerance and cultural diversity, let people express their opinions and advocate for social change. Interviewed journalists also found it very important t ... more

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Intersections Between Public Diplomacy and International Development: Case Studies in Converging Fields

James Pamment (ed.)

Los Angeles: Figueroa Press;USC Center on Public Diplomacy (2016), 178 pp.

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Social Media in China: Wie deutsche Unternehmen soziale Medien im Chinesischen Markt erfolgreich nutzen können

Yinyuan Liu

Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler (2016), xv, 235 pp.

"Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über die chinesische Social-Media-Landschaft sowie die Besonderheiten und Trends des Social Media Marketing in China. Der Autor beschreibt, welche sozialen Medien in China genutzt werden, wo Statistiken darüber zu finden sind, welche Hauptfunktionen die wichtig ... more

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China’s Great Media Wall: The Fight for Freedom

Serenade Woo

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2016), 68 pp.

"Press freedom in China, Hong Kong and Macau deteriorated further in 2015, as the Communist Party of China used every means at its disposal to control the media. Its ultimate target, as always, was to preserve its power in the mainland, extend its influence over Hong Kong and Macau, and tightly mana ... more

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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson (eds.)

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.

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Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar: Based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators

Bangkok; Copenhagen: UNESCO;International Media Support (IMS) (2016), xxvii, 132 pp.

"Myanmar should sign and ratify international treaties which pertain to freedom of expression, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the (first) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimina ... more

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Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age
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Ulla Carlsson (ed.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 199 pp.

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Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South

Anis Rahman, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)

Burnaby: Simon Fraser University Library (2016), xiii, 131 pp.

"While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries a ... more

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Use of Mobile Phones by the Rural Poor: Gender Perspectives from Selected Asian Countries

Gerard Sylvester (ed.)

Bangkok: FAO;LIRNEasia;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), xii, 51 pp.

"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that ... more

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Climate Change Reporting for Rural Broadcasters: Mobilizing the Philippine Media for Climate Change Awareness

Amy Christine Cruz, Louie Tabing, Rex Navarro

Copenhagen: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) (2016), 28 pp.

"Radio broadcasting is an important means for reaching, informing and engaging rural communities in the Philippines. Many households in fact rely on radio for their information and communication needs. Media practitioners are therefore important actors in the communication process, especially in com ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Philippines

Reporters Without Borders (2016), 699 pp.

"Two giant broadcast networks dominate the Philippine media industry both in terms of economic market power and audience reach, which gives them a major potential to shape public opinion. Despite a high number of media outlets and being described as one of the most freewheeling media systems in the ... more

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Social Media in Industrial China

Xinyuan Wang

London: UCL Press;University College London (2016), xiii, 222 pp.

"Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their ... more

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Afrikanisch-Europäische Medienbeziehungen

Medien & Zeit, volume 31, issue 2 (2016), pp. 2-57

"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country“ (Wainaina, 2012) – was der kenianische Autor und Gründer des Literaturmagazins Kwani Binyavanga Wainaina in seiner satirischen Gebrauchsanweisung How to Write about Africa SchriftstellerInnen empfiehlt, wird in Medienbeiträgen zu Afrika be ... more

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Geopolitics of Search: Google Versus China?

Shin Joung Yeo

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 591-605

"This article focuses on the case of Google, the newly emerged US Internet industry and global geographical market expansion. Google's struggles in China, where Chinese domestic Internet firm, Baidu, controls the market, have been commonly presented in the Western mainstream media in terms of a stru ... more

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Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks

Tom McDonald

London: UCL Press;University College London (2016), xiii, 219 pp.

"Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experien ... more

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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions
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Xiaoling Zhang, Herman Wasserman, Winston Mano (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 237 pp.

"This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media." ... more

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The War Correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press, 2nd ed. (2016), x, 267 pp.

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents ... more

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