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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.

"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more

Online Video Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 85 pp.

"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries ... more

Reflections on Media Education Futures: Contributions to the Conference Media Education Futures in Tampere, Finland 2014
Inspiring Practice

Sirkku Kotilainen, Reijo Kupiainen (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2015), 301 pp.

Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.

Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.

"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more

Media Hounded by Junta Since 2014 Coup

Benjamin Ismail

Reporters Without Borders (2015), 43 pp.

China’s Media War: Censorship, Corruption & Control

Serenade Woo

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2015), 69 pp.

Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.

Media Ownership Monitor Cambodia

Reporters Without Borders (2015), 507 pp.

"The Media Ownership Monitor Cambodia revealed high levels of ownership concentration, a low transparency level, and a problematic dependency of media outlets on the government. The research and publication, jointly conducted together with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) from Septe ... more

Coordination Around Communicating with Disaster-Affected Communities: Insights from Typhoon Haiyan

Caroline Austin, Nicki Bailey

Humanitarian Exchange, issue 65 (2015), pp. 19-23

"Sudden-onset emergencies are typically chaotic, making effective communication between communities, humanitarian responders and governments, whether local or international, challenging. Building on experience from the response to Typhoon Bopha in Mindanao in 2012, the United Nations Office for the ... more

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Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement

Wenhong Chen, Stephen D. Reese (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2015), xix, 236 pp.

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Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies

Adrian Hadland

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 261 pp.

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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

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Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives

Lenuta Giukin, Janina Falkowska, David Desser (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2015), xxiv, 294 pp.

"Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities. ... more

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Media, Race and Crime: Racial Perceptions and Criminal Culpability in a Multiracial National Context

Seow Ting Lee, Nguyen Phuoc Thien

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 1 (2015), pp. 24-50

"This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption a ... more

Humanitarian Technologies: Understanding the Role of Digital Media in Disaster Recovery

Mirca Madianou, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Jayeel Cornelio, Nicole Curato (eds.)

Humanitarian Technologies Project (2015), 5 pp.

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Media Use in Vietnam

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2015), 2 pp.

"Vietnam's government-run VTV television network continues to dominate the country's media landscape. However, the current survey also points to a powerful generational shift in media use toward online news sources and less dependence on state TV. This trend is perhaps more clearly reflected in the ... more

Media Oversight in Non-Democratic Regimes: The Perspectives of Officials and Journalists in China

Maria Repnikova

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2015), 24 pp.