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Political Parody and Satire as Subversive Speech in the Global Digital Sphere

Sangeet Kumar, Kirk Combe (eds.)
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 3 (2015), pp. 211-311
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New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World

Nadja-Christina Schneider, Carola Richter (eds.)
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), 372 pp.
"This book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The book is based on the assumption that social and cultural changes never originate exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depend on the chang ... more
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India's Gender Digital Divide: Women and Politics on Twitter

Sydney Anderson
New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (2015), 8 pp.
"This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women are marginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of 23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women in Twitter's political conversa ... more
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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
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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.
"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... more
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Media barriers in Afghanistan

Mina Saboor
Media Development, issue 4 (2015), 5 pp.
"Afghanistan once housed tourists from around the world intrigued by the Silk Road stories, the poetic and mystic culture, the majestic landscape and the hospitable people. Their experience in Afghanistan was frequently captured through journalism and photojournalism of the early 1900s. However, Afg ... more
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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication

Monroe E. Price
New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.
"Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information managemen ... more
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Disaster Response: Nepal Earthquake Response and Recovery. Overview

London: GSMA (2015), 24 pp.
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Social Media and Articulation of Radical Narratives in Afghanistan

Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Musab Omer, Mohammad Irfani
Kabul: Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (2015), 70 pp.
"This research paper explores the role of social media as a medium of articulation of religiously-inspired radical ideologies and narratives in Afghanistan. The term ‘radicalization’ is used here to refer to processes of emergence and evolution of ideological and behavioral tendencies that are c ... more
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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.
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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)
Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.
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Situation Analysis and Sustainability of Community Radio in Bangladesh

Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 77 pp.
"This document details the current situation in seven out of 14 Community Radios in operation in Bangladesh at present. While one of the motives behind this study is to see how these young stations are faring and catering programmes to the target audiences, but definitely the study's scope is not li ... more
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Framing Sustainability: A Case Study Analysis of the Environment and Sustainability Discourse in the Indian English Language Press

Prithi Nambiar
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2014), pp. 93-110
"Using elements of framing and grounded theory, a qualitative interpretive case study analysis of environment and sustainability related articles from a leading English language fortnightly magazine in India reveals that highly emotive frames are being used in media construction of the environment a ... more
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Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales

Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney (eds.)
Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2014), viii, 376 pp.
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Die orientalischen Christen: Eine unterdrückte und verfolgte Minderheit

Heinz Finger, Werner Wessel (eds.)
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Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek (2014), 361 pp.
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The Stories Women Journalists Tell: Women in Media in South Asia

Geeta Seshu
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific; South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2014), 24 pp.
"The promotion of gender equality among journalists is a key objective of the SAMSN gender project going forward in 2014. The roundtables and the gender networking conference discussed strategies and campaigns that could address the issues faced by women in South Asia. The conference also put forwar ... more
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What Drives Media Attention for Climate Change? Explaining Issue Attention in Australian, German and Indian Print Media from 1996 to 2010

Mike S. Schäfer, Ana Ivanova, Andreas Schmidt
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 2 (2014), pp. 152-176
"The article identifies the drivers of media attention for climate change in three countries: Australia, Germany and India. It calculates the monthly amount of climate change-related coverage in two leading newspapers for each country in relation to all articles published in the respective newspaper ... more
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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
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Roger Blum
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.
"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich ... more
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The European Union's Rights-Based Support to the Media in the Enlargement Countries: With Special Attention to Turkey

Tolga Yazici, Sahin Karasar
International Journal of Arts and Commerce, volume 3, issue 7 (2014), pp. 12-24
"The European Union's dedication to freedom the media is articulated in different parts of its acquis and the European Union supports media freedom by funding member counties and enlargement countries. This study underlines the freedom of expression as a fundamental human right before the European U ... more
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Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance

Yusuf Kalyango, David H. Mould (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 283 pp.
"Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia a ... more