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Comunicación y desarrollo: Prácticas comunicativas y empoderamiento local

Marcelo A. Martínez Hermida, Francisco Sierra Caballero (coord.)

Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), 429 pp.

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Geschäftsmodelle für den religiösen Buchhandel

München: Medien-Dienstleistung GmbH (MDG) (2012), 50 pp.

"Die vorliegende Studie erläutert grundlegend die aktuelle Ausgangssituation im religiösen Buchmarkt und zeigt weiterhin Trends und Entwicklungen auf, die für den Handel mit religiösen Büchern und Medien wesentlich sein können. Anhand dieser Betrachtungen konzipieren wir sechs verschiedene Mod ... more

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Wie ticken Jugendliche? 2012: Lebenswelten von Jugendlichen im Alter von 14 bis 17 Jahren in Deutschland

Marc Calmbach

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2012), 363 pp.

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New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics

Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin, Leah P. Macfadyen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp.

"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ... more

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Chinese Television 'internationalization' and the Search for Creativity

Hugo de Burgh, Zeng Rong, Chen Siming

Creative Industries Journal, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 137-154

"In order to maintain competitive edge over both domestic rivals and international competition, Chinese television companies have been looking abroad for ideas. A number of political and commercial concerns have come together to inform a sudden interest by Chinese media companies in creativity and i ... more

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A Grey Area: The Nigerien Sahel in the French Media

Gado Alzouma

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 61-74

"This paper analyses how the French media perceive the advent of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the Sahel, and particularly in Niger. It shows that the French media are constructing Niger as a ‘grey area’, a dangerous place and a ‘failed state’ through a monolithic discourse rooted in ... more

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Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

Eva Anduiza Perea, Michael James Jensen, Laia Jorba (eds.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xv, 287 pp.

"This book focuses on the impact of digital media use for political engagement across varied geographic and political contexts, using a diversity of methodological approaches and datasets. The book addresses an important gap in the contemporary literature on digital politics, identifying context dep ... more

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Reviewing the World: A Review of the CBA WorldView Project, International Coverage and the UK Media Industry

Martin Scott, Charlotte Jenner, Rose Smith

UK Aid;CBA WorldView (2012), 48 pp.

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U.S. and Finnish Journalists: A Comparative Study of Roles, Responsibilities, and Emotional Reactions to School Shootings

Klas Backholm, Marguerite Moritz, Kaj Björkqvist

In: School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age

Glenn W. Muschert; Johanna Sumiala (eds.)

Leeds: Emerald Publishing (2012), pp. 141-160

"In the chapter, journalistic work ethics on the scene during school shootings and journalists’ psychological stress reactions after such work is studied. Approach: Findings are based on several qualitative studies carried out separately at different time periods, spanning over a decade. Included ... more

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Journalists’ emotional reactions after working with the Jokela school shooting incident

Klas Backholm, Kaj Björkqvist

Media, War & Conflict, volume 5, issue 2 (2012), pp. 175–190

"Journalists’ psychological distress after working with the Jokela school shooting incident was examined with a mixed methods research design using a sample of 196 journalists (27 on the scene, 169 working indirectly with the crisis). Quantitative results were compared to those of a control group ... more

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Radio in Small Nations: Production, Programmes, Audiences

Richard J. Hand, Mary Traynor (eds.)

Cardiff: University of Wales Press (2012), xi, 199 pp.

"Whether at a local, national, or international level, radio has played and continues to play a key role in nurturing or denying—even destroying—people’s sense of collective identity. The essays in this volume provide a historical and contemporary overview of radio in small nations. A number o ... more

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The Marketization of Foreign News

Bella Mody

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-115

"Audience segmentation is generally associated with strategic communication (such as advertising and public relations), where content is manipulated to suit reader preferences. News has generally been considered truth-telling unvarnished by such concerns. This article compares how news of the same h ... more

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The mediating effect of depression between exposure to potentially traumatic events and PTSD in news journalists

Klas Backholm, Kaj Björkqvist

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, volume 3, issue 18388 (2012), 8 pp.

"Background: News journalists are an occupational group with a unique task at the scene of an unfolding crisis-to collect information and inform the public about the event. By being on location, journalists put themselves at risk for being exposed to the potentially traumatic event. Objective: To co ... more

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Eine Nacht des Glaubens: Eine Meditation über die Anfänge und die historische Rolle von Présence Africaine im Rahmen der afrikanischen Unabhängigkeiten

Valentin Yves Mudimbre

In: 50 Jahre afrikanische Un-Abhängigkeiten: eine (selbst)-kritische Bilanz

AfricAvenir International (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 154-168

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

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Practical Community Radio Audience Measurement

Emma Ward, Tom Buckham, Lawrie Hallett

In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century

Janey Gordon (ed.)

Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 347-366

"For community radio stations, one important gauge of relevance is the Popularity of their programming outputs, as without evidence of this it is difficult to justify providing access to scarce broadcast frequency resources. In part, the popularity ofprogramming outputs can be assessed through varia ... more

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Measuring Community Radio Audiences

Lawrie Hallett

In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings

Madalena Oliveira; Pedro Portela; Luís António Santos (eds.)

Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 377-386

"This paper will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data primarily through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires, exploring why the station felt such research to be both necessary and beneficial ... more

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Qualitätsentwicklung in Bürgermedien: Qualitätsentwicklung als Motor der Organisationsentwicklung bei den Partizipationsmedien der Zivilgesellschaft

Eva Heinold-Krug, Erich Schäfer (eds.)

Berlin: Vistas (2012), 132 pp.