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Islam and Communication
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Buen Vivir / Good Living
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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China: Transnational Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Community Radios
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Traditional Communication
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Communication for Social Change
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History of Media: Colonial Period
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Journalism Education Curricula
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African Cinema
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Culture and Communication, Culture and Media
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Regional Cooperation, South-South Collaboration
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Journalism Ethics
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Gender Media Studies & Feminist Communication Research
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Colonial Period
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Slavery, Slaves
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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Population
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International Communication
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Globalisation of Media
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Martín-Barbero, Jesús
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
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Religion and Communication
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Society & Media, Media Sociology
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Theologies of Communication
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Cinema
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Cinema in the Global South & Third Cinema
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Film Industries
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Nollywood
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History of Film & Cinema
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Communication Rights
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Oral Cultures & Traditions, Oral History, Oral Testimonies
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Storytelling
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War Reporting
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Visual Anthropology
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Modernization Development Approaches, Developmentalism
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Development Assistance
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North South Relations
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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Political Economy of Media
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Health Communication
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History of Media & Communication
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History (General)
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History of Radio
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Foreign Correspondents
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Foreign News, International News
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Photojournalism
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Election Reporting
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China: Media Assistance
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Communication
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Organizational Communication, Institutional Communication
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Media System Analyses & Typologies
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Photography
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Colonial Photography
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Social Photography
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Hindu Nationalism
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Politics and Media
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Political Communication
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Radio Studies & Research
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Media Effects
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Hinduism and Communication
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Civil Society
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Al-Jazeera
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Visual Cultures
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Flow of Information
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Advocacy
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Experiences
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Indigenous People
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Migrants & Refugees
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Social Movements: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Geography
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Audience Research
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Interactive Radio: Audience Participation, Interaction & Feedback
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Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Authoritarian Regimes, Dictatorships
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Children's Books & Literature
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Francis (Pope)
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Inculturation
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Liberation Theologies
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Asian Cinema
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Copyright: Films
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Film Actors, Directors & Producers, Filmmakers
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Film Trade, Film Export & Import
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Documentaries, Television Documentaries, Web Documentaries
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Ethnographic Films
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Indigenous Films, Indigenous Videos
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Bollywood
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Foreign / Developing Countries: Film Representation
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Copyright: Music
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Media / Communication Control
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Public Relations Education, Public Relations Training
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Community Communication
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Community Development
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Boko Haram
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Islamic State (Political-Religious Extremist Organization)
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Aesthetics in Media & Communication
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Mythology & Communication, Media Myths
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Ritual Communication & Media Rituals
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Theatre for Development
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Visual Arts, Painting
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Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
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Cultural Identity
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Digital Cultures
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BRICS Countries
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Disasters, Disaster Relief, Disaster Prevention
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Religion and Development
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Development Communication: Indigenous & Traditional Communication
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Visual Aids for Development
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Internet
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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Instagram
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YouTube
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Artificial Intelligence
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AI Ethics
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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ICT Development Assistance
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ICT Policies
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Afro-Latin Americans, Afroamerican Population
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Homeless People
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Earthquakes, Floods, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters
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Humanitarian Aid
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Infectious Diseases' Outbreak Communication
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International Humanitarian Crisis Reporting, Foreign Disaster Reporting
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Archives
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Data Bases, Digital Libraries, Open Access Repositories
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Media Industries
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Curricula: School Education
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Universities
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Gaming, Video Games
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Environmental Communication
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Communication for Sustainable Development
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Morals
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Religious Communication Ethics, Religious Media Ethics
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Female Opinion Leaders, Politicians, Decision Makers
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Feminism (General)
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Women (General)
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History of Photography
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Local History & Memory
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Indigenous Journalists & Communicators
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Indigenous Languages
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Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Jurisdiction & Customary Law
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Globalisation: Impact on (Local) Media & Communication
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International Organizations: Media Coverage & Image
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Communication / Journalism Journals & Magazines
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Investigative Journalism
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Media Assistance: Journalism Education & Training
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Journalistic Genres
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Editorials (Journalism)
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Journalistic Quality
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Journalists
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Business & Economics Journalism
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Drug Trafficking Reporting & Media Representation
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Political Reporting
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Amerindian Languages
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Language Barriers
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Linguistics & Sociolinguistics
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Rhetorics, Public Speaking, Speeches
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Translations & Translating
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Media Assistance: Interaction with Foreign Policies
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Media Assistance: Journalists' Associations, Media Associations
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Media Assistance: Regional Approaches & Experiences
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Family Communication
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Media & Communication Policies
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Media & Information Literacy
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Small States: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Media Law & Regulation
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Confidential Sources, Whistleblowing, Protection of Journalists' Sources
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Forced Labour & Human Trafficking
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Human Rights
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Law, Legislation, Judiciary (General)
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Knowledge Management
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Leadership, Leadership Development
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South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
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Music
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Music as Means of Political Communication
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Beltrán Salmón, Luis Ramiro
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Fals Borda, Orlando
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Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869-1948)
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Munanga, Kabengele (1942-)
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Politics
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Islamization
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Capitalism
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Democracy
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Public Spheres
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Watchdog Role of the Media
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Kompas (Newspaper, Indonesia)
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Radio Dramas, Radio Soap Operas, Radio Fiction
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Memory, Memorizing
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Asian Religions
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Confucianism
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Fundamentalisms (Religious)
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Islam
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Muslim Media
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Judaism and Communication
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Symbols
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Taoism
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Television Studies & Research
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Research Methods
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Data Collection, Data Collection Methods
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Participatory Research Methods
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Participatory Action Research
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Ethnographic Research
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Interviewing (Qualitative Research Method)
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Researchers
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Rural Areas, Rural Communities, Rural Development
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Countering Discrimination & Racism
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Society
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Transnational Civil Society
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Social Anthropology
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Mass Society
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Social Sciences Research
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Marginality, Marginalized Groups
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Blockchain Technologies
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Apps
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Television
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Reality Television Programmes & Daily Talks
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Suburbs, Poor Districts, Slums, Shanty Towns
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Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities
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Indigenous Research Methodologies

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.
"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more
"This book provides exemplars of how the Communication discipline and curriculum are responding to the demands of globalization and contributing to the internationalization of higher education. Communication as a discipline provides a strong theoretical and methodological framework for exploring the ... more
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... more
"Today’s discourses on Africa are manifold – as manifold as the images we have of everyday life there. Both are fed by a Western narrative that saddles the “Black Continent” with all kinds of clichés – whether the stuff of dreams or of nightmares. In images that are at times documentary, ... more
"This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some ... more
"Defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure ... more
"This book sheds new light on the study of journalism and communication, considering why and how journalism is studied in the 21st century. It notably offers both an international and interdisciplinary comparison of journalism and communication, examining the history of Chinese and Western journalis ... more

Afrotopia

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 175 pp.
"Noch immer wird Afrika mit Stereotypen behaftet, die Unterentwicklung und Armut hervorheben. Und noch immer werden die Perspektiven des Kontinents an westlichen Fortschrittsmaßstäben gemessen, selbst wenn sich diese längst als unbrauchbar, wenn nicht gar zerstörerisch erwiesen haben. Felwine Sa ... more
"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of ... more

China and the Global Media Landscape: Remapping and Remapped

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2019), vi, 196 pp.
"In the last decade, the Chinese media have imposed themselves in the global arena and have started to become a reference point, in business and cultural terms, for other national media systems. This book explores how the global media landscape was changed by this revolutionary trend, and why and ho ... more
"University-based journalism education was introduced to the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975 and in Fiji at the regional University of the South Pacific in 1987, while Technical Vocational Educational and Training institutions have been a more recent addition in the region. ... more
"Hemos estructurado el documento en tres grandes partes. La primera es una lectura del Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir desde las prácticas de las experiencias sistematizadas. Es un esfuerzo por conceptualizar la Comunicación para el Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir desde las prácticas vividas. Siguiendo las narra ... more
"La idea de este libro surgió durante el evento conmemorativo de los 30 años de la publicación de: De los Medios a las Mediaciones (1987), realizado a finales de noviembre de 2017, en el ámbito del Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul/ Brasil ... more
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con ... more
"Pluriverse contains over 100 essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globaloized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. It offers critical essays on mainstreaming solutions ... more
"'Pluriverso: Un diccionario del posdesarrollo es una estimulante colección de más de 100 ensayos sobre alternativas transformadoras a los actuales procesos dominantes del desarrollo globalizado, incluidas sus raíces estructurales ancladas en los valores de la modernidad, el capitalismo, el domin ... more

The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.
"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)
"This handbook critically explores diverse ways of defining 'the South' and of conceptualising and engaging with 'South-South relations.' Through 30 state-of-the-art reviews of key academic and policy debates, the handbook evaluates past, present and future opportunities and challenges of South-Sout ... more
"Contemporary BRICS Journalism: Non-Western Media in Transition is the first comparative study of professional journalists working in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The book presents a range of insider perspectives, offering a valuable insight into the nature of jo ... more

Comunicación y decolonialidad: Horizonte en construcción

La Paz: Asociación Boliviana de Investigadores de Comunicación; Posgrado e Interacción Social en Comunicación Instituto de Investigación Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2018), 354 pp.