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Photography in Latin America: Images and Identities Across Time and Space

Gisela Cánepa Koch, Ingrid Kummels (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2016), 242 pp.
"Historical photographs taken in Latin America have now become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to the contemporaneous agency of images as well as their current appropriation via new technologie ... more
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Exposure Diversity as a Design Principle for Recommender Systems

Natali Helberger, Kari Karppinen, Lucia D' Acunto
Information, Communication & Society, volume 21, issue 2 (2016), pp. 191-207
"Personalized recommendations in search engines, social media and also in more traditional media increasingly raise concerns over potentially negative consequences for diversity and the quality of public discourse. The algorithmic filtering and adaption of online content to personal preferences and ... more
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Out of Syria, Inside Facebook

Dona Abboud
Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst (2016), 224 pp.
"During her studies at the University for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig, Dona Abboud had mostly only contact via Facebook with her family and friends in Syria. The book presents 10 Syrian men and women with almost 2000 photos of their Facebook pages, supplemented by interviews and short biographi ... more
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Orientaciones terminológicas para la protección de niñas, niños y adolescentes contra la explotación y el abuso sexuales

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2016), x, 112 pp.
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Block Her Entry, Keep Her Down and Push Her Out: Gender Discrimination and Women Journalists in the Arab World

Jad P. Melki, Sarah E. Mallat
Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (2016), pp. 57-79
"This study examines why female journalists in an Arab country continue to be marginalized. It hypothesized that a set of interrelated factors, pertaining to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and the lack of a legally and socially enabling environment, work together to systematically discour ... more
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Persuasive Communication

James Brian Stiff, Paul A. Mongeau
New York; London: Guilford Press, 3rd ed. (2016), xvi, 383 pp.
"Providing an accessible integration of theory and research methods, this text prepares students to critically analyze persuasive appeals and to design effective messages and campaigns. The book draws on key ideas from both communication and social psychology to explore the mutual influence of cogni ... more
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Micro-Blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China

Eileen Le Han
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 242 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of soc ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
New York: Wiley (2016), xv, 176 pp.
"This book contains a collection of analytical reports by freelance journalists and other experts who have an inside view of global media conditions and anti-press violations related to gender, including digital harassment, discrimination, restricted access to newsmakers, imprisonment, and physical ... more
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Information – Education – Participation: Media Use Among Youth in Uganda

Anke Fiedler, Michael Meyen
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 55 pp.
"The present report summarizes the results of a media use study that was conducted in autumn 2014 in the Ugandan districts of Kampala, Mbale, Lira, Pader and Gulu. The study consists of a quantitative survey of more than 650 survey respondents, as well as six qualitative focus groups with a total of ... more
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Pistas para narrar la memoria: Periodismo que reconstruye las verdades

Bogotá: Consejo de Redacción; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2016), 204 pp.
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Media Guidelines for Reporting Child Abuse

NAPAC - National Association for People Abused in Childhood (2016), 8 pp.
"Good reporting can improve understanding about how child abuse happens; reduce the stigma facing survivors of child abuse; assist police investigations; bring about discussions which will help to make society safer for children today and in the future. Whether you are a news reporter or write story ... more
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Stadt der Verlorenen: Leben im größten Flüchtlingslager der Welt

Ben Rawlence
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 409 pp.
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Remembering While Forgetting: How Young Czechs Grow Into Collective Memory

Tomás Karger, Jan Kalenda
[authors] (2016), 7 pp.
"This study is focused on the modalities of transmission of knowledge related to historical events. It focuses on a generation of young Czechs in the age of 12 – 25 years. The data were gathered during 11 focus groups that took place with students on each of the three levels of Czech formal educat ... more
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Public Perception of False and Distorted Information Covered by the Media: Republic of Moldova

Doru Petru, Viorica Zatic
Institute of Marketing, Analysis, Surveys and Investments (IMAS); Association of Independent Press (API); Independent Journalism Center (IJC); Association of Independent TV Journalists (ATVJI) (2016), 49 pp.
"Only 8% of respondents stated that the media in Moldova exhibit, to a very large extent, a responsible behavior toward their audiences. The majority of respondents or 56% stated they were dissatisfied with the lack of responsibility of the national media. One in ten respondents considered him/herse ... more
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South African Kids Online: A Glimpse Into Children’s Internet Use and Online Activities

Liesa Jossel (ed.)
Cape Town: Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (2016), 46 pp.
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A Divine Cosmopolitism? Religion, Media and Imagination in a Socially Divided Cairo

Heba Elsayed
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-63
"With a focus on young Egyptian women, this article explores the different ways it becomes possible to reconcile a Muslim identity with a cosmopolitan openness towards the world. Informed primarily by transnational television, these women articulate a divine cosmopolitan imagination through which th ... more
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El mundo árabo-islámico como ellas nos lo contaron: Las periodistas de TVE en Oriente Medio y Norte de África. Cuatro décadas de mujer e información

Carmen V. Valiña
Madrid: Clave Intelectual (2016), 264 pp.
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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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Ctrl + Z: The Right to be Forgotten

Meg Leta Jones
New York; London: New York University Press (2016), xiii, 269 pp.
"The central thesis of Crtl+Z is that a digital right to be forgotten is an innovative idea with a lot of possibilities and potential. The idea simply needs to be opened up, reframed, and restructured. The extreme options currently on the table limit the many ways to think about digital redemption a ... more
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Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities

Jowan Mahmod
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 243 pp.
"The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital med ... more