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Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Global Nannies in Paris

Youna Kim
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 525-539
"Feminization of migration has emerged as a common livelihood strategy to alleviate poverty and escape difficult socioeconomic, cultural, and familial situations. Mobile phones have become the most crucial and pervasive communication device that enables migrants to be simultaneously mobile and conne ... more
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Llegan Ondas de Paz: Ondas Indígenas que Transforman

Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte; Organización Zonal Indígenas del Putumayo (OZIP); Radio Waira (2016), 67 pp.
"Llegan ondas de Paz" es una estrategia comunicativa que tiene como objetivos y actividades Ios siguientes objetivos: Generar una cultura de convivencia, participación y reconciliación a través de la capacidad de estar informados sobre los Acuerdos de Paz que se adelantan en el país, por medio d ... 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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Women in war: Challenges and possibilities for female journalists covering wars and conflicts

Kristin Skare Orgeret
In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age
Ulla Carlsson (ed.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 165-176
"The chapter takes as its starting point the notion that journalists’ safety is a precondition for free expression and free media. Based on interviews and discussions with experienced female war and conflict journalists from seven countries worldwide, the discussion evolves around questions linked ... more
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Effects of Foreign Soap Operas on Young People: Case of Tangaza University College

Lounoi Santino
Tangaza: Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Tangaza University College, Thesis (2016), 51 pp.
"This study in a way established that soap operas have some positive contributions to the society. For example, the study shows that youth become more confident and social after watching soaps. However, in agreement with the objectives of this study, the negative effects of soap operas on young peop ... more
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Save Us from Saviours: Disrupting Development Narratives of the Rescue and Uplift of the ‘Third World Woman’

Andrea Cornwall
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 139-154
"The images used to market development often feature women, as victims of terrible traditions and disempowering situations, or – more commonly these days – as enterprising agents of change, poised to ‘lift’ economies and their families and communities. These images tell a story of victims an ... more
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Participatory Video and the Pacifica Mamas: A Pilot Project

Malama Saifoloi, Evangelia Papoutsaki, Marcus Williams, Usha Sundar Harris, Munawwar Naqvi
Auckland: Unitec Institute of Technology (2016), 20 pp.
"Emerging literature highlights that in the Pacific, the use of participatory video (PV) is a new trend in research and community action. It can be employed as a tool to empower communities to have agency over their media outputs, meaning that they have full control of the content creation, producti ... more
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Silenced Realities: Exclusion of Guarani and Kaiowa Perspectives in Majority Press Discourse in Matto Grosso Do Sul, Brazil

Camila Emboava Lopes
Kautokeino: Sámi University of Applied Sciences; Master Thesis (2016), 149 pp.
"The south of the Brazilian state Mato Grosso do Sul, on the border with Paraguay, was historically established by the confinement of native people and occupation of the land by the new settlers. Nowadays, indigenous people struggle for the demarcation of their lands. The areas are currently signifi ... 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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Conceptualizing Consumption-Critical Media Practices as Political Participation

Sigrid Kannengießer
In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment
Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)
Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 197-211
"Consumption-Critical media practices are those practices which are either using media for criticising (certain) consumption or which are (consciously practiced) alternatives to the consumption of media technologies such as repairing, exchanging or producing durable media technologies. While the for ... more
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Creating a Hotline

International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE) (2016), 19 pp.
"The starting point for any initiative seeking to establish a hotline will be to understand the particulars of the national context in which the hotline will be developed. Overall, this means conducting an environmental scan that takes in the local legislation, the socio-cultural context, the likely ... more
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Ratings, the State and Globalization: The Politics of Television Audience Measurement in Israel

Jérôme Bourdon, Nahuel Ribke
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 2 (2016), pp. 159-174
"This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the 'People Meter' (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neoliberal state, which brought about a new relation ... more
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Situated Empowerment: Mobile Phones Practices Among Market Women in Kampala

Jakob Svensson, Caroline Wamala Larsson
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 4, issue 2 (2016), pp. 205-220
"In this article we depart from studies on empowerment and its intersections with the informal economy and market women in the Global South and promises of the mobile phone in so-called developing regions. Conducting an explorative study among market women in Kampala, the aim is to examine what role ... more
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Comment créer un projet de radio pour les jeunes de votre communauté: Manuel des formateurs

Clémence Petit-Perrot, Leader Kanyiki
Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2016), 75 pp.
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Mobilities, ICTs and Marginality in Africa: Comparative Perspectives

Francis Nyamnjoh, Ingrid Brudvig (eds.)
Cape Town: HSRC Press (2016), ix, 244 pp.
"The book aims to situate the cultural, social and, in some cases, transnational context of ICT appropriation and virtual connectivity so as to reposition Africans from various countries and contexts as active agents of social change. The intricacies of local ICT use and the dynamics of mobility in ... more
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Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in the Syria Crisis: Good Practices in the Media

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2016), 54 pp.
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Terminology Guidelines for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse

Luxembourg: ECPAT (2016), x, 100 pp.
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Fernsehnutzung der MedienNutzerTypen: Ein Blick in die Lebenswelt der Fernsehzuschauer

Andrea Eisenblätter, Bernd Hermann
Media Perspektiven, issue 1 (2016), pp. 36-47
"Die MedienNutzerTypologie fasst Menschen mit ähnlichen soziodemografischen Merkmalen, Interessen und einer vergleichbaren Alltagsgestaltung zu homogenen Gruppen zusammen. Die Fernsehnutzung der Typen wird davon beeinflusst, wie sie sich in den Tagesablauf einbetten lässt - außerdem spielen pers ... more
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National Survey Into the Reading and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans 2016

South African Book Development Council; TNS (2016), 103 pp.
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Gender in the Myanmar Media Landscape. Full Report: Yangon, Kayin, Saggaing, Shan and Across Myanmar

Dilrukshi Handunnetti, Nang Phyu Phyu Lin
Stockholm: Fojo Media Institute (2016), 32 pp.
"The Myanmar media industry reflects global trends to the extent that women are strongly represented in newsrooms in terms of numbers but media institutions remain significantly male-dominated at the decision making level. Safety is a major concern for women media professionals within the workplace ... more