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Entertainment Media Use in Qatar: Survey Results

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Creating Graphic Novels: Adapting and Marketing Stories for a Multimillion-Dollar Industry

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Indiens Kino-Kulturen: Geschichte, Dramaturgie, Ästhetik

Susanne Marschall, Rada Bieberstein (eds.)
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Radio: The Resilient Medium. Papers from the Third Conference of the ECREA Radio Research Section

Madalena Oliveira, Grazyna Stachyra, Guy Starkey (eds.)
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Advances in African and Arab Science Journalism: Capacity Building and New Newsroom Structures Through Digital Peer-To-Peer Support

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Gewaltfreie Kommunikation: Das 13-Wochen-Übungsprogramm. Ein praktischer Leitfaden für Übungsgruppen, Selbststudium und GFK-Kurse

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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present

Dan Mazur, Alexander Danner
London: Thames & Hudson (2014), 319 pp.
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Fernsehen: Jetzt auch als Buch! Das Beste aus der Glotze

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The Integrity of the Image: Current Practices and Accepted Standards Relating to the Manipulation of Still Images in Photojournalism and Documentaty Photography

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Political Advertising in Consolidating Democracies: Radio Ads, Clientelism, and Political Development in Mexico

Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall, James M. Snyder JR.
[authors] (2014), 65 pp.
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Slum Discourse, Media Representations and Maisha Mtaani in Kibera, Kenya

Brian Ekdale
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 92-108
"This article examines the discourse surrounding Kibera, a highly populated low-income community in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on 11 months of fieldwork and interviews with 56 Kibera residents, this article discusses the disconnect between the lives experienced by residents and the hyperbolic and essenti ... more
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De-Westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment

Silvio Waisbord, Claudia Mellado
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 361-372
"The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the "de-westernization" of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge." (Abstract)
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The Media Business for Pioneers: How to Attract Advertisers and Media Planners

Rainer Schmidt et al.
Berlin; Amsterdam: Plural Media Services; Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT); DOEN Foundation (2014), 109 pp.
"Why is advertising crucial for sustainability of independent media, and does it influence content? What makes advertisers choose certain media? Who within a company decides on advertising? How influential are media agencies? And how can media organisations conduct or commission audience research? T ... more
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¡Muestra! Kino aus Spanien und Lateinamerika in Deutschland

Verena Schmöller, Birgit Aka (eds.)
Marburg: Schüren (2014), 219 pp.
"Die Beiträge dieses Buches zeigen am Beispiel des ¡muestra! IberoAmerikanischen Filmfests in Passau, welche filmischen Schätze der Kulturraum zu bieten hat und wie diese im deutschsprachigen Raum rezipiert werden. Gleichzeitig dokumentieren sie die zwar junge, aber sehr erfolgreiche Festivalgesc ... more
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Digitales Erzählen: Die Dramaturgie der neuen Medien

Dennis Eick
Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 252 pp.
"Dennis Eick zeigt, welche neuen Erzählformen durch das Internet und die technischen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung realisiert werden können. Er stellt zahlreiche Beispiele aus dem nationalen und internationalen Bereich vor und führt Interviews mit namhaften Fachleuten aus den einzelnen Genre ... more
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Futuros Criativos - Economia e Criatividade em Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe

Alexandro Cardoso, Debora Sanches, Proença, Ilsa Sá, Maria Miguel Estrela, Mário Moniz et al.
ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2014), 209 pp.
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How Structure Shapes Content, or Why the 'Hindi Turn' of Star Plus Became the 'Hindu Turn'

Santanu Chakrabarti
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 4 (2014), pp. 473-490
"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental, ... more
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Toward a Theory of African Communication

Joseph Oládèjo Fáníran
In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 146-159