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Mobilities, ICTs and Marginality in Africa: Comparative Perspectives
Cape Town; Dakar: HSRC Press; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) (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
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Flucht 2.0: Mediennutzung durch Flüchtlinge vor, während und nach der Flucht
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (2016), 86 pp.
"Anhand einer repräsentativen Umfrage mit 404 Flüchtlingen, die vorwiegend aus Syrien, Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan und Iran kamen, liefert die vorliegende Studie erstens Erkenntnisse dazu, wie sich Flüchtlinge in ihren Herkunftsländern, auf ihrem Fluchtweg und in Deutschland Informationen versch
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Voices of Refugees: Information and Communication Needs of Refugees in Greece and Germany
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.
"This study provides a snapshot of refugees’ experiences regarding communication and information at different points on their journey. It examines the communication behaviours and priority information needs of refugees in three areas: on their journey, in “transit” camps in Greece, and in Germ
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Information to go: Kommunikation im Prozess der Migration am Beispiel syrischer und irakischer Flüchtlinge auf ihrem Weg nach Deutschland
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), 25 pp.
"Vor dem Hintergrund der Flüchtlingsdebatte in Deutschland 2015 wird in diesem Beitrag danach gefragt, welche (Massen-)Kommunikationskanäle Flüchtlinge vor, während und nach der Flucht nutzen, um sich über migrationsrelevante Themen zu informieren und sich darüber mit anderen Migrationswillige
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Migranten als Journalisten? Eine Studie zu Berufsperspektiven in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), 181 pp.
"Das Thema Migration ist im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs angekommen. Aber die Perspektiven der Migranten kommen in der Medienöffentlichkeit zu kurz. Die deutsche Integrationspolitik strebt deshalb an, die Zahl der Journalisten mit Migrationshintergrund zu erhöhen. Damit solche Bemühungen nicht ins
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Refugees, Migration and the Media
Deep Insights
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), various pag.
"This special issue contains three peer-reviewed articles - on hostile media perceptions in the refugee debate in Germany, the news framing of Lampedusa in the German Süddeutsche Zeitung and the English Guardian, and migration news framing in South Asia and the Pacific -, two essays - on "Compassio
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Mapping Refugee Media Journeys: Smartphones and Social Media Networks
Open University; France Médias Monde (2016), 103 pp.
"Smartphones and digital connectivity are essential for refugees seeking protection and safety in Europe, but they also carry risks for them. This research identified a huge gap in the provision of relevant, reliable and timely digital news and information for refugees on their journeys and upon arr
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Media and Minorities: Questions on Representation from an International Perspective
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Jewish Museum Berlin (2016), 237 pp.
"Many members of a majority population draw their knowledge about minorities, migration, and integration primarily from the media. But what images of ethnic and religious minorities are propagated by newspapers, television, radio, and the Internet? What effects do these media representations have on
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Von kriminell bis willkommen: Wie die Herkunft über das mediale Framing von Einwanderern entscheidet
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, issue 4 (2016), pp. 497-517
"Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob Einwanderer in der Berichterstattung je nach Herkunft unterschiedlich dargestellt werden. Dazu wurden Artikel der Tageszeitungen Welt, FAZ, SZ und taz aus dem Jahr 2014 inhaltsanalytisch untersucht. Mittels hierarchischer Clusteranalyse auf Akteursebene (n = 596)
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Ethnic Media, Conflict, and the Nation-State: Kurdish Broadcasting in Turkey and Europe and Mediated Nationhood
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2016), pp. 738-754
"Drawing on fieldwork among Kurdish broadcasters in Turkey and Europe, this article shows how ethnic media mediate nationhood in a conflict context. Despite rising interest in the media-nationhood nexus, and the expansion of studies on ethnic media, little is known about ethnic media in conflicts in
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Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities
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
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Digital Crossroads: Civic Media and Migration
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2016), 60 pp.
"This report examines the uses of digital media among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working with migrants and refugees primarily in Europe. Based on interviews with leaders at over 20 NGOs, this report documents how organizations are thinking about digital and media literacies for combating
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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication
Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.
"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil
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Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Global Nannies in Paris
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
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Exit and Voice in a Digital Age: Iran's Exiled Activists and the Authoritarian State
Globalizations, volume 13 (2016), pp. 1-17
"This paper shows how digital communication technologies enable new and influence established tactics of state repression beyond borders. Based on interviews with Iranian activists and journalists who were forced to leave the country after the controversial elections of 2009, I analyze mechanisms an
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On the Liveness of Mobile Phone Mediation: Youth Expectations of Remittances and Narratives of Discontent in the Cameroonian Transnational Family
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 3, issue 1 (2015), pp. 20-35
"Drawn from multisited fieldwork conducted among Cameroonians in Germany and Cameroon, the article reveals that the liveness of mobile phone communication influences expectations and narratives of remittances in Cameroonian transnational social relationships. These expectations are meaningful within
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Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2015), pp. 65-81
"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians
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Trapped in a Propaganda War. Abandoned. Frustrated. Stigmatized: Understanding Information and Communication Needs Among IDPs in Eastern Ukraine
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2015), 20 pp.
"As information among internally displaced people (IDPs) spreads mostly through word-of-mouth and social media, rumors and misinformation are rife. Citizens in eastern Ukraine have low trust in traditional media, and Ukrainian TV is largely not perceived as a credible source of information. IDPs do
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Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2015), 319 pp.
"This book considers how Moroccan-Dutch youth, mostly born in the Netherlands, navigate digital spaces to articulate their politicized identities in a time when claims over the failure of multiculturalism, anti-immigration sentiments and Islamophobia sweep across Europe. Digital Passages: Migrant Yo
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