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Perception Management: Deterring Potential Migrants Through Information Campaigns
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 3 (2014), pp. 303-318
"How are images used in the aim of governing migration? This article probes this question through the example of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) information campaigns (ICs) in Cameroon, through which it seeks to ‘manage the perception’ of potential illegal(ized) migrants t
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Türkisches Fernsehen in Deutschland: Narrenfreiheit und mangelnde Medienaufsicht
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (2014), 205 pp.
"Ethnische Medien in Deutschland befinden sich in einer Nischenökonomie und sind aufgrund der mangelnden Einbindung in den deutschen Medienmarkt informellen Strukturen unterworfen. Die Schattenwirtschaft der ethnischen Medien in Deutschland mündet demzufolge in einen Schlamassel. Diese Studie befa
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"Both in form and in content, this publication is unconventional in its approach to deconstructing and debating some prevailing imageries of migrants across Europe and specifically in Spain, the UK, Turkey and Poland. In this publication, four individual case studies of incidents that occurred recen
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La "cybermigration maritale" des femmes camerounaises: La quête de conjoints blancs
Paris: L'Harmattan (2014), 176 pp.
Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110
"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat
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The Re-Emergence of Diasporic Radio in Independent Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 54-72
"The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled outside Zimbabwe to examine how diasporic radio has re-emerged in independent Zimbabwe, where it manages to utilise affordable communication technologies to link with the population, providing the people with an a
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Internews Humanitarian Information Service: UNMISS POC SITE - MALAKAL. Baseline Assessment
Internews; Forcier Consulting (2014), 8 pp.
"On 4th July 2014, Internews launched Boom Box Talk Talk (BBTT) in the Malakal, UN Mission Protection of Civilian (PoC) site, to provide people affected by the conflict with life saving and life enhancing information. BBTT is a professionally produced audio Humanitarian Information Service (HIS). In
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"The key finding of this rapid assessment is that displaced people in northern Iraq live in an information vacuum which is hindering their ability to cope with the catastrophe in which they find themselves. This vacuum has two main origins: lack of access to reliable news and information from the lo
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Outside In: The Practices and Perceptions of Iranian Diaspora Journalists
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2013), 31 pp.
"Our findings are based on responses to an online questionnaire completed by 69 Iranian journalists living and working outside Iran. A majority of respondents surveyed left Iran after 2005 and work as journalists for online media outlets [...] Our research indicates that Iranian journalists living a
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Kachin Refugees, Myanmar: Needs for Pastoral and Evangelizing Communication
Manila: University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Sacred Theology, Master Thesis (2013), ix, 115 pp.
"The study is divided into three parts: Part One is a discussion on brief history of civil war in Myanmar especially in Kachin State, the past experiences of the Church in pastoral and evangelizing communication in Kachin State and the current life situation of the Kachin refugees. In Part Two, we p
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Upstairs Downstairs: Communication Contradictions Around Two African Refugee Camps
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 35-51
"This article describes and analyses the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) communication policy in the current world environment where a variety of well-doers attempt to pursue attention. The analysis is reflected against the results of focus group interviews with Congolese women
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Bad News for Refugees
London: Pluto Press (2013), ix, 203 pp.
"Bad News for Refugees analyses the political, economic and environmental contexts of migration and looks specifically at how refugees and asylum seekers have been stigmatised in political rhetoric and in media coverage. Through forensic research it shows how hysterical and inaccurate media accounts
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Prácticas y consumos mediático-culturales del colectivo marroquí en España
Madrid: Fundación Alternativas, Observatorio de Cultura y Comunicación (2013), 68 pp.
"Este informe analiza las prácticas y consumos mediático-culturales del colectivo marroquí en España, uno de los más numerosos y con un evidente grado de asentamiento como resultado de un ciclo migratorio que ya acumula más de cuatro décadas. Las condiciones objetivas que muestran tal grado d
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"This report has presented a range of findings and insights generated from a consultation with 14 independent exile media organisations in Iran, Myanmar, Sudan, Ethiopia, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Tibet, Uzbekistan, Syria and Zambia. They can be summarised in three key points:
(1) First, this report highli
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s
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No Home from Home: The Plight of East African Exiled Journalists
Doha: Doha Centre for Media Freedom (2013), 80 pp.
"Findings of this research offer new evidence on the extensive campaign of violence and intimidation against journalists in Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan. At the same time, it also recalls exiled journalists’ commitment to freedom of the press and freedom of expression despite
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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.
"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c
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Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the Construction of Identity
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2012), xix, 272 pp.
"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban
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