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Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach
New York et al.: Routledge (2015), viii, 239 pp.
"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news
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Globalizing Communication/journalism Studies
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 409-515
Enlightening Communication Analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media Studies, Ethics and Law Using a Buddhist Perspective
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 456-470
"A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before ex
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The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan
St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.
"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and
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Internationalizing "International Communication"
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.
African Ethics and Journalism Ethics: News and Opinion in Light of Ubuntu
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 30, issue 2 (2015), pp. 74-90
"In this article, I address some central issues in journalism ethics from a fresh perspective, namely, one that is theoretical and informed by values salient in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a foundational moral theory with an African pedigree, which is intended to rival Western theories such as Ka
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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.
"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and
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Cultures of Memory in South Asia: Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance
New Delhi: Springer (2014), xvi, 336 pp.
"Cultures of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main
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Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.
De-Westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment
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)
"For nearly 30 years, the widely accepted economic-rationalist model used to explain Pacific island development has been variations of Bertram and Watters’ (1985) MIRAB model, or that of development based on the extraction of “rents” from Migration, Remittances, Aid and Bureaucracy. This paper
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The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), xiii, 586 pp.
"The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globali
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Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition
New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.
"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers
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"China’s quest to improve its international image has increased exponentially in the last decade through cultural diplomacy and the media. However, the expansion of China’s state-led media has received mixed reactions and even stereotypes in Africa. By examining scholarly responses towards China
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Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434
"In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to "internationalize" or "dewesternize" the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside "the West" that has not only produced empirica
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The Functions of Silence in India: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 248-254
"Although it is often viewed negatively in the West, silence is interpreted as a sign of interpersonal sensitivity, mutual respect, a sens of personal dignity, affirmation, and wisdom in the cultural context of India. At the individual level, silence serves as the means for the individual soul to ac
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Communication and Cultural Settings: An Islamic Perspective
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 237-247
"In this chaper, Hamid Mowlana elucidates four cardinal concepts of the Islamic worldview that may serve as the fundamental principles of ethical communication in Muslim societies: (1) tawhid (unity, coherence, and harmony of all in the universe), (2) amr bi al-ma'ruf wa nahy'an al munkar (commandin
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Theorizing About Communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Tradtions in Rhetorics and Aesthetics
Toward a Theory of African Communication
The Two Faces of Chinese Communication
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 273-282
"In this chapter, Guo-Ming Chen portrays two faces of communication in Chinese culture. He thematizes harmony, one of the core Chinese cultural values, to paint a picture of the first face. According to him, in order to achieve harmony, Chinese people would (1) follow the principles of jen (benevole
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