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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), xiii, 285 pp.
"Ethnic Minority Cinema in China's Nation-State Building investigates the convoluted relations between the cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China's nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-firs
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Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (2025), xxix, 282 pp.
In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nat
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Digital vines: Mapping China’s network of global platform ecosystems
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"The world’s information systems are arguably owned by American and Chinese companies. So far, studies on China’s globalising Internet adopt either monolith approach or fragmented approach, lacking a comprehensive image to capture the architecture of China’s global information systems. Critica
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou
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Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa
Information Society, volume 40, issue 2 (2024), pp. 136-153
"While much attention has been paid to how China’s rise as a digital superpower could threaten US hegemony over cyberspace, much less has been written on what the Digital Silk Road, or the presence of Chinese tech firms in developing countries more broadly, means for technological upgrading and de
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Knowledge Workers of the Digital World, Unite! Knowledge Workers’ Workplace Surveillance and Hidden Transcripts in China
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3163-3184
"In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the purposes of labor control and surveillance. This trend significantly affects the knowledge workers who are deeply connected with ICT. However, there is a lack of studies tackl
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Funny Enough: Incorporating Humor Into Health Messages to Promote Breast Self-Examination Behavior
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4441-4467
"Using the extended parallel process model (PPM), this research examines whether and how humor functions to influence women’s breast self-examination (BSE) intention. We conducted a 2 (humor: present vs. absent) × 2 (threat: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment
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Mapping Chinese Digital Nationalism: A Literature Review
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1891-1912
"A growing empirical scholarship examines the rise of Chinese digital nationalism. This scholarship remains scattered across disciplinary and area studies journals, making it difficult to systematize findings and identify knowledge gaps. We review N = 71 peerreviewed articles and book chapters (1990
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Communications, media and internet concentration in China, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC); Carleton University (2024), iv, 58 pp.
"Broadly speaking, the Chinese media and internet economy experienced considerable growth from $524.17 billion in 2019 to $652.11 billion in 2021, despite the inhibiting impact of the COVID pandemic on growth in many sectors of the global economy. The Chinese media and internet economy— estimated
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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who
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The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxv, 618 pp.
"This handbook critically analyzes cross-border news production and "transnational journalism cultures" in the evolving field of cross-border journalism. As the era of the internet hasfurther expanded the border-transcending production, dissemination and reception of news, and with transnational co-
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Analysing the US-China “AI Cold War” Narrative
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2024), 13 pp.
China and the Internet: Using New Media for development and Social change
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2024), 368 pp.
"Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of China's Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerce, the other bemoaning state control and measures against the forces of political transformations. This bifurcation obscures the complexity of the dyna
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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News Narration, Local Visibility and Public Life in Chinese Short Videos
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 8 (2024), pp. 2108-2125
"Short videos are very popular in China. The provincial TV stations in China use short videos to disseminate information. Curiosity about the influence of short video news is the primary motivation of this study. This paper integrates theories of news and place, focuses on local visibility, explores
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Long Live Chairman Mao: Propaganda About Mao Zedong in Chinese Primary School Textbooks (1984–1999)
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3647-3667
"This article examines the portrayal of Mao Zedong in Chinese literacy textbooks published within the context of the Patriotic Education Campaign during the 1980s and 1990s. Employing critical discourse analysis, this study reveals that Mao is depicted as an authoritative, charismatic, and industrio
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Social Media, Youth, and the Global South: Comparative Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xix, 292 pp.
This book illuminates the complex relationship between social media, identity, and youth in the Global South. By examining the profound impact on the psychosocial well-being and economic prospects of young people across diverse regions, the collection present empirical evidence from scholars spannin
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Hybrid Investigative Journalism
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiv, 203 pp.
"This book explores entrepreneurial attempts to combine traditional investigative journalism with alternative ways of organising this work. It transcends watershed investigative projects in favour of the ways in which new actors (citizens, technologists, bloggers and local reporters, among others) j
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Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"This book explores how journalism is practiced around the world and how there are multiple factors at the structural and contextual level shaping journalism practice. Drawing on case studies of how conflicts, pandemics, political developments, or human rights violations are covered in an online-fir
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Local Journalism, Global Challenges: News Deserts, Infodemic and the Vastness in Between
Covilhã: LabCom; Beira Interior University (2024), 203 pp.
"[...] Pedro Jerónimo’s anthology addresses a highly relevant topic. It offers insights into the state of local media in countries where little research has been published to date. Of the eight contributions in the volume, four focus on Europe and Latin America (Romania, Portugal, Europe, and Bra
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