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The Marketization of Foreign News
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-115
"Audience segmentation is generally associated with strategic communication (such as advertising and public relations), where content is manipulated to suit reader preferences. News has generally been considered truth-telling unvarnished by such concerns. This article compares how news of the same h
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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.
"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching
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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.
"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint
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Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the Independence of News Media
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 35 pp.
"At an international level, the media development community should advocate for standards governing media cross-ownership limitations, best practices in media licensing, and the licensing of the broadcast spectrum. States should adopt net neutrality and support increased uncensored access to social
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The Rise of China’s State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa
Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2012), 31 pp.
"Traces China's media engagement in Africa since the 2000s, including a list of financed projects (pp. 13-15), and explains how strategies have changed. While the extension of hardware assistance continues to play an important role, China's media engagement in Africa started to diversify after the 2
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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace
Cambridge, Mass.; Ottawa et al.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2012), xv, 414 pp.
Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press (2012), xi, 141 pp.
"The prevailing consumerism in Chinese cyberspace is a growing element of Chinese culture and an important aspect of this book. Chinese bloggers, who have strongly embraced consumerism and tend to be apathetic about politics, have nonetheless demonstrated political passion over issues such as the We
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Asian Communication Handbook
Deep Insights
"The first "theoretical perspectives" section has opinions and research articles by academic scholars and expert practitioners on new media and communication Issues and trends in Asia. Some of the topics covered include the dynamics arising out of the shift to the 'digilogue', mobile activism, corpo
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Home of Hope: Voicings, Whiteness, and the Technological Gaze
Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 36, issue 3 (2012), pp. 202-221
"This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks
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Internet Enemies Report 2012
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 72 pp.
Differing Paradigms of Media Systems Development in Contemporary Africa: Does the ‘Chinese Model’ Have a Place?
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 52-67
"This article addresses the emerging patterns of contemporary media-based engagements between China and Africa and argues, after an examination of current media systems in both China and Africa, that, despite expressed worries to the contrary, because of reasons spanning from history to geo-politics
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Responding to an Activist Public: Hangzhou Press Office Rethinks its Role
Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1013-1027
"In China as elsewhere, netizens have made new demands upon government and challenged conventional media to respond to popular concerns. Established approaches to controlling the media may be otiose; Party leaders are stressing the value of cooperation rather than confrontation and calling for a new
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Between Islam and Buddhism Communication in Indonesia
Religion and Social Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 133-154
Interactivity, the Global Conversation and World Service Research: Digital China
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 48-74
"This paper examines the relationship between a broadcaster’s research methods and aspects of the environment in which it operates, specifically its accountability to its funders and the growth of interactivity by its users. It is concerned with (1) how the BBC World Service’s funding by the UK
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Soft Power in China: Public Diplomacy Through Communication
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), 221 pp.
"The book provides a glimpse into how China has tried to tell its story to the world. The introduction chapter outlines the broader context for the examination of Chinese public diplomacy. It discusses some of the emerging themes concerning the spirit and practice of the country’s image-building e
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The Political Consequences of the Rise of the Internet: Political Beliefs and Practices of Chinese Netizens
Political Communication, volume 28, issue 3 (2011), pp. 291-322
"This article addresses a long-standing question: What are the political consequences of the rise of the Internet and the attendant emergence of netizens in China, particularly in terms of China's democratic prospects? Given the Chinese state's firm control in the realm of traditional media, the Int
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"In Europe, Germany and France are ahead in digitally embracing trade books, notably !ction, yet are clearly behind the US and UK. But countries as diverse as Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden have recently seen the implementation of an ebook distribution infrastructure, and at lea
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Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2011), 75 pp.
"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f
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From the World's Largest Propaganda Machine to a Multipurposed Global News Agency: Factors in and Implications of Xinhua's Transformation Since 1978
Political Communication, volume 28, issue 3 (2011), pp. 377-393
"The Xinhua News Agency is China's largest state news agency. It is also the largest news agency among developing countries. This research examines the changes Xinhua has undergone over the past three decades under the backdrop of (a) the end of the Cold War, (b) the trend of globalization and vario
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Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators
Deep Insights
New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 343 pp.
"Press freedom indices such as those administered by Freedom House, IREX, and Reporters Without Borders have emerged as crucial tools, not only for the general public, but also for donors, implementers, and academics in their attempts to understand the relationships among media assistance, democrati
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