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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.
"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh
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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.
"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic
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Imagining AI
Deep Insights
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), xvii, 423 pp.
"Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines is the first volume showcasing research into how different cultures around the globe envision life with artificial intelligence. AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
London: UCL Press (2023), xviii, 291 pp.
"Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We fin
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Assessing China’s news coverage and soft power in Latin America in the wake of the Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2021)
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 80-96
"This study assesses the impact of China’s mediated communication strategies implemented in Latin America from 2013 to 2021. We content-analyzed the press coverage about China in nine countries and unveiled tones, topics, and frames which were then examined further across different sources. Public
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Making the Long March Online: Some Cultural Dynamics of Digital Political Participation in Three Chinese Societies
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 1 (2023), pp. 160-183
"This study examines the authoritarian conditioning of political expression on social media in three Chinese societiesby analyzing three parallel surveys comprising 6942 respondents from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Results demonstrate that the use of social media to gather political infor
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Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), xix, 470 pp.
"This study offers a systematic theory of the institutional solutions to the dictator’s dilemma, which arises from the incapacity to calibrate repression and concessions due to the lack of information about elite and popular discontent. Empirically, the book presents a detailed discussion of the t
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CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2023), xiii, 345 pp.
"By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were m
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Social media-based urban disaster recovery and resilience analysis of the Henan deluge
Natural Hazards, volume 118 (2023), pp. 377-405
"Measuring disaster resilience from the perspective of long-term recovery ability is important for the planning and construction of urban sustainability, whereas short-term resilient recovery can better reflect a city’s ability to recover quickly after a disaster occurs. This study proposes an ana
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China's Cultural Diplomacy in a New Era of Multilateralism: The Case of the China-Community of Latin American & Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum (CCF)
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 195 pp.
"Cultural diplomacy has been one component of China’s foreign policy since its very foundation. However, it is only in recent decades that culture has been wielded as a tool to serve high-reaching goals commensurate with China’s rising superpower status and its capacity to contend for global heg
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China’s Media Propaganda in Africa: A Strategic Assessment
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2023), 23 pp.
Digital China: The Strategy and Its Geopolitical Implications
Honolulu: Pacific Forum International (2023), 37 pp.
"As the world was distracted by the long, drawn out economic and social disruptions caused by the coronavirus, Beijing seized the “opportunity” offered by the crisis to accelerate its national digital strategy, titled unassumingly “Digital China.” With a decades-long personal tie to General
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Belt and Road Initiative supported co-production films: Film policy and disoriented remembrance of the Silk Road past
International Communication Gazette, volume 48, issue 62 (2023), pp. 48-62
"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even
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‘Push-and-pull’ for visibility: How do fans as users negotiate over algorithms with Chinese digital platforms?
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 321-339
"In the algorithmic era, both users and the platform battle for visibility. Chinese fans are savvy users who explore the hidden algorithms behind platform functions. With the collectively developed algorithmic imaginary, digital fandom communities negotiate with the platform over algorithms to optim
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Exploring Disinformation in Fragile States: Iraq as a Case Study of Influence of International Political Actors
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 18 pp.
"This paper examines the influence of international political actors in perpetuating disinformation in fragile states, using Iraq as a case study. The advent of modern technology and social media has transformed the global information landscape, providing new avenues for the dissemination of disinfo
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Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 218 pp.
"This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discou
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The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxvi, 531 pp.
"Combining an innovative mix of traditional chapters, autoethnography, case studies, and dialogue within an intercultural framework, the handbook focuses on the future of media education and provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and affordances of media education as we move forward. Topi
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China's Institutionalised Cultural Presence in Africa: Cultural Investments, Perceptions and Implications for China-Africa Cultural Relations
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 120 pp.
"This study looks at the effects of Chinese cultural diplomacy on the African continent. While for a long time China's investments in large infrastructure projects were viewed positively, Joffe now notes a growing awareness both in civil society and in government agencies of ambivalent consequences.
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