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Communicating Science: A Global Perspective
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Toss Gascoigne, Bernard Schiele, Joan Leach, Michelle Riedlinger, Bruce V. Lewenstein, Luisa Massarani, Peter Broks (eds.)
Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) Press (2020), xi, 982 pp.
"This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did ... more
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Environmental Media Grantmaking: How Funders Are Tipping the Scales Toward Change

Sarah Armour-Jones
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2020), 32 pp.
"This report—which complements MIF’s in-person and online convenings throughout the year—aims to highlight trends in environmental media grantmaking, impact studies and examples of promising media projects, and insights from funders in the space. This report focuses on U.S. funders who give in ... more
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COVID-19 Vaccination Communication: Applying Behavioral and Social Science to Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Foster Vaccine Confidence

Sylvia Chou Wen-Ying, Caitlin E. Burgdorf, Anna Gaysynsky, Christine M. Hunter
National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2020), 23 pp.
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Talking Back: Journalists Defending Attacks Against Their Profession in the Trump Era

Michael Koliska, Kalyani Chadha, Alison Burns
Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 11 (2020), pp. 1496–1513
"According to neo-institutional theory, the survival of institutions in society is predicated on a cultural discourse. Dubbed “the institutional myth,” this discourse reflects the core values, practices and aspirations of an institution and legitimizes its existence to internal and external stak ... more
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Die Machtprobe: Wie Social Media unsere Demokratie verändern

Thomas Ammann
Hamburg: Edition Körber, Sonderdruck für die Zentralen für politische Bildung (2020), 349 pp.
"Ammann hat den Aufstieg der sozialen Medien von Anfang an begleitet und zieht Bilanz: Sie bieten auf der einen Seite große Chancen für die Demokratie. Die effektive Nachbarschaftshilfe während der Pandemie oder der immense Erfolg von #fridaysforfuture und #blacklivesmatter basieren auf der Reich ... more
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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

Andrew M. Guessa, Michael Lernerb, Benjamin Lyonsd, Jacob M. Montgomerye, Brendan Nyhanf, Jason Reiflerg, Neelanjan Sircarh
PNAS, volume 117, issue 27 (2020), 10 pp.
"Using data from preregistered survey experiments conducted around recent elections in the United States and India, we assess the effectiveness of an intervention modeled closely on the world’s largest media literacy campaign, which provided “tips” on how to spot false news to people in 14 cou ... more
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Mob Censorship: Online Harassment of US Journalists in Times of Digital Hate and Populism

Silvio Waisbord
Digital Journalism, volume 8, issue 8 (2020), pp. 1030-1046
"Rising numbers of online attacks against journalists have been documented globally. Female, minority reporters and journalists who cover issues interwoven with right-wing identity anchors have been primary targets. This trend reflects growing forms of mob censorship linked to the demonization of jo ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 680 pp.
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Digital Pay-Meter Playbook: How Today’s News Publishers Can Use Data, Best Practices, and Test-And-Learn Tactics to Build Better Pay-Meters

Nicco Mele, Matthew Skibinski, Matthew Spector
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy; Lenfest Institute for Journalism (2019), 35 pp.
"Our research suggests publishers should invest in capabilities to engage in constant testing and experimentation in digital — to build engagement among digital audiences and ultimately convert engaged readers into paying subscribers. For commercial and for-profit models in particular, publishers ... more
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Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps

Jacqueline H. Fewkes (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), 248 pp.
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The Dark Double: US Media, Russia, and the Politics of Values

Andrei P. Tsygankov
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), xv, 160 pp.
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Global Media Philanthropy: What Funders Need to Know About Data, Trends and Pressing Issues Facing the Field
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Sarah Armour-Jones, Jessica Clark
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders (2019), 50 pp.
"Both funding and making media are now dangerous in new ways: Foundations, publishers, editors and journalists across the world are facing not just familiar forms of repression and censorship, but new threats from breaches to digital privacy and a notably uncivil online culture. Funders need to work ... more
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Reading, feeling, believing: Online testimonies and the making of Evangelical emotion

Suzanne van Geuns
Journal of Contemporary Religion, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 97-115
"A personal relationship with God is central to Evangelical belief. It unfolds as believers interpret internal sensations as coming from outside—from God. How does the formulaic design of testimonies present the audience with a personal relationship with God as a pursuit that is both feasible and ... more
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China and the Global Media Landscape: Remapping and Remapped

Gabriele Balbi, Fei Jiang, Giuseppe Richeri (eds.)
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2019), vi, 196 pp.
"In the last decade, the Chinese media have imposed themselves in the global arena and have started to become a reference point, in business and cultural terms, for other national media systems. This book explores how the global media landscape was changed by this revolutionary trend, and why and ho ... more
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Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media

Samuel C. Woolley, Philip N. Howard (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vi, 263 pp.
"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int ... more
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The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism

Patrick Ferrucci, Jacob L. Nelson
Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 4 (2019), pp. 45-55
"Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms ... more
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Friedenspotenzial von Freikirchen in den USA und Lateinamerika: Potenziale und Hindernisse für die internationale Zusammenarbeit

Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer
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Faith-Based Media Literacy Education, History

Rose Pacatte
In: The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy
Renee Hobbs, Paul Mihailidis (eds.)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), pp. 457-472
"This limited survey of the history of faith-based media literacy education includes its development in some communities, especially mainstream Protestants and Catholics, while acknowledging its existence in others, in one form or another, where extensive data is not yet available. In general faith ... more
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Free Speech in the Digital Age

Susan J. Brison, Katharine Gelber (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xvi, 259 pp.
"This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of gov ... more
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

Amy Webb
New York: PublicAffairs (2019), 320 pp.
"The Big Nine who will determine the future of artifical intelligence (AI) - Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and Facebook in America; and Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent in China - serve masters with conflicting interests. Wall Street wants profit now without regard to consequences. The Chinese g ... more