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The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development

Peter Cary
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 18 pp.
"The U.S. Defense Department has long had an uneasy relationship with independent mediaOn the one hand, it needs the trusted voice of media to portray U.S. military activities in a positive light, both to maintain the support of citizens at home and to help fight its battles abroad. And to the exten ... more
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Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context

Sonia Tascón
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiii, 248 pp.
"This book explores how human rights developed as a language located in history, space and time, and how the festivals continue with this tradition by adapting it for local audiences. The tensions produced by human rights' search for universality and the located-ness of the festivals are explored in ... more
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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.
"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more
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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405
"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more
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Global Support for Principle of Free Expression, But Opposition to Some Forms of Speech

Richard Wike, Katie Simmons
Pew Research Center (2015), 58 pp.
"Although many observers have documented a global decline in democratic rights in recent years, people around the world nonetheless embrace fundamental democratic values, including free expression. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities in nearly all 38 nations polled say it is at le ... more
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Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning Domestic Support for the Afghan War

Beatrice de Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose (eds.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2015), xxvii, 380 pp.
"This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, str ... more
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Gaining Ground: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability

Miami: Knight Foundation (2015), 24 pp.
"Nonprofit news organizations offer the potential to become part of the bedrock of a strong local news and information ecosystem. The field of nonprofit news, as illustrated by the 20 organizations profiled in this study, has continued to scale its impact and inch closer toward more sustainable busi ... more
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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
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Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media

Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 268 pp.
"Collectively known as Hallyu, Korean music, television programs, films, online games, and comics enjoy global popularity, thanks to new communication technologies. In recent years, Korean popular culture has also become the subject of academic inquiry. Whereas the Hallyu's impact on Korea's nationa ... more
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Video Games Around the World
Deep Insights

Mark J. P. Wolf (ed.)
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2015), xiv, 697 pp.
"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur ... more
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Zwischen Hollywood und Bollywood: Das Autorenkino Mira Nairs

Lisa Marie Gadatsch
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 520 pp.
"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der ... more
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Not Up for Debate: U.S. News Coverage of Hunger in Africa

Lauren Kogen
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 1 (2015), pp. 3-23
"This article explores how the U.S. news media construct the topic of hunger in Africa for U.S. audiences. Specifically, the article addresses how newspapers define and delimit the relationship between U.S. citizens and foreign sufferers. Through a framing analysis and critical discourse analysis of ... more
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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication

Monroe E. Price
New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.
"Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information managemen ... more
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Motivations Behind Donors' Contributions to Crowdfunding Journalism

Lian Jian, Jieun Shin
Mass Communication & Society, volume 18, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-185
"Crowdfunded journalism is a new model for funding journalism in which reporters solicit micropayments from readers to finance their reporting. In the present study, we seek to identify the major motivations behind readers' donations to a pioneering crowdfunded journalism website, Spot.Us. Under the ... more
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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)
Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.
"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more
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Participatory Visual and Digital Research in Action

Aline Gubrium, Krista Harper, Marty Otañez (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), 296 pp.
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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.
"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that ... more
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Journalism and Human Rights: How Demographics Drive Media Coverage

John C. Pollock (ed.)
Lodon et al.: Routledge (2015), 166 pp.
"This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee right ... more
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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.