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Deepening Our Understanding of the Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Final Report

Steve Finkel et al.
Nashville, Tenn.; Pittsburgh: Vanderbilt University; University of Pittsburgh (2008), 102 pp.
"Does USAID’s democracy promotion program work? Although some prior studies have examined specific projects in individual countries, no prior effort has studied the question on a world-wide basis, and no prior study has encompassed the entire post Cold-War period. [...] In the first phase of that ... more
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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11

Michael J. Barker
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130
"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead, ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy

Nancy Snow, Philip M. Taylor (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2008), xx, 382 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors Nancy ... more
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Hegemony in the Digital Age: The Arab/Israeli Conflict Online

Stephen M. E. Marmura
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2008), 185 pp.
"Internet technology has arguably changed the rules by which individuals, social movements, and institutions compete for political and cultural influence in technologically advanced societies. The author considers this reality through reference to the concept of hegemony; looking to the ways in whic ... more
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The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning

Katie Salen (ed.)
Cambridge: MIT Press (2008), ix, 278 pp.
"In the many studies of games and young people's use of them, little has been written about an overall “ecology” of gaming, game design and play—mapping the ways that all the various elements, from coding to social practices to aesthetics, coexist in the game world. This volume looks at games ... more
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Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey
Deep Insights

Toby Mendel
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2008), 156 pp.
"This book is meant to present the basics of freedom of information or right to information, defined as the universal right to access information held by public bodies. It presents in an easy-to-understand and non-technical fashion the basic principles of freedom of information, such as maximum disc ... more
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Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility

Miriam J. Metzger, Andrew J. Flanagin (eds.)
Cambridge: MIT Press (2008), ix, 202 pp.
"This volume addresses the issue of credibility—the objective and subjective components that make information believable—in the contemporary media environment. The contributors look particularly at youth audiences and experiences, considering the implications of wide access and the questionable ... more
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World Press Trends 2008

Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2008), 966 pp.
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Understanding Alternative Media

Olga Guedes Bailey, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier
Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), 196 pp.
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Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

David Buckingham (ed.)
Cambridge: MIT Press (2008), ix, 206 pp.
"This volume the consequences of digital media use for young people's individual and social identities. The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They lo ... more
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Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics

Pamela Wilson, Michelle Stewart (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2008), ix, 362 pp.
"Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By r ... more
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Oral history and public memories

Paula Hamilton, Linda Shopes (eds.)
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2008), xvii, 302 pp.
"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a ... more
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An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming

Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy (2008), 74 pp.
"Based primarily on the content analysis, with secondary reinforcement from the discussion group proceedings, the research team sees the principal issues affecting Alhurra as being those related to the fundamentals of journalism, not the exigencies of politics. This is not an esoteric matter related ... more
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Television Studies: The Key Concepts

Bernadette Casey, Neil Casey, Ben Calvert, Liam French, Justin Lewis
Abingdon: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2008), xiv, 345 pp.
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TV-Serien: Schreiben fürs Fernsehen

Pamela Douglas
Andrea von Struve; Petra Post (Übs.)
Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins (2008), 240 pp.
"Serien zählen zum Spannendsten, was das Fernsehen zu bieten hat. Lost (läuft in 120 Ländern), 24, CSI, Desperate Housewives oder Grey‘s Anatomy werden mit derselben Sorgfalt geschrieben und so bildgewaltig inszeniert wie Kinoproduktionen. Einige laufen jahrelang, lassen Hundertmillionen von Me ... more
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Pop Culture with a Purpose! Using Edutainment Media for Social Change

Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal
The Hague: Oxfam Novib (2008), 53 pp.
"This publication focuses on unique communication-centered approaches to social change and introduces basic concepts, strategies and theories supporting edutainment strategies to foster social change and social movement building. It provides examples of how the organizations have used edutainment st ... more
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Gewalt als Gottesdienst: Religionskriege im Zeitalter der Globalisierung

Hans G. Kippenberg
München: Beck (2008), 272 pp.
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Media Democracy

Sajjad Malik
Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) (2008), 18 pp.
"Media democracy is a concept as well as an advocacy movement aiming at making the mainstream media more plural, and reflective of a broad set of ideas and opinions than churning out and propagating just routine socio-politico-economic news stories and articles in the name of news, information and e ... more
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The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World

Jesper Strömbäck, Lynda Lee Kaid (eds.)
New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2008), xix, 450 pp.
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Catholics in the Movies

Colleen McDannell (ed.)
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 362 pp.
"Rather than being marginal to American popular culture, Catholic people, places, and rituals are all central to the world of the movie. Catholics in the Movies begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to the ways that films appear in culture and describes the broad trends that can be ... more