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The Global Digital Divides: Explaining Change

James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2015), xxix, 386 pp.
"This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations ... more
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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2015: Gender Relations in Television Fiction

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2015), 526 pp.
"In 2014, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, Colombia and Argentina, in that order, were the top five countries in the production of national fiction hours. Once again, Brazil and Mexico, despite the drop suffered by the latter, continued to be the largest producers of fiction in the Ibero-American region. I ... more
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Voices of Freedom - Western Interference? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe

Anna Bischof (ed.)
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2015), xii, 294 pp.
"International radio broadcasters took on a centrally important role during the Cold War. Founded at the beginning of the 1950s, Radio Free Europe (RFE) was to become both a political instrument for influencing public opinion and one of the few alternative sources of information for many people livi ... more
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Engaged Journalism: Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences

Jake Batsell
New York: Columbia University Press (2015), xxvii, 195 pp.
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A Community of Communities? Emerging Dynamics in the Community Media Paradigm

Christopher Ali
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 3-23
"Recent years have seen numerous attempts by community broadcasters around the world to reinvent their practices in an effort to remain relevant and financially sustainable in the digital age. One proposed initiative is to have community programming distributed via satellite, either in the form of a ... 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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Digital News Report 2015

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 109 pp.
"We see the smartphone more clearly as the defining device for digital news with a disruptive impact on consumption, formats, and business models. Our data suggest it provides an environment dominated by a few successful brands, with others struggling to reach a wider audience, both via apps and bro ... more
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Evidence Supporting a Promotora-Delivered Entertainment Education Intervention for Improving Mothers' Dietary Intake: The 'Entre Familia: Reflejos De Salud' Study

Guadalupe X. Ayala et al.
Journal of Health Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-176
"Entertainment education and the promotora model are 2 evidence-based health communication strategies. This study examined their combined effect on promoting healthy eating among mothers in a family-based intervention. Participants were 361 Mexican-origin families living in Imperial County, Californ ... 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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Local News in a Digital Age

Pew Research Center (2015), 159 pp.
"This report was produced by the Pew Research Center and aims at understanding the news ecology of three distinct metropolitan areas in the United States: Denver, Colorado; Macon, Georgia; and Sioux City, Iowa. Data in this report are drawn from separate analyses, each with its own methodology: a su ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more
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Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.
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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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Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability

Penelope Muse Abernathy
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2014), 254 pp.
"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers – from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago – "Saving Community Journalism" is designed to help journalists an ... more
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Front Line Public Diplomacy: How US Embassies Communicate with Foreign Publics

W. Rugh
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 276 pp.
"This book is about public diplomacy as it is practiced by American diplomats at US embassies around the world. The focus is intentionally on field operations, since that is an aspect of public diplomacy that has been neglected in the literature. The book shows how American diplomats cope with the c ... more
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The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism

Cecil M. Robeck (ed.)
New York: Cambridge University Press (2014), xiii, 340 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more
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Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online Environment

Carol Winkler, Cori Elizabeth Dauber (eds.)
Carlisle, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army War College Press; Strategic Studies Institute (2014), x, 242 pp.
"Visual images have been a central component of propaganda for as long as propaganda has been produced. But recent developments in communication and information technologies have given terrorist and extremist groups options and abilities they never would have been able to come close to even 5 or 10 ... more
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Messaging and Methods for Behavioral Change Media Campaigns: What Makes Effective Anti-Violence Media?

Frank Battaglini, Jamie Dougherty, John Klofas
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Public Safety Initiatives (2014), 24 pp.
"Technological evolution has rewritten the books on media campaigns many times. However, some things have remained the same. First, media campaigns must come from multiple sources. They must employ printed materials, radio and television public service announcements, and internet technologies, such ... more
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Emerging News Non-Profits: A Case Study for Rebuilding Community Trust?

Magda Konieczna, Sue Robinson
Journalism, volume 15, issue 8 (2014), pp. 968-986
"A new news disseminator has emerged to revitalize the profession of information gathering – the non-profit news organization. Adopting a framework of community trust, this article begins a scholarly response to the questions: Who are these non-profit journalists and what do they aim to accomplish ... more