North America
Filter
1500
Featured
Topics
53
48
44
39
38
38
37
36
35
34
33
33
31
30
29
28
28
27
26
25
24
23
23
22
22
22
22
22
21
21
20
20
20
20
20
19
19
19
19
19
18
18
18
18
18
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
9
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
7
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Language
Document type
171
136
78
68
46
29
24
21
20
19
16
12
7
6
6
4
3
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Countries / Regions
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Methods applied
Journals
Output Type
 External Link  (96)
 Google Scholar  (88)
 WorldCat  (82)
 Add to my commbox

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

Thomas K. Nakayama (ed.)
Chichester (UK); Malden, MA; New York: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xvii, 630 pp.
 External Link  (63)
 Google Scholar  (67)
 WorldCat  (69)
 Add to my commbox

The Practice of Public Diplomacy: Confronting Challenges Abroad

William A. Rugh
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xviii, 262 pp.
"Relying heavily on scores of first-hand accounts collected through interviews, the studies examine the practice of public diplomacy largely from the perspective of American practitioners in different countries. The analyses follow the standard field officer approach, asking systematically: what iss ... more
 Download  (27)
 Add to my commbox

Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability

Michele McLellan, Mayur Patel
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 27 pp.
"This report is based on an extensive analysis of several nonprofit news sites conducted by Community Wealth Ventures (CWV), a management consulting firm that focuses on innovative approaches to the growth and sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Knight Foundation commissioned the review as pa ... more
 External Link  (84)
 Google Scholar  (89)
 WorldCat  (70)
 Add to my commbox

The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and the Passing of Traditional Society

Hemant Shah
Philadelphia: Temple University Press (2011), viii, 218 pp.
"Daniel Lerner's 1958 book 'The Passing of Traditional Society' was central in shaping Cold War-era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. Based on a study of the effectiveness of propaganda in the Middle East, Lerner's book cla ... more
 External Link  (70)
 Add to my commbox

Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development

Anne Nelson
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.
"This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. The field of private sector funding of independent media abroad has continued to undergo a massive upheaval over the past two years. Both the 2008 r ... more
 External Link  (66)
 Google Scholar  (63)
 WorldCat  (58)
 Add to my commbox

Voice of America in the Post-Cold War Era: Opportunities and Challenges to External Media Services Via New Information and Communication Technology

Shaojung Sharon Wang, Junhao Hong
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 4 (2011), pp. 343-358
"This study examines Voice of America’s (VOA) services in the post-Cold War era within the framework of the information revolution and globalization. The use of new information venues has caused VOA to evolve from a pure propaganda machine to a notion of informational soft power. However, this stu ... more
 External Link  (74)
 Google Scholar  (74)
 WorldCat  (68)
 Add to my commbox

Journalism Education, Training and Employment

Bob Franklin, Donica Mensing (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2011), xii, 236 pp.
"During this period of rapid and significant change in journalistic practices, journalism educators are re-examining their own profession and contributing to the invention of new models and practices. This edited volume of studies by respected international scholars describes the diverse issues jour ... more
 External Link  (67)
 Google Scholar  (72)
 WorldCat  (67)
 Add to my commbox

"Ugly Betty" and the Emergence of the Latina/o Producers as Cultural Translators

Juan Pinon
Communication Theory, volume 21, issue 4 (2011), pp. 392-412
"A critical examination of Betty's adaptation process sheds light on the disjuncture between global television distribution trends and national television markets' business cultures. The process of bringing the "ugly duckling" format to the English-language mainstream media market can be better unde ... more
 External Link  (73)
 Google Scholar  (69)
 WorldCat  (71)
 Add to my commbox

Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
Deep Insights

John D. H. Downing (ed.)
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage (2011), xxvii, 602 pp.
"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries [...] The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented amon ... more
 External Link  (85)
 Add to my commbox

Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.
"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more
 External Link  (80)
 Google Scholar  (74)
 WorldCat  (68)
 Add to my commbox

Coping with traumatic stress in journalism: A critical ethnographic study

Marla Buchanan, Patrice Keats
International Journal of Psychology, volume 46, issue 2 (2011), pp. 127-135
"Journalists who witness trauma and disaster events are at risk for physical, emotional, and psychological injury. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a critical ethnographic study among 31 Canadian journalists and photojournalists with regard to coping strategies used to buffer t ... more
 Google Scholar  (64)
 WorldCat  (60)
 Add to my commbox

Essentials of Public Health Communication

Claudia F. Parvanta, David E. Nelson, Sarah A. Parvanta, Richard N. Harner (eds.)
Sudbury, Mass. et al.: Jones & Bartlett Learning (2011), xxxi, 409 pp.
 External Link  (59)
 Add to my commbox

Netzpolitik aus internationaler Perspektive: Länderberichte aus den USA, Großbritannien, Spanien, Polen, Indien und Korea

Tobias Wangermann, Helmut Reifeld (eds.)
Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 114 pp.
"Die Forderung nach Sicherheit im Internet, besonders in Hinblick auf die persönlichen Daten, die Gewährung der Freiheit dieses Mediums ohne staatliche Eingriffe, die Diskussion um adäquate Formen des Urheberrechts und seiner Durchsetzung sowie eine Fokussierung auf die Risiken verbunden mit eine ... more
 Google Scholar  (79)
 WorldCat  (95)
 Add to my commbox

Piratages audiovisuels: Les voies souterraines de la mondialisation culturelle

Tristan Mattelart (ed.)
Brussels: De Boeck (2011), 304 pp.
Souvent considéré comme une activité des plus nuisibles, le piratage des contenus audiovisuels n’en constitue pas moins, depuis des décennies, pour de nombreuses populations aux quatre coins du monde, un moyen majeur d’accéder aux produits des industries culturelles. Nourri d’enquêtes de ... more
 External Link  (77)
 Google Scholar  (72)
 WorldCat  (75)
 Add to my commbox

The Power of Global Community Media
Deep Insights

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.
"Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of g ... more
 External Link  (81)
 Add to my commbox

Observatorio iberoamericano de la ficción televisiva (Obitel) 2011: Calidad de la ficción televisiva y participación transmediática de las audiencias

Guillermo Orozco Gómez, Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes (eds.)
São Paulo: Globo Comunicação e Participações (2011), 585 pp.
"A través de un estudio sistemático basado en el monitoreo de las producciones de ficción televisiva, este anuario presenta y analiza datos de producción, circulación, distribución y consumo de programas de ficción exhibidos en el 2010 y presenta una síntesis comparativa de lo que fue el añ ... more
 Download  (31)
 Add to my commbox

The Primetime War on Drugs & Terror: An Analysis of Depictions of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs in Popular Primetime Television Programs

Johanna Blakley, Sheena Nahm
Norman Lear Center; Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism (2011), 33 pp.
 Download  (22)
 Add to my commbox

Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
 External Link  (74)
 Add to my commbox

The Field of Nonprofit Funding of Journalism in the United States

Lewis A. Friedland, Magda Konieczna
Dortmund; Berlin: Technische Universität Dormund, Institut für Journalistik; Forum for Active Philanthropy (2011), 36 pp.
 External Link  (78)
 Google Scholar  (75)
 WorldCat  (74)
 Add to my commbox

Consumption of US Television and Films in Northeastern Mexico

José-Carlos Lozano
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 8 (2011), pp. 685-705
"This article explores the consumption patterns of local and foreign film and television content of Mexican audiences living in the Northeast region of the country, a region bordering with the United States. Based on telephone surveys in four of the largest cities in the area (Reynosa, Monterrey, Sa ... more