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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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New Practices of Self-Representation: The Use of Online Media by Ahmadiyya and Shia Communities in Indonesia and Malaysia

Saskia Schäfer
In: New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Nadja-Christina Schneider, Carola Richter (eds.)
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), pp. 175-197
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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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Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: Focus on and Beyond the "Delhi Gang Rape"

Nadja-Christina Schneider, Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (eds.)
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2015), 217 pp.
"This volume aims to look both at as well as beyond the ‘Delhi Gang Rape’ through the lens of Indian Media Studies. The editors consider it a critical event, or rather critical media event that needs to be contextualized within a rapidly changing, diversifying and globalizing Indian society whic ... more
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"Stop Reporting or We'll Kill Your Family": Threats to Media Freedom in Afghanistan

Patricia Gossman
New York: Human Rights Watch (2015), 45 pp.
"Afghan journalists face threats from all sides: government officials exploiting weak legal protections to intimidate reporters and editors to compel them not to cover controversial topics; the Taliban and other insurgent groups using threats and violence to compel reporting they consider favorable; ... more
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Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China

Jingrong Tong
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiv, 204 pp.
"Modernisation becomes a hegemonic ideology in Chinese society, while China faces enormous environmental problems. Investigative Journalism, Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China argues that investigative journalism has constructed a discourse of environmental risk that is in contrast wi ... more
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A Counter-Public of a Different Kind: Tajik Youth, Religious Authority and the Medialisation of Islam

Jeanine Elif Dagyeli
In: New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
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Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), pp. 149-173
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Dakwah 2.0: Digital Dakwah, Street Dakwah and Cyber-Urban Activism Among Chinese Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia

Hew Wai Weng
In: New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
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Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), pp. 199-222
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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya
Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.
"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more
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New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance

Anke Schwittay
London: Routledge (2015), xv, 189 pp.
"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

Bill Sweeney (ed.)
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); Wiley (2015), 256 pp.
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New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World

Nadja-Christina Schneider, Carola Richter (eds.)
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), 372 pp.
"This book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The book is based on the assumption that social and cultural changes never originate exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depend on the chang ... more
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Between Legitimacy and Political Efficacy: Feminist Counter-Publics and the Internet in China

Iam-Chong Ip, Oi-Wan Lam
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender
Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner, Lisa McLaughlin (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 245-256
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Muslims in Cyberspace: Exploring Factors Influencing Online Religious Engagements in Malaysia

Azimaton Abdul Rahman, Nor Hazlina Hashim, Hasrina Mustafa
Media Asia, volume 42, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 61-73
"The emergence of Islam and Muslim public spheres in cyberspace has progressed along with the development of Information and Communication Technologies. Just like believers of other faiths, Muslim individuals are enthusiastic in sharing their faith, beliefs, and values at the click of a mouse. Based ... more
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Expression Restricted: An Account of Online Expression in Pakistan

Asad Baig, Sadaf Khan
Bytes for All; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); APC Impact (2015), 37 pp.
"How is freedom of expression in Pakistan’s digital spaces governed? What protections do journalists and bloggers enjoy? What is censored and how conducive is the environment for political and religious expression online? This research looks at these questions within the premise of an internationa ... more
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Balochistan: Reaping the Benefits of Peace Journalism

Shabir Hussain, Haseeb ur Rehman
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 14, issue 2 (2015), 12 pp.
"If the focus of peace journalism is to press for quality journalism during conflict reporting which will ultimately contribute to peace, then the findings of this study show that the available reporting on the Balochistan conflict passes the litmus test. The coverage is pro-people, and the reporter ... more
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Unfinished Freedom: A Blueprint for the Future of Free Expression in Myanmar

PEN American Center (2015), 46 pp.
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Freedom of the Press and Media Regulation in Cambodia: Approaches and Options for Democratic Diversity

Andreas Oldag
Phnom Penh: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 66 pp.
"Two basic principles should prevail for media regulation in Cambodia: 1. Consistent application of the principles of the rule of law on the basis of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and press (Art. 35 and 41: Cambodian Constitution). 2. Transparent and predictable regulative decision- ... more
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Blasphemy Law in Muslim-Majority Countries: Religion-State Relationship and Rights Based Approaches in Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey

Haidar Adam
Budapest: Central European University, Master Thesis (2015), iii, 61 pp.
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Threatened Harbor: Encroachments on Press Freedom in Hong Kong

PEN American Center (2015), 44 pp.