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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective

Monroe Price, Nicole Stremlau (eds.)
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.
"This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech an ... more
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Report on the Feature Documentary Film 'The Opium War': Focusing on the Director's Point of View

John La Raw
Seoul: Chung-Ang University, Gradutate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, Master Thesis (2018), xi, 82 pp.
"The main purpose of this report is to analyze the documentary feature film called 'The Opium War' based on the civilians' antidrug movement in the author's home place, Myanmar's Kachin state. The film mainly focuses on the antidrug movement 'Pat Jasan' organized by Myanmar civilians and which liter ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2018: The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism

Mai Truong, Jessica White, Allie Funk
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2018), 28 pp.
"Key findings: Declines outnumber gains for the eighth consecutive year. Out of the 65 countries assessed in Freedom on the Net, 26 experienced a deterioration in internet freedom. Almost half of all declines were related to elections; China trains the world in digital authoritarianism: Chinese offi ... more
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Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism

Adrija Dey
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp.
"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a ... more
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Freer But Not Free Enough? Chinese Journalists Finding Their Feet in Africa

Iginio Gagliardone, Nyíri Pál
Journalism, volume 18, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1049-1063
"The high-profile appearance of Chinese media organizations in Africa has attracted considerable attention. How Chinese correspondents in Africa actually go about their work is, however, little understood. A posting in Africa gives journalists at Xinhua News Agency or China Central Television a degr ... more
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Who Speaks for the Past? Social Media, Social Memory, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Contemporary China

Jun Liu
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 1675-1695
"This study explores the influence of social media on the (re)formation of social memory and the production of historical knowledge in society. It takes several contested debates over historical events and figures on Weibo, one of the most widely used social media, as the case to investigate how soc ... more
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Buchmarkt China (2018)

Peking: Buchinformationszentrum (BIZ) Peking (2018), 20 pp.
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Forbidden Feeds: Government Controls on Social Media in China

PEN America (2018), 90 pp.
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Nepal Media Landscape

Ujjwal Acharya
Maastricht (NL): European Journalism Centre (2018), 16 pp.
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Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto
Journal of Political Economy, volume 126, issue 2 (2018), pp. 451-491
"Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted ... more
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A New Responsible Power China? China's Public Diplomacy for Global Public Goods

Ines Sieckmann, Odila Triebel (eds.)
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2018), 85 pp.
"Is China's engagement in the global governance of global public goods (GPGs) credible in terms of China's projected image as a new responsible power? Only through global cooperation can GPGs such as climate and security be effectively provided. International decision-making structures are currently ... more
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'No News is Bad News' Programme: Internal Mid-Term Evaluation Pakistan

Free Press Unlimited (2018), 18 pp.
"The No News Is Bad News (NNIBN) programme started in January 2016. The aim of the NNIBN Programme is to work towards the following vision: media and journalists, as independent players in civil society, constitute a diverse and professional media landscape and function as change catalysts. This is ... more
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From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas

Daniel M. Veidlinger
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2018), x, 273 pp.
"In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution ... more
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Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media

Catherine Gomes, Brenda S. A. Yeoh (eds.)
London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), xxv, 216 pp.
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Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia

Kiran Prasad (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), ix, 199 pp.
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Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
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Yoel Cohen (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
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Citizen Journalists as an Empowering Community for Change: A Case Study of a Taiwanese Online Platform ‘PeoPo’

Chen-ling Hung
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Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
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Kept in the Dark: Social and Psychological Impacts of Network Shutdowns in India

Zothan Mawii, Ritu Srivastava, Shivani Lal, Bijo P. Abraham
New Delhi: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) (2018), 70 pp.
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Content Analysis of the Representation of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova in the Media of Kyrgyzstan in 2017

Elira Turdubaeva
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Hören, Sehen, Staunen: Kulturgeschichte des mündlichen Erzählens

Johannes Merkel
Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2018), 598 pp.
"Beim Stichwort „mündliches Erzählen“ denkt man hierzulande vor allem an „Märchen“, kurze und wundersame Erzählungen der Landbevölkerung vergangener Zeiten. Tatsächlich aber kannten alle Kulturen raffinierte Erzählkünste, die häufig auch Schriftliteratur und Theater inspirierten. Au ... more