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Media and Global Climate Knowledge: Journalism and the IPCC

Risto Kunelius, Elisabeth Eide, Matthew Tegelberg, Dmitry Yagodin (eds.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xx, 309 pp.
"This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key elem ... more
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Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century
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Zahera Harb (ed.)
London; New York: Tauris (2017), xii, 226 pp.
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What if We All Governed the Internet? Advancing Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance

Anri van der Spuy
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 108 pp.
"The research in these pages covers the theory around multistakeholder participation in Internet governance through a review of relevant literature. It also analyses case studies from Kenya to Brazil, South Korea, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which illustrate how multistakeholder approac ... more
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Thought Work Contested: Ideology and Journalism Education in China

Maria Repnikova
China Quarterly, issue 230 (2017), pp. 399-419
"This article examines the dynamic evolution of China's ideology work through the prism of journalism education. Official sensitivity about both student activism and the media makes journalism education a critical sector for observing how the Party attempts to instil ideology. The article interrogat ... more
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Der neue Fischer Weltalmanach 2018: Schwerpunkt Pressefreiheit

Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2017), 736 pp.
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Information Needs of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

Sébastien Duhaut (dir.)
Altai Consulting; CFI (2017), 168 pp.
"This report presents the result of a quantitative survey carried out in March 2017 using a representative sample of 1104 individuals (Syrian refugees and host community members over 12 years old), weighted for location, gender and age, across the three main host countries for Syrian refugees (Jorda ... more
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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study

Scott Griffen
Barbara Trionfi (ed.)
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.
"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat ... more
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Conflict and Peace Journalism: Role of Media in Pakistan

Muhammad Zubair Iqbal, Shabir Hussain
Strategic Studies, volume 37, issue 2 (2017), pp. 90-108
"This study aims to investigate the reporting of major conflicts in Pakistan by two leading TV channels i.e. Geo TV and Dunya TV, to ascertain the nature of the coverage in terms of being escalatory or deescalatory. It aims to explore these conflicts from a peace journalism perspective. The conflict ... more
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Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia: Use of Celebrity and its Influence on Society, Culture and Communication

Vivienne Leung, Kimmy Cheng, Tommy Tse (eds.)
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2017), x, 189 pp.
"Offering a rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia deconstructs the dynamics of “stardom” and celebrity endorsement in East Asia, and examines its impact on marketing communications and media. Through first ... more
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New Directions in the Study of Africa–China Media and Communications Engagements

Bob Wekesa
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 1 (2017), pp. 11-24
"The Africa–China media and communications field is a nascent but rapidly growing one. This paper provides an overview of the field, followed by a discussion of the theoretical pathways that can be considered as productive in taking the field forward. The paper argues for the need for rigorous the ... more
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Project of a Community Radio Station in the Multi-Religious Context of the Diocese of Neyyattinkara (Kerala, India)

Justin Dominic Elsy
Rome: Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Facoltà di Comunicazione Sociale Istituzionale, Master Thesis (2017), xv, 161 pp.
"First chapter explained the concept of CR and those three key aspects such as: non-profit, community ownership and management, and community participation [...] Second chapter spoke entirely about the situation of CR in India. It has emphasised the history and growth of CR in India through six phas ... more
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Effective Communication During Disasters: Making Use of Technology, Media, and Human Resources

Girish Bobby Kapur, Sarah Bezek, Jonathan Dyal (eds.)
Oakville, Ontario; Waretown, NJ: Apple Academic Press (2017), xxvi, 284 pp.
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Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture

Nele Lenze, Charlotte Schriwer, Zubaidah Abdul Jalil (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxxii, 265 pp.
"This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions of the media’s influence on ... more
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Media Power in Indonesia: Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital Revolution

Ross Tapsell
London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2017), xxix, 172 pp.
"Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. While official statistics suggest that internet penetration is low, over 70 million Indonesians have a Facebook account, the fourth highest group in the world. Jakarta is the Twit ... more
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Indian Women Journalists’ Responses to Sexism and Sexual Harassment

Kalyani Chadha, Linda Steiner, Pallavi Guha
International Communication Research Journal, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), ?? pp.
"This research examines the everyday sexism and workplace sex discrimination experienced by women journalists in India. Nearly all of the popular and scholarly attention to the experiences of Indian women journalists has focused on high profile instances of rape and sexual assault. But this focus on ... more
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Taliban Narratives: The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
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Thomas H. Johnson
London: Hurst (2017), xxxvi, 376 pp.
"Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan Government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source materials, examines the infor ... more
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The Political Economy of Media Capture: What Influences Media Capture in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and How Does This Present Opportunities and Challenges for Progress in Achieving Key Components of SDG 16?

Pamela Jiménez Cárdenas, Antony Declercq, Mandy Shi Lai, Nathan Rasquinet
London: London School of Economics (LSE), Capstone Project (2017), vii, 75 pp.
"In South Sudan, media capture, media market and audience segmentation are driven by: the ongoing civil conflict (since 2013), ethnic and linguistic divisions, a lack of rule of law, the legacy of clientelistic networks in the media and the government, a stark urban-rural divide, and a lack of infra ... more
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Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xv, 234 pp.
"This book provides a fresh perspective on the importance of the Hindi media in India's political, social and economic transformation with evidence from the countryside and the cities. Accessed by more than forty percent of the public, it continues to play an important role in building political awa ... more
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A Study on Indian Journalists and their Stressful Working Conditions

Trishu Sharma
International Journal of Research in Informative Science Application & Techniques, volume 1, issue 1 (2017), pp. 35-39
"Journalism is considered as fourth pillar of any democratic society and it is only a Journalist who can take many challenges to bring truth in front of society. But sometimes journalist has to face difficult and stressful conditions while working in field where they have serious threat for their li ... more
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Puppetry for Education: Breaking Down Barriers for Inclusive Education

Save the Children (2017), 5 pp.
"This is a case story demonstrating how puppetry was integrated into educational programmes in Myanmar to address disabilities and the importance of an inclusive education." (Publisher description)