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Information and Communication Technology and Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar: Organizing for Violence or Peace?

Anne Bergren, Catie Snow Bailard
Social Science Quarterly, volume 98, issue 3 (2017), pp. 895-913
"In a country as historically conflict ridden as Myanmar, will the reduced communication costs yielded by the recent expansion of mobile telephony create political affordances that make collective organization for peace or violence more likely to prevail? Applying a random effects model of time-seri ... more
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The exposure to traumatic events and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among Korean journalists

Mina Lee, Eun Hye Ha, Jung Kun Pae
Journalism, volume 19, issue 9-10 (2017), pp. 1308-1325
"This study investigated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms on Korean journalists and the contributing variables. Predicting variables included the exposure to traumatic events, coping strategy, social support, optimism, negative beliefs, and the journalists’ occupational perspectives. ... more
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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)
Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds; Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.
"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin ... more
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Unshackling Expression: A Study on Laws Criminalising Expression Online in Asia

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2017), 141 pp.
"In this special edition of GISWatch, Unshackling Expression, APC brings together analysis on the criminalisation of online expression from six Asian states: Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand. While the report mostly focuses on criminalisation, curbs placed on expression usin ... more
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In Media We Trust: Journalists and Institutional Trust Perceptions in Post-Authoritarian and Post-Totalitarian Countries

Alice N. Tejkalová et al.
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 629-644
"Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have i ... 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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The Lumad Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice: Alternative Media in a Socio-Environmental Movement in the Philippines

Belinda F. Espiritu
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 45-59
"This study examines the role of alternative media in the socio-environmental movement for justice for the Lumad, the indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines, and the fight to protect the environment in the Philippines from extractive companies and mono-crop plantations. Using thematic textua ... more
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Digital Culture and Religion in Asia

Sam Han, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
London: Routledge (2017), 129 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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Cyber China: Upgrading Propaganda, Public Opinion Work and Social Management for the Twenty-First Century

Rogier Creemers
Journal of Contemporary China, volume 26, issue 103 (2017), pp. 85-100
"The first two years of the Xi Jinping administration saw a thorough reconfiguration of Internet governance. This reconfiguration created a centralized and integrated institutional framework for information technologies, in support of an ambitious agenda to place digital technologies at the heart of ... more
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Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies

Dal Yong Jin (ed.)
Dordrecht: Springer (2017), vi, 247 pp.
"This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but als ... more
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Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global

Joshua Neves, Bhaskar Sarkar (eds.)
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2017), viii, 360 pp.
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Philippine and global research on news media safety: Crossing disciplines, bridging gaps

Ramon R. Tuazon, Paz H. Diaz, Therese Patricia C. San Diego
Media Asia, volume 44, issue 1 (2017), pp. 8-16
"This chapter therefore proposes steps toward closing the gaps in the research on the safety of journalists and media workers in the Philippines and across the globe. While there is no absence of research on the subject, there is a preponderance of anecdotal research and a lack of empirical studies. ... more
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Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context

Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2017), xxiv, 174 pp.
"Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in Chiang Mai University in December 2015. The chapters address assessments of Millennium Development Goals in se ... more
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Media Development, DAC, and China: Different Approaches, Same Public Diplomacy

Valerie A. Cooper
Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-37
"More than US $441 million was spent on media development worldwide in 2012, with African countries receiving 28% of that amount. This funding came from a variety of sources, including both established Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries and emerging donors such as China. These countrie ... more
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
Deep Insights

Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, Chris Paterson (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp ... more
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Global Media Giants
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Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gómez, Janet Wasko (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.
"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C ... 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)
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Gender Stereotypes Against Female Leaders in the Vietnamese Media

Hong Tien Vu, Tien-Tsung Lee, Hue Trong Duong, Barbara Barnett
Oxfam (2017), 52 pp.
"The frequencies of female leaders being sourced in the news were far lower than those of male leaders, especially in the government sector. This demonstrates that female leaders are disappointingly under-represented in the news despite their contribution and participation in the workforce. Female l ... more
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NGO Interpretation of Participatory Communication for Rural Cambodia: What is Lost in ‘translation’?

Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai
Journal of International Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2017), pp. 231-251
"Although the participatory communication is widely embraced by development agencies, few published studies critically examine how local NGOs interpret and implement the approach at the village level. This article analyses a Cambodian NGO’s attempts to engage grassroots involvement against key ten ... more