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The Poverty of Television: The Mediation of Suffering in Class-Divided Philippines

Jonathan Corpus Ong
London: Anthem Press (2015), 226 pp.
"Based on an extensive ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television. Arguing for an anthropological ethics of media, t ... more
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Censorship and Conscience: Foreign Authors and the Challenge of Chinese Censorship

PEN American Center (2015), 29 pp.
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Literatur in Nordkorea

Yong Sun Jeon
In: Länderbericht Korea
Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 612-621
"Das Material für die nordkoreanische Literatur schöpft sich zum allergrößten Teil aus Kim Il Sungs bewaffnetem Revolutionskampf gegen Japan. Schriftsteller und Künstler lassen die Schauplätze der antijapanischen Revolution wiederauferstehen und deren Geist wiederaufleben [...] Dabei hat der I ... more
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Social Media and Collective Remembrance: The Debate Over China’s Great Famine on Weibo

Hui Zhao, Jun Liu
China Perspectives, issue 1 (2015), pp. 41-48
"This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in articulating individuals’ experiences and memories and (re-)shaping collective memory in contemporary China. It investigates how social media enable and facilitate the participation of ordinary citizens in distributing an ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Deep Insights

Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 486 pp.
"The study of Chinese media is a field that is growing and evolving at an exponential rate. Not only are the Chinese media a fascinating subject for analysis in their own right, but they also offer scholars and students a window to observe multi-directional flows of information, culture and communic ... more
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Asian Comics

John A. Lent
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.
"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp ... more
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Censored Gender: Women’s Right to Freedom of Expression and Information in Myanmar

Yin Yadanar Thein et al.
London: Article 19 (2015), 91 pp.
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Broadcasting Justice: Media Outreach at the Khmer Rouge Trials

Christoph Sperfeldt
Honolulu: East-West Center (2014), 12 pp.
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Beyond State-Centric Frameworks: Transversal Media and the Stateless in the Burmese Borderlands

Lisa Brooten
In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication
Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 142-162
"Transversal dissent by communities whose actions and identities are no longer primarily state centric but, rather, have shifted to cross identity boundaries is one of the most important developments for understanding how politics is being transformed today. Burmese media groups, political activists ... more
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Analysing the Scope and Influence of China’s International Media in Sub-Saharan Africa

Elisabet Helander
[author] (2014), 31 pp.
"In a pilot field study, conducted in February 2014 in Kenya and Uganda, news journalists reflected on the use of and interest in the Chinese international media offered in East Africa at the moment. An earlier survey, done in 2009, showed that Kenyan journalists emphasized several factors that play ... more
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Media Use in Cambodia

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 2 pp.
"A majority (57%) of Cambodians say they watch TV news at least weekly, with urban residents considerably more likely than their rural counterparts to do so. Radio follows, used for news by 42,9% overall and equally prevalent in urban and rural areas. About one in 10 Cambodians overall now say they ... more
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Maintaining Social Connectedness in a Fast-Changing World: Examining the Effects of Mobile Phone Uses on Loneliness Among Teens in Tibet

Xun Liu, Xinchuan Liu, Ran Wei
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 3 (2014), pp. 318-334
"This study examines how Tibetan teens use the mobile phone to maintain their social networks and how their social network connections via the mobile phone in turn affect their psychological well-being. In doing so, the study explores the effect of motives for mobile phone use and mobile phone skill ... more
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Chinese Soft Power and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of China’s New Diaspora Engagement Policies in the Xi Era

Ding Sheng
Seoul: East Asia Institute (EAI) (2014), 22 pp.
"The communist government’s diaspora engagement policy in the Xi era represents a departure from tradition. Not only is it a very non-ideological policy, but it is also based on Xi’s vision of public diplomacy— indigenizing public diplomacy approaches and instruments to accommodate the needs a ... more
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De-Americanizing Soft Power Discourse?

Daya Kishan Thussu
Los Angeles: USC Center on Public Diplomacy; Figueroa Press (2014), 31 pp.
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A Gesture of Compliance: Media Convergence in China

Liangen Yin, Xiaoyan Liu
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 5 (2014), pp. 561-577
"This study aims to examine journalistic convergence in China. Using qualitative data drawn from the case study of Shenzhen Press Group in Guangdong, South China, we argue that the media's response to the Chinese government's push for media convergence is simply a gesture of compliance. While media ... more
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Länderbericht China

Doris Fischer, Christoph Müller-Hofstede (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2014), 1030 pp.
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Why Information Matters: A Foundation for Resilience
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Tara Susman-Peña
Internews (2014), 84 pp.
"This report: 1. Defines “information ecosystems” and proposes an analytic framework of eight critical dimensions for understanding them; 2. Analyzes information ecosystems across a spectrum of change and their impact on resilience, referencing four case studies of Internews’ previous work [In ... more
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Final Evaluation Report for the Project: Countering & Preventing Radicalization in Indonesian Pesantren

Lanny Octavia, Esti Wahyuni
Search for Common Ground (2014), 75 pp.
"Overall, the evaluators found that the project’s approach was quite relevant in promoting religious freedom and preventing religious radicalization. The project targeted pesantrens affiliated to the traditional Islam Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), and at the same time, it empowered the mainstream moderate ... more
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Citizen Participation and Technology

Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute (NDI) (2014), 67 pp.
"Using case studies from countries such as Burma, Mexico and Uganda, the study explores whether the use of technology in citizen participation programs amplifies citizen voices and increases government responsiveness and accountability, and whether the use of digital technology increases the politic ... more
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Digital News Report 2014

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 93 pp.
"The use of smartphones and tablets has jumped significantly in the past year, with fewer people using their computers for news. More than a third of online news users across all countries (39%) use two or more digital devices each week for news and a fifth (20%) now say their mobile phone is their ... more