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The people in the pictures: vital perspectives on Save the Children’s image making. A research project to understand how contributors and their communities experience and perceive Save the Children’s communications and its image-making process
Save the Children
(2017), xi, 81 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.73-74
"Debates about the visual representations of global poverty have been going on for many years, yet the experiences and views of those featured have been notably absent. 'The People in the Pictures' addresses that gap. Save the Children commissioned research in the UK, Jordan, Bangladesh and Niger, t...
Manifestations of online hate speech: reports on antisemitic, antiziganistic, homophobic and anti-Muslim hate speech
Amsterdam:
International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH)
(2017), 232 pp.
"The aim of this report is to illustrate, on the basis of online hate speech examples from six countries - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain -, patterns of cyber hate against four communities. The topics that will be subsequently analysed are: antisemitism, antiziganism, h...
Fair use for nonfiction authors: common scenarios with guidance from community practice
Authors Alliance
(2017), 99 pp., index
"Nonfiction authors often use existing materials in their works: A historian excerpts a soldier’s letters to a loved one; an art critic reproduces a telling detail in a painting; a scientist quotes from a well-known article. Readers of nonfiction works expect new writing to reference and incorpora...
The instrumentalisation of mass media in electoral authoritarian regimes: evidence from Russia's presidential election campaigns of 2000 and 2008
Stuttgart:
ibidem-Verlag
(2017), viii, 283 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8382-1013-1
Other Editions: Universität Bremen, Doctoral Thesis, 2016: Effect of media manipulation strategies on news content in electoral authoritarian regimes: the case of Russia
"Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election? What effects do these strategies have on news content? Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008...
Non-Western theories of communication: indigenous ideas and insights
In: Intercultural Communication
Ling Chen (ed.)
Berlin; Boston:
De Gruyter Mouton
(2017), pp. 67-98
"This chapter presents an overview of non-Western communication theories for cross-cultural and intercultural research. The chapter specifically focuses on selected Afrocentric and Asiacentric theories of communication because they represent communication theories whose ideas and insights spring fro...
Inversión publicitaria en Internet: anual 2017
Lima:
GfK Perú; Interactive Advertising Bureau Perú
(2017), 4 slides
"La inversión digital crece con respecto al 2016 y una velocidad mucho mayor que la del año pasado. La cifra es de 342 millones de soles anuales (US$ 106M)." (slide 2)
The trauma graphic novel
New York; London:
Routledge
(2017), x, 179 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-138-23888-6 (pbk); 978-1-315-29661-6 (online)
"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s...
Perspectives from the global entertainment and media outlook 2017–2021: Curtain up! User experience takes center stage
Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc)
(2017), 40 pp.
"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an...
Cultural revolution in Iran: contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York:
Tauris
(2017) new paperback ed., xiv, 287 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-78453-513-1
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2013
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive...
We can! Taking action against hate speech through counter and alternative narratives
Cork:
Primento Digital Publishing
(2017) revised ed., 156 pp., bibliogr. p.167-169, glossary p.170-172
ISBN 978-92-871-8543-3 (ebook); 978-92-871-8445-0 (print)
Other Editions: also published in French
"WE CAN! is the latest addition to our toolbox against hate. The most damaging examples of hate speech are often grounded in simple stories, which are repeated over and over again in different forms. The migrants “taking our jobs” narrative, for example. Or the consistent claim, made by radicals...
Evade la censura en internet: cómo acceder a sitios web bloqueados o invisibles
Caracas:
Espacio Público
(2017), 0,541666667
Can the internet strengthen democracy?
Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA:
Polity
(2017), viii, 142 pp., bibliogr. p.120-125
ISBN 978-1-5095-0837-2 (pbk)
"In this short book, internationally renowned scholar of political communication, Stephen Coleman, argues that the best way to strengthen democracy is to re-invent it for the twenty-first century. Governments and global institutions have failed to seize the opportunity to democratise their ways of o...
Estándares internacionales de libertad de expresión: guía básica para operadores de justicia en América Latina
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2017), 39 pp.
" ... es una herramienta indispensable para operadores de justicia que tratan casos sobre la libertad de expresión. La guía, producida conjuntamente por la UNESCO y la oficina del Relator Especial para Libertad de Expresión (RELE) y escrita por Silvia Chocarro, es un mapa esencial de los estánda...
Investigating land and corruption in Africa: a training manual for journalists
Berlin:
Transparency International
(2017), 150 pp.
ISBN 978-3-96076-071-9
CC BY-ND
"This manual is for anyone who provides training and capacity-building for investigative journalists in Africa including facilitators, trainers, lecturers and teachers. It has been written to support journalists in Africa to investigate and report stories of land corruption; a subject that remains u...
Guía para combatir el discurso de odio
Madrid:
Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG)
(2017), 19 pp., bibliogr. p.18
"Esta guía elaborada por la Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) tiene como objetivo principal ofrecer orientaciones a las organizaciones que trabajan por la igualdad de trato y la no discriminación, a agentes clave y a la ciudadanía, sobre qué es el discurso de odio y cómo combatirlo más efic...
Politicizing digital space: theory, the internet, and renewing democracy
London:
University of Westminster Press
(2017), 154 pp., bibliogr. p.133-143, index
ISBN 978-1-911534-40-2 (ebook); 978-1-911534-40-2 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-ND
"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subje...
Tras las pistas de los dineros públicos: guía para investigar contratación pública y redes de poder
Consejo de Redacción; La Silla Vacía; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
(2017), 61 pp.
"Los periodistas que leamos esta guía, de principio a fin, encontraremos una ruta rápida para investigar procesos relacionados con la contratación pública y la identificación y construcción de redes de poder; a su vez, se encontrarán elementos para hacer consultas en bases de datos. Todo esto...
Thirty rising media markets 2016
London:
ZenithOptimedia
(2016), 51 pp.
"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon...
Countering Russian propaganda
per concordiam: Journal of European security and defense issues, volume , issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.
"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th...
Public support for the media: a six-country overview of direct and indirect subsidies
Oxford:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
(2016), 36 pp.
"This report reviews similarities and differences in public sector support for the media across a sample of six developed democracies – Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States – that represent a wide range of different media systems and different approaches to ...
