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O Holocausto no cinema
Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos, volume , issue 501 (2017), pp. 14-49
ISSN 1981-8769 (print); 1981-8793 (online)
Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of peace research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
" ... To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jou...
Das Theater der Unterdrückten und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Afghanistan: kollektive Ermächtigung und neue Dependenzen
Peripherie, volume 37, issue 1 (2017), pp. 52-75
CC BY-SA
"Seit März 2007 organisieren lokale und internationale Aktivist*innen in verschiedenen Teilen Afghanistans beinah täglich Aktivitäten mit den unterschiedlichen Techniken des Theaters der Unterdrückten (TdU) des Brasilianers Augusto Boal (1931-2009) sowie anderen emanzipatorischen Theatermethoden...
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...
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...
Environmental news in South America: conflict, crisis and contestation
London:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2017), xi, 168 pp., 28 illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-137-47499-5 (pdf); 978-1-137-47498-8 (print)
"Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, ...
Media framing of democratisation conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: a content analysis
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media
(2017), 26 pp.
ISSN 2057-4002
"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S...
Africa peace journalism: a manual for media practitioners in East Africa
Rongo (KE):
Peace and Security (CMDPS) Democracy Center for Media Rongo University
(2017), xiv, 71 pp.
ISBN 978-9966-825-30-8
Other Editions: also published as "Peace Journalism in East Africa: A Manual for Media Practitioners". Routledge, 2020
"This publication is the outcome of the “East Africa Regional Peace Journalism Training Workshop” for journalists covering conflict and peacebuilding in East Africa. Organized by Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace, and Security (CMDPS) in partnership with the African Peacebu...
The kidnapping of journalists: reporting from high-risk conflict zones
London:
Tauris
(2016), vii, 100 pp.
ISBN 978-1-784535896
"This book explores the complex organisational issues surrounding the capture or kidnapping of journalists in areas of conflict and risk. It explores how journalists 'becoming news' is covered and the implications of that coverage, how news organisations prepare for and respond to such events, and h...
Zimbabwe’s state-controlled public media and the mediation of the 1980s genocide 30 years on
Journal of African media studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 145-165
"Since the end of genocide in 1987 Zimbabwe has remained a zone of ‘conflicts’, and the enduring debates surrounding this genocide, especially in public-owned but state-Controlled media, call for critical attention. Three years after independence, in 1980, Zimbabwe was plunged into a genocide na...
Fake news: the narrative battle over the Ukrainian conflict
Journalism practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 891-901
"The crisis in Ukraine has accentuated the position of Russian television as the government’s strongest asset in its information warfare. The internet, however, allows other players to challenge the Kremlin’s narrative by providing counter-narratives and debunking distorted information and fake ...
Reporting about the past
Media Program South East Europe Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
(2016), 0,541666667
"During political system change and for coming to terms with conflicts, media are the most important mediators. They should help with making the past more transparent, in order to support the transition to democracy. Experts of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the international “Article 10 ECHR ...
YouTube and evidencing warcrimes: the role of digital video for transitional justice in Syria
Tidskriftet POLITIK, volume 19, issue 4 (2016), pp. 30-52
"The enormous collection of user-generated content (UGC) in the form of YouTube videos from the Syrian war provides an unprecedented and diverse collection of shared digital memories of conflict and violence. The central question of this article asks what the value is of UGC on YouTube for legal evi...
Der Film Hara Harwaa Reihaby von Emma Chodzaa als Instrument der staatlichen Beeinflussung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in Abchasien
Frankfurt, Oder:
Bachelor Thesis Europa-Universität Vidriana
(2016), 53 pp., 7 illustr., bibliogr. p.42-45
"Die Fallanalyse hat gezeigt, dass eine Erzählung vom Krieg 1992-93 propagiert wird, die einer abchasischen Version des Narrationsschemas 'Die Vertreibung von fremden Feinden' entspricht. Ein zentrales Element der Erzählung ist zudem, so ergab die Interpretation, eine betont positive Darstellung d...
The war correspondent
London:
Pluto Press
(2016) 2nd ed., x, 267 pp., index, bibliogr. p.245-258
ISBN 9780745333199 (hbk); 9780745333182 (pbk); 9781783717583 (pdf)
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2002
"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents...
Disaster drawn: visual witness, comics, and documentary form
Cambridge, Mass.; London:
Belknap Press; Harvard University Press
(2016), 359 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-0-674-50451-6 (hbk); 978-0-674-49564-7 (online)
"In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by d...
The other air force: U.S. efforts to reshape Middle Eastern media since 9/11
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London:
Rutgers University Press
(2016), ix, 216 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.191-198, index
ISBN 978-0-8135-7798-2
"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern...
"The goal of the Field Guide is to provide methods for filmers to use so that their videos can be as valuable as possible in exposing abuse and bringing about justice. This resource will help ensure that more cameras in more hands can lead to more exposure and greater justice. Activists producing fo...
Trauma and public memory
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2015), xii, 231 pp., index
ISBN 9781137406798 (print); 978-1-349-48806-3; 978-1-137-40680-4 (ebook)
"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle...
When the subaltern speaks: citizen journalism and genocide ‘victims’ voices online
African journalism studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101
"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly...
