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The hierarchy of global suffering: a critical discourse analysis of television news reporting on foreign natural disasters
Journal of international communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61
"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise...
Anti-American sentiment as a media effect? Arab media, political identity, and public opinion in the Middle East
Communication research, volume 38, issue 5 (2011), pp. 684-709
"Many have attributed anti-American sentiment within Arab countries to a highly negative information environment propagated by transnational Arab satellite TV news channels such as Al-Jazeera. However, theoretical models and empirical evidence evaluating the linkages between media exposure and opini...
Wider die Symbiose: Plädoyer für die Professionalisierung der Verhältnisse zwischen Hilfsorganisationen und Journalisten
Publizistik, volume 56, issue 3 (2011), pp. 327-340
"The analysis deals with the presentation of hunger and related emergencies in the mass media. It focuses on problems and structures of journalistic production processes and symbiotic relationships between the media and the aid industry. Mass media often create the impression that “hunger” occur...
The practice of public diplomacy: confronting challenges abroad
New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2011), xviii, 262 pp.
ISBN 978-0-230-11322-0 (print); 978-1-283-09673-7 (ebook)
"Relying heavily on scores of first-hand accounts collected through interviews, the studies examine the practice of public diplomacy largely from the perspective of American practitioners in different countries. The analyses follow the standard field officer approach, asking systematically: what iss...
China in Africa: a new approach to media development?
Oxford; London:
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford; Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research
(2010), 21 pp., bibliogr. p.21
"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi...
Global crisis reporting: journalism in the global age
Maidenhead:
Open University Press
(2009), xiv, 199 pp., illustr., glossary p.172-177, bibliogr. p.178-191, index
ISBN 978 0335 22138 7 (pbk); 978 0335 22139 4 (hbk)
"Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age sets out to better understand the media’s role in the circulation and communication of these global challenges to humanity as well as the conflicts and contentions that surround them. Concerned as we are with crises that transcend national bor...
Global humanitarianism and the changing aid-media field: "everyone was dying for footage"
Journalism studies, volume 8, issue 6 (2007), pp. 862-878
"The crucial interaction between humanitarian agencies and the media has been researched in the past but today it continues to evolve and change—and not for the better. This article, drawing on accounts from communications managers working inside the world's major aid agencies (Red Cross, Oxfam, S...
The media and the Rwanda genocide
Contributor(s): Kofi Annan Statement by
London; Kampala; Ottawa:
Pluto Press; Fountain Publishers; International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
(2007), xvi, 463 pp., index, bibliogr. p.447-454
ISBN 978-0-7453-2625-2 (pbk); 978-0-7453-2626-9 (hbk)
"This book examines the crucial role the media played in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, bringing together local reporters and commentators from Rwanda, Western journalists, and media theorists. Part One (eight articles) describes and analyzes "Hate Media in Rwanda", mainly, but not exclusively, focusing ...
Transnational television worldwide: towards a new media order
London et al.:
Tauris
(2005), viii, 264 pp., tables, index
"This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels. It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe. Revealing great richness and diversity across some of the world’s main geocultural...
"We are all natives now": an overview of international and development communication research
Communication yearbook, volume 24 (2001), pp. 159-186
ISBN 0-7619-2246-6
"This chapter reviews the historical and conceptual parameters of the international communication research area, followed by a focus on communication and development. Both parts of the chapter define the scope of the areas discussed, summarize the main theoretical approaches, and present major trend...
Satellite realms: transnational television, globalization and the Middle East
London; New York:
Tauris
(2001), xiii, 266 pp., bibliogr. p.243-251, index
"In transcending territorial boundaries, satellite television has the potential to liberate viewers from government controls on national media. Why is this potential liberation yet to be fully realized in the Middle East? This dynamic book explores the development through the 1990s into the 21st cen...
World communication report: the media and the challenge of the new technologies
Paris:
UNESCO
(1997), 298 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.280-283, abbrev. p.284-287, glossary p.288-298
ISBN 92-3-103428-6
"The purpose of producing a second edition of the World Communication Report was pragmatic: the aim was to provide a reference work for decision-makers, planners, researchers, students, media professionals and the general public. In view of the scope of the subjects covered and the rapid outdating o...
The news media, civil war, and humanitarian action
Boulder, Colo.; London:
Rienner
(1996), xi, 123 pp., abbrev. p.106-107, glossary p.108, bibliogr. p.109-110, index
"This brief volume looks at institutional interactions between the news media (both print and electronic) on the one hand, and government policymakers and humanitarian agencies on the other. Case studies from Liberia, Northern Iraq, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Haiti, and Rwanda distill some of t...
Deutschland und Lateinamerika: Imagebildung und Informationslage
Frankfurt am Main:
Vervuert
(1987), 143 pp., tables
ISBN 3-921600-60-X
