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Ethics and Cyber Warfare: The Quest for Responsible Security in the Age of Digital Warfare

George Lucas

New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 187 pp.

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Entertainment-Education and Health and Risk Messaging
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Suruchi Sood, Amy Henderson Riley, Kristine Cecile Alarcon

Oxford University Press (2017)

"Entertainment-education (EE) began as a communication approach that uses both entertainment and education to engender individual and social change, but is emerging as a distinct theoretical, practice, and evidence-based communication subdiscipline. EE has roots in oral and performing arts tradition ... s spanning thousands of years, such as morality tales, religious storytelling, and the spoken word. Modern-day EE, meanwhile, is produced in both fiction and nonfiction designs that include many formats: local street theater, music, puppetry, games, radio, television, and social media. A classic successful example of EE is the children’s television program Sesame Street, which is broadcast in over 120 countries. EE, however, is a strategy that has been successfully planned, implemented, and evaluated in countries around the world for children and adults alike. EE scholarship has traditionally focused on asking, “Does it work?” but more recent theorizing and research is moving toward understanding how EE works, drawing from multidisciplinary theories. From a research standpoint, such scholarship has increasingly showcased a wide range of methodologies. The result of these transformations is that EE is becoming an area of study, or subdiscipline, backed by an entire body of theory, practice, and evidence. The theoretical underpinnings, practice components, and evidence base from EE may be surveyed via the peer- reviewed literature published over the past 10 years. However, extensive work in social change from EE projects around the world has not all made it into the published literature. EE historically began as a communication approach, one tool in the communication toolbox. Over time, the nascent approach became its own full-fledged strategy focused on individual change. Backed by emerging technologies, innovative examples from around the globe, and new variations in implementation, it becomes clear that the field of EE is emerging into a discrete theoretical, practice, and evidence-based subdiscipline within communication that increasingly recognizes the inherent role of individuals, families, communities, organizations, and policies on improving the conditions needed for lasting social change." (Summary) more

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Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

Sujatha Fernandes

New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xii, 212 pp.

"Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies. She argues that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams th ... more

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.

"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more

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Social Media: Enduring Principles

Ashlee Humphreys

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xviii, 302 pp.

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Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy

David Karpf

New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xiv, 203 pp.

"Some of the most remarkable impacts of digital media on political activism lie not in the new types of speech it provides to disorganized masses, but in the new types of listening it fosters among organized pressure groups. Beneath the easily visible waves of e-petitions, “likes,” hashtags, and ... more

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Information and Civil Unrest in Dictatorships

Elizabeth Ann Stein

Oxford University Press (2016)

"This is a broad overview of the role of information in various forms for key actors in dictatorships, including members of the regime, dissident leaders, and the general public. The existing literature implies that information is crucial to the dynamic interactions among these actors, particularly ... more

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Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship

Eric Heinze

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xiii, 248 pp.

"Contrary to dominant views within international law and institutions, it is never democratically legitimate to punish citizens solely for repulsive or dangerous viewpoints expressed within public discourse. With the controversial exception of the US, however, most states prohibit some forms of raci ... more

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Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia

Mohamed Zayani

New York: Oxford University Press (2015), xv, 275 pp.

"How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance have emerged from the aspirations of digitally empowered citizens? This book tells the compelling story of the concu ... more

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Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), xiv, 322 pp.

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Cyberpsychology

Alison Attrill (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), xi, 278 pp.

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Media, Conflict, and Political Transitions in Africa

Nicole Stremlau, Iginio Gagliardone

In: Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 289-302

"In this chapter, we explore the role of the media in the context of Africa's broader democratization trends through an examination of three main areas: the media as political actors in conflict; the challenge of looking beyond formal state structures to informal governance in order to better unders ... more

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Cyberwar: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts

Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern, Claire Finkelstein (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), xxxii, 274 pp.

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Does the Watchdog Need Watching in South East Asia?

Mark R. Thompson

In: Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 277-288

"In the transitional states of South East Asia, an alternative media helped mobilize support for popular uprisings against authoritarian rule. In a democratizing context which promoted press freedom, joumalists emphasized their role as ‘watchdogs‘, striving to ensure that new political leaders d ... more

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Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project

Gustavo Cardoso, Guo Liang, Tiago Lapa

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 216-236

"This chapter reviews the diffusion, uses, and impacts of the Internet worldwide and over time. The World Internet Project has been intended to become the vehicle for tracking what happens as households and nations adopt and use the Internet. The study of the connection between the Internet and soci ... more

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The Internet and Democracy

Helen Margetts

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 421-437

"To conclude, it is helpful to consider the work reviewed here under the headings provided by Beetham (2002)'s definition of democracy: popular control, and political equality. With respect to popular control, it seems to be the case that the Internet facilitates a "way in" for citizens in a democra ... more

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The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication

Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, Atef Alshaer

New York: Oxford University Press (2014), vii, 229 pp.

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