mediadev library

The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web

Jing Wang

Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press (2019), 312 pp.

"A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies." (Publisher description)

China and the Global Media Landscape: Remapping and Remapped

Gabriele Balbi, Fei Jiang, Giuseppe Richeri (eds.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2019), vi, 196 pp.

"In the last decade, the Chinese media have imposed themselves in the global arena and have started to become a reference point, in business and cultural terms, for other national media systems. This book explores how the global media landscape was changed by this revolutionary trend, and why and ho ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (7)

Karoronga, Kele’a, Talanoa, Tapoetethakot and Va: Expanding Millennial Notions of a ‘Pacific Way’ Journalism Education and Media Research Culture

David Robie

Media Asia, volume 46, issue 1-2 (2019), pp. 1-17

"University-based journalism education was introduced to the South Pacific in Papua New Guinea at independence in 1975 and in Fiji at the regional University of the South Pacific in 1987, while Technical Vocational Educational and Training institutions have been a more recent addition in the region. ... more

External Link (10)

WorldCat (9)

The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Top Insights

Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.

"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester ... more

External Link (12)

WorldCat (11)

Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia
Top Insights

Kalinga Seneviratne (ed.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), xiv, 353 pp.

"The model of journalism we practice in Asia is an adversarial one driven by conflict reporting, a model we have borrowed from the West. This book is an outcome of a project implemented by the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University and funded by the International Program for the D ... more

External Link (8)

From Media to Buen Vivir: Latin American Approaches to Indigenous Communication

Carlos Arcila Calderón, Alejandro Barranquero, Eva González Tanco

Communication Theory, volume 28, issue 2 (2018), pp. 180-201

"This article synthesizes the theoretical developments concerning Latin American indigenous communication formulated in the last decade (2005–2015). By conducting a review of the main theoretical frameworks that have deepened the issue, we observe a gradual progression from the dominance of extern ... more

Download (0)

Pensar desde el sur: Reflexiones acerca de los 30 años de "De los medios a las mediaciones" de Jesús Martín-Barbero

Omar Rincón (ed.)

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 189 pp.

External Link (12)

Contemporary BRICS Journalism: Non-Western Media in Transition
Top Insights

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 273 pp.

External Link (10)

WorldCat (6)

Chinese International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Gary D. Rawnsley

In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media

Gary D. Rawnsley; Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 460-475

"There are five key reasons why China encounters problems in trying to manage the global conversation. First, the power and scope of conversation is not under China's control, but rather resides in the audience [...] Second, the audience's image of China is conditioned by the politics of the country ... more

External Link (13)

Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective

Monroe Price, Nicole Stremlau (eds.)

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.

External Link (10)

WorldCat (9)

Here and There: (re)situating Latin America in International Communication Theory

Florencia Enghel, Martín Becerra

Communication Theory, volume 28 (2018), pp. 111-130

"Since their origins in the late 1950s, Latin American communication studies have become increasingly institutionalized and thematically diverse. This evolution, however, has circulated to a limited extent beyond borders, as noted by North American scholars in the 1990s. Attentive to this problem, t ... more

External Link (14)

WorldCat (11)

De-Centring Western Enlightenment: Revisionist Histories, Contestation and Communication Theory

Shakuntala Banaji (ed.)

Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

External Link (9)

A Latin American Approach to Mediatization: Specificities and Contributions to a Global Discussion About How the Media Shape Contemporary Societies

Carlos Scolari, Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat

Communication Theory, volume 28 (2018), pp. 131-154

"Theories on mediatization have been developed in Latin America in parallel to those flourishing in the Global North. This article analyzes the former while keeping an eye on the more available theoretical production in English-speaking publications. The main part of the article covers Eliseo Verón ... more

External Link (9)

WorldCat (9)

Black / Africana Communication Theory

Kehbuma Langmia (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 345 pp.

"Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa. Many scholars interested in articulating and interrogating Black communication scholarship are therefore at the crossroads of either having to use Western-driven theory to explain a Black commu ... more

Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)

New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.

"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more

External Link (11)

Non-Western Theories of Communication: Indigenous Ideas and Insights

Yoshitaka Miike

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 ... more

L'éducation aux médias: Un point de vue africain

Francis Barbey

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 185 pp.

External Link (11)

WorldCat (6)

Spaces of Resistance in the De-Westernization of Journalism Curricula Narrative in Post-1994 South Africa

Bevelyn Dube, Lizette Rabe

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-433

"Since 1994, the call to de-westernize journalism education and training curricula has been a major narrative in South Africa’s transformation discourses. Journalism education and training institutions have responded to this call by holding conferences, colloquia, seminars and symposia to try and ... more

Download (0)

'De los medios a las mediaciones' de Jesús Martín Barbero, 30 años después

Miquel de Moragas, José Luis Terrón, Omar Rincón (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (2017), 183 pp.

External Link (14)