mediadev library

Chinese War Correspondents: Covering Wars and Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century

Shixin Ivy Zhang

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 204 pp.

"(1) How do Chinese journalists perceive their roles and practices in conflict zones outside China? (2) How do they cover armed conflicts overseas? (3) Who are the actors, and how do they influence Chinese war correspondence? (4) Do the Chinese news media practice peace or war journalism? To answer ... more

La palabra que camina: Comunicación popular para el Vivir Bien / Buen Vivir

Adalid Contreras Baspineiro

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER);CIESPAL;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2016), 172 pp.

Google Scholar (9)

Ubuntu Journalism and Nation-Building Magic

Colin Chasi, Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 5 (2016), pp. 728-744

"This article explores ideas around nation building, as constructed through the ethos as well as practice of ubuntu journalism. We make the argument that by invoking ubuntu as an underlying ethos for a reporting ethic and practice, the news media contribute to a magical idea of nationhood and nation ... more

External Link (7)

The Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods Strands in Media Development

Linje Manyozo

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 14 pp.

"This paper exams the theory and practice of media development by differentiating two major models: The good governance and the sustainable livelihoods strand. Based on this the author questions how governments, organizations, and civil society today collaboratively rethink and organize media system ... more

External Link (13)

Combining Detached Watchdog Journalism with Development Ideals: An Exploration of Fijian Journalism Culture

Folker Hanusch

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 6 (2015), pp. 557-576

"Development journalism has been a key focus of discussion among journalism scholars for around half a decade, but most of the attention has been firmly on African and Asian countries. This article examines the situation on the little-researched island nation of Fiji, which has experienced considera ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (10)

Enlightening Communication Analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media Studies, Ethics and Law Using a Buddhist Perspective

Mark Pearson

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 456-470

"A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before ex ... more

Globalizing Communication/journalism Studies

Shelton A Gunaratne (ed.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 409-515

Internationalizing "International Communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.

De-Westernisation: Key Concept Paper

Antje Glück

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2015), 28 pp.

"This paper outlines the main debates surrounding De-Westernisation, which addresses global imbalances in the creation and distribution of academic knowledge. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the field, the working paper suggests further steps in order to enrich a global set of p ... more

Re-Orienting the 'Charm Offensive' to the 'Charm Defensive': A Critical Review of Chinese Media Development in Africa

Anbin Shi

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 135-140

"All in all, Chinese media development in Africa can be considered as a ‘charm offensive‘ in terrns of its scale and scope, which is characterised by the following: 1) all the projects are mainly government sponsored, strategically engineered and efficiently irnplemented; 2) projects centre arou ... more

External Link (11)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach

Shelton A. Gunaratne, Mark Pearson, Sugath Senarath (eds.)

New York et al.: Routledge (2015), viii, 239 pp.

"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news ... more

Google Scholar (9)

The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan

Bunty Avieson

St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.

"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and ... more

External Link (10)

African Ethics and Journalism Ethics: News and Opinion in Light of Ubuntu

Thaddeus Metz

Journal of Media Ethics, volume 30, issue 2 (2015), pp. 74-90

"In this article, I address some central issues in journalism ethics from a fresh perspective, namely, one that is theoretical and informed by values salient in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a foundational moral theory with an African pedigree, which is intended to rival Western theories such as Ka ... more

The Functions of Silence in India: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research

Nemi C. Jain, Anuradha Matukumalli

In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Molefi Kete Asante; Yoshitaka Miike; Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 248-254

"Although it is often viewed negatively in the West, silence is interpreted as a sign of interpersonal sensitivity, mutual respect, a sens of personal dignity, affirmation, and wisdom in the cultural context of India. At the individual level, silence serves as the means for the individual soul to ac ... more

Understand China’s Media in Africa from the Perspective of Constructive Journalism. Paper presented at the international conference China and Africa Media, Communications and Public Diplomacy

Zhang Yanqiu

Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI);Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies (2014), 12 pp.

"China’s quest to improve its international image has increased exponentially in the last decade through cultural diplomacy and the media. However, the expansion of China’s state-led media has received mixed reactions and even stereotypes in Africa. By examining scholarly responses towards China ... more

Media Development with Chinese Characteristics

Iginio Gagliardone

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.

"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and ... more

External Link (17)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (13)

Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach

Wimal Dissanayake

In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Molefi Kete Asante; Yoshitaka Miike; Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479

"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no ... more

External Link (18)

The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), xiii, 586 pp.

"The collection covers a wide range of topics: the emergence and evolution of the field; issues and challenges in cross-cultural and intercultural inquiry; cultural wisdom and communication practices in context; identity and intercultural competence in a multicultural society; the effects of globali ... more

External Link (8)

Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa

Wendy Willems

Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434

"In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to "internationalize" or "dewesternize" the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside "the West" that has not only produced empirica ... more

External Link (10)