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TV's Betty goes global: from telenovela to international brand

Janet McCabe; Kim Akass (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-780762678

"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has since... more

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Religion and public diplomacy

Philip Seib (ed.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), x, 224 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-349-45074-9 (print); 978-1-137-29112-7 (ebook)

"Mixing religion and public diplomacy can produce volatile results, but in a world in which the dissemination and influence of religious beliefs are enhanced by new communications technologies, religion is a factor in many foreign policy issues and must be addressed. Faith is such a powerful part of... more

New media and intercultural communication: identity, community and politics

Pauline Hope Cheong; Judith N. Martin; Leah P. Macfadyen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-433-11365-9

"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ... more

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The geography of foreign news on television: a comparative study of 17 countries

Jürgen Wilke; Christine Heimprecht; Akiba Cohen

International communication gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 301-322

"The project investigated foreign TV news in 17 countries from five regions in the world: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States of America. The data of the content analysis in all... more

Picturing atrocity: photography in crisis

Geoffrey Batchen; Mick Gidley; Nancy K. Miller (eds.)

London: Reaktion Books (2012), 319 pp., many illustr.

ISBN 978-1-86189-872-2 (pbk)

"From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach ... more

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Soft power in China: public diplomacy through communication

Jian Wang

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), 221 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-230-11637-5 (ebook); 978-1-349-29137-3 (pbk)

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National studies on assessing the economic contribution of the copyright-based industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 392 pp.

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Leaping over the firewall: a review of censorship circumvention tools

Cormac Callanan; Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner; Alberto Escudero-Pascual; Robert Guerra

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2011), 75 pp.

"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f... more

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China in Africa: a new approach to media development?

Iginio Gagliardone; Maria Repnikova; Nicole Stremlau

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... more

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Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar; Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xxvii, index

ISBN 978-81-321-0084-3 (pbk); 978-1-5255-0456-7 (ebook)

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u... more

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China in the African mediascape

Fackson Banda

Rhodes journalism review, volume , issue 29 (2009), pp. 52-53

"Chinese assistance to African media is not new. What is different now is that it is being administered in the post-Cold War era with a greater degree of openness." (p.52)

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Digital review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: reports on 31 economies and 2 sub-regional associations

Felix Librero; Patricia B. Arinto

New Dehli: Sage India; Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), xv, 373 pp., abbrev. p.xiv-xv, illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-52550-377-5 (IDRC); 978-0-7619-3674-9 (pbk); 978-81-7829-840-5 (pbk India)

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Transnational television worldwide: towards a new media order

Jean K. Chalaby (ed.)

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... more

Trauma and cinema: cross-cultural explorations

E. Ann Kaplan; Ban Wang (eds.)

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (2004), 288 pp., index

ISBN 978-962-209-979-1

Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation

Andrew A. Moemeka

Oxford: University Press of America (2000), 325 pp., tables, index, bibliogr. p.285-313

"Addressing the use of communication (interpersonal, folk, traditional, group, organizational, and mass media) in the development process, this book discusses some of the conceptual and theoretical basis for integrating communication effectively into development plans and execution. It also examines... more

Communication theory: the Asian perspective

Wimal Dissanayake (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1988), xiv, 214 pp.

ISBN 9971-905-29-9

"Many of the essays in this volume seek to interpret traditional Asian approaches to communication in the light of modern Western concepts. At one level, this might appear to compromise the integrity of the Asian approaches. However, it needs to be stressed that this is a calculated strategy on the ... more