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Spiritual news: reporting religion around the world

Yoel Cohen (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4331-2862-2

"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-... more

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De-centring Western enlightenment: revisionist histories, contestation and communication theory

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

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Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more

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Anti-Western propaganda

Tamar Kintsurashvili

Media Development Foundation (MDF); UN Association of Georgia; USAID (2018), 38 pp., 16 figures

ISBN 978-9941-8-0064-1

"As many as 1,967 anti-Western comments were detected in the 17 monitored media outlets in 2017. In contrast to 2016 and 2015, when negative messages targeted human identity and rights, in 2017, a dominant topic was the foreign policy with the messages aimed at increasing the polarization on the for... more

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This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies

kollektiv orangotango+ (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2018), 352 pp., many maps

ISBN 978-3-8394-4519-8 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4519-4 (print) CC BY

"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement... more

International communication: essential readings

Vandana Pednekar-Magal (ed.)

Cognella (2018) 2nd revised ed., viii, 228 pp.

ISBN 978-1-5165-1286-7 (pbk)

"Designed as a text with introductions to each section and chapter, the volume brings together diverse perspectives on globalization and communication and includes significant emerging aspects of International Communication research such as diaspora audience and global publics." (Publisher)

Digital inclusion: an international comparative analysis

Massimo Ragnedda; Bruce Mutsvairo; Gerard Goggin (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4985-6212-6

"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink... more

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Funding journalism, finding innovation: success stories and ideas for creative, sustainable partnerships

Dwight Knell Knell; Nina Sachdev; Jessica Clark

Philadelphia, Pa.: Media Impact Funders; Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media (2018), 19 pp.

CC BY

"While this guide shows only a small sampling of how funders and publishers are working together to financially sustain the fourth estate, we hope that it nonetheless serves as a starting point for your own work by providing solid examples of groundbreaking funding efforts—ones that are both pione... more

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Comparing models of collaborative journalism

Sarah Stonbely

Montclair, NJ: Center for Cooperative Media Montclair State University (2017), 68 pp., bibliogr. p.65-68

"This report identifies and compares six models of collaborative journalism that span collaborations from the hyperlocal to the international levels. We provide examples of each model, and discuss common costs and benefits for each. Identifying and describing the different models of collaborative jo... more

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Shine a little light: celebrities, humanitarian documentary, and 'Half the sky'

Heather McIntosh

In: The Routledge companion to media and humanitarian action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404

ISBN 97803678779659 (pbk); 9781315538129 (ebook)

"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone,... more

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Perspectives from the global entertainment and media outlook 2017–2021: Curtain up! User experience takes center stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.

"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an... more

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Crisis communications: a casebook approach

Kathleen Fearn-Banks

New York; London: Routledge (2017) 5th ed., xiv, 423 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-8058-5772-6 (hbk); 978-0-8058-5773-3 (pbk); 0-203-93669-8 (ebook)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 1996, 3rd ed. 2009, 4th ed. 2011

"Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach presents case studies of organizational, corporate, and individual crises, and analyzes the communication responses to these situations. Demonstrating how professionals prepare for and respond to crises, as well as how they develop communications plans, th... more

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Public support for the media: a six-country overview of direct and indirect subsidies

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen; Geert Linnebank

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 36 pp.

"This report reviews similarities and differences in public sector support for the media across a sample of six developed democracies – Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States – that represent a wide range of different media systems and different approaches to ... more

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The war correspondent

Greg McLaughlin

London: Pluto Press (2016) 2nd ed., x, 267 pp., index, bibliogr. p.245-258

ISBN 9780745333199 (hbk); 9780745333182 (pbk); 9781783717583 (pdf)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2002

"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents... more

The other air force: U.S. efforts to reshape Middle Eastern media since 9/11

Matt Sienkiewicz

New Brunswick, New Jersey, London: Rutgers University Press (2016), ix, 216 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.191-198, index

ISBN 978-0-8135-7798-2

"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern... more

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The handbook of international crisis communication research

Andreas Schwarz; Matthew W. Seeger; Claudia Auer (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xix, 525 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-118-51676-8

"The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research articulates a broader understanding of crisis communication, discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of domestic and transnational crises, featuring the work of global scholars from a range of sub-disciplines... more

Ctrl + Z : the right to be forgotten

Meg Leta Jones

New York; London: New York University Press (2016), xiii, 269 Seiten, illustr., bibliogr. p.232-252, index

ISBN 978-1-4798-8170-3 (pbk)

"The central thesis of Crtl+Z is that a digital right to be forgotten is an innovative idea with a lot of possibilities and potential. The idea simply needs to be opened up, reframed, and restructured. The extreme options currently on the table limit the many ways to think about digital redemption a... more

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Journalistic narrations for deliberative ends: a country comparison of narrative news and its contribution to the deliberative quality of mediated debates on climate change

Julia Lück

Mannheim: Doctoral Thesis University of Mannheim (2016), viii, 199 pp., 20 tables, 12 figures, bibliogr. p.170-187

"The dissertation investigates journalistic news narrations. It aims at assessing their deliberative qualities by applying a quantitative instrument for a content analysis of newspapers that focuses comparatively on climate change coverage in Brazil, Germany, and the United States . Results reveal t... more

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Trauma and public memory

Jane Goodall; Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp., index

ISBN 9781137406798 (print); 978-1-349-48806-3; 978-1-137-40680-4 (ebook)

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle... more

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Internationalizing "international communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

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

ISBN 978-0-472-90014-5 CC BY-NC-ND