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Muslims and the news media

Elizabeth Poole; John E. Richardson (eds.)

London: Tauris (2006), xv, 257 pp., figures, tables, bibliogr. p.218-232, index

ISBN 978-1-84511-171-7 (hbk); 978-0-85771-496-1 (ebook); 978-1-84511-172-4 (pbk)

"Written by both leading academic authorities and by Muslim media practitioners, 'Muslims and the Media' is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook and is set in both the British and international contexts. The book clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and aud... more

Media communities

Brigitte Hipfl; Theo Hug (eds.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2006), 342 pp.

ISBN 978-3-8309-1599-7

"This book analyzes the different ways in which media are being used for community building and it also critically interrogates the concept of community itself. The authors do that from a variety of different perspectives, ranging from fundamental philosophical questions regarding community, to the ... more

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"All successful democracies need freedom of speech": American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan

David Rohde

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Joan Shorenstein Center (2005), 35 pp.

"This paper will examine American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan. A $200 million project in Iraq was the largest attempt ever by the United States, or any country, to help create independent media in another nation. Run by the Pentagon, it was a near total failure in ... more

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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

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Community media: people, places, and communication technologies

Kevin Howley

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005), xiii, 309p.

ISBN 978-0-511-48902-0 (ebook); 978-0-521-79228-8 (print); 978-0-521-79668-2 (online)

"This groundbreaking study of community media, first published in 2005, combines original research with comparative and theoretical analysis in an engaging and accessible style. Kevin Howley explores the different ways in which local communities come to make use of various technologies such as radio... more

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The media missionaries: American support for journalism exellence and press freedom around the globe

Ellen Hume

Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp., illustr., direct. p.113-135

ISBN 0-9749702-2-0

"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go... more

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Comparing media systems: three models of media and politics

Daniel C. Hallin; Paolo Mancini

New York: Cambridge University Press (2004), xv, 342 pp., bibliogr. p.307-327, index

ISBN 978-0-521-83535-0 (hbk); 978-0-521-54308-8 (pbk); 978-0-511-21075-4 (ebook)

"This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems... more

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The one to watch: radio, new ICT and interactivity

Bruce Girard (ed.)

Contributor(s): Alfonso Gumucio Dagron; Jean-Pierre Ilboudo; Johan Deflander

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2003), 250 pp.

ISBN 92-5-104950-5 CC BY-NC-ND

Other Editions: also published in Spanish

"The topic of this anthology is communication in rural areas. Most of the 17 contributions are concrete experience reports from radio and internet projects and networks. Especially worth reading are the contributions that deal with the combination of both technologies." (Commbox-CD)

Public information campaigns & opinion research: a handbook for the student & practitioner

Hans-Dieter Klingemann; Andrea Römmele (eds.)

London et al.: Sage (2002), xiv, 193 pp., index

ISBN 0-7619-6431-2; 0-7619-6432-0 (pbk)

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Representing the family

Deborah Chambers

London: Sage (2001), xi, 196 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.180-190, index

ISBN 9780761964735 (pbk); 9780761964728 (hbk)

"Looking at how the family is represented by the media, and by scrutinizing the manner in which it is regulated, this book uncovers the ways in which academic research and welfare policy have colluded with political rhetoric and the popular media to re-invent a mythical ideal family. 'Representing t... more

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Latin American television: a global view

John Sinclair

Oxford: Oxford University Press (1999), 187 pp., index, bibliogr. p.170-172

ISBN 978-0-19-167358-0 (ebook); 978-0-19-815930-8 (print)

"This book makes English speakers aware of the dimensions, operation, and significance of the globalisation of television in the Spanish-speaking world. Second only in scale to the market for English-language programming, the Spanish-language market embraces not just most nations of South and Centra... more

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Rethinking the media audience: the new agenda

Pertti Alasuutari (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (1999), 212 pp., index

ISBN 0-7619-5070-2 (hbk); 0-761 9-5071 (pbk)

"The key idea of this book is to argue that a 'third generation' of reception studies and audience ethnography is presently taking shape and will establish itself in the near future. However, the division of the development of reception studies and audience research into three 'generations' outlined... more

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War and remembrance in the twentieth century

Emmanuel Sivan; Jay Winter (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (1999), vii, 260 pp.

ISBN 978-1-139-93934-8 (ebook); 978-0-521-64035-0 (hbk); 978-0-521-79436-7 (pbk)

"No scholarly consensus exists about how the terms 'memory' and 'collective memory' may most fruitfully inform historical study. Hence there is still much room for reflection and clarification in this branch of cultural history. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in thi... more

Buchlandschaften: das BuchMarktBuch 2

Johannes Seymann Gerlinde Hinterhölzl

Wien: Buchkultur Verlagsgesellschaft (1998), 197 pp.

ISBN 3-901052-36-4

Religion and mass media: audiences and adaptations

Daniel A. Stout; Judith M. Buddenbaum

London: Sage (1996), 294 pp., tables

ISBN 0-8039-7173-7; 0-8039-7174-5

"How do religious audiences react to and use the mass media? Religion and Mass Media is an audience-centered examination that reveals how a variety of Christian traditions experience media news and entertainment - in the context of institutional religious influences and expectations. Drawing on soci... more

Radio priest: Charles Coughlin, the father of hate radio

Donald Warren

New York: Free Press (1996), ix, 376 pp., bibliogr. p.352-363, index

"For me, growing up in Detroit, Coughlin was a fascinating figure of local lore: both loved and hated, he was clearly someone whose career cannot be reduced to a single dimension. It may well be argued that the conventional standards of biography should not be applied to media figures, for theirs is... more

Die Religion der Massenmedien

Horst Albrecht

München: Kohlhammer (1993), 179 pp., illustr., tables, bibliogr. p.169-179

ISBN 3-17-011733-5

"[...] die Religion der Massenmedien ist ein gleicherweise komplexes wie diffuses Gebilde. Sie ist Welten entfernt von den klar geordneten Vorstellungen der monotheistischen Religionen. Sie ist eine Bilderreligion, auch da, wo sie mit bloßen Worten auskommen muss. Dem Bilderreichtum der Medienrelig... more

A bibliography of ethnographic films

Rolf Husmann; Ingrid Wellinger; Johannes Rühl; Martin Taureg

Münster; Hamburg: Lit; Arbeitskreis für Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation (AIW) (1992), 335 pp., index

ISBN 3-89473-352-7