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Assessment of Media Development in Malawi: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Francis Chikunkhuzeni, Peter Mhagama, Jacob Jimu, Paul Kingstone Mphepo et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 157 pp.

"Malawi has seen an exponential growth of its media, both in quality and quantity. For example, there were only two broadcasting stations at the start of the 1990s, while Malawi has increased this over the years to 57 radio stations and 14 television broadcasters. Although the plurality of Malawi’ ... more

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Trust and Communication: Foundations of Interconnectivity

Anil Jacob Kunnel

Berlin; Bern; Wien: Peter Lang (2021), 212 pp.

"In today’s global and digitalized world, the investigation of relational trust as part of social connections has remained a popular and interdisciplinary academic topic. This book explores the idea of trust as a basic type of information processing that might be as old as human existence but has ... more

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Media and Freedom of Expression

International Reports , volume 37, issue 3 (2021), pp. 2-99

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Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia

Andrew C. Billings, Scott Parrott (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2020), viii, 296 pp.

"When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. 'Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia' becomes one-stop sho ... more

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Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship

Laura Brueck, Jacob Smith, Neil Verma (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2020), vi, 330 pp.

"Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circu ... more

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Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium

Golo Föllmer, Alexander Badenoch (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2018), 313 pp.

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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels

Carolene Ayaka, Ian Hague (eds.)

New York, London: Routledge (2015), xiii, 269 pp.

"This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Ro ... more

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Blasphemie – Vorwürfe und Missbrauch: Die pakistanischen Blasphemiegesetze und ihre Folgen

Peter Jacob

Aachen: Missio (2012), 64 pp.

"Der Autor untersucht in dieser Studie die spezielle Dynamik der Theokratisierung von Staat und Recht – mit besonderem Schwerpunkt auf den in Pakistan geltenden Blasphemiegesetzen. Welchen Einfluss hatten die Blasphemiegesetze, die mir der staatlichen und politischen Bevorzugung einer einzigen Rel ... more

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Das Afrika-Lexikon: Ein Kontinent in 1000 Stichwörtern

Jacob Emmanuel Mabe (ed.)

Wuppertal; Weimar: Peter Hammer Verlag;Metzler (2001), 720 pp.

Umfassendes Nachschlagewerk mit über 1000 Stichwörtern zu Geographie, Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft, Ländern, Gesellschaften, und Kulturen, Sprachen und Literaturen, Kunst und Musik, Religionen und Philosophie. Der Herausgeber stammt aus Kamerun, hat in München studiert und unterrichtet an der ... more