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W. Rugh

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 276 pp., abbrev. p.xi-xii, index

ISBN 978-1-137-44415-8 (ebook); 978-1-349-49554-2 (print)

"This book is about public diplomacy as it is practiced by American diplomats at US embassies around the world. The focus is intentionally on field operations, since that is an aspect of public diplomacy that has been neglected in the literature. The book shows how American diplomats cope with the c... more

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"These grey areas": how and why freelance work blurs INGOs and news organizations

Kate Wright

Journalism studies, volume 17, issue 8 (2015), pp. 989-1009

"International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time s... more

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Religion and film: an introduction

Melanie Jane Wright

London; New York: Tauris (2007), vi, 244 pp., bibliogr. p.205-234, filmogr. p.235-238, index

ISBN 978-1-85043-759-8 (hbk); 978-1-85043-886-1 (pbk); 978-0-85771-628-6 (ebook)

"From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional perspectives, with the result that the field has long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a... more

Humanitarian journalists: covering crises from a boundary zone
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Martin Scott; Kate Wright; Mel Bunce

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 127 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-1-032-41207-8 (pbk); 978-1-003-35680-6 (ebk) CC BY-NC-ND

"Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected ... more

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The Routledge international handbook of ethnographic film and video

Phillip Vannini (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 359 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-429-19699-7 (ebook); 978-0-429-59130-3 (pdf); 978-0-367-18582-4 (hbk)

"Comprised of 31 chapters authored by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, the book's contributors synthesize existing literature, introduce the historical and conceptual dimensions of the field, illustrate innovative methodologies and techniques, survey traditional and ne... more

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Communication in international development: doing good or looking good?

Florencia Enghel; Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp., index

ISBN 9781138569928 (pbk); 9781138569911 (hbk); 9780203703977 (online)

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Social media and politics in Africa: democracy, censorship and security

Maggie Dwyer; Thomas Molony (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-78699-497-4

"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra... more

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An integrated approach to communication theory and research

Don W. Stacks; Michael B. Salwen; Kristen C. Eichhorn (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2019) 3rd ed., xvii, 590 pp.

ISBN 978-1-138-56144-1 (hbk); 978-1-138-56147-2 (pbk); 978-0-203-71075-3 (ebook)

"An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research provides an in-depth overview of communication studies as well as integrating theory with research. This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of current theory and research written by the top theorists and researchers in each area... more

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Diversity in media and media management
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Teresa Becker; Antonia Bührig; Ashley Morais Duarte et al.

Hannover: Institute of Journalism and Communication Research (IJK) (2022), 65 pp., bibliogr. p.57-65

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"It seems that it is not easy for media companies to be more diverse. But it is important. A few companies are trying to appear more diverse in public but there is still much to be done. In the United States, Europe or Germany, minority groups are underrepresented throughout. Here are some of our ke... more

Front line public diplomacy: how US embassies communicate with foreign publics