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International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
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Belinha S. De Abreu, Paul Mihailidis, Alice Y.L. Lee, Jad Melki, Julian McDougall (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 415 pp.

"At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world. Building on traditional media literacy frameworks in critical analysis, evaluation, and assessment, it incorporate ... more

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Global Pop: Das Buch zur Weltmusik

Claus Leggewie (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 392 pp.

"Der Begriff "Weltmusik" war in den 1980er Jahren die gängige Beschreibung für Musikstile, die aus westlicher Perspektive "exotisch" wirkten. Er stand für unterschiedlichste musikalische Traditionen, die oftmals nicht viel mehr gemein hatten, als dass sie plötzlich für den westlichen Markt inte ... 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

"'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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Whistleblowing in the World: Government Policy, Mass Media and the Law

Carmen R. Apaza, Yongjin Chang (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xi, 90 pp.

"This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing. After examining th ... more

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Digital News Report 2017

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2017), 133 pp.

"The report is based on a survey of more than 70,000 people in 36 markets, along with additional qualitative research, which together make it the most comprehensive ongoing comparative study of news consumption in the world. A key focus remains in Europe where we have added Slovakia, Croatia, and Ro ... more

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Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), vi, 213 pp.

"In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negoti ... more

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Thoughts on a Critical Theory of Rural Communication

Christopher Ali

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 27 pp.

"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple ... more

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Combatting cultural ‘nerve gas’: Maintaining traditional media and culture through local media production in Australia, Canada and Mexico

Ian Watson

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 1-13

"In Australia in the 1980s, large numbers of remote Indigenous radio stations were established due to a perception that the introduction of ‘mainstream’ satellite programming in remote areas would act as a form of cultural ‘nerve gas’ (Remedio, 2012: 295) that would threaten ‘the very isol ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.

"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more

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2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good;Public Interest Registry (2017), 15 pp.

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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
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Robyn S. Goodman, Elanie Steyn (eds.)

Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas;World Journalism Education Council (2017), xviii, 468 pp.

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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study

Scott Griffen

Barbara Trionfi (ed.)

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.

"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.

"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more

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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.

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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope

Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.

"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more

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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Jeroen Temperman, András Koltay (eds.)

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.

"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l ... more

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From the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action Through Documentary Media

Johanna Blakley, Beth et. al Karlin

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2017), 25 pp.

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Media's Gender Gap: Investigating Relationships Between Women's News Production and Consumption

Alyssa Zeisler

USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project (2017), 13 pp.

"Women are underrepresented in newsrooms and are less likely to read political and international news. Preliminary data shows that news organizations with a higher share of women writing the news and in leadership positions also have a higher share of women in their audience. A number of academic st ... more

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Developing News: Global Journalism and the Coverage of "Third World" Development

Jairo Lugo-Ocando, An Nguyen

London; New York: Routledge (2017), vii, 178 pp.

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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
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Katie Ellis, Mike Kent (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xxii, 340 pp.

"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global ... more

International Handbook of Media Literacy Education Top Insights

Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy Top Insights

Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations Top Insights

Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs) Top Insights

Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences Top Insights

Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media Top Insights

Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives Top Insights

International Handbook of Media Literacy Education
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
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