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Priorities in Global Media Policy Transfer: Audiovisual and Digital Policy Mutations in the EU, MERCOSUR and US Triangle

Katharine Sarikakis, Sarah Ganter

European Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 1 (2014), pp. 17-33

"This article investigates the flow of communication policy principles across the supranational, international and national levels, through the lens of policy transfer. Policy transfer is a new concept for the field of media and communication studies. The article utilizes and expands on the concept ... more

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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.

"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic ... more

Journalism and Memory

Barbie Zelizer, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xv, 282 pp.

"Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past." (Publisher ... more

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Journalism in times of violence: Social media use by US and Mexican journalists working in northern Mexico

Jeannine E Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante

Digital Journalism, volume 2, issue 4 (2014), pp. 507-523

"Mexico ranks as one of the most violent countries in the world for journalists, and especially for those who work on the country’s periphery such as its northern border. Given the dire situation for Mexican reporters covering the northern part of the country, and the continued responsibility of U ... more

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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, Rachel Daniell (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.

"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A ... more

The Business of Media Distribution: Monetizing Film, TV and Video Content in an Online World

Jeff Ulin

New York; London: Focal Press, 2nd ed. (2014), 625 pp.

Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
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Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich ... more

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Digital News Report 2014

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2014), 93 pp.

"The use of smartphones and tablets has jumped significantly in the past year, with fewer people using their computers for news. More than a third of online news users across all countries (39%) use two or more digital devices each week for news and a fifth (20%) now say their mobile phone is their ... more

Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more

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Emerging News Non-Profits: A Case Study for Rebuilding Community Trust?

Magda Konieczna, Sue Robinson

Journalism, volume 15, issue 8 (2014), pp. 968-986

"A new news disseminator has emerged to revitalize the profession of information gathering – the non-profit news organization. Adopting a framework of community trust, this article begins a scholarly response to the questions: Who are these non-profit journalists and what do they aim to accomplish ... more

Digitale Leuchtturmprojekte des lokalen und regionalen Hörfunks und Fernsehens: Social-Media-Programmfeedback in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA

Rüdiger Steinmetz, Anna Zöllner, Stephan Lax, Kevin Grieves, Gregory Newton

Berlin: Vistas (2014), 285 pp.

Visual Propaganda and Extremism in the Online Environment

Carol Winkler, Cori Elizabeth Dauber (eds.)

Carlisle, Pennsylvania: U.S. Army War College Press;Strategic Studies Institute (2014), x, 242 pp.

"Visual images have been a central component of propaganda for as long as propaganda has been produced. But recent developments in communication and information technologies have given terrorist and extremist groups options and abilities they never would have been able to come close to even 5 or 10 ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.

"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more

Informe anual de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos 2013, vol. II: Informe de la relatoría especial para la libertad de expresión

Catalina Botero Marino

Washington, DC: Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) (2014), vii, 634 pp.

Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.

"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more

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The Cambridge Companion to Pentecostalism

Cecil M. Robeck (ed.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2014), xiii, 340 pp.

Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication

Barbara Reynolds, Matthew Seeger

Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2014), xix, 424 pp.

Messaging and Methods for Behavioral Change Media Campaigns: What Makes Effective Anti-Violence Media?

Frank Battaglini, Jamie Dougherty, John Klofas

Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Public Safety Initiatives (2014), 24 pp.

"Technological evolution has rewritten the books on media campaigns many times. However, some things have remained the same. First, media campaigns must come from multiple sources. They must employ printed materials, radio and television public service announcements, and internet technologies, such ... more

The 1% Rule in Four Digital Health Social Networks: An Observational Study

Trevor van Mierlo

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 16, issue 2 (2014), 10 pp.

"In recent years, cyberculture has informally reported a phenomenon named the 1% rule, or 90-9-1 principle, which seeks to explain participatory patterns and network effects within Internet communities. The rule states that 90% of actors observe and do not participate, 9% contribute sparingly, and 1 ... more

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