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Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact

Peter Plastrik, Madeleine Taylor, John Cleveland

Washington, DC; Covelo; London: Island Press (2014), 240 pp.

"This book offers eight orienting insights about network building; each one frames a separate chapter, backed by case studies, illustrations, and how-to information. 1. Know the Network Difference. Networks have unique capabilities for achieving social impact that distinguish them from other forms o ... more

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Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability

Penelope Muse Abernathy

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press (2014), 254 pp.

"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers – from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago – "Saving Community Journalism" is designed to help journalists an ... more

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Front Line Public Diplomacy: How US Embassies Communicate with Foreign Publics

W. Rugh

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 276 pp.

"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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Television Audiences Across the World: Deconstructing the Ratings Machine

Jérôme Bourdon, Cécile Méadel (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xiv, 274 pp.

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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2014: Transmedia Production Strategies in Television Fiction

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)

Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2014), 536 pp.

"The structure of this Yearbook is divided in three parts. The first part is an introduction chapter that makes a comparative synthesis of fiction in Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows us to observe fiction development in each countr ... more

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Watching TV in Havanna: Revisiting the Local/global Television Past Through the Lens of the Television Present

Yeidy M. Rivero

In: Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins; Joseph D. Straubhaar; Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), pp. 50-65

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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

P. W. Singer, Allan Friedman

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2014), viii, 306 pp.

"Given the Internet’s potential for full-spectrum surveillance and information disruption, the marshaling of computer networks represents the next stage of cyberwar. Indeed, it is upon us already. The recent Stuxnet episode, in which Israel fed a malignant computer virus into Iran’s nuclear faci ... more

Foreign Correspondents Report from Africa: Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles and Pictures

Heinz-Dietrich Fischer

Wien; Münster: Lit (2014), 189 pp.

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Media Literacy Education in Action: Theoretical and Pedagocical Perspectives

Belinha S. De Abreu

New York; London: Routledge (2014), xxx, 243 pp.

"Media Literacy Education in Action brings together the field’s leading scholars and advocates to present a snapshot of the theoretical and conceptual development of media literacy education—what has influenced it, current trends, and ideas about its future. Featuring a mix of perspectives, it e ... more

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: War Coverage and Peace Journalism

Wilhelm Kempf, Dov Shinar

Berlin: Regener (2014), 362 pp.

"Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a natural laboratory for studying possibilities and limitations of constructive conflict coverage, the present book combines a longitudinal retrospective look at the coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with experimental research on audience reactio ... more

Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Vol. 2

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2014), xii, 406 pp.

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Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2014), xxvi, 271 pp.

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De-Americanizing Soft Power Discourse?

Daya Kishan Thussu

Los Angeles: USC Center on Public Diplomacy;Figueroa Press (2014), 31 pp.

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Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance

Yusuf Kalyango, David H. Mould (eds.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 283 pp.

"Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia a ... more

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Die Presse in der Julikrise 1914: Die internationale Berichterstattung und der Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg

Georg Eckert, Peter Geiss, Arne Karsten (eds.)

Münster: Aschendorff (2014), 271 pp.