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The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global

Youna Kim (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 233 pp.

"Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture – the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a glob ... more

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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.

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Social Media and Elections in Asia-Pacific: The Growing Power of the Youth Vote

Alastair Carthew, Simon Winkelmann (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 164 pp.

"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book ... more

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Soap Operas as a Matchmaker: A Cultivation Analysis of the Effects of South Korean TV Dramas on Vietnamese Women's Marital Intentions

Hong Tien Vu, Tien-Tsung Lee

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 2 (2013), pp. 308-330

"This cultivation study examined the effects of South Korean soap operas on Vietnamese female audiences. It also assessed cultivation effects in combination with the theory of reasoned action. Based on a survey of 439 female viewers, it explicated the link between South Korean soap opera consumption ... more

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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; Ottawa et al.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2012), xv, 414 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

Mediating the Boundaries: Second-Generation Korean American Adolescents’ Use of Transnational Korean Media as Markers of Social Boundaries

David C. Oh

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 3 (2012), pp. 258-276

"This article builds on media use scholarship by focusing on an understudied population, second-generation Korean American adolescents, and their use of transnational media. The primary findings are that second-generation Korean Americans use transnational media as cultural resources through which t ... more

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Asian Communication Handbook
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Sundeep R. Muppidi (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University (2012), 466 pp.

"The first "theoretical perspectives" section has opinions and research articles by academic scholars and expert practitioners on new media and communication Issues and trends in Asia. Some of the topics covered include the dynamics arising out of the shift to the 'digilogue', mobile activism, corpo ... more

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The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), 584 pp.

"The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more ... more

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New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics

Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin, Leah P. Macfadyen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp.

"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ... more

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Attribute Agenda Setting, Priming and the Media’s Influence on How to Think About a Controversial Issue

Sei-Hill Kim, Miejeong Han, Doo-Hun Choi, Jeong-Nam Kim

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 1 (2012), pp. 43-59

"Using a controversial issue in South Korea, a government plan to relocate the administrative capital, this study examines attribute agenda setting. Linking survey data to an analysis of news coverage, more specifically, the article explores how television news has influenced the way the public eval ... more

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The Birth of Social Election in South Korea, 2010-2012

Dukjin Chang, Young Bae

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 44 pp.

"By getting connected with each other again, social media users seem to have more incentive to vote because approval by friends becomes an integral part of benefits from voting. In South Korea this phenomenon came at the dusk of the 1987 regime, which is a conservative representation system where yo ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.

"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more

Netzpolitik aus internationaler Perspektive: Länderberichte aus den USA, Großbritannien, Spanien, Polen, Indien und Korea

Tobias Wangermann, Helmut Reifeld (eds.)

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 114 pp.

"Die Forderung nach Sicherheit im Internet, besonders in Hinblick auf die persönlichen Daten, die Gewährung der Freiheit dieses Mediums ohne staatliche Eingriffe, die Diskussion um adäquate Formen des Urheberrechts und seiner Durchsetzung sowie eine Fokussierung auf die Risiken verbunden mit eine ... more

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Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

Carolyn M. Byerly

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.

"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more

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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

Cyrus Farivar

New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.

"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es ... more

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Piratages audiovisuels: Les voies souterraines de la mondialisation culturelle

Tristan Mattelart (ed.)

Brussels: De Boeck (2011), 304 pp.

Souvent considéré comme une activité des plus nuisibles, le piratage des contenus audiovisuels n’en constitue pas moins, depuis des décennies, pour de nombreuses populations aux quatre coins du monde, un moyen majeur d’accéder aux produits des industries culturelles. Nourri d’enquêtes de ... more

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La política de Internet desde una perspectiva internacional: Seis informes nacionales

Tobias Wangermann, Helmut Reifeld (eds.)

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 108 pp.

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