Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Edited by Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte - New collection of contributions to Communication for Development as an area of research and a field of practice.

By Sara Bannerman

- This book connects copyright history to current problems, issues and events in copyright and access to knowledge.

English translation of title: "The 2014 European Elections Political Communication: For or against Europe?"
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Le présent ouvrage montre que la communication politique des partis antigouvernementaux, d’une violence inhabituelle envers l’Union Européenne, a fortement influé sur l’agenda politique ultérieur.

By Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers (Eds.)

- This book shows that the nation-state never left and is still a force to be reckoned with.

Edited by Richard C. Vincent and Kaarle Nordenstreng
This book is meant for the students and scholars of international communication and development, political economy, and international relations. It is also a resource for members of governments and NGOs, as well as advocates of human rights and grassroots communication.

Edited by Abiodun Salawu & Monica B. Chibita
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This volume explores the politics associated with the use or lack of use of indigenous languages in Africa.

The evolution of the reference press in the Basque Country and Europe (2001-2014)
By Txema Ramírez de la Piscina, Alazne Aiestaran, Antxoka Agirre and Beatriz Zabalondo -

The subject of the study is very succinct: the present and future of journalism.

By Tonny Krijnen and Sofie Van Bauwel
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Why do some TV genres have the label feminine or masculine? Why do we worry about boys playing video games too much while girls play just as often? Is the TV show Sex and the City empowering or not? Why are recent television shows like Desperate Housewives post-feminist television?

Edited by Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Heather Savigny, Jenny Alexander

Two new books on media and margins, by academics from Bournemouth University.

By César Bolaño

Drawing on Marxist theory and concepts, as well as on various theoretical contributions developed by prominent political economists, Bolaño develops a unique approach to understanding the culture industry, offering an interesting intervention in debates surrounding media and communication.

By Lee Artz

Balancing provocative criticism with clear explanations of complex ideas, this student-friendly introduction investigates the crucial role global entertainment media has played in the emergence of transitional capitalism.

Protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

Edited by Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media.

By Kaitlynn Mendes
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SlutWalk is a study of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in eight nations which organized marches: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the UK and the US.

Edited by Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer and Thomas Tufte
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This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will always relay imaginations of futures we want to shape and inhabit.

Between Emancipation and Commodification

By Thomas Allmer
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Critical Theory and Social Media examines both academic discourse on, and users’ responses to, new media, making it a valuable tool for international scholars and students of sociology, media and communication studies, social theory, new media, and information society studies.

Edited by Kaarle Nordenstreng, Daya Kishan Thussu
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Mapping BRICS Media is the first comprehensive and comparative study of the emerging media landscape in the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing markets. This pioneering collection focuses on one of the key topics in contemporary international relations - the emergence of BRICS.

Cultural Studies Perspectives on War

By Nico Carpentier
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A series of 20th century conflicts and wars are revisited to demonstrate the cultural durability of war and the interconnection of these wars with present-day discourses and practices through the dialectics of remembering, commemorating and forgetting.

By Chandrika Kaul
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This book focuses on the media environment of empire as a conceptual tool to investigate its political culture and role in shaping the imperial experience.

Edited by Daniel Jackson, Caroline E.M. Hodges, Mike Molesworth, Richard Scullion
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The book is structured around three key questions: 1. What were the predominant mediated narratives surrounding the Paralympics, and what are the associated meanings attached to them? 2. How were the Paralympics experienced by media audiences (both disabled and non-disabled)? 3. To what extent did the 2012 Paralympics inspire social change?

By Barry King

Taking Fame to market is the first historical exploration of the relationship between stardom as a form of popular heroism and as a commodity produced by capitalist enterprise.

by Monroe E. Price

Building on examples drawn from the Arab Spring, the shaping of the Internet in China, Iran's perception of foreign broadcasting, and Russia's media interventions, this book exposes the anxieties of loss of control, on the one hand, and the missed opportunities for greater freedom, on the other.

By Chris Paterson

War Reporters Under Threat describes the threat of violence facing war reporters from the United States government and some of its closest allies.