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Children and Youth in the Digital Media Culture

children_and_youth_in_the_digital_media_cultureFrom a Nordic Horizon
Ulla Carlsson (ed.)

New book by IAMCR member.

The Clearinghouse on Children Youth and Media has published eleven yearbooks to date. In them, researchers and experts from all the corners of the world have treated a wide variety of issues from many different perspectives. The present Yearbook showcases the Nordic countries and the work being done in the research communities of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The focus rests on children, youth and media in a digitized media culture.

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The Digital Public Sphere

the_public_sphereChallenges for Media Policy
Jostein Gripsrud, Hallvard Moe (eds.)

New book with contribution by IAMCR member

Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific, and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense; second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up as convergence; and third, by a more far-reaching commercialisation of the media.

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Tabloid Journalism in South Africa

tabloid_journalism_in_south_africa

Herman Wasserman

Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers took the country by storm. Now one of these papers —the Daily Sun— is the largest daily paper in the country. The tabloids have generated controversy for their perceived lack of respect for privacy, brazen sexual content, and unrestrained truth-stretching. Herman Wasserman examines the success of tabloid journalism in South Africa at a time when global print media are in decline.

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Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom

journalism_education_in_countries_with_limited_media_freedomBeate Josephi (ed.)

This volume opens up new aspects of looking at journalism education globally. Its twelve case studies – China, Singapore, Cambodia, Palestine, Oman, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, Russia, Romania and Croatia – show that journalism education is not indicative of the country’s media system. The contributors demonstrate through careful analysis that wealthy nations are able to set the terms of their journalism education while less affluent countries are more open to the influence of foreign NGOs.

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Media Divides

media_dividesCommunication Rights and the Right to Communicate in Canada
Marc Raboy and Jeremy Shtern (eds.)

Media Divides offers a report card, or democratic audit, on communications law and policy by leading analysts and writers. The authors introduce the concept of communications rights as a framework for analysis in five key domains -media, access, the Internet, privacy, and copyright- and situate debates about rights in the context of Canadian history and the emerging global media and communications environment.

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