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Vol 15 (2021)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Adaptation of Scripted Television Formats: Factors and Mechanisms of Cultural Identity in a Global World |
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Isabel Villegas-Simón, María T. Soto-Sanfiel |
17 pgs. |
| Communicative Forms on TikTok: Perspectives From Digital Ethnography |
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Andreas Schellewald |
21 pgs. |
| Enhanced Experiences in Interactive Nonfiction: An Experimental Study on the Effects of Nonlinearity and Interactivity |
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Jorge Vázquez-Herrero |
23 pgs. |
| Newspaper Advertising in a Nontransparent Media Market: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan (2014–2018) |
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Jiyan Faris, Pieter Maeseele, Kevin Smets |
21 pgs. |
| The Game of Life: How Playing Gamified Interactive Narratives Affects Career Planning in Cambodia |
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Lauren B. Frank, Paul Sparks, Sheila T. Murphy, Lizzie Goodfriend, Paul Falzone |
21 pgs. |
| What “Emergency Sources” Expect From Journalists: Applying the Hierarchy of Influences Model to Disaster News Coverage |
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Daniela Grassau, Sebastián Valenzuela, Soledad Puente |
23 pgs. |
| Virtue Ethics and a Technomoral Framework for Online Activism |
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Joe Cruz, Patrick Lee Plaisance |
19 pgs. |
| Aging: The Two Faces of Janus in Digital Inclusion? |
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Panayiota Tsatsou |
21 pgs. |
| On the Limits of Platform-Centric Research: YouTube, ASMR, and Affordance Bilingualism |
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Jessica Maddox |
21 pgs. |
| Role of Public WhatsApp Groups Within the Hindutva Ecosystem of Hate and Narratives of “CoronaJihad” |
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Fathima Nizaruddin |
18 pgs. |
| The Resonant Chants of Networked Discourse: Affective Publics and the Muslim Self in Turkey |
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Haktan Ural |
21 pgs. |
| Alienation, Ideology, and Power in the Metaphors Depicting the Economic Crisis in the Media |
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Eleonora Piromalli |
21 pgs. |
| The Effects of Message Order and Debiasing Information in Misinformation Correction |
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Yue Dai, Wenting Yu, Fei Shen |
21 pgs. |
| Press Freedom and Media Reform in a Populist Regime: How Ecuadorian Journalists and Policy Actors See the Correa Era |
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Manel Palos Pons, Daniel C. Hallin |
18 pgs. |
| Keeping the Gates on Twitter: Interactivity and Sourcing Habits of Lebanese Traditional Media |
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Claudia Kozman, Raluca Cozma |
21 pgs. |
| Monopolizing the Democratic Dream: The Struggle Over a Free Press in East Germany 1989/1990 |
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Mandy Tröger |
18 pgs. |
| When Therapy Goes Public: Copyright Gatekeepers and Sharing Therapeutic Artifacts on Social Media |
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Amanda Reid, Pablo Miño |
20 pgs. |
| Fair Use in Practice: South Korean Film Directors’ Copyright Understanding |
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Yoonmo Sang, Patricia Aufderheide, Minjeong Kim |
23 pgs. |
| Deglobalization and Public Diplomacy |
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Juan-Luis Manfredi-Sánchez |
22 pgs. |
| Social Coding Platform as Digital Enclave: A Case Study of Protesting “996” on GitHub |
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Lichen Zhen |
19 pgs. |
| Grumpy Consumers, Good Citizens? Exploring the Relationship Among Internet Use, Online Consumer Behavior, and Civic Participation in China |
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Fei Shen, Tianjiao Wang |
24 pgs. |
| Critical Media Access Studies: Deconstructing Power, Visibility, and Marginality in Mediated Space |
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Meryl Alper |
22 pgs. |
| Not the Bots You Are Looking For: Patterns and Effects of Orchestrated Interventions in the U.S. and German Elections |
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Olga Boichak, Jeff Hemsley, Sam Jackson, Rebekah Tromble, Sikana Tanupabrungsun |
26 pgs. |
| Are Smartphones Enhancing or Displacing Face-to-Face Communication With Close Ties? A Panel Study Among Adults |
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Anja Stevic, Desirée Schmuck, Kathrin Karsay, Jörg Matthes |
27 pgs. |
| The Medium and the Backlash: The Disparagement of the #MeToo Movement in Online Public Discourse in South Korea |
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Soo Young Bae, Taegyun Kim, Yu-i Ha, Meeyoung Cha |
24 pgs. |
| Co-Constructing a Print Media Narrative: Interviews With LGBTQ Activists From the 1960s and 1970s in New Zealand |
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Linda Jean Kenix, Suvojit Bandopadhyaya |
18 pgs. |
| Revisiting Cultivation as a Gravitational Process: A Cross-National Comparison of the Cultivation of Fear and Mistrust |
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Matea Mustafaj, Jan Van den Bulck |
26 pgs. |
| The Event-Centered Nature of Global Public Spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences, Fridays for Future, and the (Limited) Transnationalization of Media Debates |
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Antal Wozniak, Hartmut Wessler, Chung-hong Chan, Julia Lück |
27 pgs. |
| Affect, Curiosity, and Positionality in Context: Watching Television Entertainment in Argentina and the United States |
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María Celeste Wagner, Pablo J. Boczkowski, Eugenia Mitchelstein |
20 pgs. |
| Bystander Intervention in Cyberbullying and Online Harassment: The Role of Expectancy Violations |
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Nicholas Brody |
21 pgs. |
| Challenges and Opportunities for Regional Public Service Media: A Singular Case Study in Europe |
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Jessica Izquierdo-Castillo, Juan Carlos Miguel-de-Bustos |
22 pgs. |
| Olympian Surveillance: Sports Stadiums and the Normalization of Biometric Monitoring |
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Brett Hutchins, Mark Andrejevcic |
20 pgs. |
| Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of Social Good |
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João Carlos Magalhães, Nick Couldry |
20 pgs. |
| What Is the Power of Balancing Power? Exploring Perceived Discrepancy in Relational Power and Its Effects |
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Lisa Tam, Soojin Kim |
23 pgs. |
| Media Platforms and Political Learning: The Democratic Challenge of News Consumption on Computers and Mobile Devices |
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Kim Andersen, Jesper Strömbäck |
20 pgs. |
| The Conditional Indirect Effects of Political Social Media Information Seeking and Expression on Government Evaluation in Hong Kong: Revisiting the Communication Mediation Model |
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Yan Su, Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Porismita Borah |
23 pgs. |
| WhatsApp Marketing: A Study on WhatsApp Brand Communication and the Role of Trust in Self-Disclosure |
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Brahim Zarouali, Anna Brosius, Natali Helberger, Claes H. de Vreese |
25 pgs. |
| Reporting on Political Acquaintances: Personal Interactions Between Political Journalists and Politicians as a Determinant of Media Coverage |
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Emma S. van der Goot, Toni G.L.A. van der Meer, Rens Vliegenthart |
23 pgs. |
| An Agenda for Comparative Social Media Studies: The Value of Understanding Practices From Cross-National, Cross-Media, and Cross-Platform Perspectives |
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Mora Matassi, Pablo Boczkowski |
22 pgs. |
| How Facebook Users Experience Political Disagreements and Make Decisions About the Political Homogenization of Their Online Network |
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German Neubaum, Manuel Cargnino, Jeanette Maleszka |
20 pgs. |
| From Ignorance to Resonance: Analysis of the Transformative Potential of Dissensus and Agonistic Deliberation in Sustainability Communication |
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Franzisca Weder, Denise Voci |
24 pgs. |
| The Identity of LGBTQ Communication Research: From the Anglo-Saxon Effervescence to the Spanish-Speaking Barrenness |
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Leonarda García-Jiménez, Juan José Sánchez-Soriano, Marta Prego-Nieto |
20 pgs. |
| The Growing Up Asian American Tag: An Asian American Networked Counterpublic on YouTube |
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Dasol Kim |
20 pgs. |
| De-Westernizing Platform Studies: History and Logics of Chinese and U.S. Platforms |
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Mark Davis, Jian Xiao |
20 pgs. |
| Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest “Against Dictatorship” |
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Jelena Kleut, Ana Milojevic |
21 pgs. |
| Imaginaries About Brazil in the Media Consumption of LGBTIQ+ Immigrants and Refugees in the City of São Paulo |
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Hadriel Theodoro, Denise Cogo |
21 pgs. |
| 84 Lumber’s Constrained Polysemy: Limiting Interpretive Play and the Power of Audience Agency in Inspirational Immigrant Narratives |
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Litzy Galarza, Lars Stoltzfus-Brown |
20 pgs. |
| Journalists’ Awareness and Understanding of Climate Change in Tanzania |
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Emmanuel Frank Elia |
19 pgs. |
| Choosing a Social Media Platform: Genre and Social Ties in Urban Malaysia |
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Julian Hopkins, Chris Hooi Koon Tan |
21 pgs. |
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Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Special Section on Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation – Introduction |
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Hyunjin Seo, Robert Faris |
8 pgs. |
| Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Electronic Armies or Cyber Knights? The Sources of Pro-Authoritarian Discourse on Middle East Twitter |
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Alexei Abrahams, Andrew Leber |
27 pgs. |
| Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Motivations for Sharing Misinformation: A Comparative Study in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries |
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Dani Madrid-Morales, Herman Wasserman, Gregory Gondwe, Khulekani Ndlovu, Etse Sikanku, Melissa Tully, Emeka Umejei, Chikezie Uzuegbunam |
20 pgs. |
| Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| When Machine Behavior Targets Future Voters: The Use of Social Bots to Test Narratives for Political Campaigns in Brazil |
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Rose Marie Santini, Débora Salles, Giulia Tucci |
24 pgs. |
| Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Fighting Zika With Honey: An Analysis of YouTube’s Video Recommendations on Brazilian YouTube |
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Jonas Kaiser, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Yasodara Córdova |
19 pgs. |
| Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Belief in or Identification of False News According to the Elaboration Likelihood Model |
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Chi-Ying Chen, Mike Kearney, Shao-Liang Chang |
23 pgs. |
| Comparative Approaches to Mis/Disinformation| Selective Belief: How Partisanship Drives Belief in Misinformation |
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Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Burhanuddin Muhtadi |
23 pgs. |
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New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries: Feminism, Gender, Ageism, and New Masculinities in Audiovisual Content – Introduction |
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Maria Pilar Rodriguez, Miren Gutierrez, Maria J. Pando-Canteli |
9 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | The Fourth Wave in Audiovisual Content: A True Achievement of Feminism? |
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María Silvestre Cabrera, María López Belloso, Raquel Royo |
23 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Algorithmic Gender Bias and Audiovisual Data: A Research Agenda |
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Miren Gutierrez |
23 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | The Portrayal of Men and Women in Digital Communication: Content Analysis of Gender Roles and Gender Display in Reaction GIFs |
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Diego Álvarez, Alejandro González, Cristina Ubani |
31 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | “Menvertising” and the Resistances to New Masculinities in Audiovisual Representations |
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Maria J. Pando-Canteli, Maria Pilar Rodriguez |
21 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries | Employer Femvertising: Women Empowerment in Employer Brand Messages |
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Lorena Ronda, Garazi Azanza |
31 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| The Shifting Image of Hegemonic Masculinity in Contemporary Television Series |
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Lisa Cuklanz, Ali Erol |
18 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Ageing and the Creative Spirit of Women in the Audiovisual Market: The Case of Olive Kitteridge (2014) |
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Asunción Bernárdez-Rodal, Maria Isabel Menendez Menendez |
18 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Gender Representation in Subscription Video-On-Demand Spanish TV Series |
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María Marcos Ramos, Beatriz González-de-Garay |
24 pgs. |
| New Feminist Studies in Audiovisual Industries| Female Leadership Represented in Animation for Children and the Sociocognitive Learning of 21st-Century Girls |
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Maria Del Rosario Neira-Piñeiro, M. Esther Del Moral Pérez, Lourdes Villalustre |
20 pgs. |
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COVID-19 and the Long Revolution |
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Chad Van De Wiele, Zizi Papacharissi |
13 pgs. |
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Wazhmah Osman, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists |
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Joseph Oliver Boyd-Barrett |
3 pgs. |
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James Fredal, The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric |
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Reviewed by
Thomas A. Discenna |
3 pgs. |
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Sun-ha Hong, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society |
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Reviewed by
Roselyn Du |
4 pgs. |
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Bing Tong, Journalism and Communication in China and the West: A Study of History, Education and Regulation |
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Reviewed by
Wei Zhang |
4 pgs. |
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Evan S. Michelson, Philanthropy and the Future of Science and Technology |
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Reviewed by
Jermaine Anthony Richards |
4 pgs. |
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Ursula Plesner and Emil Husted, Digital Organizing: Revising Themes in Organization Studies |
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Reviewed by
Alejandro Alvarado Rojas |
4 pgs. |
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Laura DeNardis, The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch |
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Reviewed by
Martha Isabel Falencik |
3 pgs. |
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Frederick Wasser, Twentieth Century Fox |
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Reviewed by
Amanda Ann Klein |
3 pgs. |
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W. Lance Bennett, Communicating the Future: Solutions for Environment, Economy, and Democracy |
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Reviewed by
Lee Ahern |
3 pgs. |
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Caty Borum Chattoo, Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change |
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Reviewed by
Paul Falzone |
3 pgs. |
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Joana Díaz-Pont, Pieter Maeseele, Annika Egan Sjölander, Maitreyee Mishra, and Kerrie Foxwell-Norton (Eds.), The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication |
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Reviewed by
Beatriz Mira |
3 pgs. |
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Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World |
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Reviewed by
Mary Heath |
3 pgs. |
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Lindsay Palmer, The Fixers: Local News Workers and the Underground Labor of International Reporting |
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Reviewed by
Ryan Stoldt |
3 pgs. |
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Stephen Bates, An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and The Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press |
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Reviewed by
Sue Curry Jansen |
3 pgs. |
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Magda Konieczna, Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails |
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David Cheruiyot |
4 pgs. |
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S. Craig Watkins, Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Vivian Shaw, and Lauren Weinzimmer, The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality |
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Reviewed by
Zelly Claire Martin |
4 pgs. |
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Victor Pickard, Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation Society |
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Reviewed by
Jacob L. Nelson |
4 pgs. |
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John P. Wihbey, The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World |
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Reviewed by
Alexandra Hill |
3 pgs. |
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Łukasz Bogucki and Mikołaj Deckert (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility |
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Reviewed by
Siwen Lu, Sijing Lu |
3 pgs. |
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Emeka Umejei, Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox |
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Reviewed by
Gregory Gondwe |
3 pgs. |
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Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others |
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Catherine Jeffery |
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