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New Journal Issue JAMMR 13.2 (Media and Society in the Middle East)
Noureddine Miladi is pleased to announce the publication of _Issue 13.2_of the /Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research/ (JAMMR), which has an interesting line up of timely papers. The journal is an international refereed academic platform, published by Intellect in the UK. You may access the...
Call for Papers: JCEA_CfP_Special Winter 2021 Issue_Communicating Crisis in Networked Asia
Call for PapersThe Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA), a refereed biannual open access journal on East and Southeast Asia is announcing a call for papers for a special Winter 2021 issue: Communicating Crisis in Networked AsiaInvited Editors: K. Hazel Kwon, Arizona State...
New book: Enhancing Digital Equity. Connecting the Digital Underclass
This book highlights how, in principle, digital technologies present an opportunity to reduce social disparities, tackle social exclusion, enhance social and civil rights, and promote equity. However, to achieve these goals, it is necessary to promote digital equity and connect digital underclass....
Economic Inequality and News Media: Discourse, Power, and Redistribution'. Oxford University. Press.
Despite the rediscovery of the inequality topic by economists and other social scientists in recent times, relatively little is known about how economic inequality is mediated to the wider public. That is precisely where this book steps in: it examines how mainstream news media discuss, respond to,...
New book: The Auditory Setting: Environmental Sounds in Film and Media
The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or'ambiance'. Although this sonic backdrop acts as the acoustically mediated space where a story or...
ImageActivism After the Arab Uprisings: the opportunities and constraints are for practices of grassroots digital image activism
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijochttps://ijoc.orgInternational Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on ImageActivism After the Arab UprisingsA decade after the outbreak of the Arab uprisings, what remains of thepolitical promise of "cameras everywhere" to permit activists andprotesters...
Central European Journal of Communication - two new issues and cfp
The submissions for the new Spring 2021 issue are due October 1, 2020."Central European Journal of Communication" (ISSN 1899–5101) is a scientific journal of the Polish Communication Association. It engages in critical discussions on communications and media in Central and eastern Europe and beyond....
CFP - Confronting Covid-19: Constructing and Contesting Legitimacy through the Media in Chinese Contexts
Legitimacy justifies the acts and authority of social groups and organisations and makes them acceptable to other social members. As a global health crisis that sweeps the world, the Covid-19 pandemic hasprovoked a crisis of legitimacy that social actors and institutions face over their responses to...
Call for Papers Deadline for Cine-Excess 14: Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance
For its 2020 edition, /Cine Excess/ is working in collaboration with theBlack Sands Educational Project, which seeks to educate UK based BAMEartists, filmmakers and audiences about the subversive potential that surrounds black representations in cult and marginal cinema formats. Thefocus of the...
New publication: Nordicom Review Special Issue "Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama
Introduction: Dark Screens: The geopolitics of Nordic television dramaDownload the article via Sciendo:https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/nor/41/s1/article-p3.xmlPei-Sze Chow, Anne Marit Waade, Robert A. Saunders Geopolitical Television Drama Within and Beyond the...
New Book- The Future of Change - How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions
In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of "social innovation moments" in American history. Through these moments—during which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologies—he illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship...
A new Book on mapping in times of crisis - Doug Specht
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the...
