Media Meets Climate: The Global Challenge for Journalism

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Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius, editors.

There is no way of not meeting climate change. It reframes our public debates, from shifting global power relations to political participation and individual lifestyle choices. It begs questions about our basic formulas for economics, science and democracy. It is a key theme in thinking about identities and the human condition, making us ask not only “who are we,” but also who the “we” in that question is. Climate change forces states, societies and people to look critically at the political, cultural and material ingredients of our world.

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Ringtones of Opportunity: Policy, Technology and Access in Caribbean Communications

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Editor: Hopeton S. Dunn

This multi-authored volume is one of the first books to present scholarly research on the liberating opportunities offered by information and communications technologies in the Caribbean and the global south. While acknowledging challenges of policy implementation and technology adaptation, the book nevertheless identifies a range of empowering development options in media literacy, e-fisheries, m-banking, mobile telephony, m-agriculture, tele-working, techno-driven environmental strategies and intellectual property reforms.

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Bodies of Discourse. Sports Stars, Media, and the Global Public

Cornel Sandvoss, Michael  Real and Alina Bernstein, editors.

This anthology investigates sports stardom in its global context across the spectrum of spectator sport: from the quest of Japanese star athletes to exorcise the cultural demons of postwar Japan, to the Mexican pitcher celebrating victory in the first major league baseball game played on Mexican soil; from the naturalization of a Croatian footballer in Israel, to the marginalization of Scottish women curlers at the Winter Olympics.

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God, Jews and the Media - Religion and Israel’s Media

By Yoel Cohen

In order to understand contemporary Jewish identity in the twenty-first century, one needs to look beyond the Synagogue, the holy days and Jewish customs and law to explore such modern phenomena as mass media and their impact upon Jewish existence. This book delves into the complex relationship between Judaism and the mass media to provide a comprehensive examination of modern Jewish identity in the information age.

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From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics

Divina Frau-Meigs, Jérémie Nicey, Patricio Tupper, Michael Palmer and Julia Pohle, editors.

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

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Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice & Global and Local Televangelism

Philip Lee and Pradip Ninan Thomas, editors.

IAMCR members Philip Lee and Pradip Thomas have recently co-edited two books, one on televangelism and the other on media, memory and justice.

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Mediatization and Religion - Nordic Perspectives

Stig Hjarvard and Mia Lövheim

This book presents new research on the changing relationship between the media, religion and culture from a Nordic perspective, while engaging with the theory of the mediatization of religion. In contemporary society, news journalism, film and television series, as well as new digital media, provide critical commentary on religion while also enabling new forms of religious imagery and interaction.

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Imagining the Internet: Communication, Innovation, and Governance

Robin Mansell

This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies of the twenty-first century will develop ever more sophisticated technologies, the Internet is now a familiar and pervasive part of the world in which we live, work, and communicate.

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