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1. Foreword - Ronald L. Jackson II -- 2. Terrorism as a Strategic Reporting Mechanism in African Media - Charles Okigbo & Okafor Blessing -- 3. Foreign Correspondents and the Image of Africa: The Coverage of Ethiopia in the 1930s - Charles Muiru Ngugi -- 4. African Media Coverage of Terrorism: A Case Study of Nigerian and East African Newspapers - Seseer P. Mou-Danha -- 5. One Culture, Different Perceptions: The Role of Politics in the work of Journalists in Two Arab Countries - Galander Mahmoud -- 6. African-American communities in the Press: Dissolving the Black identity - Alice, A. Tait -- 7. Mass Communication and Society Media, Terrorism, and Society: Perspectives and Trends in the Digital Age - Shahira Fahmy -- 8. Why all the hoopla? Fake News Reporting on Social Media Platforms and implications for Nation-State Building -E. Ngwainmbi -- 9. Social Media use among African Youth: Cultural setback or step toward globalization - E. Ngwainmbi -- 10.Digital Media and Online Extremism among African Youth: Implications for cultural discontinuity and social cohesion - Adebayo Fayoyin -- 11. Reassessment of international media reporting of Africa's protracted wars and conflicts -Adebayo Fayoyin -- 12. Confronting the lion with bare hands: The case of Anglophone Cameroonians political awakening - Kehbuma Langmia -- 13. China's National Media Coverage of Counter-terrorism and its Netizens' Reactions - Wei Sun -- 14. Young women and internet cafés in China: Risks and aspirations in a contested techno-social space - Janice Hua Xu

In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of many, including efforts to keep these technologies alive.ContributorsPablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner.

This paper examines the significance of user-distributed content (UDC) for news consumption, thereby offering an innovative take on mass communication and the participatory audience. From the viewpoint of media organizations, UDC is a process by which the mass media converge with online social networks through the intentional use of social media and other platforms and services in an effort to expand the distribution of media content. In order to focus specifically on mobile news consumption, this paper sheds light on the novel phenomenon of mobile user-distributed content (mobile UDC). Mobile UDC is manifested in mobile users' ability to share online media content on a perpetual and ubiquitous basis. The study utilizes the results from a survey carried out with Finnish Internet users. The main finding is that mobile Internet users are more active in UDC than those who do not use the Internet with mobile devices. It is thus argued that mobile UDC, as a developing concept, can be used to explain the practices that are characteristic of mobile online news consumption.

Intro -- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: NEW RESEARCH -- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: NEW RESEARCH -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: BRIDGING DIVIDES IN THE ARAB WORLD: THE USE OF ICT PLATFORMS TO PROMOTE WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION IN MOROCCO -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION IN MOROCCO -HISTORY AND REPRESENTATIONS -- WHY FOCUS ON ICTS? -- 1. USING ICTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO PROMOTING WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION IN MOROCCO -- 2. ICTS USES: GIVING MOROCCAN WOMEN A VOICE -- 3. SOCIAL LEARNING AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS -POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THIS RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: DO GENDER AND FIELD OF STUDY HAVE IMPACT ONIRANIAN STUDENTS' ENGLISH WEB PAGES USAGE? -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM -- 3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY -- 4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESES -- 5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY -- 6. LITERATURE REVIEW -- 7. METHODOLOGY -- 8. DATA ANALYSIS -- 9. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: DO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVE THE FEMALE LABOR SITUATION? THE IMPACT OF ICT ON GENDER WAGE DIFFERENCES IN SPAIN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MAIN FRAMEWORK: GENDER AND INFORMATIONAND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES -- 3. WOMEN IN SPANISH ICT EMPLOYMENT :A STATISTICALVIEW -- 4. WAGE INEQUALITY, GENDER AND INFORMATIONAND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO EMPLOYMENT -- CONCLUSION -- ANNEX -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY: POLICY, PEDAGOGY AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNOLOGY-ENRICHED FUTURES AND EDUCATION POLICY MAKING -- EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY POLICY MAKING IN THE UK -ITS IMPACT AND ITS INFLUENCES -- FROM IT TO ICT -- TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY MAKING IN THE USA.

"Designed to give students the media literacy principles and critical thinking skills they need to become a self-aware media consumer, the seventh edition of Mass Communication provides comprehensive yet compact coverage of all aspects of mass media, along with incisive analysis and fun, conversational writing. In every chapter, students will explore the latest developments and recent events that are changing the face of media today"--

An experiment investigated the ideational performance of groups using verbal or computer-mediated communication while face-to-face or distributed from one another. Groups using computer mediation outperformed groups using verbal communication. The proximity manipulation had no significant effects on performance. It is proposed that the difference between the new media (e.g., computer-mediated) and more traditional media (e.g., verbal) relates to the medium's concurrency—defined as the number of distinct communication episodes a channel can effectively support. Computer mediation can support an unlimited number of parallel and distinct communication episodes; traditional media support serial communication and therefore have a fundamentally different concurrency.