Media Controversy Breakthroughs in Research and Practice

Media regulation and freedom of expression in black Africa : a comparative study of Nigeria and Cameroon / Floribert Patrick C. Endong -- Debunking intermediary censorship framework in social media via a content retrieval and classification software / Baramee Navanopparatskul, Sukree Sinthupinyo, Pirongrong Ramasoota -- A comparative view of censored and uncensored political discussion : the case of Chinese social media users / Qihao Ji -- In Putin's Russia, information has you : media control and internet censorship in the Russian Federation / Katherine Ognyanova -- Digital democracy in authoritarian Russia : opportunity for participation, or site of Kremlin control? / Rachel Baarda -- The personalized and personal "mass" media : from "we-broadcast" to "we-chat" : reflection on the case of Bi Fujian incident / Yu Zhang -- Nature and outcome of Nigeria's #notosocialmediabill twitter protest against the frivolous petitions bill 2015 / Oyewole Adekunle Oladapo, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi -- Investigating the seeking behavior for religious information in social media / Abdullah Almobarraz -- The freedom of critical thinking : examining efforts to teach American news literacy principles in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Malaysia / Jennifer Fleming, Masato Kajimoto -- Microblogs, jasmine revolution, and civil unrest : reassessing the emergence of public sphere and civil society in People's Republic of China / Kenneth C.C. Yang, Yowei Kang -- Social media strategies of political power : an analysis of the ruling party in Turkey / Hakan Yüksel -- Social media and the public sphere in China : a case study of political discussion on Weibo after the Wenzhou high-speed rail derailment accident / Zhou Shan, Lu Tang -- The influence of groupthink on culture and conflict in twitter / Godfrey A. Steele, Niekitta Zephyrine -- Turkish youth's (re)construction of their political identity in social media, before "Resistanbul" / Tüge T. Gülșen -- Censorship in the digital age the world over / Kari D. Weaver -- Political economy of media entrepreneurship : commercialization and commodification in a digital news media enterprise / Sreekala Girija -- Government website, social media, and citizens' perceptions of corruption : evidence from Chinese cities / Liang Ma -- Social media and free knowledge : case study : public opinion formation / Jose Aguilar, Oswaldo Terán -- Transformation in daytime television programs in Turkey since 2000 / Ece Karadogan Doruk -- Presidential rhetoric and news rhetoric / Ying Roselyn Du -- A gradual political change? : the agenda setting effect of online activism in China 1994-2011 / Yuan Yuan -- Social climate change and the modern police department : millennials, marijuana, and mass media / Adrienne C. Bradford, Heather K. McElroy, Rachel Rosenblatt -- Media, democracy, and political change in Developing Countries / Lynete Lusike Mukhongo, Juliet Wambui Macharia -- We the new media : the disruption of social media in interpersonal and collective communication / Miguel del Fresno -- Framing and mis-framing in micro-blogging sites in China : online propagation of an animal cruelty campaign / Yuanxin Wang -- Analyzing blending social and mass media audiences through the lens of computer-mediated discourse / Asta Zelenkauskaite -- Mass media, elections, and good governance : implications for national development / Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh -- The increase of how mass media coverage manipulates our minds / David Brian Ross, Richard Louis, Melissa T. Sasso -- The politics of immersive storytelling : virtual reality and the logics of digital ecosystems / Christian Stiegler -- Coverage of cultural heritage in mass media publications in Zimbabwe / Marlvern Mabgwe, Petronella Katekwe -- Economic journalists' qualifications in the Arab world : a proposed interdisciplinary academic program offered by Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman / Abdullah K. Al-Kindi -- Media campaign on exclusive breastfeeding : awareness, perception, and acceptability among mothers in Anambra State, Nigeria / Nkiru Comfort Ezeh -- Communicating democracy through participatory radio in Nigeria : the question of political economy / Murtada Busair Ahmad, Kamaldin Abdulsalam Babatunde -- Social media and infectious disease perceptions in a multicultural society / Maria Elena Villar, Elizabeth Marsh -- Women's representation in selected Ethiopian electronic media and its implication for sustainable development / Wubalem Arefaine Hagos -- Boko Haram insurgency in Cameroon : role of mass media in conflict management / Afu Isaiah Kunock -- Media ethics and elections coverage in Nigeria : understanding the context and imperatives from a gender perspective / Abigail Ogwezzy-Ndisika, Ismail Adegboyega Ibraheem, Babatunde Adesina Faustino -- Ethical pitfalls in the digital age : when the desire to "serve hot" gets in the way of verification / Tendai Chari -- To lie or not to lie : interrogating codes of conduct on photo ethics in the era of digital technologies / Bevelyn Dube -- Media-invented stories and outright lies a threat to journalism ethics and media credibility / Agnes Lucy Lando -- Sacrificing credibility for sleaze : mainstream media's use of tabloidization / Jenn Burleson Mackay, Erica Bailey -- Advertising ethics in the social media age / Tanses Yasemin Gülsoy -- Ethics of social media research / Amir Manzoor.