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Volume I. Section 1. Development journalism and conflict reporting. Chapter 1. Free media and democracy in the age of globalization: an analysis of Turkish leading newspaper ; Chapter 2. Imperative of peace and conflict-sensitive journalism in development ; Chapter 3. Role of citizen journalism through Internet in reporting war and conflicts: an introspection ; Chapter 4. Understanding media during times of terrorism ; Chapter 5. Role of traditional and new media in ethnic conflict in Nigeria's middle belt region: a primer on peace building and community development

Section 2. Factual reporting, objectivity, and verification. Chapter 6. Analyzing verbal narratives in TV news and commercials ; Chapter 7. The biased truth: an objective perspective on nonobjective news reporting ; Chapter 8. Ethical pitfalls in the digital age: when the desire to "serve hot" gets in the way of verification ; Chapter 9. Media-invented stories and outright lies a threat to journalism ethics and media credibility ; Chapter 10. Real-life and virtual news sources can be flat-out wrong: teaching the importance of libel law and media literacy in a single class session ; Chapter 11. Media literacy and fake news: how media literacy can curb the fake news trend

Section 3. Media ethics and regulation. Chapter 12. To lie or not to lie: interrogating codes of conduct on photo ethics in the era of digital technologies ; Chapter 13. New communication technologies: women's rights violations, limits on freedom of expression, and alternative ways to promote human rights ; Chapter 14. Media ethics and elections coverage in Nigeria: understanding the context and imperatives from a gender perspective ; Chapter 15. Media regulation and freedom of expression in black Africa: a comparative study of Nigeria and Cameroon ; Chapter 16. Citizen journalism on facebook and the challenges of media regulation in Zimbabwe: Baba Jukwa ; Chapter 17. Deferring citizens' "right to know" in an information age: the information deficit in Namibia

Section 4. Media literacy. Chapter 18. Digital competence: a net of literacies ; Chapter 19. Critical media literacy as transformative pedagogy ; Chapter 20. The freedom of critical thinking: examining efforts to teach American news literacy principles in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Malaysia

Section. New media technology. Chapter 21. When journalism met the internet: old media and new media Greet the online public ; Chapter 22. Immersive journalism design within a transmedia space ; Chapter 23. Computational journalism: shaping the future of news in a big data world ; Chapter 24. Data-driven information consumption: heralding a new "golden age" of journalism and content creation? ; Chapter 25. A culture of survivors: slutwalk, third culture, and new media communication

Volume II. Chapter 26. Tell China's story well?: cultural framing and online contestation ; Chapter 27. New media technology and development journalism in Nigeria ; Chapter 28. Training for mobile journalism ; Chapter 29. Who brings the news?: exploring the aggregators apps for mobile devices ; Chapter 30. Journalists and mobile: melding social media and social capital ; Chapter 31. Mobile journalism and innovation: a study on content formats of autochthonous news apps for tablets ; Chapter 32. The politicization of selfie journalism: an empirical study to parliamentary elections ; Chapter 33. Journalistic professionalism and user motivations for Snapchat video ; Chapter 34. Mobile journalism, cellphilms, and the use of the storymaker multimedia software at a Zimbabwean Media Training University ; Chapter 35. The gamification of journalism ; Chapter 36. Games and quizzes in online journalism: reaching users via interactivity and customization

Section 6. Social media and social networking. Chapter 37. Spreading the news: spreadable media, social networking, and the future of news production ; Chapter 38. Abuse of the social media brain: implications for media producers and educators ; Chapter 39. How social media offers opportunities for growth in the traditional media industry: the case of travel journalism ; Chapter 40. Potential mediations of hashtags within transmedia journalism ; Chapter 41. Viral news content, instantaneity, and newsworthiness criteria ; Chapter 42. The media event as enhanced news story: how user-generated content determines the news agenda ; Chapter 43. Citizen engagement and news selection for facebook pages ; Chapter 44. Social media in crisis: how social media created a NPO and relief during a wildfire crisis ; Chapter 45. Stakeholder interaction for sustainability: the impact of social media on Nigeria's oil and gas industry

Section 7. Transmedia journalism. Chapter 46. Journalism in the twenty-first century: to be or not to be transmedia? ; Chapter 47. A question of trust: functions and effects of transmedia journalism ; Chapter 48. Designing transmedia journalism projects ; Chapter 49. Pedagogical guidelines to introduce transmedia learning into the classroom: the Brazilian context