Douglas Ann Newsom
January 16, 1934 - May 24, 2021
Fort Worth, Texas - Doug Newsom was born in Dallas to J.D. and Ruby Grace Johnson, graduated from the University of Texas with bachelor degrees in Journalism and Fine Arts, a Masters degree in Journalism and a Doctorate. She was a tenured Professor in the Journalism Department of Texas Christian University, retiring in 2009.
Survivors: Her children; Mike Newsom (Lisa), Kevin Newsom (Radhika), Nancy Newsom Crippen (David) and Bill Newsom, her grandchildren; Landon Newsom, Chase Newsom (Tiffany), Samantha Newsom Darden (Derek) and Erin Arnim and great-grandchildren; William and Wesleigh Darden.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dfw/obituary.aspx?n=douglas-ann-newsom&pid=198786510&fhid=6322
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
No-cost, Downloadable Environmental Justice Bilingual Children's Book
Catalina de Onís, catalina.deonis@ucdenver.edu
Bilingual children's book La justicia ambiental es para tí y para mi/Environmental Justice is for you and me has just been published by Puerto Rican press Editora Educación Emergente. This no-cost downloadable book introduces young readers to the concept of environmental justice and the significance of this movement, discourse, and frame in shaping the life of Puerto Rican student activist Mabette Colón Pérez, who is the book's illustrator and one of its authors. The Spanish- and English-language text also was written by Dr. Hilda Lloréns, her child, Khalil, and Catalina de Onís. After requesting a complimentary e-copy from the publisher's website, a PDF will be sent to the provided email address:
https://www.editoraemergente.com/en/home/122-environmental-justice-is-for-you-and-me.html?fbclid=IwAR1RM6p7FJEc86l6b1FnGDSStV6tE3bsgQmM_ubX5c74K-vVkKF90HzkgmY
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
Sangeet Kumar, kumarsangeet@gmail.com
Publisher: Indiana University Press
https://iupress.org/9780253056498/the-digital-frontier/
Date of Publication: May 25, 2021
Book Description
The Digital Frontier interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem it has spawned from a critical, global and postcolonial lens to reveal how their conventions, protocols and standards, represent an emergent form of cultural power. In analyzing the evolving avatar of this global media technology, the book shows its assertion through the web's "infrastructures of control" visible at sites where the universalizing imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. These include how the idea of the "global common good" is used as a ruse by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along Eurocentric ideals, and how the web's political challenge is felt differentially by sovereign nation states.
In analyzing the modality of cultural power manifesting as control on the web, The Digital Frontier is an important read for scholars, activists, lay-readers and students inspired by the utopian dream of a truly representative global digital network.
Table of Contents:
- Infrastructures of Control
- Frontier
- Knowledge
- Selfhood
- Sovereignty
- Conclusion
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Cases on Applied and Therapeutic Humor
Michael K. Cundall, Jr. and Stephanie Kelly (Editors)
IGI Global
50% Off Coupon Code: IGI50
Cases on Applied and Therapeutic Humor focuses on the role of humor in medical care, with cases written by both healthcare professionals and patients, accompanied by analyses written by scholars in health communication and philosophy. The chapters explore how propriety, effectiveness, perception, and cultural variables play a role in using humor and provides practical advice from the case analyses for medical/healthcare professionals. This book is well suited for a health communication course at the graduate or undergraduate level.
Notably, since IGI Global does not charge additional fees for Multi-User licensing, for the cost of one e-Book (hosted on the InfoSci Platform), your library can provide simultaneous access to the entire institution. This means that if your library purchases one copy of the ebook, all students and faculty at the institution will have access to that ebook thereafter.
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Up in the Air?
The Future of Public Service Media in the Western
Balkans
The agenda for transition after the demise of communism in the Western
Balkans made the conversion of state radio and television into public
service broadcasters a priority, converting mouthpieces of the regime into
public forums in which various interests and standpoints could be shared and
deliberated. There is general agreement that this endeavor has not been a
success. Formally, the countries adopted the legal and institutional
requirements of public service media according to European standards. The
ruling political elites, however, retained their control over the public media by
various means.
Can this trend be reversed? Instead of being marginalized or totally
manipulated, can public service media become vehicles of genuine
democratization?
A comparison of public service media in seven countries (Albania, Bosnia &
Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia)
addresses these important questions.
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.icahdq.org/resource/resmgr/newsletters/2021/up_in_the_air_flyer.pdf
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Katie Wolfe
International Communication Association
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