Communicating with Power

The Contributors - Peng Hwa Ang: Foreword - Cherian George: Editor's Introduction - Sandra Braman: The Medium as Power: Information and Its Flows as Acts of War - John D. H. Downing: Pointless or Potent? A Long View on Antiwar Movement Media - Omar Al-Ghazzi: The Politics of Recognition and the Safety of Syrian Media Practitioners - Marc Jungblut/Adolfo Carratalá/Beatriz Herrero: Media, Parliaments and NGOs in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Robin Mansell: The Rise of Computational Power: Accountability, Imagination and Choice - Jenifer Sunrise Winter: Big Data and Information/Power Asymmetries: What Role for Scholars? - Kerstin Thummes/Ulrike Röttger: Public Discourse on the Responsibility of Corporations: A Holistic Framework - Min Liu/Valarie Shaw/Wai Hsien Cheah: Struggling to be Understood: Deaf Patients and the American Healthcare System - Bingqing Xia: Internet Workers' Emerging Agency and New Political Dynamics in China - Debbie Goh/Elmie Nekmat/Natalie Pang/Carol Soon/Weiyu Zhang: Shifts in Communicative Power: Social Media and Elections in Singapore - Nicholas Busalacchi/Sonia Jawaid Shaikh/François Bar/Ann Pendleton-Jullian: Academic-Community Collaboration through World Building - Sharon Strover: Breaching Sites of Power in Law and Policy Debates: Four Models - Cherian George: Dealing with Demagoguery and Hate Propaganda in an Age of Unreason - Perry Parks: We Know How to Communicate with Power: We Just Don't Do It - John Gowdy: Disinformation, Economic Fallacies and Environmental Catastrophe - Index.

Cherian George (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University. His latest monograph is Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy (2016).