Armenia engaged in “Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance” academic book

At the end of 2014 Palgrave Macmillan global academic publishing house released a new professional book in journalism entitled “Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance”.

The book provides an overview of new and traditional media of 16 countries, including Armenia, in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. Besides Armenia, the following countries are also presented in the book: China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ghana, Guyana, India, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, Russia, Suriname, Taiwan, Turkey, United States, and Yemen.

The case studies relate performance and output within the framework of journalism’s core values and its obligations for independence, responsibility, accuracy and truth, as well as monitoring powerful state actors in the sociopolitical and economic arenas. The book edited by Yusuf Kalyango and David Mould, professors from Ohio University is based on the approach that there is a growing need to understand how journalism continues to be practiced around the world from those who practice and teach the craft.

At the end of 2014 Palgrave Macmillan global academic publishing house released a new professional book in journalism entitled “Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance”.

According to “Preface and Acknowledgments” part of the book written by Prof. Kalyango who is also the director of the Institute for International Journalism, the contributions selected for this volume span the globe-from Central and South America to Europe, Africa and Asia- and come from educators at different types of institutions and at different stages in their careers.

“Most are publishing in English for the first time,” he wrote and continued: “Although the collection features studies on countries such as China, India, and Russia, where there is an extensive body of academic research on journalism and media, it also includes countries where the literature (at least in English) is scant, such as Armenia, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Suriname, and Yemen. We are proud of the time and effort these educators put into their research and writing, and in revising their chapters over a period of one year. We hope that the experience, grueling though it may have been, will encourage them to continue doing rigorous, peer-reviewed research and publication.”

The media practice in Armenia with an article entitled “Armenia- New Media Transform Politics” is presented in this book by Suren Deheryan, who began his teaching career at Yerevan State University in Armenia in 2006. Since 2010, he had worked at the Scientific-Educational Center on International Journalism at Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences named for V. Brusov, where he teaches courses in editorial management, print and online media, other professional subjects. Deheryan is editor and co-author of books in Armenian entitled “Access Zone or e-Armenia” (2012), “The Best in the Net” (2013).

The 16 authors of this book are united via E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at the Ohio University of USA which was awarded a three-year contract to offer a summer Study of the US Institute (SUSI) on Journalism and Media. Every year, 18 lecturers, some of them mid-career scholars and heads of journalism and media departments visit to learn about the US media and journalism, do research, and visit local, state, and national media.

The publication of “Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance” book was also supported by the Institute for International Journalism at Ohio University and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, at the U.S. Department of State. It is already available in libraries, bookstores of US and at Amazon.com website.

Source: JFF