Chris Lawe Davies reviews the book 'The SBS story: the challenge of cultural diversity', by Ien Ang, Gay Hawkins and Lamia Dabboussy, published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008; Peter C. Pugsley reivews the book 'Still moving: between cinema and photography', edited by Karen Beckman and Jean Ma, published by Duke University Press, Durham, NC, United States, 2008; Mark Hayes reviews the book 'Digital media and democracy: tactics in hard times', edited by Megan Boler, published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, United States, 2008; Marion McCutcheon reviews the book 'YouTube: online video and participatory culture', by Jean Burgess and Joshua Green, published by Polity Press, Cambridge, 2009; Lisa Grunders reviews the book 'The handbook of children, media and development', edited by Sandra L. Calvert and Barbara J. Wilson, published by Blackwell, Chichester, 2008; Nicola Goc reviews the book 'Transnational media events: the Mohammed cartoons and the imagined clash of civilizations', by Elisabeth Eide, Risto Kunelius and Angela Phillips, published by Nordicom, Goteborg, 2008; Sam Carroll reviews the book 'Pop idols and pirates: mechanisms of consumption and the global circulation of popular music', by Charles Fairchild, published by Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008; Kevin Howley reviews the book 'Notions of community: a collection of community media debates and dilemmas', published by Peter Lang, Oxford, 2009; Craig Hight reviews the book 'Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era', edited by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson, published by New York University Press, New York, 2009; Nick Herd reviews the book 'Digitize this book! the politics of new media or why we need open access now', by Gary Hall, published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009; Henk Huijser reviews the book 'Small tech: the culture of digital tools', edited by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder and Ollie Oviedo, published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008; Rimi Khan reviews the book 'Beyond Barbie & Mortal Kombat: new perspectives on gender and gaming', edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner and Jennifer Y. Sun, published by MIT Press, Cambridge, United States, 2008; Jonathan Marshall reviews the book 'The trouble with theory: the educational costs of postmodernism', by Gavin Kitching, published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2008; Craig Hight reviews the book 'New media: a critical introduction', by Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant and Kieran Kelly, published by Routledge, New York, 2009; Jane Felstead reviews the book 'The porn report', by Alan McKee, Katherine Albury and Catharine Lumby, published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2008; Louise North reviews the book 'Interpreting news', by Graham Meikle, published by Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009; C. K. Wilson reviews the book 'Loving & hating Hollywood: reframing global and local cinemas', by Jane Mills, published by Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009; Catherine Middleton reviews the book 'For sale to the highest bidder: Telecom policy in Canada', by Marita Moll and Leslie Regan Shade, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, 2008; Darren Jorgensen reviews the book 'Displaced allegories: post-revolutionary Iranian cinema', by Negar Mottahedeh, published by Duke University Press, Durham, NC, United States, 2008; Michael Walsh reviews the book 'Experimental music: audio explorations in Australia', by Gail Priest, published by UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009; Candice Jansz reviews the book 'Techno-politics and some structural challenges facing the internet: a critical comment', by Terje Rasmussen, published by VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrucken, 2007; C. K. Wilson reviews the book 'Mediated crossroads: identity, youth culture and ethnicity: theoretical and methodological challenges', edited by Ingererd Rydin and Ulrika Sjoberg, published by Nordicom, Goteborg, 2008; Donald Reid reviews the book 'Manufacturing Europe: spaces of democracy, diversity and communication', edited by Inka Salovaara-Moring, Nordicom, Goteborg, 2009; Marion McCutcheon reviews the book 'Remaking the movies: digital content and the evolution of the film and video industries', by Graham Vickery and Richard Hawkins, published by OECD Publications, Paris, 2008; Jock Given reviews the book 'Cultural products and the World Trade Organization', by T. Voon, published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007; Josephine May reviews the book 'Australian postwar documentary film: an arc of mirrors', by Deane Williams, published by Intellect, Bristol, 2008; You Jie reviews the book 'Media and cultural transformation in China', by Yu Haiqing, published by Routledge, London, 2009; Kay Hearn reviews the book 'TV drama in China', edited by Ying Zhu, Michael Keane and Ruoyun Bai, published by Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2008.