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Derecho a la comunicación: Realidad y desafíos en América Latina. Pueblos indígenas y políticas públicas de radiodifusión

Rosa Elena Sudario Manrique

Lima: Servicios en Comunicación Intercultural (SERVINDI) (2013), 429 pp.

"La finalidad de este libro es ofrecer al movimiento indígena del Perú y de América Latina un marco de referencia comparativo regional de las políticas públicas referidas al ejercicio del derecho a la comunicación de los pueblos indígenas que facilite articular propuestas para la agenda indí ... more

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Regional Segment Profiles

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 7 pp.

"In order to understand people’s needs and identify opportunities to communicate with them effectively, Climate Asia has analysed survey data from across the seven project countries – Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, and China – and placed people into five discrete segme ... more

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"Good Information is in Short Supply": Kenyan Farmers and Their Assessment of Information on Agricultural Innovation

Christoph Spurk, Michael Schanne, Mureij Mak’Ochieng, Wilson Ugangu

Zürich: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM);Multimedia University College of Kenya (MMU) (2013), 50 pp.

"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and ... more

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Global Mapping of Communication for Development Interventions in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation

Beatrice M. Spadacini

New York: UNICEF (2013), 54 pp.

"The findings of this global mapping are organized into five main sections: The role of children, adolescents and youth in peacebuilding; mainstreaming C4D for peacebuilding in the education system; C4D for peacebuilding: adding value to education; most effective C4D approaches used for peacebuildin ... more

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Community Media for Development and Participation: Experiences, Thoughts and Forethoughts
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Ayobami Ojebode (ed.)

Ibadan: John Archers (2013), xxii, 422 pp.

"A collection of debate and report articles on community media and community communication, this book presents experiences, thoughts and forethoughts from Cyprus, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia and Nigeria. In the first section of the book are found studies of the practice and impact of community media, esp ... more

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Kachin Refugees, Myanmar: Needs for Pastoral and Evangelizing Communication

Bernard Dashi Tang

Manila: University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Sacred Theology, Master Thesis (2013), ix, 115 pp.

"The study is divided into three parts: Part One is a discussion on brief history of civil war in Myanmar especially in Kachin State, the past experiences of the Church in pastoral and evangelizing communication in Kachin State and the current life situation of the Kachin refugees. In Part Two, we p ... more

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Dimitra Newsletter, Nr. 24

Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2013), 24 pp.

"For several years now, the FAO-Dimitra project has been supporting community listeners’ clubs (CLC), which facilitate a process for strengthening rural communities, with a special focus on women’s leadership. At this stage in the project’s progress, we think it is necessary to take the time t ... more

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Online Comment Moderation: Emerging Best Practices

Federica Cherubini, Alexandra Waldhorn

Darmstadt: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 77 pp.

"The news organisations that we spoke to could be broadly divided into two camps with regards to their attitudes to online comments: there are those who embrace comments from users, often as part of a wider strategy of involving their readers in their publication, and there are those who see them as ... more

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Media and the Vulnerable in Indonesia: Accounts from the Margins

Yanuar Nugroho, Leonardus K. Nugraha, Shita Laksmi, Mirta Amalia, Dinita Andriani Putri, Dwitri Amalia

Jakarta: Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG);Hivos (2013), 135 pp.

"Aims to map the implication of the political economy dynamics of the media on citizens’ right to media from the perspective of citizens, in particular those who are vulnerable and weak(ened). Due to the effect of the contemporary political economy of media in Indonesia, the premise of equal citiz ... more

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TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
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Janet McCabe, Kim Akass (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp.

"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has sin ... more

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Climate Asia Quantitative Survey Methodology

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 8 pp.

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Challenges and Suggestions for Determining Quality in Children's Media

Alexis R. Lauricella, Michael B. Robb, Ellen Wartella

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media

Dafna Lemish (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), pp. 425-432

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Lost: Syrian Refugees and the Information Gap

Janine di Giovanni (coord.)

Internews (2013), 16 pp.

"The report presents findings that pose both unique challenges and opportunities for programs seeking to provide humanitarian information to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. So far, according to the report, there is little evidence of any comprehensive strategy or investment in providing a humanitarian c ... more

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Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice

Anna Sheftel, Stacey Zembrzycki (eds.)

New York; Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xxv, 301 pp.

"Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology." ... more

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Influences of Religious Telecast in a Multi-Religious India: An Analysis of Hindu and Non-Hindu Television Viewers

Binod C. Agrawal

Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 5-21

"On the whole, it seems religious television viewing had moderate or no influence whatsoever at attitudinal level among Hindu and non-Hindu viewers. In the light of the analysis, it is argued that strongly held religious beliefs and cultural dictates would not get influenced by religious television ... more

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Soap Operas as a Matchmaker: A Cultivation Analysis of the Effects of South Korean TV Dramas on Vietnamese Women’s Marital Intentions

Hong Tien Vu, Tien-Tsung Lee

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 1-2 (2013), 23 pp.

"This cultivation study examined the effects of South Korean soap operas on Vietnamese female audiences. It also assessed cultivation effects in combination with the theory of reasoned action. Based on a survey of 439 female viewers, it explicated the link between South Korean soap opera consumption ... more

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Selective Believability: A Perspective on Africans’ Interactions with Global Media

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 219-236

"This article attempts to highlight a new perspective on African audiences’ engagement with global media and point to new postulates in audience research. It briefly reviews key reception theories, ranging from the effects tradition to active audience paradigm and encoding-decoding model. It then ... more

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Youth, Facebook and Politics in South Africa

Tanja Bosch

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 119-130

"This article explores how Facebook is used by South African youth, with particular reference to their political participation and involvement. Research has shown the declining involvement of young people in political processes, particularly since democratic elections in 1994. This is an internation ... more

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Webcam Child Sex Tourism: Becoming Sweetie. A Novel Approach to Stopping the Global Rise of Webcam Child Sex Tourism

Terre des Hommes (2013), 113 pp.

"Four Terre des Hommes Netherlands researchers spent 10 weeks posing as prepubertal Filipino girls on 19 public chat rooms. During that short period, a total of 20,172 predators from 71 countries committed crimes by soliciting the Webcam child sex tourism (WCST) research researchers, whom the predat ... ors believed to be minors, for paid webcam sex performances. But 20,172 crimes in a sample of 19 chat rooms likely reflects only a small fraction of the number of crimes actually taking place every day when we consider the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s estimates that there are 40,000 online chat rooms on which predators lurk. Moreover, WCST takes place on social networking sites, adult webcam sites and online dating sites, in addition to chat rooms. It is likely that WCST takes place tens of thousands of times each day. Four Terre des Hommes Netherlands researchers spent 10 weeks posing as prepubertal Filipino girls on 19 public chat rooms. During that short period, a total of 20,172 predators from 71 countries committed crimes by soliciting the WCST researchers, whom the predators believed to be minors, for paid webcam sex performances. But 20,172 crimes in a sample of 19 chat rooms likely reflects only a small fraction of the number of crimes actually taking place every day when we consider the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s estimates that there are 40,000 online chat rooms on which predators lurk. Moreover, WCST takes place on social networking sites, adult webcam sites and online dating sites, in addition to chat rooms. It is likely that WCST takes place tens of thousands of times each day. The finding that WCST is such a common crime on public chat rooms led us to investigate whether law enforcement agencies are not adequately enforcing existing child protection laws because they are unable to identify predators engaging in WCST. We found that identifying predators seeking webcam sexual performances from children can be achieved through the use of a proactive investigation technique. During the 10 weeks spent collecting data, the four Terre des Hommes Netherlands researchers identified 1,000 predators seeking webcam sex performance from children on public chat rooms. They were identified using only information available in public online databases and data provided by predators. No computer hacking or illegal methods were applied. Instead, we just asked predators to provide identifying information under the fictional pretext—a technique known as “social hacking." (Executive summary, page 4-5) more

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Special Issue on Youth, ICTs, and Civic Engagement in Asia

Weiyu Zhang, Emmanuel C. Lallana (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 3 (2013), pp. 249-337

"The articles collected in this special issue share a common focus: young adults’ use of new media for civic engagement in South and Southeast Asia. Youth engagement problems are evident when established democracies witness a decline in youth participation in traditional civic activities (e.g., vo ... ting) compared to the participation levels of older generations. MacKinnon et al. (2007) stated, ‘[y]outh are turned off by the game of partisan politics and increasingly refuse to learn or apply the rules. In large measure, they are reinventing civic and political engagement.’ We began our project with the observation that the youth in South and Southeast Asia demonstrate distinctive patterns of civic and political engagement, and we sought information about whether these patterns are a consequence of a generational shift or a result of contextual changes, such as those in political systems and media technologies. We examined two propositions that are often associated with youth engagement and new media. First, new media change the relationship between youth and existing political systems. Second, new media change the nature of civic engagement itself, especially for the youth. As we inquired further, we found that using established democracies as our reference point might have been incorrect. The difference between the so-called young or semi-democracies and established or mature democracies is not that the former is an inadequate version of the latter. Instead, the political systems found in South and Southeast Asia have their own characteristics, and these systems cannot be simply classified as a lack of democratic components. The same thing can be said about new media. The difference between the region in question and other regions, such as North America and Europe, is not that the former lacks access to technologies that are common in the latter. Instead, the type and use of technologies in the region show unique patterns that cannot be simply defined as less advanced. When we refer to the region, we make no attempt to generate a singular discourse for all the countries involved. Instead, we are highly sensitive to the diversity presented in the individual cases that belong to the region in this study. The end product, therefore, becomes a juxtaposition of multiple reference points that can be not only compared to established democracies but also compared to the other countries in Asia." (Page 249) more

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