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ICT Facilitated Access to Information Innovations: A Compendium of Case Studies from South Asia
One World Foundation India (2011), 145 pp.
"This report documents seven innovative ICT practices – five from India and two from Bangladesh – with the aim of advancing access to information for enhanced transparency and accountability in governance and the improvement of democratic practices and public service delivery." (Page 11)
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
Deep Insights
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage (2011), xxvii, 602 pp.
"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries [...] The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented amon
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Cyberactivism in the Egyptian Revolution: How Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism Tilted the Balance
Arab Media & Society, issue 13 (2011), 37 pp.
"The Egyptian revolution was characterized by the instrumental use of social media, especially Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and text messaging by protesters, to bring about political change and democratic transformation. This article focuses on how these new types of media acted as effective tools fo
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Die Zukunft der Bürgerbeteiligung: Herausforderungen -Trends - Projekte
Bonn: Stiftung Mitarbeit (2011), 292 pp.
Soziale Bewegungen und Social Media: Handbuch für den Einsatz von Web 2.0
Wien: ÖGB-Verlag (2011), 392 pp.
"Mit „Soziale Bewegungen und Social Media“ liegt das erste Handbuch zum Einsatz von Social Media vor, das sich nicht dem wirtschaftlichen Nutzen und der kommerziellen Verwertung widmet, sondern das für Arbeitnehmer_innen und Betriebsrät_innen, Bürgerinitiativen, NGO und Gewerkschaften geschri
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Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle
Bristol: intellect (2011), 405 pp.
"Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, developme
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Nuestra palabra
Tegucigalpa: Equipo de Reflexión, Investigación y Comunicación (ERIC); Radio Progreso (2011), 348 pp.
"La publicación recoge la opinión institucional del equipo del ERIC y Radio Progreso acerca de diversos temas de actualidad que son cruciales para la sociedad hondureña. Lo hacen, como siempre, acompañando las luchas de resistencias de los sectores empobrecidos de acuerdo a su opción por la jus
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Getting it Together: Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, Participation and Non-Discrimination with Communication Methods
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 39 pp.
"This Guidance Note suggests concrete ways to enable the people in a country to influence the work of government and public agencies - and in that way ensure democratic development results. While both the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action point to the need for better use of communica
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Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran
London; New York: Tauris (2010), xiii, 211 pp.
"The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreadin
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Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)
USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.
"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization (NGO) speci
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Comunicación estratégica: Valor agregado para una ONG. Caso testigo: Vecinos por la Carta y su incidencia en la reforma de la Carta Orgánica de Bariloche
Buenos Aires: Vecinos por la Carta; Avina (2010), 141 pp.
"Para los que trabajamos en la Representación Patagonia de la Fundación AVINA Argentina fue una oportunidad extraordinaria poder acompañar, muy próximos, a un puñado abierto y generoso de ciudadanos de San Carlos de Bariloche que decidió incidir directamente en el proceso de la reforma de su C
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Civil Society and National Media in Tunisia
Paris: Panos Paris (2010), 5 pp.
Youth Civic Participation in Cambodia: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Media
Phnom Penh: UNDP Cambodia (2010), 263 pp.
Guidelines on lobby and advocacy
Utrecht: ICCO (2010), 52 pp.
Evidence, Messages, Change! An Introductory Guide to Successful Advocacy
New York; London: Open Society Institute; Open Society Foundation (2010), 24 pp.
"This guide outlines important, basic steps to ensure that your advocacy is as effective as possible. It draws on learning within the Open Society Foundations’ network, especially the experiences of our advocacy colleagues, as well as resources from other organizations. Understanding of and engage
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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World
New York: Routledge (2010), ix, 251 pp.
"This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across t
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Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci
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