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Media for Democracy in Afghanistan: A Handbook for Journalists
Bruxelles: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2008), 28 pp.
"The purpose of this handbook is to lay out some principles that could function as guideposts for journalists in Afghanistan as they seek to grapple with the evolving complexities of democracy in action. It seeks to provide concrete suggestions on how global best practices in political reporting and
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"Lo que quiere la gente": Los sondeos de opinión y el espacio de la comunicación política en Argentina (1983-1999)
Buenos Aires; Los Polvorines: Prometeo Libros; Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (2008), 203 pp.
Trials and Triumphs: The Story of the News
Lagos: West African Book Publishers (2008), xxix, 204 pp.
Media Democracy
Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) (2008), 18 pp.
"Media democracy is a concept as well as an advocacy movement aiming at making the mainstream media more plural, and reflective of a broad set of ideas and opinions than churning out and propagating just routine socio-politico-economic news stories and articles in the name of news, information and e
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Comunicação e democracia: Problemas e perspectivas
São Paulo: Paulus (2008), 372 pp.
"Vierte Gewalt" im Schatten der Vergangenheit: Die Transformation der Massenmedien in neuen Demokratien
In: Massenmedien als politische Akteure: Konzepte und Analysen
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2008), pp. 92-115
Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 348 pp.
"This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the AMIC Annual Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. It features over a dozen contributions from around the region, providing a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking ne
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Media and Nation Building: How the Iban Became Malaysian
New York: Berghahn (2008), xiv, 231 pp.
"While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and nation building. This book explores, for the first time, this relationship by means of a paradigmatic case of successful nation building
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"This briefing builds on DFID’s commitments set out in our 2006 White Paper, Making Governance Work for the Poor. The main purpose is to provide an overview of the relationship between media and governance, and to highlight some of the principal opportunities and challenges to engaging with the se
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Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2008), viii, 464 pp.
El precio del silencio: Abuso de publicidad oficial y otras formas de censura indirecta en América Latina
Deep Insights
Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 191 pp.
"El precio del silencio' revela una tendencia creciente en varios países de América Latina: la interferencia “tras bambalinas” que ejercen los gobiernos sobre los medios de comunicación y la independencia editorial. Esta “censura sutil” y sus continuos efectos inhibitorios aún no han rec
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The Price of Silence: The Growing Threat of Soft Censorship in Latin America
Deep Insights
Buenos Aires; New York: Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC); Open Society Institute (2008), 179 pp.
"The Price of Silence exposes a growing trend across several countries in Latin America: behind-the-scenes government interference with media freedom and editorial independence. This “soft censorship” and its pervasive chilling effects have not received the attention they deserve. By conducting
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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.
"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone
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Political Regimes and the Media in Asia
Hoboken: Routledge (2008), xiii, 233 pp.
"This book analyzes the relationship between political power and the media in a range of nation states in East and Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on the place of the media in authoritarian and post-authoritarian regimes. It discusses the centrality of media in sustaining repressive regimes,
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The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media Are Reshaping World Politics
Washington, DC: Potomac Books (2008), xii, 225 pp.
"The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera. The future of China is being shaped not by Communist Party bureaucrats, but by bloggers working quietly in cyber cafes. The next attacks by al Qaeda w
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Politics, Religion and the Media: The Transformation of the Public Sphere in Senegal
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 3 (2008), pp. 479-494
"Senegal is said to be a democratic model for Africa. This reputation was promoted by the former presidents Senghor and Diouf (both Socialist Party), and confirmed through the democratic change of government to the Senegalese Democratic Party under its leader Wade in 2000. Ostensibly, the successful
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