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Save Us from Saviours: Disrupting Development Narratives of the Rescue and Uplift of the ‘Third World Woman’
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 139-154
"The images used to market development often feature women, as victims of terrible traditions and disempowering situations, or – more commonly these days – as enterprising agents of change, poised to ‘lift’ economies and their families and communities. These images tell a story of victims an
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Building Capacity for a Changing Media Environment in Africa: A Focus on Training Needs and Gender Concerns
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 3 (2016), pp. 247-318
"As we stand now, Pakistan’s media continues its stratospheric expansion, but in the midst of curbs and controls and ongoing safety issues. Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are treading a precarious path to finding credible and independent spaces for the media against economic challenge and political c
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xviii, 670 pp.
"The 59 chapters in this volume, written by leading researchers from around the world, provide scholars and students with an engaging and authoritative survey of current thinking in media and gender research. The Companion includes the following features: With each chapter addressing a distinct, con
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Apropiándonos
San José (CR): Centro de Comunicación Voces Nuestras (2015), 52 pp.
"Este manual es de género y comunicación, y está pensado para que las personas que facilitan grupos de mujeres, las apoyen en la elaboración de sus testimonios de vida, a partir de una reflexión sobre por qué es importante retomar la palabra en todas sus manifestaciones, así como de la experi
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Between Legitimacy and Political Efficacy: Feminist Counter-Publics and the Internet in China
New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), 372 pp.
"This book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The book is based on the assumption that social and cultural changes never originate exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depend on the chang
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World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development
Paris: UNESCO (2014), 105 pp.
"The overarching global trend with respect to media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists over the past several years is that of disruption and change brought on by technology, and to a lesser extent, the global financial crisis. These trends have impacted traditional econom
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Armed with Pen and Microphone: Media as Tools for Social Development
Wien: FrauensolidaritätWomen's Solidarity (2014), 78 pp.
"This study shows how women and women’s organisations in Central America and southern Africa use media for social development. One of the milestones of the women’s movement was the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Section J of the Platform for Action, which was a result of th
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"While development journalism was mainly a top-down form of communication (authoritative) during the socialistic era, in the liberal era the development-oriented journalists draw on both the Social Responsibility and Libertarian Theories of the media. The ‘state–public service’ broadcasters re
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Bangladesh's Changing Mediascape: From State Control to Market Forces
Deep Insights
Bristol: intellect (2014), xvi, 404 pp.
"Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats, including television, newspapers, radio, film and photography; policy issues; and the challenge that new media poses to governance in a developing nation faced with innumerable economic, social and political probl
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Feminist Publicist Strategies: Women's NGOs' Media Activism and Television Journalism in Serbia and Croatia
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 2 (2014), pp. 133-149
"This article defines feminist media activism in terms of counter-public communication and provides a brief overview of activities, functions, types of activists and historical contexts relevant to this kind of feminist activism. Following this research approach, it then examines the specific cases
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Building alliances for gender and media
Media Development, volume 60, issue 4 (2013), pp. 1-36
