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Religious Offence and Human Rights: The Implications of Defamation of Religions

Lorenz Langer

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2014), lxii, 419 pp.

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Salam from Pesantren: Santri’s Experience in Managing Media for Peace

Nor Ismah

Jakarta: Search for Common Ground (2014), 62 pp.

"The following stories come from ten pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in Indonesia that participated in Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia’s project to promote peace and tolerance in pesantren across Indonesia [...] Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia implemented this two-year pro ... more

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Challenging humanitarian communication: An empirical exploration of Kony 2012

Johannes von Engelhardt, Jeroen Jansz

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 6 (2014), pp. 464-484

"In March 2012, American NGO Invisible Children released an online video about the crimes committed by Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army. Rapidly shared through social network sites, Kony 2012 soon earned the title of fastest spreading online video ever produced. At the s ... more

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Windows of Opportunity: The Transformation of State Media to Public Service Media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia

Jan Lublinski, Erik Albrecht, Petra Berner, Laura Schneider, Merjam Wakili, Jackie Wilson

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.

"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz ... more

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How Do I Know? Strategic Planning, Learning and Evaluation for Peacebuilding

Bonn: Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt) (2014), 44 pp.

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Social Innovation Camps and Labs: Lessons from Internews' Experience

Tara Susman-Peña

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2014), 54 pp.

"Takes a broad look at the Innovation Camps and Labs convened by Internews during 2011 and 2012. It identifies what they can achieve, how best to run the events, and pitfalls to avoid. The study focuses on these key questions: The organization and process of the Innovation Camps/Labs: what were the ... more

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Our Voice, Our Power: Empowering Women Through Community Media in Bangladesh

Fahmida Akhtar, Protiva Banerjee (eds.)

Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) (2014), 27 pp.

"The book contains profiles of 12 women between the ages of 18 and 26 that were selected to follow a 3-month journalism fellowship and work at community radio stations. The program was designed and implemented by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in cooperation with 11 comm ... more

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The Development and Sustainability of Indigenous African Language Newspapers: A Case Study of 'Seipone', 'Nthavela' and 'Nghoho News'

Edgar Julius Malatji

Limpopo: University of Limpopo, Master Thesis (2014), ix, 149 pp.

"There is a conspicuous importance of having newspapers that publish in the indigenous African languages for the indigenous population in a democratic dispensation. The indigenous African languages are key components of their respective cultures. The survival of the language is, in some way, depende ... more

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Using Radio to Drive Development in Southern Africa: Report on the Radio Platform for Community Development (RPCD)

Lusaka: Panos Southern Africa (2013), x, 27 pp.

"The project aimed at enhancing the capacity of community radio stations to operate as agents of change for the rural poor and marginalised people [...] The project worked with a sample of 15 community radio stations – five per country – in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. In implementing the RPCD ... more

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Asia’s Media Innovators Volume 3: Crowdsourcing in Asian Journalism

Stephen Quinn

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 85 pp.

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Design Research for Media Development: A Guide for Practitioners

Panthea Lee

New York: Reboot Design;Internews (2013), 125 pp.

"This is a hands-on reference guide for media development practitioners. It is based on principles and practices of design research that have been long used by the private sector, and grounded in the experience Reboot has gathered in designing and implementing international development projects arou ... more

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"SMART" Photovoice Agricultural Consultation: Increasing Rwandan Women Farmers' Active Participation in Development

Myriam Gervais, Lysanne Rivard

Development in Practice, volume 23, issue 4 (2013), pp. 496-510

"Through two case studies, this paper evaluates the value of the feminist visual methodology Photovoice as an interactive consultation tool with rural Rwandan women working in agriculture. This exploratory study suggests that it is possible, through an adapted Photovoice process, to engage and empow ... more

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Citizens Rising: Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy

David Hoffman

New York: CUNY Journalism Press (2013), 244 pp.

"As founder of Internews, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to information access and independent media, David Hoffman has had a backstage pass to many of the seminal world political upheavals in recent years. In these pages we see how media have been used for good and bad—to trigger gen ... more

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Spider Stories 2012

Katja Sarajeva (ed.)

Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions;Stockholm University (2013), 99 pp.

"In Spider Stories 2012 you will get an overview of results from Spider projects initiated in 2011-2012 in collaboration with project partners in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. In partnership with local organizations, we have supported innovative projects in democracy, education, and ... more

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Bücher öffnen Welten: Medienangebote für Menschen in Haft in Deutschland und international

Förderverein Gefangenenbüchereien, Gerhard Peschers (eds.)

Berlin: De Gruyter Saur (2013), x, 416 pp.

"In diesem Band wird sowohl das Gefangenenbüchereiwesen in Deutschland als auch international vorgestellt. Neben der Geschichte der Gefangenenbüchereien werden die Gesetzesgrundlagen und unterschiedliche Bibliotheksangebote für Menschen in Haft erstmalig in einem Band zusammengefasst." (Verlagsbe ... more

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What We Learned Testing the Humanitarian Data Toolkit

Tara Susman-Peña

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 56 pp.

"In early 2013, the Internews Center for Innovation and Learning (ICIL) set out to pilot a new system that allows humanitarian communications professionals and responders to quickly gather, analyze, and act upon data to understand information needs of an affected population during a crisis. The syst ... more

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Overview of Corruption in the Media in Developing Countries

Mara Mendes

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre;Transparency International;Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2013), 11 pp.

"In developing countries, the media is often confronted by a combination of factors that create fertile grounds for corruption, such as lack of training and technical skills, low professional standards, limited financial resources, opaque or government controlled ownership structures, inadequate and ... more

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Financial Proficiency for Media Executives 1. AMI/AfDB Regional Financial Proficiency Workshop for Media Executives Simba Lodge, Naivasha, Kenya 7th – 8th June

African Media Initiative (AMI);African Development Bank (2013), 36 pp.

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Faces of Peace Radio: Promoting Peace Through Radio

Kussia Bekele, Simone Notz

GIZ Ethiopia, Civil Peace Service Program (2013), 54 pp.

"The Peace Radio project was conceived in 2009 by the Resource Center for Civil Society Groups Association (RCCSGA) and Council of Nationalities (CoN) of SNNPRS (Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State). The Civil Peace Service-Program (CPS) of GIZ is supporting the project financi ... more

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The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and National Cohesion in Tanzania

Francis Xavier Ng’atigwa

Bayreuth: Bayreuth University, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Doctoral Thesis (2013), xiv, 215 pp.