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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2005 - 2007: Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC, Twenty-Sixth Session

Paris: UNESCO (2008), 146 pp.
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Information and Public Choice: From Media Markets to Policy Making

Roumeen Islam (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xv, 231 pp.
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International Broadcasting and Intercultural Dialogue: Deutsche Welle in the Arab World

Carola Richter
Arab Media & Society, issue 6 (2008), 11 pp.
"This article examines Deutsche Welle's Arabic television programming to evaluate its goal of promoting intercultural dialogue. Framed around the concept of media-promoted intercultural dialogue, the paper presents the results of a comparative content analysis of Deutsche Welle and two pan-Arab sate ... more
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Gospel in the Air: 50 Years of Christian Witness Through Radio in the Arab World
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Jos M. Strengholt
Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum (2008), xxxiii, 962 pp.
"This study is the result of archival research, hundreds of interviews, and listening to hundreds of programs as broadcast from 20-26 September 2004. It focuses on the question of how the broadcasts of the Protestants in the Arab World are a witness to the Christian gospel. The main question asked, ... more
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World Press Trends 2008

Paris: World Association of Newspapers (WAN) (2008), 966 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2008: Focus on Access to Infrastructure

Alan Finlay (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos; Third World Institute (ITeM) (2008), 204 pp.
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Using Content Analysis to Measure the Influence of Media Development Interventions: Elections Training for Journalists in Yemen

Sonia Whitehead, Esther Saville
London: BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.
"The findings from this research reveal the complexity of delivering journalism training and the challenges involved in capturing evidence of impact. Content analysis is a useful tool for measuring change in media output. It can both inform training delivery and provide evidence of improvements to o ... more
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The blogging revolution

Antony Loewenstein
Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press (2008), vii, 294 pp.
"This searching examination explores how the internet is threatening the rule of particularly repressive governments - including China, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Addressing internet censorship, citizen journalism, and the growing popularity of blogging as a means for change, this in-dept ... more
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Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
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Shanthi Kalathil, John Langlois, Adam Kaplan
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 105 pp.
"There is very little undestanding of the role that communicartion processes play in the numerous starnds of post-conflict reconstruction, including peacebuilding, governance, and long-term development. This paper addressess this gap by distilling lessons learned from the media and communication str ... more
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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11

Michael J. Barker
Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130
"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead, ... more
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Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting

Paul L. Moorcraft, Philip M. Taylor
Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books (2008), xv, 318 pp.
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An Evaluation of Alhurra Television Programming

Los Angeles: University of Southern California, Center on Public Diplomacy (2008), 74 pp.
"Based primarily on the content analysis, with secondary reinforcement from the discussion group proceedings, the research team sees the principal issues affecting Alhurra as being those related to the fundamentals of journalism, not the exigencies of politics. This is not an esoteric matter related ... more
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Arab Media: Power and Weakness
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Kai Hafez (ed.)
New York; London: Continuum (2008), ix, 277 pp.
"Arab Media: Power and Weakness is comprised of research synopses (comprehensive overviews over the current academic literature and “blind spots” of research in one of the above mentioned fields); original empirical research; and theoretical papers. The result is a comprehensive handbook of up-t ... more
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Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State

Mehdi Semati (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2008), xii, 277 pp.
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Move Over Bangalore, Here Comes ... Palestine? Western Funding and "Internet Development" in the Shrinking Palestinian State

Helga Tawil Souri
In: Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
Paula Chakravartty, Yuezhi Zhao (eds.)
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), pp. 263-284
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The Handbook of Election News Coverage Around the World

Jesper Strömbäck, Lynda Lee Kaid (eds.)
New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2008), xix, 450 pp.
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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: Reports on 31 Economies and 2 Sub-Regional Associations

Felix Librero, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)
New Dehli: Sage India; Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), xv, 373 pp.
"This edition (2007/2008) continues the tradition of providing an analytical overview of the state of ICT4D in Asia Pacific. It covers 31 countries and economies, including North Korea for the first time. Each country chapter is an attempt to provide a relatively comprehensive coverage of the variou ... more
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Freedom of the Press 2008: Draft Country Reports

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Sarah G. Cook (eds.)
New York; Washington, DC: Freedom House (2008), 239 pp.
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Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), 449 pp.
"Internet filtering takes place in at least forty states worldwide including many countries in Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. This publication examines the political, legal, social, and cultural contexts of Internet filtering in these states from a variety of perspectives. The six introd ... more
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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

James E. Katz (ed.)
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 ... more