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Media Power in Indonesia: Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital Revolution

Ross Tapsell

London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2017), xxix, 172 pp.

"Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. While official statistics suggest that internet penetration is low, over 70 million Indonesians have a Facebook account, the fourth highest group in the world. Jakarta is the Twit ... more

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The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
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Ulla Carlsson, Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 363 pp.

"To support joint efforts to protect journalism, there is a growing need for research-based knowledge. Acknowledging this need, the aim of this publication is to highlight and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues ... more

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Internet: Smarte neue Welt

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42

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Cambodia: The Independent Press in Ruins

Daniel Bastard

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 26 pp.

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Gender in Myanmar News: News Content Analysis from a Gender Perspective

Yangon: Myanmar Women Journalists Society;International Media Support (IMS);Fojo Media Institute (2017), 58 pp.

"The study shows that very little time and space is given to women as news sources and subjects in Myanmar media. The overall figure of 16% representation across all mediums, can be interpreted as an established practice of media to defer in most cases to the male source. Female and male sources are ... more

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Digital Culture and Religion in Asia

Sam Han, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir

London: Routledge (2017), 129 pp.

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Communicating Climate Change in the Rice Sector

Jaime A. Manalo IV et al.

Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice);Bureau of Agricultural Research (2017), xi, 95 pp.

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No Country for Human Rights Activists: Assaults on Bloggers and Democracy Campaigners in Vietnam

Human Rights Watch (2017), 65 pp.

"The Vietnamese government has long arrested and prosecuted domestic human rights activists, using rights-violating laws and Communist Party-controlled courts and police. But the recent explosion of internet-driven activism in the country has coincided with the appearance of another frightening inst ... more

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Assessing Indonesian journalist threats: Cases, actors and motives

Masduki

Media Asia, volume 44, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-32

"This paper serves as a review of crimes committed against journalist in Indonesia within the past six years (2010–2015). This work draws primarily on the annual reports made by the Alliance of Independence Journalist (AJI), the prominent association of journalists in Indonesia. The first part int ... more

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The Lumad Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice: Alternative Media in a Socio-Environmental Movement in the Philippines

Belinda F. Espiritu

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 2 (2017), pp. 45-59

"This study examines the role of alternative media in the socio-environmental movement for justice for the Lumad, the indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines, and the fight to protect the environment in the Philippines from extractive companies and mono-crop plantations. Using thematic textua ... more

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Blasphemy Law and Public Neutrality in Indonesia

Victor Imanuel W. Nalle

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, volume 8, issue 2 (2017), pp. 57-62

"Indonesia has the potential for social conflict and violence due to blasphemy. Currently, Indonesia has a blasphemy law that has been in effect since 1965. The blasphemy law formed on political factors and tend to ignore the public neutrality. Recently due to a case of blasphemy by the Governor of ... more

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Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2017), xxiv, 174 pp.

"Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in Chiang Mai University in December 2015. The chapters address assessments of Millennium Development Goals in se ... more

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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)

New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.

"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more

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Puppetry for Education: Breaking Down Barriers for Inclusive Education

Save the Children (2017), 5 pp.

"This is a case story demonstrating how puppetry was integrated into educational programmes in Myanmar to address disabilities and the importance of an inclusive education." (Publisher description)

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Thai Buddhism, the Mass Media, and Culture Change in Thailand

Patchanee Malikhao

In: Culture and Communication in Thailand

Patchanee Malikhao

Singapore: Springer (2017), pp. 1-16

"This paper attempts to analyze the following:(1) How the Sangha, or the Buddhist body of Thailand, has been impacted since it has become part of the state during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V); (2) How the economic and social development has an impact on Thai Buddhism, especially the anim ... more

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Whistleblowing in the World: Government Policy, Mass Media and the Law

Carmen R. Apaza, Yongjin Chang (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xi, 90 pp.

"This book deploys an original comparative framework, as well as archival and pattern-matching research methodologies, to analyze whistleblowing cases from Peru, South Korea, Thailand and the United States of America and to ascertain factors that make for effective whistleblowing. After examining th ... more

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Thirty Rising Media Markets 2016

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon ... more

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Communication, Generation and Cultural Memory: Insights from Fieldwork in Vietnam

Christina Sanko

In: Politics, Civil Society and Participation: Media and Communications in a Transforming Environment

Leif Kramp; Nico Carpentier; Andreas Hepp et al. (eds.)

Bremen: edition lumière (2016), pp. 213-226

"The chapter examines the complex relations of communication processes, generations and cultural memory in the socio-cultural setting of North Vietnam. It critically reviews present scholarly work in the flourishing, but scattered, field of memory research in communication and media studies, and dis ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.

"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more

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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power

Lisa Ann Richey (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.

"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding ... more

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