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The Social Media (R)evolution? Asian Perspectives on New Media

Simon Winkelmann (ed.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Asia (2012), 188 pp.

"A compilation of 13 articles that discuss social media developments and trends in Asia. For this publication we invited eleven alumni from the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines to share their views on social media issues based o ... more

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A Buzz in Cyberspace, But no Net-Revolution: The Role of the Internet in Singapore’s 2011 Elections

Kai Portmann

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 44 pp.

"The May 2011 general election has been the most contested and most discussed in Singapore’s history. Prior to the polls, the government relaxed the rules on election campaigning in the Internet. For the first time in the highly wired city-state with its tech-savvy population of 5 million people, ... more

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Politics in Cyberspace: New Media in Malaysia

Meredith L. Weiss

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 56 pp.

"There seems little evidence that the rise and increasing availability and range of new media have given real reason to expect different political outcomes on grounds of new patterns of mobilization, particularly given a persistent “digital divide.” What has been happening, though, is an increas ... more

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Handbuch Philippinen: Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur

Niklas Reese, Rainer Werning (eds.)

Berlin: Horlemann, 4., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl. (2012), 495 pp.

"Perlas na Silangan – Perle des Ostens – werden die Philippinen genannt. Das gesellschaftspolitische Handbuch, das nunmehr bereits in vierter, vollständig überarbeiteter und aktualisierter Auflage erscheint, liefert einen kompakten Einblick in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Land und Leute. Es verdi ... more

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Freedom to Publish in Vietnam: Between Kafka and the Thang Bom Logic

Geneva: International Publishers Association (IPA) (2012), 16 pp.

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Responses to Peace Journalism

Jake Lynch, Annabel McGoldrick

Journalism, volume 14, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1041-1058

"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment, which gathered audience responses to television news coded as war journalism and peace journalism respectively, in two countries, Australia and the Philippines. From the peace journalism model, evaluative criteria were first derived ... more

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Empowering Women Through ICT

Caroline Wamala

Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions;Stockholm University (2012), 72 pp.

"This publication covers five different projects carried out in six different locations. There were two projects in Bolivia, one focusing on empowering female indigenous leaders and the other provided female victims of domestic violence with a safe virtual environment where they could receive suppor ... more

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Media Development in Transitional Democratic Cambodia

Casey McCarthy

Malmö: Malmö University, Master Thesis in Communication for Development (2012), 65 pp.

"Through a series of qualitative interviews with a range of media stakeholders, the ultimate conclusion of this thesis is that the media landscape in Cambodia is diverse –with some (mostly foreign-owned and run) able to operate freely and independently, while others (most local Khmer media, partic ... more

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The Media Map Project: Cambodia. Case Study on Donor Support to Independent Media, 1990-2010

Margarette Roberts

Washington, DC: Internews;World Bank Institute (2012), 66 pp.

"Donor funded media development is a relatively new phenomenon, resulting in minimal impact. Modest gains have been made: technical improvements in television production, some better skilled journalists, development of journalists’ associations and a code of ethics, and greater citizen engagement. ... more

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Philippines: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 218 pp.

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The League of Thirteen: Media Concentration in Indonesia

Merlyna Lim

Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona State University, Participatory Media Lab;Ford Foundation (2012), 18 pp.

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Safety on the Line: Exposing the Myth of Mobile Communication Security

Cormac Callanan, Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner

Washington, DC: Freedom House;Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (2012), 175 pp.

"This report evaluates the risks and vulnerabilities of mobile phone services and apps in 12 specified countries: the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the People’s Republic of China, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Libya, the Sultanate of Oman, the Kingdom ... more

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Indigenous Voices in Asia-Pacific: Identifying the Information and Communication Needs of Indigenous Peoples
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Bangkok: UNDP (2012), 64 pp.

"The current report presents the highlights of five country assessments that were undertaken to identify the communication and information needs of indigenous peoples. The starting point for this regional initiative was that access to information and communication avenues have an empowering element, ... more

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Methodological Pluralism: Interrogating Ethnic Identity and Diaspora Issues in Southeast Asia

Umi Khattab

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 227-244

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Indonesia: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 150 pp.

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Cluster Evaluation Report: UNDEF-Funded Media-Related Projects

Pierre Robert

United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF);Transtec (2012), 40 pp.

"This report is the cluster evaluation of 12 UNDEF-supported projects related to the media. It concerns projects that either focused on media capacity building or included a significant element of work with the media. The projects were implemented between 2007 and 2011; they lasted between 12 and 24 ... more

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Mapping the Landscape of the Media Industry in Contemporary Indonesia

Yanuar Nugroho, Dinita Andriani Putri, Shita Laksmi

Jakarta: Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG);Hivos (2012), xii, 151 pp.

"The Profile of Media Industry in Indonesia aims to profile the Indonesian media industry through publicly available information and data (including news in the media, statistical analysis of the figure collected through the survey by the National Survey Agency (SUSENAS), and grey literatures alike. ... more

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