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Voices of Ethnic Minority Children: Participatory Video on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change in Vietnam

Tamara Plush, Nguyen Trong Ninh

Plan International (2010), 10 pp.

"This booklet documents the participatory video methodology as an affordable and easy-to-use video tool enabling community members to record their experience and strengthen their own knowledge on disaster risks and climate change, as well as to increase their capacity to act on that knowledge and se ... more

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The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives

S. Elizabeth Bird (ed.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), viii, 328 pp.

"The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective—as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and eth ... more

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Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle besser: Neue Medien und politischer Widerstand

Südostasien, volume 26, issue 1 (2010), 95 pp.

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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
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Pippa Norris (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.

"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context ... more

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Asia's Media Innovators Vol. 2

Stephen Quinn, Kim Kierans

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2010), 137 pp.

"Asia’s Media Innovator’s Vol 2 is the offspring of the earlier book that appeared in 2008. This new volume consists of studies of innovations at media companies in the region. The success of these media companies shows the dynamism in the region, and reflects its potential for growth. Each chap ... more

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Social Media and Politics: Online Social Networking and Political Communication in Asia

Philip Behnke (ed.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2010), 140 pp.

"This is a compilation of 13 essays and studies that show the role social networking is playing in political communication in Asia. Each of the 13 chapters describes how various online social communities and networks such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs, are being used as tools in general political c ... more

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God Texting: Filipino Youth Response to Religious SMS

Anthony G. Roman

Religion and Social Communication, volume 8, issue 1-2 (2010), pp. 43-82

"Religious forwarded messages take the form of points for reflection and reminders of religious feasts. In other cases, the messages ask recipients to pray and re-send the same messages in exchange for Divine favor. This study explores the youth's first response to these messages. It aims to learn u ... more

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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World

Angela Romano (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2010), ix, 251 pp.

"This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across t ... more

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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
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Bill Orme

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 73 pp.

"For almost twenty years, United Nations peacekeeping missions have set up local radio stations in conflict-prone countries - 14 to date, seven of which remain in operation. According to this report, some of the fourteen peacekeeping radio stations implemented by the United Nations contributed more ... more

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Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom
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Beate Josephi (ed.)

New York: Peter Lang (2010), xiii, 263 pp.

"Since the 1990s journalism education programs have expanded exponentially around the world, but media freedom has not. Globally comparative, this edited volume assesses journalism education and the challenging environment in which it is delivered in countries with a partly free or not free status a ... more

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Religion Macht Frieden: Das Friedenspotenzial von Religionen in politischen Gewaltkonflikten
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Markus A. Weingardt

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 480 pp.

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Another Radio is Possible: Thai Community Radio from the Grass Roots to the Global

Patricia W. Elliott

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 8, issue 1 (2010), pp. 7-22

"By considering the example of community radio development in Thailand, we can see this movement represents a new communications paradigm in formation, one that fundamentally alters the manner in which the broadcast frequency spectrum is monopolized by state and commercial interests and, consequentl ... more

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Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author

David Hill

London, New York: Routledge (2010), xviii, 266 pp.

"Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia's best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominence that he retained from the early 1950s until his recent death in 2004. This book traces the major events in the life of Mochtar Lubis, which is also ... more

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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.

"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more

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Politische Kommunikation

KAS Auslandsinformationen, issue 6 (2010), 114 pp.

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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam

Philip N. Howard

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.

"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar ... more

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Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution
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Richard Keeble, John Tulloch, Florian Zollmann (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2010), xi, 373 pp.

"Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution draws together the work of over twenty leading international writers, journalists, theorists and campaigners in the field of peace journalism. Mainstream media tend to promote the interests of the military and governments in their coverage of warfare. T ... more

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Thailand: Licence to Kill

Vincent Brossel, Nalinee Udomsinn

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2010), 15 pp.

"The very violent political crisis that convulsed Thailand in April and May 2010 had a dramatic impact on the safety of journalists and media freedom. The toll was heavy: two foreign journalists were among the 90 people killed, ten other journalists were wounded (some sustaining injuries from which ... more

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The Media Convergence Lifestyle Profile in Thailand

Patrichart Saitanoo, Yubol Benjarongkij

Media Asia, volume 37, issue 4 (2010), pp. 232-243

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Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World
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John Hartley, Kelly McWilliam (eds.)

Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xvi, 307 pp.

"Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. It covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling y ... more

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Religion Macht Frieden: Das Friedenspotenzial von Religionen in politischen Gewaltkonflikten Inspiring Practice

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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
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Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom
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Religion Macht Frieden: Das Friedenspotenzial von Religionen in politischen Gewaltkonflikten
Inspiring Practice

Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution
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Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World
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