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Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action

Arvind Singhal, Everett M. Rogers

New Delhi; London; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2003), 225 pp.

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Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture

Jolyon P. Mitchell, Sophia Marriage (eds.)

London; New York: T&T Clark (2003), xv, 407 pp.

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Children, Mobile Phones and the Internet: The Mobile Internet and Children. Proceedings of the Experts' Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday 6th and Friday 7th March 2003

Childnet International;Internet Association Japan (2003), 60 pp.

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What Works in Youth Media: Case Studies from Around the World

Sheila Kinkade, Christy Macy

Baltimore: International Youth Foundation (2003), 82 pp.

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Irak: Les médias en guerre

Olfa Lamloum (ed.)

Alain Gresh (preface)

Paris: Actes Sud;Panos Paris (2003), 238 pp.

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Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, Volume 1, A-E

Donald H. Johnston (ed.)

New York: Academic Press (2003), 25, 618 pp.

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Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making

S. Brent Plate (ed.)

New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2003), vi, 272 pp.

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Planet TV: A Global Television Reader

Lisa Parks, Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York: New York University Press (2003), ix, 470 pp.

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The Media and the War on Terrorism

Stephen Hess, Marvin Kalb (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press;Brookings Institution Press;Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University (2003), xv, 307 pp.

"This collection of conversations between journalists and federal officials aims to capture the tensions between the press and the government during wartime. They cover issues including military censorship and the difficulties of maintaining security in an era of satellite technology." (Publisher de ... more

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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.

"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more

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The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention

Piers Robinson

London and New York: Routledge (2002), xi, 177 pp.

"The CNN Effect examines the relationship between the state and its media, and considers the role played by the news reporting in a series of 'humanitarian' interventions in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda. Piers Robinson challenges traditional views of media subservience and argues that sy ... more

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Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

John D. H. Downing

Tamara V. Ford; Genève Gil; Laura Stein (contrib.)

London et al.: Sage, 2nd, compl. revised ed. (2002), 426 pp.

"This is an entirely new edition of the author’s 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should be ... more

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Cinema e religione: Ricerca sui film attinenti alla religione nella storia internazionale del cinema: Volume primo

Aldo Bernardini (coord.)

Città del Vaticano: Filmoteca Vaticana;Ente dello Spettacolo (2002), xxiv, 321 pp.

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Radio & Public Deliberation

Brett Davidson

Dayton (OH): Kettering Foundation (2002), 40 pp.

"Brett Davidson makes a convincing case for radio being the most hospitable media environment for retaining the human characteristics of public deliberation. In South Africa, for example, radio reaches far more people in their own languages than other media do. Moreover, radio can broadcast live, � ... more