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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more

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Press Freedom, Governance, and Culture of Impunity: The Alarming Case of the Philippines

Danilo Araña Arao

4th International Conference on Magsaysay Awardees: Good Governance and Transformative Leadership in Asia (2016), pp. 225-234

"Ending the culture of impunity requires strengthening the culture of resistance. Impunity results in the dearth or absence of press freedom which, in turn, has deleterious effects on the practice of journalism as the people are deprived of relevant information that could help shape public opinion. ... more

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Radio, Politics and Trust in Afghanistan: A Social History of Broadcasting

Andrew Skuse

International Communication Gazette, volume 64, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-279

"This article examines the sociohistorical role of radio broadcasting in Afghanistan and analyses the interplay between the radio choices of the audience, political change and conflict. Though never explicitly trusted as a credible information source, the popularity of national radio in Afghanistan ... more

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"They Can Arrest You at Any Time": The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Burma

Linda Lakhdhir et al.

Human Rights Watch (2016), 87 pp.

"Focusing largely on the period since retired general Thein Sein assumed the presidency in 2011, the report provides an in-depth analysis of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Processions Act, the Telecommunications Act, the News Media Law, the Electronic Transactions Act, and various Penal Code pro ... more

The Road to Resilience: Press Freedom in South Asia 2015-16

Laxmi Murthy (ed.)

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ);South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2016), 113 pp.

"As we stand now, Pakistan’s media continues its stratospheric expansion, but in the midst of curbs and controls and ongoing safety issues. Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are treading a precarious path to finding credible and independent spaces for the media against economic challenge and political c ... more

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Strategic Communication for Non-Profit Organisations: Challenges and Alternative Approaches

Evandro Oliveira, Ana Duarte Melo, Gisela Gonçalves (eds.)

Wilmington, Delaware; Malaga: Vernon Press (2016), 308 pp.

"The aim of the present book is to offer an overview and report on Strategic Communication for Non-Profit-Organisations and the Challenges and Alternative Approaches. Considering the assumption that a key principle of strategic communication is the achievement of organisational goals, the majority o ... more

Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Love, Kinship and Politics

Elisabetta Costa

London: UCL Press;University College London (2016), xi, 194 pp.

"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos ... more

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Medien in Kasachstan: Entwicklung, Zustand, Perspektiven

Assel Nazarbetova, Zarema Shaukenova, Beate Eschment

Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 11 (2016), pp. 181-195

"Seit der Unabhängigkeit 1991 ist in Kasachstan ein Mediensystem entstanden, das formal viele Gemeinsamkeiten mit den Mediensystemen in konsolidierten Demokratien aufweist. Die Verfassung garantiert Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit, auf dem Medienmarkt herrscht Vielfalt, das Internet gewinnt zulasten d ... more

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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.

"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.

"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec ... more

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Infrastructural Action in Vietnam: Inverting the Techno-Politics of Hacking in the Global South

Lilly U. Nguyen

New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 4 (2016), pp. 637-652

"This article introduces the concept of infrastructural action and argues that it serves as a useful analytical tool to understand hacking in the Global South. Infrastructural action consists of the delicate ways in which people establish sociotechnical connections when located along the margins of ... more

Desecrating Expression: An Account of Freedom of Expression and Religion in Asia

Gayatri Khandhadai

Bytes for All;Asian Forum for Human Rights & Development;Global Partners Digital (2016), 80 pp.

"This report outlines the international human rights standards and processes related the protection of freedom of expression and religious belief, and discusses regional trends and challenges. The nine country case studies include the stories of many people across the region struggling to defend fre ... more

Khel Badal: Dismantle Patriarchy. Community Video Production

Khel Badal

Video Volunteers (2016), 54 pp.

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Media Literacy Education in China

Chi-Kim Cheung (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2016), x, 179 pp.

"The Chinese government has long kept tight control on both traditional and new media to prevent potential challenges to its authority. But, for better or worse, China has now reached a stage where it is difficult to exercise political hegemony through laws and regulations and the control of the mas ... more

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Mobile Communication and the Family: Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication

Sun Sun Lim (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xiii, 187 pp.

"This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban areas, offering insights on chil ... more

Media Sustainability Index 2016: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and EurAsia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2016), xxii, 318 pp.

"The three countries that this year experienced a decrease in overall score—Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan—were ones last year that had showed small but unexpected increases. Last year’s Executive Summary indicated that such increases were unlikely to be part of a larger upward trend; pan ... more

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Journalists in India

Jyotika Ramaprasad

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"The top five roles, in order of importance both by mean scores and by percent who said “extremely” and “very” important, for Indian journalists, were: report things as they are (88.4%), educate the audience (85.5%), provide analysis of current affairs (84.7%), let people express their views ... more

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Regional Assessment on Access to and Quality of Information on Environmental Issues for Internews Project “Media for Improved Reporting on Environment and Natural Resources in Central Asia” Funded by the European Union

Bishkek: Internews;SIAR Research&Consulting (2016), 73 pp.

"The main objective of this research project was to develop a baseline around quantity and quality information on environment and natural resources in Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan in order to inform Internews’ Central Asia project, specifically capacity buil ... more

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