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The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15

New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 113 pp.
"The year under review in this report (May 2014 to April 2015) shows that journalists and media workers remain victims and, too often, targets in the deadly power struggles on which that they report. Within this time period, 14 journalists lost their lives, mostly in targeted attacks. Pakistan was t ... more
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Community Radio and Sustainability: A Participatory Research Initiative

Venu Arora, N. Ramakrishnan, Leonea Fernandez
Haryana; New Delhi: Ideosync; Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA); UNESCO (2015), 46 pp.
"Community Radio is still nascent in Bangladesh while in India it has completed a decade and in Nepal it has existed in its myriad forms without a policy for much longer [...] The existence or non-existence of a guiding national CR policy plays an important role in determining the kind of Community ... more
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Right to Information and Media Laws in Pakistan

Muhammad Aftab Alam
Islamabad: Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) (2015), iii, 19 pp.
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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion

Kim J. Andreasson (ed.)
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu ... more
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Final Evaluation: Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment (DAME), 2012-2014

Welmoed E. Koekebakker
Search for Common Ground (2015), vii, 57 pp.
"1. The DAME project has contributed to its overall objective of ‘strengthening the democratization process in Timor-Leste’ and to its specific objective of ‘enhanced engagement between NSAs, State authorities and their constituencies’ in the development process. 2. Most effective were the a ... more
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Indonesian Comics in Island of Images: Rich and Diverse, and Well Into the Future. Comics Exhibition in Pavillon of Indonesia, Frankfurt Book Fair 2015

Iwan Gunawan, Hikmat Darmawan (eds.)
Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), 24 pp.
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Press Freedom in Turkey’s Inter-Election Period: 2015 Joint International Emergency Press Freedom Mission to Turkey

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2015), 39 pp.
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Handbuch Indonesien

Gunnar Stange, Rolf Jordan, Kristina Großmann (eds.)
Angermünde: Horlemann (2015), 528 pp.
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East Meets West: Innovative Literacy Learning Concepts

Karin Plötz, Holger Volland (eds.)
Frankfurt am Main: Litcam; Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), 37 pp.
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Finding a Voice Through Humanitarian Technologies? Communication Technologies and Participation in Disaster Recovery

Mirca Madianou, Liezel Longboan, Jonathan Corpus Ong
International Journal of Communication, volume 9 (2015), pp. 3020-3038
"Voice—understood as the ability to give an account of oneself and participate in social processes—is increasingly recognized as significant for humanitarian action and disaster recovery. Giving disaster-affected people the opportunity to make their voices heard has the potential to democratize ... more
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Unfinished Freedom: A Blueprint for the Future of Free Expression in Myanmar

PEN American Center (2015), 46 pp.
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Our Media, Our Principles: Building Codes of Practice for Community Radio in India

Kanchan K. Malik
Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 5 (2015), pp. 750-764
"The overarching philosophy of community radio, acknowledged worldwide, is that it is a tool for social justice and a platform for community voices. Community radio seeks to counter the hegemony of the mainstream media and move away from the commerce-driven negative tendencies of media and journalis ... more
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Platform Convergence in Indonesia: Challenges and Opportunities for Media Freedom

Ross Tapsell
Convergence, volume 21, issue 2 (2015), pp. 182-197
"This article examines media freedom in Indonesia, an age where the media landscape is being remade by convergence. Media scholars are debating the implications of this trend for media freedom, with some believing it is opening new possibilities for a greater range of voices to be heard and others i ... more
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Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Community Media

Ashish Sen
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2015), 120 pp.
"Community media is an integral component of CEMCA’s TYP 2012-15 and mission, “to assist governments and institutions to expand the scale, efficiency and quality of learning … in open, distance and technology enabled learning.” In September 2013, CEMCA contracted Ashish Sen to evaluate its C ... more
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Media Freedom is Part of the Solution to the Kurdish Issue: Turkey October 2015

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2015), 21 pp.
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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.
"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more
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Social Media and Collective Remembrance: The Debate Over China’s Great Famine on Weibo

Hui Zhao, Jun Liu
China Perspectives, issue 1 (2015), pp. 41-48
"This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in articulating individuals’ experiences and memories and (re-)shaping collective memory in contemporary China. It investigates how social media enable and facilitate the participation of ordinary citizens in distributing an ... more
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Community Information Flows to Reduce Inter-Comunal Violence in Burma

Emily Speers Mears
Search for Common Ground (2015), 71 pp.
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A Counter-Public of a Different Kind: Tajik Youth, Religious Authority and the Medialisation of Islam

Jeanine Elif Dagyeli
In: New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Nadja-Christina Schneider, Carola Richter (eds.)
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), pp. 149-173
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Media Sustainability Index 2015: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2015), xxii, 323 pp.
"Results of the 2015 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia (E&E) at first glance show encouraging results: the average of 21 overall country scores increased by 0.04 compared with last year, representing the highest average of overall scores so far this decade. Out of 21 countries studied, seven increased ... more