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Radio as an Expression of Nation and Sub-Nation in Laos

Mary Traynor

In: Radio in Small Nations: Production, Programmes, Audiences

Richard J. Hand; Mary Traynor (eds.)

Cardiff: University of Wales Press (2012), pp. 75-87

"Laos has had a particularly turbulent recent history. Since the late nineteenth century, its territorial borders have been defined and redefined at the whim of successive outside forces, its national identity contrived and manipulated to suit the dominant power of the moment. The articulations of n ... more

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Diverse Digital Worlds

Bart Barendregt

In: Digital Anthropology

Heather A. Horst; Daniel Miller (eds.)

London: Berg (2012), pp. 203-224

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Christian Communication in Sri Lanka

Avanka Fernando

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 43-47

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Calling the Shots: How Ownership Structures Affect the Independence of News Media

Michelle J. Foster

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 35 pp.

"At an international level, the media development community should advocate for standards governing media cross-ownership limitations, best practices in media licensing, and the licensing of the broadcast spectrum. States should adopt net neutrality and support increased uncensored access to social ... more

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The Great Georgian/Russian Media War

Jörg Becker

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 51-56

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Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict

Paul Verschueren

New York: Hampton Press (2012), xiii, 199 pp.

"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a ... more

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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects

Jan Servaes, Emily Polk, Song Shi, Danielle Reilly, Thanu Yakupitijage

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123

"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more

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Sundeep R. Muppidi (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), 466 pp.

"The first "theoretical perspectives" section has opinions and research articles by academic scholars and expert practitioners on new media and communication Issues and trends in Asia. Some of the topics covered include the dynamics arising out of the shift to the 'digilogue', mobile activism, corpo ... more

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Indian Media: Global Approaches

Adrian Athique

Cambridge: Polity Press (2012), v, 186 pp.

"The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian scene a prerequisite for any serious study of media in the twenty-first century. As one of the largest and most influential emerging economies in the wor ... more

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Opening Closed Regimes: Civil Society, Information Infrastructure, and Political Islam

Muzammil M. Hussain, Philip N. Howard

In: Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

Eva Anduiza Perea; Michael James Jensen; Laia Jorba (eds.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 200-220

"Ruling elites often try to co-opt civil society groups, and in times of political or military crises they can attempt to control the national information infrastructure. But a defining feature of civil society is independence from the authority of the state, even in countries such as Saudi Arabia a ... more

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Controlling the Internet in China: The Real Story

Fan Dong

Convergence, volume 18, issue 4 (2012), pp. 403-425

"This article examines the complexity of the internet control mechanisms in China by breaking it down to five layers, ranging from the government, service and content providers to webmasters and individual users. It inquires into the logic of the control mechanisms and how such logic is naturalized ... more

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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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Media Use in Indonesia: Findings from the 2012 International Audience Research Project

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2012), 41 slides

"Conclusions: Television remains the most important medium by far, both in terms of overall reach and as a news source. Internet access - heavily driven by mobile take-up - has reached critical mass, especially among key demographics. This phenomenon is national in nature and not just confined to mo ... more

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Conference on Media Development in Myanmar

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 47 pp.

"This report summarises the presentations and recommendations made at the Conference on Media Development in Myanmar organised by the Myanmar Ministry of Information and Culture and UNESCO in cooperation with International Media Support (IMS) and Canal France International with support from the Gove ... more

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Reading Habits in Georgia: Results of a Survey on Readership Carried Out in 2012

Next Page Foundation (2012), 40 pp.

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Understanding Media Policies: A European Perspective

Euangelía Psychogiopúlu (ed.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 284 pp.

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Nepalese Diasporic Websites, Signs and Conditions of a Diaspora in the Making?

Tristan Bruslé

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 16 pp.

"Taking into account the performativity of the term “diaspora”, the author tries to understand how Nepalese diasporic websites are the sign and conditions of an “incipient diaspora”. Analysis of authoritative websites and links between different websites helps understand the structure of the ... more

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The Birth of Social Election in South Korea, 2010-2012

Dukjin Chang, Young Bae

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

"By getting connected with each other again, social media users seem to have more incentive to vote because approval by friends becomes an integral part of benefits from voting. In South Korea this phenomenon came at the dusk of the 1987 regime, which is a conservative representation system where yo ... more

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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders

Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.

"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me ... more

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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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