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Freedom to Publish in Vietnam: Between Kafka and the Thang Bom Logic

Geneva: International Publishers Association (IPA) (2012), 16 pp.

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Climate Asia: A New Approach to Research on Public Understanding of Climate Change

Tan Copsey, Sonia Whitehead

London: BBC Media Action (2012), 32 pp.

"Climate Asia will be the largest ever research study into public understanding of climate change in Asia with more than 33,000 interviews conducted across seven countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. This working paper explains the distinctive research approach ... more

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Exile Media, Global News Flows and Democratization: The Role of Democratic Voice of Burma's 2010 Elections

Julianne Pidduck

Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 5 (2012), pp. 537-554

"This article explores the links between transnational media flows and social and political change in authoritarian regimes through a conjunctural study of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a Burmese exile media organization. Drawing on observation and interviews conducted at DVB's Oslo studio during ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2012: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2012), xxi, 359 pp.

"TThe 2012 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia revealed a mix of positive developments, regression, and stagnation (or resilience, depending on one’s point of view). Nearly half of the 21 countries included in this study showed little change either way, their overall score moving by 0.10 or less. Six c ... more

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Empowering Women Through ICT

Caroline Wamala

Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions;Stockholm University (2012), 72 pp.

"This publication covers five different projects carried out in six different locations. There were two projects in Bolivia, one focusing on empowering female indigenous leaders and the other provided female victims of domestic violence with a safe virtual environment where they could receive suppor ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Turkey

Asli Tunç, Vehbi Görgülü

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 81 pp.

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How Pakistani Media Reports Terrorism Related Conflict: Media Content Monitoring and Analysis, January - March 2012

Sadaf Baig

Karachi: Intermedia Pakistan (2012), 52 pp.

"This report is part of an ongoing project to monitor various types of conflicts as covered by select samples of media in Pakistan, including newspapers and TV channels the media. In this report, the focus is on terrorism related conflict. The report contains in depth content analysis of terrorism r ... more

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Media Freedom Report 2011 (May 2011 - May 2012)

Ulaanbaatar: Globe International (2012), 33 pp.

"In the report, we included two chapters. The first describes the media legal environment, namely guarantees and restrictions of the freedom of expression and the second chapter highlights media freedom situation in 2011." (Preface, page 5)

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Media Development in Transitional Democratic Cambodia

Casey McCarthy

Malmö: Malmö University, Master Thesis in Communication for Development (2012), 65 pp.

"Through a series of qualitative interviews with a range of media stakeholders, the ultimate conclusion of this thesis is that the media landscape in Cambodia is diverse –with some (mostly foreign-owned and run) able to operate freely and independently, while others (most local Khmer media, partic ... more

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Performance Evaluation Afghanistan Media Development and Empowerment Project (AMDEP)

Richard Martin, William Canter, Yama Hotak

Washington, DC: Checchi and Company Consulting;USAID (2012), iv, 103 pp.

"The purpose of this evaluation is to identify results and lessons learned from USAID’s Afghanistan Media Development and Empowerment Project (AMDEP). AMDEP was designed as a one-year project (later extended) that began on November 1, 2010. It built on eight years of previous USAID media activitie ... s in Afghanistan and continued USAID’s strategic focus on improving news and development-related radio information for under-served groups such as rural families, women and young people. Through the consistent funding and support to the radio industry in Afghanistan, USAID has underwritten an enhanced forum for news and information programming outside of Kabul. By choosing radio as its primary tool, the initial groundwork was laid for a national messaging forum. Enabling provincial and district broadcasters to receive a consistent and increasingly professional series of programs was a good approach. That many of the programs have to do with national, regional and international news and information is creating the conditions for more and better citizen participation in democratic development. The stage has been set for national advertising supported messaging in the future. AMDEP supports a comprehensive “value chain” approach to strengthening the media sector, dealing with training of journalists; establishing and operating a network of rural radio stations; introducing “new media” to enable amateur voices to communicate about social, economic, and development issues; encouraging advocacy to protect journalistic freedoms; helping citizens understand and value the importance of media information and news; training media lawyers; and supporting new media laws and policies that will support development of a dynamic, independent media industry. Internews is the lead implementer of AMDEP activities and of previous USAID media activities that led to AMDEP. Overall, AMDEP has been remarkably successful. It had to function in a context of administrative delays and funding uncertainties, security threats, an environment of many different media projects and an unpredictable economy. The technical and managerial depth of the Internews team was an important factor in the project’s success, as was its selection of effective Afghan partner organizations. Flexibility and agility on the part of USAID and Internews made it possible to adapt to changing circumstances." (Executive summary, page 1) more

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Mikroblogs als Instrumente der Systemstabilisierung in der VR China

Nele Noesselt

Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2012), 8 pp.

"Die Nutzung von Mikroblogs durch staatliche Stellen und Parteikader ist Teil der Strategie des chinesischen Partei-Staates, das Internet zur Stabilisierung des politischen Systems einzusetzen. Über staatliche Mikroblogs werden offizielle und fundierte Informationen verbreitet; ein Angebot, das von ... more

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Bangladesh: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 135 pp.

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Mapping Digital Media: China

Hu Yong, Fang Kun, Liu Yang, Iris Ha, Zhang Yuping, Wang Mengyao, Kathryn Nute

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 127 pp.

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Environmental Journalism in Asia-Pacific

Alastair Carthew, Paul Linnarz (eds.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2012), 75 pp.

"This publication sets out to achieve a number of objectives of importance to environmental journalism in the Asia-Pacific region. The objectives are: to identify the key environmental issues facing the Asia-Pacific region; to identify and assess journalism organizations, NGOs and others involved in ... more

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The DDR Mutiny in Bangladeshi Media: From a ‘proletarian Revolution’ to a ‘brutal Massacre’

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Hilol Sobhan

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 11, issue 1 (2012), 16 pp.

"The article analyses the media coverage of the BDR mutiny in Bangladesh, February 2009. In examining journalistic processes and how the Bangladeshi media reported the violent conflict, the article looks at how the approaches of peace journalism can be used in actual conflict reporting. Through a co ... more

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Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere

Merlyna Lim

Journal of Media and Religion, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), pp. 127-140

"The rapid expansion of the Internet, marked by a storm of blogs and social networking platforms, is perceived as an enabling instrument for Muslims to be engaged globally. In this regard, the blogosphere can be a vehicle for worldwide interactions and the formation of global Muslim community, the u ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Georgia

Ana Keshelashvili, Nino Danelia, Ninia Kakabadze

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 101 pp.

"This report finds that the momentous change in ownership transparency regulation and the dynamic and free online environment are the most notable success stories since 2005. Yet these achievements are overshadowed by the lack of independence of the broadcasting regulator and the public broadcaster, ... more

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The League of Thirteen: Media Concentration in Indonesia

Merlyna Lim

Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona State University, Participatory Media Lab;Ford Foundation (2012), 18 pp.

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Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan's Digital Doldrums

Ottawa: SecDev Group (2012), 21 pp.

"Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more ef!cient governance. Hundreds of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the ... more

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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.

"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more