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A News Portal Without a News Team: Journalistic and Marketing Logics at the Malaysian National News Agency

Amira Firdaus
In: Making Online News, Vol. 2: Newsroom Ethnographies in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism
David Domingo, Chris Paterson (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 141-150
"The internet has offered national news agencies the opportunity to extend the reach of their services to non-media consumers. This chapeter analyzes the case of BERNAMA, highlighting the tensions between journalism and marketing in the process of blurring the traditional definitions of news agency ... more
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Covering Disasters Through the Lens of Gender: A Guidebook for the Media

Tasneem Ahmar, Rehana Khandwalla
Karachi: UKS Research Center; Global Fund for Women (GFW) (2011), 36 pp.
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Religious Media Content: A Cable TV Phenomenon

Gayatri Murthy
audiencescapes (2011), 7 pp.
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Turkish Journalists and Ethical Self-Reflection Through Online Training

Mine Gencel Bek
In: Journalism Education, Training and Employment
Bob Franklin, Donica Mensing (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2011), pp. 112-129
"This chapter examines whether training Turkish journalists using online training modules offered by the BBC, increased their awareness of ethical editorial issues. It also discusses the potential, as well as the obstacles, for establishing more democratic forms of journalism. The chapter begins by ... more
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National Consultation on Community Radio Policy

New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 130 pp.
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Building Democratic Media: Contributions to Critical Media Education and Sustainability

M. Nadarajah, Canute Januarius (eds.)
Kuala Lumpur: Signis Malaysia (2011), 85 pp.
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Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators
Deep Insights

Monroe E. Price, Susan Abbott, Libby Morgan (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 343 pp.
"Press freedom indices such as those administered by Freedom House, IREX, and Reporters Without Borders have emerged as crucial tools, not only for the general public, but also for donors, implementers, and academics in their attempts to understand the relationships among media assistance, democrati ... more
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How Effective is Community Radio in Meeting the Needs of Remote Communities in Nepal? Case Study of Okhaldhunga, Nepal

Theodora Hannides
Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Master of Art in Development and Emergency Practice, Master Thesis (2011), 113 pp.
"The study uses qualitative and quantitative research to perform a community-based needs assessment. It highlights the underlying issues of a weak economy, infrastructure and caste system. It also highlights social and family networks that strengthen communities. The research then investigates how t ... more
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New Media Vs. Old Politics: The Internet, Social Media, and Democratisation in Pakistan

Marcus Michaelsen
Berlin; Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 72 pp.
"It has to be underlined that this study does not see the internet as a major remedy for the development of political culture and civil society that is so essential for Pakistan’s further democratic consolidation. To understand possible contributions of the new information technologies towards pol ... more
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New Developments in Central Asian Mass Media Research

Eric Freedman, Richard Shafer
Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 12, issue 4 (2011), pp. 128-143
"This wide range of contemporary mass media research illustrates how Central Asia press outlets remain tightly controlled and manipulated, first under the czars, then under the Soviets, and now under authoritarian regimes. Over the past two decades, the press systems have not achieved even minimal d ... more
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Starting a Local Radio Station: A Manual for Afghanistan

Parisa Saadatmand-Zitouni (comp.)
Arcata, Calif; Washington, DC; Kabul: Internews; USAID; Pact (2011), 100 pp.
"This manual describes the process for starting a local radio station—the organization of community support and planning, equipment needs, programming strategies, business growth and sustainability and journalistic ethics and standards. This manual does not insist that you follow a set of rules to ... more
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De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks

Georgette Wang (ed.)
London et al.: Routledge (2011), 288 pp.
"The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national ... more
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Training of Trainers' Manual on Gender and Security for the Media and Civil Society in Nepal

Lesley Abdela, Tim Symonds, Sarah Dalrymple
London: Saferworld; IHRICON (2011), 60 pp.
"The manual is designed for a three-day workshop. It is accompanied by two sets of PowerPoint slides: Gender and security and Security and security sector reform (SSR) and a Companion workbook. The workbook contains tools, hand-outs, briefing information sheets and selected reading materials. It has ... more
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Framing Religious Conflict: Primordialism Writ Large

Steve Sharp
Asia Pacific Media Educator, issue 21 (2011), pp. 1-23
"Is there a dynamic correspondence between the unfolding of media narratives about conflict and how that conflict plays out on the ground? In particular, can this question be applied productively to the Maluku wars, an outbreak of religious violence at the end of Indonesia’s long developmentalist ... more
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ICTs and Development in India: Perspectives on the Rural Network Society

T. T. Sreekumar
London; New York: Anthem Press (2011), xii, 215 pp.
"ICTs and Development in India' is a unique attempt to study the nature and consequences of the growing presence of Information Technology in development projects in India." (Publisher description)
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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account

John R. Postill
New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.
"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma ... more
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Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

Andrew N. Weintraub (ed.)
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Medien-Macht und Religionen: Herausforderung für eine interkulturelle Bildung

Manfred L. Pirner, Johannes Lähnemann, Werner Haußmann (eds.)
Berlin: EB-Verlag (2011), 362 pp.
"Medien und Religionen: ein brisantes Thema, das bisher nur unzureichend bearbeitet ist. Dabei ist spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001, seit den heftigen Auseinandersetzungen um die Mohammed-Karikaturen und dem Streit um das provokante Buch von Thilo Sarrazin deutlich, wie sehr Bilder und Videos ... more
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Understanding Bollywood

Vijay Mishra
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner, Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 577-601
"This essay brings together four key elements of Bollywood cinema: 1. the lure of the mythological; 2. the allure of the Muslim courtesan, and Urdu, Bollywood's language of love; 3. the hegemony of melodrama; and 4. the persistence of song and dance." (Page 577)
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Environmental Journalism in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: Reporting Scarce Amid Environmental and Media Problems

Eric Freedman
Applied Environmental Education & Communication, volume 10, issue 2 (2011), pp. 126-134
"Independence for the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia has not led to press freedom, solutions to pressing environmental problems, or development of effective grassroots nongovernmental organizations. This article examines relations between journalists and environ ... more