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Community Radio for Social Change: Evaluating Chala Ho Gaon Mein in Jharkhand

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik

Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication (2009), 45 pp.

Radio Namobudhha: Baseline Survey on Consciousness and Viewpoint of Listeners

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 66 pp.

Radiomost 100.5 FM: Pioneer of Community Radio in Kyrgyzstan

Gulmira Osmonova, Bettina Ruigies

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 134 pp.

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Attacks on the Press in 2008: A Worldwide Survey

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2009), 341 pp.

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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.

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Mapping Media Education Policies in the World: Visions, Programmes and Challenges

Divina Frau-Meigs, Jordi Torrent (eds.)

New York; Paris; Huelva: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations;UNESCO;Grupo Comunicar (2009), 259 pp.

"This publication offers a comprehensive and multidimensional approach to media education, considering it from three inter-related dimensions: its national, regional and global contexts; its value to citizens and civic participation; and the crucial role of collaboration among governments, civil soc ... more

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Catholic Communication Directory India 2009

New Dehli; Bangalore: Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Commission for Social Communications;Signis India;Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) (2009), 101 pp.

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The Philippine President as Tortfeasor-in-Chief: Establishing Civil Liability for Constitutional Negligence

Florin Ternal Hilbay

Asian Journal of Comparative Law, volume 4 (2009), pp. 1-54

"This article analyzes the liability of the Philippine President for the tort of constitutional negligence in relation to the murders and forced disappearances of leftists, journalists, and other dissidents. It uses the international law doctrine of command responsibility as a form of attribution th ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2008: A Global Survey of Media Independence

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Sarah G. Cook (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2009), xxv, 369 pp.

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Global Public Relations: Spanning Borders, Spanning Cultures

Alan R. Freitag, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (eds.)

Abingdon: Routledge (2009), xviii, 310 pp.

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Media Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective

Mark Balnaves, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Brian Shoesmith

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xx, 339 pp.

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Faith, Church and Audiovisual Media: Case Studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe

Daniela Frank

In: Faith and Media: Analysis of Faith and Media. Representation and Communication

Hans Geybels; Sara Mels; Michel Walrave (eds.)

Brussels: Peter Lang (2009), pp. 175-190

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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)

Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.

"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more

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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar, Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom;International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp.

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u ... more

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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

Daya Kishan Thussu

London: Sage (2009), ix, 214 pp.

"This first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ‘dumbing down’ discourse, largely confined to the ... more

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ICT4D: Learnings, Best Practices and Roadmaps from the Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme

Madanmohan Rao, Nanditha Raman

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), xii, 148 pp.

"This unique book presents extensive analysis and discussion from the Pan-Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme covering 56 projects in 18 countries across Asia-Pacific. In addition to inputs from the ICT4D project heads, the book features insights from 6 ICT experts who personally visited these projects fo ... more

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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds

Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.

"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more

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Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media

Thomas L. McPhail (ed.)

Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xiii, 239 pp.

SkillCity Master Trainers Manual on Investigative Journalism with a Focus on Accountability and Transparency in Afghanistan

Wali Zahid

Kabul: Saba Media Organisation (2009), 143 pp.

"This guide, compiled with the most updated sources at the time of going to press in early 2009, will take you step by step towards becoming an effective investigative journalist, gaining and practicing the necessary skills and thus gaining the self-confidence required to do a job that is both effec ... more

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