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Copyright Law, Digital Content and the Internet in the Asia-Pacific

Brian Fitzgerald, Fuping Gao

Sydney University Press (2008), xvii, 354 pp.

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Media in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention: Documentation 2008

Christoph Schmidt, Wilfried Solbach, Marc von Boemcken (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2008), 209 pp.

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The Role of Radio and TV in the Life of Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam. Case Study: The H'Mong People in Lao Cai and Lai Chau Province

Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen

Tromsø (NO): University of Tromsø, Faculty of Social Sciences, Master Thesis in Indigenous Studies (2008), 89, 22 pp.

"Nowadays, ethnic minorities in Vietnam are still coping with serious difficulties in life such as poverty and illiteracy. Meanwhile, media for ethnic minorities, including radio and TV for ethnic minorities in Vietnam, are at a low level of development. In fact, both VTV5 (the TV division for ethni ... more

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The Media and Political Change in Southeast Asia: Karaoke Culture and the Evolution of Personality Politics

Jonathan Woodier

Cheltenham; Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing (2008), vii, 368 pp.

"Examining the communications media and its relationship to political change in Southeast Asia, this study endeavours to provide both a regional comparative analysis and an interpretation of the mass communication media in the wake of 9/11." (Publisher description)

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Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry

Selvaraj Velayutham (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2008), xvi, 201 pp.

"Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It o ... more

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International Film Guide 2008: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema

Ian Haydn Smith (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press, 44th ed. (2008), 424 pp.

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In the Balance: Press Freedom in South Asia 2007-2008

Sukumar Muralidharan (ed.)

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ);South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2008), 39 pp.

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Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting

Paul L. Moorcraft, Philip M. Taylor

Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books (2008), xv, 318 pp.

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The Examples of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Political Extremism, Terrorism, and Media in Central Asia

Copenhagen; Almaty; Bishkek: International Media Support (IMS);Adil Soz;Public Association "Journalists" (2008), 38 pp.

"This study furnishes the media, the civil society organisations, the public authorities and international organisations in the region with a point of reference in context to the rising debate about extremism, especially Islamic fundamentalism, and terrorism. It provides insight into how the mass me ... more

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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

James E. Katz (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.

"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone ... more

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Joint Evaluation of Citizens' Voice & Accountability: Synthesis Report

Alina Rocha Menocal, Bhavna Sharma

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2008), xxi, 109 pp.

"Citizens’ Voice and Accountability (CV&A) work has emerged as a priority in the international development agenda from the 1990s onwards. In their CV&A work, donors recognise the importance of context: it shapes relation to that context. However, context awareness has not proven sufficient to enab ... more

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The blogging revolution

Antony Loewenstein

Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press (2008), vii, 294 pp.

"This searching examination explores how the internet is threatening the rule of particularly repressive governments - including China, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Addressing internet censorship, citizen journalism, and the growing popularity of blogging as a means for change, this in-dept ... more

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Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey
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Toby Mendel

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2008), 156 pp.

"This book is meant to present the basics of freedom of information or right to information, defined as the universal right to access information held by public bodies. It presents in an easy-to-understand and non-technical fashion the basic principles of freedom of information, such as maximum disc ... more

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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia

Youna Kim (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2008), 238 pp.

"This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of global ... more

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Media and Conflict: Afghanistan as a Relative Success Story

Yll Bajraktari, Christina Parajon

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2008), 8 pp.

"The development of media in post-Taliban Afghanistan has been relatively successful (compared with both the Taliban regime and other countries subject to international intervention) in establishing free and responsible expression despite the lack of electricity, harsh terrain, absence of viable med ... more

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Community Radio Principles and Prospects

Raghu Mainali

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2008), 108 pp.

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Voices from the Field: Press Freedom in Nepal from CPA to the Constituent Assembly

Forum of Development Journalists (FODE)

Kathmandu: UNESCO (2008), vii, 91 pp.

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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2005 - 2007: Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC, Twenty-Sixth Session

Paris: UNESCO (2008), 146 pp.

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The KAS Democracy Report 2008: Media and Democracy, Vol. 2

Karsten Grabow, Christian E. Rieck (eds.)

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2008), 228 pp.

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Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

Nalin Mehta (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2008), ix, 170 pp.

"This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which cam ... more

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