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Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology

Sarah Pink (ed.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2007), ix, 324 pp.

"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co ... more

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Freedom of the Press Worldwide in 2007

Jean-François Julliard (ed.)

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2007), 152 pp.

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Media in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Strategies

Shira Loewenberg, Bent Nørby Bonde (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle Media Services;Bonn Network (2007), 169, 21 pp.

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Silencing Sources: An International Survey of Protections and Threats to Journalists' Sources
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David Banisar

[Toronto]: Privacy International (2007), 97 pp.

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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
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Nalaka Gunawardene, Frederick Noronha (eds.)

Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok;Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.

"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res ... more

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Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report
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Edel Hughes

Walter Jawardene; Mustafa Gündogudu (eds.)

London: Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP);Index on Censorship;Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales;Article 19;Centre for European Studies (2007), 74 pp.

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Administration, Control and Censorship in the Chinese Media

Thomas Scharping

Köln: Institut für Rundfunkökonomie an der Universität zu Köln (2007), 25 pp.

"While China’s policies of reform and opening-up have triggered far-reaching economic transformations in the media sector, and the leeway for uncensored reporting has widened, the principles of political supervision remain essentially unchanged. The article sketches the interplay of numerous gover ... more

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A State of Denial: The Crisis of Press Freedom and Journalist Safety in Pakistan

Chris Morley, Maheen A. Rashdi, Iqbal Khattak

Redfern: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2007), 15 pp.

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Access to Information: An Instrumental Right for Empowerment

London; Buenos Aires: Article 19;Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (2007), 36 pp.

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Trends in Audiovisual Markets: China, Mongolia and South Korea

Dana Ziyasheva (ed.)

Bejing: UNESCO (2007), 106 pp.

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Strengthening Independent Media Program in Timor-Leste: Quarterly Performance Report, No. 4

Vjollca Shtylla

Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2007), 71 pp.

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Building Sustainability for Media Centres: A Handbook on Best Practices
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Yasha Lange, Thomas Hughes

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2007), 52 pp.

"Media centres around the world are facing the same challenges in ensuring long-term sustainability after “start-up” funding from donors ceases. In order to overcome these challenges, a number of centres have pioneered innovative approaches for ensuring financial and institutional viability and ... more

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Randnotizen aus Kambodscha: Die Auslandsberichterstattung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland über die Ereignisse nach dem Sturz des Pol-Pot-Regimes 1979. Eine untersuchung der Berichterstattung in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel und Stern

Charlotte Veit

Erfurt: Thüringisch-Kambodschanische Gesellschaft (tkg) (2007), 97 pp.

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The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India

Britta Ohm

Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.

"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist ... mobilisation and discursive strategies of Hindu nationalism. It looks at the economic, technological, medial, political, social, visual/iconographic and legal aspects of this interplay and delineates their concrete manifestations in news as well as in entertainment programming of everyday television (particularly in very popular shows and channels at the time). These aspects are set into the larger framework of globalisation, privatisation, commercialisation and neo-liberal policies, the related thrusts of social upward mobility (especially in the new middle classes), ‘good governance’ (instead of socio-economic justice) and shifting class-, caste-, majority-minority and national-regional relations in the context of a re-formulation of nation and state that defines and legitimises new logics of inclusion and exclusion. Secondly, this work is a study of "Indianisation" and lingual/representational politics in the context of the growing precariousness of the liberal-secular discourse and of democratic, independent mass media in India. Especially English-language journalists, whose largely critical coverage of the anti-Muslim violence experienced an hitherto unknown rejection on the part of TV audiences (and consequently produced a slump in advertising revenues), turned with the Gujarat crisis out to epitomise the ambivalence of challenging the definitional power of a privileged postcolonial class: its rightful critique carries the danger of vindicating and naturalising anti-minority cultural nationalism. The study follows and examines, before the background of a normative construction of a Hindi-speaking, ‘authentic’ media consumer, the changing position of both English and Hindi-producing journalists and producers, their respective perceptions of alienation, speechlessness and empowerment, their unwanted role as activists in the context of shifting meanings of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity', their difficulties or agility in assessing their options and maintaining, changing or even developing their convictions, and the strategies they find or reject for adapting to the circumstances." (Abstract) more

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Lessons Learnt from Supporting Mass Media to Improve the Business Environment

Karl-Oskar Olming, Nicolas MacFarquhar

International Labour Organization (ILO), Job Creation and Enterprise Development Department (2007), 16 pp.

"Enterprise development interventions that utilize the mass media can be seen to be impacting on three different areas of the operating environment of small businesses. First, mass media can bring about behavioural change in the business operation by influencing public and individual attitudes and b ... more

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Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio
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Bruce Girard (Coord.)

Amparo Cadavid; Martin Faye; Raghu Mainali; Carlos Rivadeneyra; Nkopane Maphiri (contrib.)

Washington, DC: World Bank Institute (WBIST), Program on Civic Engagement, Empowerment & Respect for Diversity (CEERD) (2007), 249 pp. [60 pp. + 5 annexes]

"This report is one of the first studies comparing systematically different aspects of community radio practice in developing countries. Based on five country surveys - Colombia, Mali, Nepal, Peru and South Africa - it provides descriptions and analyses of: participatory processes and volunteerism; ... more

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Broadcasting Policy and Globalisation

Helga Tawil Souri, Granville Williams, Nick Herd, Nkosi Ndlela, Ki-Sung Kwak

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 4, issue 3 (2007), pp. 1-106

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Out of China, into the light

Dominic Waghorn

British Journalism Review, volume 18, issue 1 (2007), pp. 23-27

"Foreign correspondent Waghorn compares long-term assignments in China and Israel and observes: "Whereas in China the challenge was engaging the viewers' interest in somewhere so unfamiliar and alien, here [Israel] it is keeping them interested in somewhere they find over familiar. Rock-throwing, su ... more

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Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media
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Kalinga Seneviratne (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (2007), vi, 273 pp.

"This book is the result of a research project covering eight countries in South and South East Asia examining the role and impact of alternative media. The definition of alternative media depends very much on the political, social, cultural and economic environment you live in. Thus, this book give ... more

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Rethinking Monitoring and Evaluation: Challenges and Prospects in the Changing Global Aid Environment

Esther Mebrathu, Brian Pratt, Linda Lönnqvist

Oxford: International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) (2007), 164 pp.

Silencing Sources: An International Survey of Protections and Threats to Journalists' Sources Top Insights

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book Inspiring Practice

Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report Top Insights

Building Sustainability for Media Centres: A Handbook on Best Practices Inspiring Practice

Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio Inspiring Practice

Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media Top Insights

Silencing Sources: An International Survey of Protections and Threats to Journalists' Sources
Top Insights

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
Inspiring Practice

Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report
Top Insights

Building Sustainability for Media Centres: A Handbook on Best Practices
Inspiring Practice

Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio
Inspiring Practice

Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media
Top Insights