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"This collection of essays covers the media and public debate dimension of the events of 9/11 and beyond, from the point of view of Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The first part of the book deals with the use of the media as an instrument of warfare, the growing significance of religion, the em ... more

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Agents of Peace: Public Communication and Conflict Resolution in an Asian Setting

Thomas Hanitzsch, Martin Löffelholz, Ronny Mustamu (eds.)

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Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of Cultural Change

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake

Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books, 2nd ed. (2004), xiv, 161 pp.

"This is a historical and cultural survey of Indian cinema written by a social scientist and a film historian. The reader is provided with the social, political, religious and cultural context of India over nine decades [...] it is low on theory and high on description." (European Journal of Communi ... more

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ICD Media Assistance Workshop

Department for International Development (DFID), Information and Communication for Development (ICD) (2004), 127 pp.

"The purpose of the one day ICD workshop on media assistance was to raise the profile of media for development within DFID, to share media assistance strategies and good practice with organisations and individuals engaged in the field of development communications, and to chart a way forward for bot ... more

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Communicating Protected Areas

Denise Hamú, Elisabeth Auchincloss, Wendy Goldstein (eds.)

Gland (CH); Cambridge: IUCN (2004), 311 pp.

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Media Sustainability Index 2003: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Mark Whitehouse, Theo Dolan (eds.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2004), xxi, 277 pp.

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Gagging the Thai Press

Bangkok: Thai Journalists Association;Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA);Novib (2004), 81 pp.

"The challenge to press freedom in Thailand in 2003 was much more critical than the year before. Since the Thai Rak Thai party took power in 2001, press-freedom violations have become much more obvious, and the situation was expected to worsen in 2004, the last year of the current government’s fou ... more

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Media Development by OSCE Field Missions

Yevgenia Manro, Peter Palmer, Mark Thompson

Amsterdam: Press Now (2004), 76 pp.

"This report represents the first attempt by a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) to appraise the media-development work of OSCE in the field. It is the outcome of a project designed by Press Now, an NGO based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For the past decade, Press Now has assisted media in the co ... more

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Evaluating Health-Promoting Radio Programs: A Toolbox for HAFY Radio Stations in Kyrgyzstan

Ross W. James

Bishkek: UNICEF;Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2004), 96 pp.

"Community radio stations can monitor and evaluate their health and social development programming despite being small, with limited funds. That's the message of an evaluation and monitoring Toolbox created especially for a UNICEF-supported youth radio project in Kyrgyzstan. The 'Healthy Airwaves fo ... r Youth' project (HAFY) is a health communication strategy to minimise risk behaviours amongst Kyrgyz youth aged 10-19 years. HAFY, which was initiated in 2002, aims to increase the level of knowledge and awareness of the dangers of HIV/AIDS/STI, drug use and reproductive health among young people in five rural and remote regions of Kyrgyzstan: Batken, Osh, Naryn, Karabalta and Karakol. The radio stations working within the HAFY network are directly involving young people as message-makers through community-based participatory health-promoting radio programming. The need of a toolbox for monitoring and evaluating the impact of HAFY radio programmes was identified during a 7-day intensive training workshop conducted by Health Communication Resources (HCR) from Australia on 'Radio Programming for Health Promotion'. HAFY partners were involved in further workshops facilitated by HCR in Kyrgyzstan in 2003 where the scope of the Toolbox was framed and HAFY-specific resources were developed. The result is a 106-page Toolbox created by HCR with guidelines, examples and templates that match the reality and cost-effective needs of HAFY's radio stations. HAFY partners do not have a great deal of experience in evaluation, have limited funds and rely on volunteers and the pooled resources of local community organisations. Marianne Ohlers, Programme Officer of UNICEF in Kyrgyzstan said, "The Toolbox is not meant to comprehensively evaluate all activities undertaken by HAFY but it does give guidelines on planning and evaluation, writing objectives, setting indicators for evaluation, sampling procedures, designing evaluation tools, and gathering data, analysing it and reporting it." Ms. Ohlers said, "While the Toolbox is designed for the specific use of the radio stations involved in the HAFY project in Kyrgyzstan I trust that it can guide and inspire other community-based radio stations working to reduce risk behaviours among young people and other vulnerable groups." (Press release) more