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Planet TV: A Global Television Reader

Lisa Parks, Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York: New York University Press (2003), ix, 470 pp.

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Participatory Video: Images That Transform and Empower

Shirley A. White (ed.)

New Delhi: Sage (2003), 412 pp.

"This book examines the importance of participatory video as a catalyst for development. It shows how powerful video images have been used to promote changes in attitudes and social behaviour, helping communities identify development solutions that are within their reach. Video has been used to reac ... more

Media Violence: Media, Violence and Challenges Facing Modern Societies

Sucharita Eashwar (ed.)

Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD);UNESCO (2003), 230 pp.

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Global Trends in Media Education: Policies and Practices

Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte, Dafna Lemish (eds.)

Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2003), vi, 200 pp.

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Children, Mobile Phones and the Internet: The Mobile Internet and Children. Proceedings of the Experts' Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday 6th and Friday 7th March 2003

Childnet International;Internet Association Japan (2003), 60 pp.

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Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, Volume 1, A-E

Donald H. Johnston (ed.)

New York: Academic Press (2003), 25, 618 pp.

The Globalisation of Corporate Media Hegemony

Lee Artz, Yahya R. Kamalipour (eds.)

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (2003), 309 pp.

Voices from the Mountain: Oral Testimonies from Nepal

London: Panos (2003), 49 pp.

Regional Profile of the Information Society in Western Asia: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

New York: United Nations (2003), xi, 152 pp.

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Rhetoric and Reality: The Internet Challenge for Democracy in Asia

Indrajit Banerjee (ed.)

Singapore: Eastern Universities Press (EUP);Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University (2003), ix, 325 pp.

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Globalisation, Mass Media and Indian Cultural Values

Michael Traber (ed.)

Delhi: ISPCK (2003), 200 pp.

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Media and Politics in Pacific Asia

Duncan McCargo

London: RoutledgeCurzon (2003), xii, 185 pp.

"Drawing on first-hand research in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan and Thailand—and employing comparative examples that include Burma, Malaysia and the Philippines—Duncan McCargo examines the various influences of the media as agents of stability, restraint and change. He also analyses pressures on ... more

Japanese Approaches to Development Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins

Keio Communication Review, issue 25 (2003), pp. 19-37

"This article is based on the analysis of 198 communication and media projects financed by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Nearly 80% of the projects were aimed at communication infrastructure and training for its maintenance." (commbox)

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The Media and the War on Terrorism

Stephen Hess, Marvin Kalb (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press;Brookings Institution Press;Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University (2003), xv, 307 pp.

"This collection of conversations between journalists and federal officials aims to capture the tensions between the press and the government during wartime. They cover issues including military censorship and the difficulties of maintaining security in an era of satellite technology." (Publisher de ... more

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The Cinematic Imagination: Indian Popular Films as Social History

Jyotika Virdi

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2003), xvi, 258 pp.

"India produces more films than any other country in the world, and these works are avidly consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by the Indian communities in Australia, Britain, the Caribbean Islands, and North America. Jyotika Virdi focuses on how this dom ... more