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Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Nutrition in Nepal: Informing and Motivating Communities to Pursue Healthier Practices in Mid- and Far-Western Districts

Sanjib Saha, Astha Siwakoti, Bhabasagar Ghimire

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 11 pp.

"This research briefing presents three case studies that demonstrate how BBC Media Action used insights from formative qualitative research to create public service announcements (PSAs) in 12 districts of midand far-western Nepal. BBC Media Action worked with local radio stations to target specific ... more

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Work-related sexual harassment and coping techniques: The case of Indonesian female journalists

Deborah N. Simorangkir

Media Asia, volume 47, issue 1-2 (2020), pp. 23-33

"Female journalists make up only between five to 10 percent of the total journalists in Indonesia. Consequently, this often gives women little bargaining power in the workplace. This research analyzes the prevalence and nature of sexual harassment experienced by Indonesian female journalists, as wel ... more

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What Works to Prevent Online and Offline Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse? Review of National Education Strategies in East Asia and the Pacific
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Ann Kangas, Harri Lee, Jenny Holden, Erika Fraser

Bangkok: UNICEF (2020), viii, 63 pp.

"The review found that while there is a growing global body of evidence around effective education programming to prevent child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), much of the available evidence is from high income countries (HICs) and largely focuses on programmes which address offline rather tha ... more

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Gesandt, um zu kommunizieren: Ein Medien-Priester funkt in Asien. Interview

John Mishen, Marita Wagner

Forum Weltkirche, volume 139, issue 4 (2020), pp. 24-29

"Bereits in jungen Jahren konnte sich John Mishen für die Medien begeistern und hörte sich gemeinsam mit seinen Großeltern die täglichen Radiosendungen von Radio Veritas Asia an, bis er als Seminarist dann selbst vor dem Mikrofon des großen katholischen Radiosenders in Asien stand. Als Dozent f ... more

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Cambodian Communication Review 2020

Say Sok, Bun Y Ung (eds.)

Phnom Penh: Royal University of Phnom Penh, Department of Media & Communication, Cambodia Communication Institut (2020), 65 pp.

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A Review on the Safety of Journalists in Turkey: A Victims' Rights Perspective

Bora Ataman, Baris Çoban, Özlem Erkmen

In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety

Sadia Jamil (ed.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 148-171

"In the neoliberal media autocracy of Turkey, mass media are propaganda tools rather than the public watchdogs. The coup attempt in 2016 gave the government additional power to institutionalise this regime. Critical journalists have become the enemies of the state and suffered from threats from vari ... more

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Implementation Report on Projects, Part II: Projects Approved by the 62nd Meeting of the IPDC Bureau (May 2018) and Implemented in 2018-2019

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 243 pp.

"This document reports on the implementation of projects approved by the 62nd meeting of the IPDC Bureau (May 2018) and implemented in 2018-2019. It is meant for the information of the IPDC Bureau Members and donors." (Page 1)

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Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? A Study on the State of Indigenous Community Broadcasting in 19 Countries;Voces Indígenas. ¿Están siendo escuchadas? Estudio sobre el estado de la radiodifusión comunitaria indígena en 19 países

José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez

Cambridge, MA; Toronto: Cultural Survival;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2020), 135 pp.

"Indigenous Peoples have been excluded from accessing media for many reasons, including their geographic location, languages, and legal barriers. Indigenous Peoples living in isolated areas have little physical access tu urban-centred media. Similarly, a lack of awareness of human rights, freedoms, ... more

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Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies

Jacob Johanssen, Diana Garrisi (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2020), 197 pp.

"Drawing on a wide range of case studies addressing how people can be ‘othered’ in contemporary media, the chapters focus on analyses of hateful discourses about disability on Reddit, news coverage of disability and education, media access of individuals with disabilities, the logic of memes and ... more

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Countering Russian & Chinese Influence Activities: Examining Democratic Vulnerabilities & Building Resiliency

Cyrus Newlin, Heather A. Conley, Amy Searight, Tim Kostelancik, Rachel Ellehuus, Jeffrey Mankoff, Devin Stewart

Washington, DC: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) (2020), v, 31 pp.

"With their heavily censored and restricted civil societies at home, China and Russia exploit the asymmetry of democratic systems by targeting open information environments, freedom of expression, participatory civic discourse, and pluralistic and fluid politics. Democracies have unique vulnerabilit ... more

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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

Thomas L. McPhail, Steven Phipps

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 5th ed. (2020), ix, 311 pp.

"[This book] has been thoroughly updated with new content, trends, and conclusions, all based on the latest data. The book examines broadcasting, mass media, and news services ranging from MSNBC, MTV, and CNN to television sitcoms and Hollywood export markets. It investigates the roles of the major ... more

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Meinungsfreiheit

welt-sichten, issue 2 (2020), pp. 12-31

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Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives

Michael Lawrence (ed.)

London: Bloomsbury;British Film Institute (bfi);BFI Publishing (2020), xvi, 243 pp.

"Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures ... more

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Whose Voices? How Media Policy Shapes Minority Language Radio in Taiwan

Ya-Chi Chen

Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 40-56

"This article explores the interaction between media policy and the development of minority language media, in this case, Hakka language radio stations. It examines how media policy has been caught between neo-liberal economic development and election politics and delineates the extent to which medi ... more

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From repression to oppression: News journalism in Turkey 2013–2018

Stefanie Pukallus, Lisa Bradley, Sarah Clarke, Jackie Harrison

Media, Culture & Society, volume 42, issue 7-8 (2020), pp. 1443-1460

"The political context for practicing free and independent journalism has always been challenging in Turkey and ever more so after the failed coup d’état of 2016. This article examines and analyzes the changes brought about by this failed coup d’état in terms of their civil, legal, and politic ... more

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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
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Jessica Noske-Turner (ed.)

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp.

"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op ... more

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Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach

Preeti Raghunath

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 382 pp.

"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking, ... more

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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary

Raya Morag

New York: Columbia University Press (2020), xxii, 285 pp.

"Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting ... more

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Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences

Ratan Kumar Roy

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xviii, 237 pp.

"This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multisited ethnography of television news media, it showcases the sociopolitical undercurrents of media practices and the everydayness of TV news in Bangladesh. It discusses a wide gamut of issues such as news ma ... more

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Rethinking China’s Global ‘Propaganda’ Blitz

Falk Hartig

Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3-18

"China’s global communication activities are mainly perceived as sinister propaganda to mislead international audiences, and related discussions exemplify Western unease about China’s global communication efforts. While not trivializing these efforts, this article objects to some of the assessme ... more

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Communication for Development: An Evaluation Framework in Action
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