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Storytelling in Media

Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) (2018), iii, 61 pp.

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The State of Humanitarian Journalism

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce

Humanitarian-journalism.net;University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.

"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not ... more

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Agriculture Extension System in India: Review of Current Status, Trends and the Way Forward

Ashok Gulati, Pravesh Sharma, Anisha Samantara, Prerna Terway

New Delhi: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) (2018), xvi, 106 pp.

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Annual Report 2018

Rachel Mathews (ed.)

Yangon: Yangon Film School (2018), 74 pp.

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Mapping Small Islands Communicative Ecologies: A Case Study from the Amami Islands

Evangelia Papoutsaki, Sueo Kuwahara

South Pacific Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 25-49

"This paper provides a conceptual framework for an islands’ communication ecology (CE) approach and an overview of the key findings of exploratory ethnographic research that aimed at mapping the CE of the Amami islands. The communicative ecology approach refers to the various forms, resources, act ... more

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Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan

Razi Rumi

Asian Affairs, volume 49, issue 2 (2018), pp. 319-339

"Over the years, Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws have been a central instrument for the persecution of religious minorities. While these laws are colonial in origin, they exist today within the context of a general Islamisation of laws, which combined with the state's inability to hold a monopol ... more

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Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong

Stefania Travagnin (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 303 pp.

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Communication for Development Strategic Framework 2018-2021

Kathmandu: UNICEF Regional Offcie for South Asia (2018), 97 pp.

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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2018

Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank;ITU (2018), vi, 240 pp.

"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban ... more

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Vigilante Publics: Orientalism, Modernity and Hindutva Fascism in India

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-350

"This paper explores the interconnections of Hindutva fascist repertoires in India and quasi-orientalist discourses. History and common sense are re-written through audiovisual communications to appeal to one section of a dangerously split Indian public and a neoliberal-touristic sensibility elsewhe ... more

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Soft Power Made in China: The Dilemmas of Online and Offline Media and Transnational Audiences

Claire Seungeun Lee

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxi, 236 pp.

"This book analyzes the ways in which China’s soft power growth faces dilemmas in East Asia through both online and offline platforms. One dilemma for China’s transnational soft power-field expansion lies in the intersection of its source and receiving countries. The author discusses how transna ... more

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Chinese Media in Africa: Between Promise and Reality

Emeka Umejei

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 104-120

"This article examines the relationship between journalism in Africa and foreign investment in the African media space through an analysis of newsroom practices and the power relations that inform such practices in Chinese media organisations based in Africa. It illustrates the discrepancies between ... more

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Theorizing Digital Divides

Massimo Ragnedda, Glenn W. Muschert (eds.)

London: Routledge (2018), vi, 211 pp.

"Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world and is now reproduced in the digital sphere. Such inequalities have been described in multiple traditions of social thought and theoretical approaches. ... more

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Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia
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Kalinga Seneviratne (ed.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), xiv, 353 pp.

"The model of journalism we practice in Asia is an adversarial one driven by conflict reporting, a model we have borrowed from the West. This book is an outcome of a project implemented by the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University and funded by the International Program for the D ... more

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Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media

Catherine Gomes, Brenda S. A. Yeoh (eds.)

London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), xxv, 216 pp.

"This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across ... more

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"To give publicity to our thoughts": Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit

Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, Frieder Ludwig, Ciprian Burlacioiu (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2018), 378 pp.

"Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen indigen-christliche Eliten in Asien und Afrika, sich stärker in der kolonialen Öffentlichkeit ihrer Länder zu artikulieren. Sie gründeten ihre eigenen Journale, kritisierten Missstände in Gesellschaft und Missionskirchen, beteiligten sich an sozialen Be ... more

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Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto

Journal of Political Economy, volume 126, issue 2 (2018), pp. 451-491

"Redistribution programs in developing countries often “leak” because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted ... more

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Nepal Media Landscape

Ujjwal Acharya

Maastricht (NL): European Journalism Centre (2018), 16 pp.

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Democracy Disconnected: Social Media's Caustic Influence on Southeast Asia's Fragile Republics

Brandon Paladino

Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2018), 23 pp.

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Who Speaks for the Past? Social Media, Social Memory, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Contemporary China

Jun Liu

International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 1675-1695

"This study explores the influence of social media on the (re)formation of social memory and the production of historical knowledge in society. It takes several contested debates over historical events and figures on Weibo, one of the most widely used social media, as the case to investigate how soc ... more

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