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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female

Azmat Rasul, Arthur A. Raney

International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287

"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio ... more

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Open and Distance Education in Asia, Africa and the Middle East: National Perspectives in a Digital Age

Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Adnan Qayyum (eds.)

Springer (2016), viii, 140 pp.

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A Textual Processing Model of Risk Communication: Lessons from Typhoon Haiyan

Raul P. Lejano, Joyce Melcar Tan, A. Meriwether W. Wilson

American Meteorological Society, volume 8, issue 4 (2016), pp. 447-463

"As the world's urban poor increase in numbers, they become acutely vulnerable to hazards from extreme weather events. On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck the province of Leyte, Philippines, with casualties numbering in the thousands, largely because of the ensuing storm surge that swept the c ... more

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Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen: Auswahl und Adaptionen deutscher Fernsehsendungen für den chinesischen Markt

Yuanchen Zhang

Berlin: Lit (2016), 230 pp.

"Die Autorin geht der Frage nach, welche deutschen Fernsehsendungen nach China importiert und wie diese in einer Gesellschaft aufgenommen werden, die kulturell vollkommen anders geprägt ist als die deutsche. Der Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf der Herausarbeitung von Kriterien für die Auswahl von Ferns ... more

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Social Media Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights: A Case of Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan

Sanam Noor

Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, Master Thesis (2016), 73 pp.

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UNICEF Nepal C4D Response: Earthquake 2015

Kathmandu: UNICEF Nepal (2016), 16 pp.

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Communicating with Disaster-Affected Children: A Case Study from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Response

Lotte Claessens, Olivia Forsberg

Plan International Sweden (2016), 37 pp.

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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance

Can Candan, Suncem Kocer

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.

"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as ... more

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Media Coverage on Reconciliation Issues in Sri Lankan Newspapers: A Discourse Analysis by Sri Lankan Journalists

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2016), 29 pp.

"In order to prepare media based support for reconciliation in Sri Lanka MICT conducted a discourse analysis that investigated media coverage of reconciliation issues in Sri Lankan newspapers. Under the supervision of MICT experts, a mixed group of 16 Tamil and Sinhalese journalists examined all art ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (2016)

"While the Turkish media market looks diverse from the outside because of the large numbers of outlets, it is increasingly concentrated in terms of opinion. The Media Ownership Monitor Turkey, carried out with IPS Communication Foundation/ bianet between July and October 2016, shows that the governm ... more

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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.

"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more

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Anticipating the Struggle against Everyday Impunity in Myanmar through Accounts from Bangladesh and Thailand

Nick Cheesman, Bina D'Costa, T. Haberkorn

Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, volume 3, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-61

"Work done internationally to address impunity concentrates on removing blanket amnesties and establishing commissions of inquiry into past atrocities. Everyday impunity—the impossibility of bringing state officers to account for routinized violent crimes against other individuals—gets less atte ... more

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Reporting is Becoming a Life Threatening Profession in Pakistan

Urooj Khan

Ma’arif Research Journal, volume 12 (2016), pp. 103-116

"The study is focusing ‘Reporting is becoming a life threatening profession in Pakistan’ as a topic for research. International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) declared Pakistan as one of the most dangerous countries for Journalists. Amnesty International called Khuzdar ‘a graveyard for Journa ... more

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Implicit Counterinsurgency: Media, Development and Security in Afghanistan

Nicholas Ross Zevely

George Washington University, Master Thesis (2016), iv, 69 pp.

"This paper focuses on post-September 11, 2001 media assistance in Afghanistan at the confluence of the development and defense sectors, otherwise known as the security-development nexus. It is out of this nexus that a burgeoning press-state system developed amid an ongoing conflict between the Gove ... more

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US Nation-building in Afghanistan

Conor Keane

London; New York: Routledge (2016), vii, 247 pp.

"Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US ... more

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A Digital Culture Ministry: A Case of the Korean Church

Ignatius Kim Min-soo

Religion and Social Communication, volume 14, issue 1 (2016), pp. 40-59

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Open Mic Nepal: Tracking Rumors in Post-Earthquake Nepal

Internews (2016), 13 pp.

"In July 2015, Internews launched Open Mic Nepal, a project designed to track and debunk rumors in the earthquake-afected communities. Based on previous pilots of this approach in Gaza and Liberia, the project set out to assess and address information needs by using minimally structured qualitative ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre

Siyuan Liu

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xxiii, 578 pp.

"Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre is an advanced level reference guide which surveys the rich and diverse traditions of classical and contemporary performing arts in Asia, showcasing significant scholarship in recent years. An international team of over 50 contributors provide authoritative overv ... more

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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power

Lisa Ann Richey (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.

"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding ... more

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The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research

Andreas Schwarz, Matthew W. Seeger, Claudia Auer (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xix, 525 pp.

"The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research articulates a broader understanding of crisis communication, discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of domestic and transnational crises, featuring the work of global scholars from a range of sub-disciplines ... more