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Radio, Politics and Trust in Afghanistan: A Social History of Broadcasting

Andrew Skuse
International Communication Gazette, volume 64, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-279
"This article examines the sociohistorical role of radio broadcasting in Afghanistan and analyses the interplay between the radio choices of the audience, political change and conflict. Though never explicitly trusted as a credible information source, the popularity of national radio in Afghanistan ... more
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Benchmarking Demand: Pakistan and the Internet Users’ Perspective

Erik Nisbet, Arzak Khan
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2016), 27 pp.
"The percentage of Pakistanis using the Internet increased by 37.5% between 2009 and 2013, though overall internet penetration remains very low with only 11% of the population having access to the Internet". (Page 9) "Heavy internet users in Pakistan are very young (72% under 30 years of age), large ... more
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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out

BBC Media Action (2016)
"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti ... more
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Stifling Dissent: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in India

Human Rights Watch (2016), 117 pp.
"This report details how the criminal law is used to limit peaceful expression in India. It documents examples of the ways in which vague or overbroad laws are used to stifle political dissent, harass journalists, restrict activities by nongovernmental organizations, arbitrarily block Internet sites ... more
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Mass Communication: Principles and Concepts

Seema Hasan
New Delhi et al.: CBS Publishers & Distributors, 2nd ed., reprint (2016), 844 pp.
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Rebuilding Public Trust: An Assessment of the Media Industry and Profession in Sri Lanka

Colombo: Secretariat for Media Reforms; International Media Support (IMS) (2016), xvii, 262 pp.
"This report, produced by a participatory research process that took over a year, provides a comprehensive assessment of the environment for media sector’s development in Sri Lanka. It is based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicator (MDI) framework, which looks at the diferent factors which sho ... more
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Lessons Learned: Social Media Monitoring During Humanitarian Crises

ACAPS (2015), 15 pp.
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Disaster Response: Nepal Earthquake Response and Recovery. Overview

London: GSMA (2015), 24 pp.
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Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal: Evaluation Report UDF-NEP-10-387

Sue Nelson, Sita Gautam Acharya
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2015), 30 pp.
"The Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal project sought to strengthen the institutional capacity of community radios to promote social accountability and represent the interests of their constituencies. Its intended outcomes were to: 1) improve internal governance, o ... more
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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more
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Afghanistan’s Fourth Estate: Independent Media

Ann J. Procter
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2015), 4 pp.
"Over the last decade, Afghanistan has experienced the rise of a robust media sector. Programming fills the airwaves with everything from news to comedy, open debate to open audition, soap operas to police dramas to ABCs. Journalists, however, operate in a climate of fear and insecurity, under threa ... more
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On Trial: The Implementation of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

Geneva: International Commission of Jurists (icj) (2015), 61 pp.
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Digital, Social & Mobile in APAC in 2015: We Are Social and IAB Singapore's Compendium of Asia-Pacific Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social; IAB Singapore (2015), 319 slides
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East Meets West: Innovative Literacy Learning Concepts

Karin Plötz, Holger Volland (eds.)
Frankfurt am Main: Litcam; Frankfurt Book Fair (2015), 37 pp.
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New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance

Anke Schwittay
London: Routledge (2015), xv, 189 pp.
"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance ... more
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Media Use in Afghanistan

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2015), 2 pp.
"The Afghan media scene has experienced tremendous growth in the post-Taliban period, buoyed by international involvement and the passage of a series of laws lending some protection to journalists. Though Reporters Without Borders listed Afghanistan’s media environment 128 out of 179 countries in ... more
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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
Deep Insights

Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.
"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more
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Country Report: “Media and Gender in Nepal”

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 28 pp.
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Internal Migration: A Manual for Community Radio Stations

N. Ramakrishnan, Venu Arora
New Delhi: UNESCO; Internal Migration in India Initiative; Ideosync (2015), 134 pp.
"The manual has been structured so as to enable you to understand migrants as a unique and critical audience within your station’s larger listenership. Often, out-migration is seen as desertion by people who stay behind in the villages, and there is a general negative public opinion about internal ... more