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How the World Changed Social Media

Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, Xinyuan Wang
London: UCL Press; University College London (2016), xxiv, 262 pp.
"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re ... more
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The enigma of news media development with multi-pronged ‘capture’: The Afghanistan case

Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger
Journalism, volume 18, issue 10 (2016), pp. 1233-1255
"This qualitative study of influences on a purposive sample of Afghan journalists was carried out in the year after the US military mission was declared over. After more than a hundred million dollars of Western government funding had been invested in development of liberal democratic journalism, th ... more
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Technology and Society as Embedded: An Alternative Framework for Information and Communication Technology and Development

Natascia Boeri
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 107-118
"An emerging topic in the development field is how information and communication technology (ICT) can be used for economic and social development. The general approach relies on technological determinism, whereby the discussion revolves around how and to what extent will ICT support development. It ... more
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How the Bangladeshi Media Use the RTI Act for Free and Qualitative Reporting: Asessment Report

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2016), 17 pp.
"The study finds an overall positive attitude about the benefits of the RTI Act and potentials of its use by the journalists as an effective tool for producing quality in-depth and investigative reports. An opinion prevails that the act has already created some good examples of curbing corruption an ... more
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more
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The Indian Graphic Novel: Nation, History and Critique

Pramod K. Nayar
London: Routledge (2016), xvi, 212 pp.
"This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre's engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretica ... 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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Journalists in India

Jyotika Ramaprasad
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"The top five roles, in order of importance both by mean scores and by percent who said “extremely” and “very” important, for Indian journalists, were: report things as they are (88.4%), educate the audience (85.5%), provide analysis of current affairs (84.7%), let people express their views ... more
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Digitalisation

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue April (2016), pp. 14-33
[...] , innovation enables developing economies to leapfrog technologies. Some former digital deserts have catapulted themselves into the information age. Landline telephony never reached the world’s poorer corners – even in the capital cities of developing countries. Mobile networks, however, s ... more
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Community Radio in India: Towards Diversity & Sustainability

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (2016), 180 pp.
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Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Conditions: Worldwide Perspectives
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Kristin Skare Orgeret, William Tayeebwa (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression, Media Development and Global Policy (2016), 202 pp.
"The aim of the present book is to provide both empirical and theoretical input to the discussions of the role of journalism and media in conflict and post-conflict situations and in the often rather muddy waters between them. Together, the contributions to this book from different parts of the worl ... more
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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.
"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more
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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson (eds.)
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.
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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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Accountability, Nation and Society: The Role of Media in Remaking Nepal

Kiran Bhandari, Dipak Bhattarai, James Deane
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 23 pp.
"This briefing explores some of the key challenges facing the Nepali media. It outlines growing concerns over politicisation and co-option, particularly of the mainstream Kathmandu-based media, as well as other economic and technological challenges facing the media. The briefing further outlines how ... more
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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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Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations of Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific

Paris; Bangkok: UNESCO; UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (2015), ix, 90 pp.
"On average across Asia and the Pacific, women make up 28.6 percent of the media workforce. The proportions are lower in decision-making roles in media organizations where women make up 17.9 percent of executive roles, 19.5 percent of senior editorial and 22.6 percent of mid-level editorial position ... more
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A Moving Faith: Mega Churches Go South

Jonathan D. James (ed.)
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2015), xvi, 243 pp.
"A Moving Faith captures the dynamic shift of Christianity to the South and portrays a global movement that promises prosperity, healing, empowerment, and gender equality by invoking neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic resources. It postulates that neither North America nor Europe is the current center ... more
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Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India

Leslin Bastian
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2015), pp. 65-81
"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians ... more
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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