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National Consultation on Community Radio Policy

New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 130 pp.

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Ground Realities: Community Radio in India

New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 75 pp.

"The Government of India has recognized community radio through its guidelines in 2002 and amended guidelines in 2006. Yet, in the domain of community media, a large gap remains between policy and practice. Communities from the media dark regions of India continue to struggle to get their voices hea ... more

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Covering and Countering Extremism in Pakistan’s Developing Media

Hannah Byam, Christopher Neu

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 3 pp.

"With a rise in terrorist activity spreading fear through highly publicized attacks, Pakistan’s media landscape has increasingly been used as a battleground between those seeking to promote violent conflict and others seeking to manage or deter it. Pakistan’s media community has not yet develope ... more

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South Asian Newspaper Directory 2011-2013

Chennai: WAN-IFRA South Asia (2011), 88 pp.

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Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Vol. 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere

Ulrika Mårtensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2011), xi, 349 pp.

"How does religious fundamentalism operate in modern global society? This two-volume series analyses the dynamics of fundamentalism and its relationship to the modern state, the public sphere and globalisation. This second volume explores the links between fundamentalism and communication: the rise ... more

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Negotiating Communication Rights: Case Studies from India

Pradip Ninan Thomas

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2011), xxi, 252 pp.

"This book, through five case studies in India, explores communication rights movements here. It encompasses pivotal areas of movements, such as, Right to Information, Free and Open Source Software, Women and Media, and Community Radio and Citizen Journalism. The complexity of specific agendas in In ... more

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Resource Book on Investigative Journalism

Colombo: Transparency International;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 92, xxxviii pp.

"This resource book is designed to walk the reporters, especially those in the regions, from the start to finish of an investigative journalism story or a project. By following the chapters in sequence, reporters and editors will learn how investigative reporting is different from conventional journ ... more

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Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
Inspiring Practice

Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Gerry Power (eds.)

Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2011), xxiii, 324 pp.

"By assessing edutainment as a space of cultural translation, Drama for Development advances an often neglected perspective in this topics' research. It focuses on what happens when various goals, worldviews and needs from donors, producers and the audiences come together in the production and meani ... more

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New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches: Contributions to the Research Forum at the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth 2010

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson, Catharina Bucht

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2011), 275 pp.

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Religious Media Content: A Cable TV Phenomenon

Gayatri Murthy

audiencescapes (2011), 7 pp.

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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Joe Karaganis (ed.)

New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2011), 425 pp.

"This publication is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in the developing world, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, the study tells two overarching stories: on ... more

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Korruption und Transparenz: Rechenschaft in ökumenischen Beziehungen

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2011), 136 pp.

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Development Communication Programming of the Hindi Service of Radio Veritas Asia

Herman Bandod

Religion and Social Communication, volume 9, issue 1 (2011), pp. 51-77

"Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) is hailed as 'the Voice of Asian Christianity' and the Hindi Service has defined its vision and mission to proclaim human development based on Gospel values. Spiritual, social, economical, human and environmental messages are important for overall development of a person an ... more

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The Hierarchy of Global Suffering: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Television News Reporting on Foreign Natural Disasters

Stijn Joye

Journal of International Communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61

"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise ... more

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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

Thomas L. McPhail

Malden; Oxford: Blackwell, 3rd ed. (2010), xiv, 400 pp.

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Theological Perspectives in Social Communication

George Plathottam

New Delhi; Mumbai: Don Bosco Communications (2010), 290 pp.

"This textbook is a wide-ranging introduction to the theology of communication, written by the executive secretary of the Social Communications Commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI). The primary aim is to help develop the capacity to understand social communication from the p ... more

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Asian Media Barometer: India 2009

Kuala Lumpur; New Delhi: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 82 pp.

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Indian Media in a Globalised World

Maya Ranganathan, Usha M. Rodrigues

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xix, 275 pp.

"This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalization, which has introduced what are termed as ‘foreign’ elements to Indian culture, and the opening of the floodgates for foreign media to enter the country. It discusses both theoretical co ... more

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Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives
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Simon Haselock

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 17 pp.

"This report presents the author's experiences regarding the relation of international interventions and local institutions in the (post-)conflict countries of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan. Haselock states that media reforms are most successful where they are the result of partnership ... more

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Media Development Assessment 2010

Thimphu (BT): Ministry of Information and Communications, Department of Information and Media;UNESCO;UNDP;International Media Support (IMS) (2010), xxi, 96 pp.

"The Media Development Assessment 2010 is an evaluation of the rapidly changing media climate in Bhutan. The study, based on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) media development indicators (MDIs), is the first of its kind to be conducted in the country. Thi ... more

Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change Inspiring Practice

Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives Top Insights

Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
Inspiring Practice

Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives
Top Insights