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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
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Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.

"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more

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Accès aux nouvelles technologies en Afrique et en Asie: TIC et service universel

Annie Chéneau-Loquay (coord.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 252 pp.

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Mapping Media Education Policies in the World: Visions, Programmes and Challenges

Divina Frau-Meigs, Jordi Torrent (eds.)

New York; Paris; Huelva: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations;UNESCO;Grupo Comunicar (2009), 259 pp.

"This publication offers a comprehensive and multidimensional approach to media education, considering it from three inter-related dimensions: its national, regional and global contexts; its value to citizens and civic participation; and the crucial role of collaboration among governments, civil soc ... more

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Tuned in to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of Interactive Radio Instruction for the Hardest-To-Reach

Jennifer Ho, Hetal Thurkal

Washington, DC: Education Development Center, Inc. (2009), iv, 64 pp.

"Evaluation data gathered between 1975 and 2000 demonstrated that Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) had improved learning outcomes in conventional classrooms by between 10% and 20% when compared with control classrooms not using IRI. These programs often had relatively well-funded evaluation compo ... more

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Under Fire: Press Freedom in South Asia 2008-2009

Sukumar Muralidharan (ed.)

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2009), 45 pp.

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The Impact of the BBC World Service Trust's Programme Afghan Woman's Hour: Results from a National Survey in Afghanistan

Andy Bhanot, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge

Safia Haleem (ed.)

Kabul: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 68 pp.

"1. Overall awareness of Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH) in Afghanistan was found to be high; 50% of all those who had listened to the radio in the previous month were aware of AWH. Awareness was higher in the South Western region at 64% compared with the lowest level of awareness at 23% in the Hazarjat ... more

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Best Practices and Potential for Improved Information Flows in Media and Civil Society

Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) (2009), 84 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2009), 231 pp.

"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more

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Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2009), vii, 343 pp.

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Tamil Cinema

Perianayagam Jesudoss

Communication Research Trends, volume 28, issue 4 (2009), pp. 3-27

"India, unlike the USA, has multiple centers of production just as its languages and cultures still maintain their identities in India instead of being amalgamated into a singlular overarching popular culture as appears in the Los Angeles-dominated film industry of the United States. Even with produ ... more

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Popular Culture in a Globalised India

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.

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Participatory Content Creation: Voice, Communication, and Development

Jo Tacchi, Jerry Watkins, Kosala Keerthirathne

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 573-584

"This article uses the example of a mobile mixed-media platform – a converted three-wheeled autorickshaw – in Sri Lanka in order to explore whether and how content-creation activities can enable marginalised communities to have a voice. It draws upon research into participatory content-creation ... more

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Assessment of Media Development in the Maldives: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Toby Mendel

New Delhi: UNESCO Communication and Information Sector (2009), 18 pp.

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La video dans le developpement: Filmer pour le changement rural

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), v, 60 pp.

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Media Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective

Mark Balnaves, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Brian Shoesmith

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xx, 339 pp.

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ICTs for Development: Improving Policy Coherence

Paris: OECD (2009), 203 pp.

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Faith, Church and Audiovisual Media: Case Studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe

Daniela Frank

In: Faith and Media: Analysis of Faith and Media. Representation and Communication

Hans Geybels; Sara Mels; Michel Walrave (eds.)

Brussels: Peter Lang (2009), pp. 175-190

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Media Development in Afghanistan

Massoumeh Torfeh

Media Development, issue 1 (2009), pp. 39-44

"The international community entered Afghanistan in December 2001 to oust the Taliban. It promised reconstruction, development and democratisation. At the time, the trauma of 25 years of war had left civil society in Afghanistan shattered and the media had become mere tools in the hands of the dicta ... more

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A Study on Media Influence on Public Policy in Bangladesh: Investment Climate Perspective

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2009), 36 pp.

"This paper has tried to find out whether newspapers in Bangladesh have any influence on policy formulation, revision and improvement in respect to investment climate. Reviewing two Bangla and two English newspapers for three fiscal years, we found that newspapers have strong interest in policy rela ... more

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Political Communication in Asia

Lars Willnat, Annette Aw (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2009), viii, 240 pp.

Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding Inspiring Practice

Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
Inspiring Practice