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Political Communication in Asia

Lars Willnat, Annette Aw (eds.)

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

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Media Under Fire: Press Freedom Lockdown in Sri Lanka

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 26 pp.

Changing Media, Changing Societies: Media and the Millennium Development Goals

Indrajit Banerjee, Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), 219 pp.

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Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action. Vol.1: Understanding Development Communication

Kiran Prasad

Delhi: B.R. Publishing (2009), xv, 286 pp.

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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.

"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)

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Media Education in Asia

Chi-Kim Cheung (ed.)

Dordrecht; London: Springer (2009), viii, 239 pp.

"Media education in Asia is a relatively young, but rapidly developing part of the curriculum. Research has been conducted and papers have been written on various issues concerning media education in Asia. The dominant models of media education in the world are broadly Western and most are drawn fro ... more

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Peace Journalism in Times of War

Susan Dente Ross, Majid Tehranian (eds.)

New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers (2009), 156 pp.

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India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes

Karline McLain

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), 240 pp.

"Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the A ... more

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Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), x, 441 pp.

"Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. Taking as his timeframe the era of celluloid, which is also marked by public experiences of spectatorship and uses ... more

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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
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Raghu Mainali, Yadab Chapagain, Bikram Subba

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 292 pp.

"This guidebook offers instructions for strengthening the organisation of community radio stations, in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. The all-embracing essentials of community radio station management, ie, governance and programme/financial/technical management, are discussed i ... more

Directory of Community Radios and Related Organizations in Asia Pacific

Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Office;Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 136 pp.

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Negotiating Power: Community Media, Democracy, and the Public Sphere

Saima Saeed

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 466-478

"Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to business ventures resulting in Habermasian ‘refeudalisation of the ... more

Community Radio for Social Change: Evaluating Chala Ho Gaon Mein in Jharkhand

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik

Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication (2009), 45 pp.

Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds

Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.

"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more

Radio Namobudhha: Baseline Survey on Consciousness and Viewpoint of Listeners

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 66 pp.

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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.

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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar, Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom;International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp.

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u ... more