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Lessons from Karachi: The Role of Demonstration, Documentation, Mapping and Relationship Building in Advocacy for Improved Urban Sanitation and Water Services

Arif Pervaiz, Perween Rahman, Arif Hasan

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2008), 91 pp.

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The Vital Drop: Communication for Polio Eradication in India

Gitanjali Chaturvedi

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2008), xviii, 319 pp.

"This book records the communication journey that began in 2002 through important innovations aimed at including segregated and marginalised populations, as well as a very successful mass media campaign featuring cine star Amitabh Bachchan. An important lesson learnt was that for any public health c ... more

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Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry

Selvaraj Velayutham (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2008), xvi, 201 pp.

"Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It o ... more

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M-Libraries: Libraries on the Move to Provide Virtual Access

Gill Needham, Mohamed Ally (eds.)

London: Facet Publishing (2008), lvii, 287 pp.

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Teaching Religion and Film

Gregory J. Watkins (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 309 pp.

"Part I presents general categories for thinking about the intersection between religion and film, as well as an argument for an emerging line of theoretical inquiry. The chapters in Part II examine the use of film in teaching religious traditions, whether movies are seen from the critical perspecti ... more

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Status and Relevance of Journalism Education in Asia

Media Asia, volume 35, issue 2 (2008), pp. 60-132

Affirming Life and Diversity: Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India

P. V. Satheesh, Michel Pimbert

London; Hyderabad: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);Deccan Development Society (DDS);DDS Community Media Trust (2008), xiii, 60 pp.

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Afghanistan Media Survey

D3 Systems;ACSOR-Surveys;BBC Trust (2008), 30 pp.

"BBC listenership in Afghanistan remains strong and the station has retained a strong brand presence. BBC radio is among the most listened to stations in Afghanistan. Over half (57%) of adults had listened within the past week at the time of the survey in January 2008. 75% of the population claimed ... more

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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia

Youna Kim (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2008), 238 pp.

"This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of global ... more

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Women in Action No.2/2008: People's Communications for Development (PC4D)

Tesa Casal de Vela, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo (eds.)

Quezon City: Isis International (2008), 94 pp.

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Enhancing the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor Through ICT: A Knowledge Map

Kerry McNamara

Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2008), iv, 308 pp.

ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance

Ashwani Saith, M. Vijayabaskar, V. Gayathri (eds.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2008), 418 pp.

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The Bollywood Reader

Rajinder Dudrah, Jigna Desai (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), xi, 301 pp.

Unholy Speech and Holy Laws: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan—Controversial Origins, Design Defects, and Free Speech Implications

Osama Siddique, Zahra Hayat

Minnesota Journal of International Law, volume 17, issue 2 (2008), pp. 303-385

"This article, inter alia, attempts to analyze and focus on the historical, formalistic, and design aspects of Pakistan’s existing blasphemy laws from a comparative perspective. It argues that, quite apart from procedural inadequacies of the Pakistani legal system and its special socio-political c ... more

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Church and Social Communication in Asia: Documents, Analysis, Experiences

Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, 2nd ed. (2008), 232 pp.

"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese ... more

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Training Journalists to Report on HIV/AIDS: Final Evaluation of a Global Program

Jon Cohen, Laurie Zivetz, Mia Malan

Arcata: Internews Network (2008), 50 pp.

"Internews Network, a U.S.-based organization that for more than two decades has trained journalists around the world, in 2002 received funding from the United States Agency for International Development to launch a project in Africa to help media improve their coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cal ... more

Journalistic Training in Conflict-Related Situations

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2008), 82 pp.

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Democracy or Polyarchy? US-Funded Media Developments in Afghanistan and Iraq Post 9/11

Michael J. Barker

Media, Culture & Society, volume 30, issue 1 (2008), pp. 109-130

"This paper has demonstrated that the benefits for the general Afghan and Iraqi public derived from the ‘promotion of independent media’ by institutions like the NED are questionable, especially for parties interested in encouraging more deliberative or participatory forms of democracy. Instead, ... more