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Language in South Asia

Braj B. Kachru, S. N. Sridhar, Yamuna Kachru (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008), xxiv, 608 pp.

"Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teachin ... more

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Community Radio: Collective Marketing Strategy

Bikram Subba, Yadav Chapagain, Raghu Mainali

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2008), 91 pp.

"This is an introduction to the collective marketing strategy with a regional and thematic emphasis on Nepalese community radio stations. In this publication, airtime is viewed as the "product" that all community radio stations sell, and which builds a link between them, as well as their mutual aim ... more

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Community Radio: Strategic Planning Manual
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Bikram Subba, Raghu Mainali

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2008), 66 pp.

"This is an overview of strategic planning tools designed for Nepalese community radios. In plane language, it introduces to the basics of strategic planning, situation and stakeholder analysis, long-term vision and guiding principles, identification of risk factors, definition of indicators and the ... more

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Radio Pledge

Raghu Mainali

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2008), 136 pp.

"This book is based on conclusion that ethics are nothing but a series of moral qualities. The first chapter, apart from tracing the history of ethics and throwing some light on the concept as such, tries to define ethics. The second chapter outlines the efforts surrounding enforcement of ethics in ... more

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Pioneering Community Radio: Impacts of IPDC Assistance in Nepal

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2008), 12 pp.

"IPDC’s support for community radio in Nepal has been a strategic, defining factor in the growth of the community media sector. The Programme has regularly supported small, distinct projects that have catalyzed the growth of the sector at different times by promoting replicable models, establishin ... more

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Community Radio for Development in South Asia: A Sustainability Study

Faheem Hussain, Rahul Tongia

[authors] (2008), 13 pp.

"We examine the sustainability of Community radio (CR) as a tool towards achieving the overall development in the South Asian region. A cross-country comparison of CR in areas including people’s participation, regulatory scenarios, human resource development, technology usage trends, financial pra ... more

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Asia's Media Innovators

Stephen Quinn

Werner vom Busch (introd.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2008), 170 pp.

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Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy

Paula Chakravartty, Yuezhi Zhao (ed.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), xi, 359 pp.

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Evaluation Reports on the Projects Selected by the IPDC Bureau: Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC, Twenty-Sixth Session

Paris: UNESCO (2008), 108 pp.

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Building for the Future: An Overview of Nepal's Media and Recommendations for Development Priorities

International Media Support (IMS);Article 19;Fondation Hirondelle;International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2008), 45 pp.

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Newspapers Monitoring Report

Jafar Mehdi, Ch. Mohammad Idrees, Mazhar Arif

Islamabad: Society for Alternative Media and Research (2008), 16 pp.

"SAMAR did a more in-depth, comprehensive analysis of news coverage. It examined coverage every day for the entire month (15 June to 15 July). Hundreds of stories were examined. The results offer what we believe to be an astonishing view of what the mainstream media delivered in one month as well as ... more

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Sri Lanka: Silencing Dissent

London: Amnesty International (2008), 42 pp.

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Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives. The South Asian Scenario

Anup Kumar Das

Bimal Kanti Sen; Jocelyne Josiah (eds.)

New Delhi: UNESCO (2008), 137 pp.

"This publication has its genesis in the recommendations and proceedings of UNESCO-supported th international conferences and workshops including the 4 International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2001, Bangalore); the International Conferences on Digital Libraries (ICDL2004 & ICDL2006, ... more

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Information Literacy Competency and Readership Study of Five Specific Localities in the Urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban Areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City

Chaitali Dutta

New Dehli: UNESCO (2008), 62 pp.

"The objectives of this field survey are as follows: to attempt a critical study of the readership of people from different social strata of five specific localities of Kolkata Metropolitan City; to attempt a study of the influence and to measure the encroachment of different media on people’s rea ... more

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Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India

Pradip Thomas

New Dehli: Sage (2008), xvii, 207 pp.

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Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives

Indrajit Banerjee, Madanmohan Rao (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 348 pp.

"This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the AMIC Annual Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. It features over a dozen contributions from around the region, providing a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking ne ... more

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Media and Conflict Reporting in Asia
Top Insights

Shyam Tekwani (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 203 pp.

"The thirteen significant case studies presented here examine the challenges faced by media practitioners reporting on conflicts across the diverse media ecologies of Asia. Significant themes covered include: how media culture affects the way conflict is covered, including aspects such as resource l ... more

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Free Markets Free Media? Reflections on the Political Economy of the Press in Asia

Cherian George (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2008), 164 pp.

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Media Democracy

Sajjad Malik

Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) (2008), 18 pp.

"Media democracy is a concept as well as an advocacy movement aiming at making the mainstream media more plural, and reflective of a broad set of ideas and opinions than churning out and propagating just routine socio-politico-economic news stories and articles in the name of news, information and e ... more

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Development On-Air: Women's Radio Production in Afghanistan

Sarah Kamal

Gender & Development, volume 15, issue 3 (2007), pp. 399-411

"This case study investigates the launch of a women’s radio station in Herat, Afghanistan, in October 2003. It follows four women journalists’ struggles in balancing the demands of a highly conservative culture on the one hand, and the objectives of their Canadian journalism trainers on the othe ... more

Community Radio: Strategic Planning Manual Key Guidance

Media and Conflict Reporting in Asia Top Insights

Community Radio: Strategic Planning Manual
Key Guidance

Media and Conflict Reporting in Asia
Top Insights