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Die Projekte der DW-Akademie in Afghanistan: Medien stärken heißt Demokratie fördern

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2007), 39 pp.
"Als Partner des staatlichen Rundfunks Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) leistet der Auslandssender Deutsche Welle (DW) einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Demokratisierungsprozess in Afganistan. Denn freie, unabhängige und verlässliche Medien sind in einer Demokratie unverzichtbar. Sie versorgen die Men ... more
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Information and Communication Technologies for Economic and Regional Developments

Hakikur Rahman (ed.)
Hershey; London: Idea Group (2007), xviii, 351 pp.
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Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere

Sevanti Ninan
New Dehli et al.: Sage (2007), 309 pp.
"Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere is the first in-depth study of the ongoing newspaper revolution in the Hindi-speaking states of India. With improved literacy levels, communications and purchasing power, the circulation of Hindi newspapers has grown rapidly in small ... more
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The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India

Britta Ohm
Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.
"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist ... more
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Ten Years On: The State of Community Radio in Nepal

Ian Pringle, Bikram Subba
Paris: UNESCO (2007), 46 pp.
"1. There has been remarkable growth in both private and non-for-profit radio in Nepal since 1997: 216 licenses had been issued as of July 2007 with 78 FM stations broadcasting; of 93 licenses issued to non-profit groups, 31 were operational as of May 2007. 2. To its detriment, the FM radio sector h ... more
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Community Media: Local is Focal

Nitin Paranjape
Community Development Journal, volume 42, issue 4 (2007), pp. 459-469
"Given the limited nature of global media with its emphasis on ‘infotainment’ driven by commerce, it has very little role in community development. We see the alarming and growing impact of the global media on the socio-cultural life of different communities in India. The rampaging growth of cen ... more
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21st Century Journalism in India

Nalini Rajan
New Delhi: Sage (2007), 324 pp.
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Production Costs of Audiovisual Works in Developing Countries

Emmanuel Cocq (coord.)
Paris: UNESCO (2007), 110 pp.
"This study aims at facilitating cost determination and levels of support for local content production in developing countries. It is based on the collection of detailed production costs for feature films for theatrical or television release, television fictions and works of animation, documentaries ... more
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Community Radio in India

New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 50 pp.
"This is a series of five introductory booklets on how civil society, government, donor agencies, media and the United Nations can strengthen the community radio sector in India." (commbox)
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Dramas of Social Change: Theatre for Development or the Development of Theatre?

Monica Mottin
Studies in Nepali History and Society, volume 12, issue 2 (2007), pp. 321-347
"This paper provides an ethnograpic analysis of the relationship between theatre groups and donors/theatre groups and audiences that moves away from the national planning / social engineering vs domination/resistance frameworks to highlight what happens at the interface of the development encounter. ... more
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Money Matters: How Independent Media Manage to Survive. 15-16 September 2006

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome) (2007), 77 pp.
"Discussions on how to support sustainability of independent media generally focus on the political conditions, the legal framework and – especially in German development cooperation – on the quality of journalistic coverage. Nevertheless, economic factors are of equal importance, not only for p ... more
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ICT in Teacher Education: Case Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region

Ellie Meleisea (ed.)
Bangkok: UNESCO (2007), 130 pp.
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An Evaluation Report on "Building ICT Opportunities for Development Communications" Project: A Part of the Building Communication Opportunities (BCO) Programme

Siddartha Shresta
Kathmandu: Panos South Asia (2007), 39 pp.
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The Bible and the Technologies of the Word

Joseph Palakeel (ed.)
Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation (2007), viii, 310 pp.
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Asian Cinema: A Field Guide

Tom Vick
New York: Collins (2007), xiv, 274 pp.
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Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow

Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), 267 pp.
"Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global. The surge in transnational traffic in ... 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
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Allah & Eva: Frauen in Pakistan

Betsy Udink
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2007), 233 pp.
"Islamische Gesellschaften haben zwei Gesichter: Nach außen führen die Menschen ein freies und normales Leben. Aber unsichtbar, in den von den Vätern beherrschten Häusern, in den von religiösen Fanatikern kontrollierten Dörfern und in den Gefängnissen der staatlichen Geheimdienste, werden die ... more
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Other Voices: The Struggle for Community Radio in India

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik
New Dehli et al.: Sage (2007), 319 pp.
"This book not only offers a historical account of the struggle for community radio in India, but also provides a documentation of the efforts of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and rural communities to realise the Brechtian mandate to use radio as a tool to build a robust civil society in the ... more
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Wanted, Dead or Alive: Media Frames, Frame Adoption, and Support for the War in Afghanistan

Jill A. Edy, Patrick C. Meirick
Journal of Communication, volume 57, issue 1 (2007), pp. 119-141
"This paper attempts to measure the impact of naturally occurring media frames on public support for a policy. Content analysis of network nightly news during late October of 2001 reveals that U.S. media framed the events of September 11 in terms of both war and crime. A concurrent survey of 328 Ten ... more