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Burmese Media Spring

Benjamin Ismail

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 35 pp.

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Radio as an Expression of Nation and Sub-Nation in Laos

Mary Traynor

In: Radio in Small Nations: Production, Programmes, Audiences

Richard J. Hand; Mary Traynor (eds.)

Cardiff: University of Wales Press (2012), pp. 75-87

"Laos has had a particularly turbulent recent history. Since the late nineteenth century, its territorial borders have been defined and redefined at the whim of successive outside forces, its national identity contrived and manipulated to suit the dominant power of the moment. The articulations of n ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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The Globalization of Chinese Television: The Role of the Party-State

Hong Zhang

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 7 (2011), pp. 573-594

"China’s television sector has undergone rapid transformation since the country’s reform and opening-up in the late 1970s. This article presents the main results of a recently completed PhD project, aiming to understand the role of the Chinese party-state in this transformation. The project supp ... more

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Social Dynamics 2.0: Researching Change in Times of Media Convergence: Case Studies from the Middle East and Asia

Nadja-Christina Schneider, Bettina Gräf (eds.)

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2011), 166 pp.

"Mediated forms of communication increasingly influence the social relations and different spheres of life in the regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia and in the Arab-speaking region. In order to understand the profound social and political changes that go hand in hand with these medialisation proc ... more

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Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators
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Monroe E. Price, Susan Abbott, Libby Morgan (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 343 pp.

"Press freedom indices such as those administered by Freedom House, IREX, and Reporters Without Borders have emerged as crucial tools, not only for the general public, but also for donors, implementers, and academics in their attempts to understand the relationships among media assistance, democrati ... more

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International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production and Education

JoEllen Fisherkeller (ed.)

New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 399 pp.

"This book documents and analyzes transnational research on youth media production and distribution projects both in and out of school. With comprehensive theoretical analyses, notes, and bibliographies, each chapter includes a case study, illuminating the variety and diversity of youth media projec ... more

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A News Portal Without a News Team: Journalistic and Marketing Logics at the Malaysian National News Agency

Amira Firdaus

In: Making Online News, Vol. 2: Newsroom Ethnographies in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism

David Domingo; Chris Paterson (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 141-150

"The internet has offered national news agencies the opportunity to extend the reach of their services to non-media consumers. This chapeter analyzes the case of BERNAMA, highlighting the tensions between journalism and marketing in the process of blurring the traditional definitions of news agency ... more

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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account

John R. Postill

New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.

"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma ... more

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Asian Media Barometer: Thailand 2010

Bangkok: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 77 pp.

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Between Islam and Buddhism Communication in Indonesia

M. Ikhsan Tanggok

Religion and Social Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 133-154

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The Global EBook Market: Current Conditions and Future Projections

Rüdiger Wischenbart

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"In Europe, Germany and France are ahead in digitally embracing trade books, notably !ction, yet are clearly behind the US and UK. But countries as diverse as Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden have recently seen the implementation of an ebook distribution infrastructure, and at lea ... more

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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
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Anne Nelson (ed.)

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA);African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp.

"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, ... more

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Changing Media, Changing China

Susan L. Shirk (ed.)

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2011), vi, 281 pp.

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Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

Sina Odugbemi, Taeku Lee (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xxv, 507 pp.

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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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Elizabeth McCall

New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.

This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Thailand

Somkiat Tangkitvanich, Worapoj Wongkitrungruang

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 80 pp.

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Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship Circumvention Tools

Cormac Callanan, Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner, Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Robert Guerra

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2011), 75 pp.

"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f ... more

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Digital Publishing in Developing Countries
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Octavio Kulesz

Paris: International Alliance of Independent Publishers (2011), 155 pp.

"Is it conceivable that there may be an autonomous evolution of digital publications in developing countries, entirely independent of the richest nations? What support policies could be implemented to promote the growth of this new industry and accompany traditional actors in the process of adapting ... more

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Frontiers of Censorship: North Korea Investigation Report

Benjamin Ismail

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2011), 14 pp.

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Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators
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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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