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Rahmenbedingungen und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten ausländischer Fernsehprogrammanbieter in der VR China

Stefan Ollig

Köln: Institut für Rundfunkökonomie an der Universität zu Köln (2002), 78 pp.

"In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Rahmenbedingungen für Markteintritte ausländischer Fernsehprogrammanbieter in den chinesischen Rundfunkmarkt dargestellt, analysiert und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten aufgezeichnet. Dabei ist festzustellen, dass das Rundfunksystem der VR Chinas darauf ausgelegt ... more

The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.

"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more

Global Corruption Report 2003. Special Focus: Access to Information

Transparency International (2002), 326 pp.

Institutional Review of Educational Radio Dramas
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Mary Myers

Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2002), 134 pp.

"Taking 14 radio serial dramas from around the world shows that many aspects of the way they are organised are not replicable: what works in one context would just not work in another. This is because of the very nature of pro-social media projects: they depend so much on the personal contacts of th ... more

Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Present Situation, Perspectives and Potential Areas for German Technical Cooperation in Peru, Lao P.D.R., Tanzania and Uganda

Eschborn; Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Division 43;Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) (2002), 101 pp.

"The overall objective of this study was to provide a starting point for the involvement of development assistance in the promotion of ICTs for development. In the form of country studies we first tried to give insights into the ICT sectors along with stakeholders’ and other ICT-related activities ... more

Transformation of the Mongolian Electronic Media: Prospects of Public Broadcasting in a Dual System

Munkhmandakh Myagmar

Budapest: International Policy Fellowship;Open Society Institute (2002), 27 pp.

"The "Law on Freedom of Press" passed in summer 1998 prohibited state ownership on media and fixed the establishment of public service broadcast media in Mongolia. This paper analyses the situation of electronic media, gives a description of endeavors to transform the broadcasting system in Mongolia ... more

Access to Information in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Sven Hamrell, Niclas Hällström, Olle Nordberg (eds.)

Development Dialogue (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation), issue 1 (2002), pp. 3-116

Internet in Malaysia and Vietnam

Jörg Becker (ed.)

Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2002), 212 pp.

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Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transitional Imagination

Wanning Sun

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2002), x, 243 pp.

Voices from the Mountain: Oral Testimonies from Southwest and Northeast China

London: Panos (2002), 49 pp.

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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2002/2003

Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 26th ed. (2002), 1056 pp.

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

Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2002), 148 pp.

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Communicating for Development: Experience from the Urban Environment

Catalina Gandelsonas (ed.)

London: ITDG (2002), 278 pp.

"Much research on urban development is supply-led - generated by the interests of donors and researchers in the North rather than the needs of poor households in the growing cities of the South, Communicating for Development focuses attention on the most fundamental of questions about development: h ... more

Media Ethics in Asia: Adressing the Dilemmas in the Information Age

Venkat Iyer (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (SCI-NTU) (2002), 157 pp.

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Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Michael Keane, Yin Hong (eds.)

Abingdon: RoutledgeCurzon (2002), xi, 240 pp.

"Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing power relations between political, social and economic spheres. This interdisciplinary collection draws on the expertise of industry professionals, acade ... more

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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)

Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.

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Flimmerndes Asien: Die Fernsehentwicklung eines Kontinents im Aufbruch

Jörg Becker, Kurt Luger (eds.)

Wien: Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag (2002), 252 pp.

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Länderheft Korea und Japan: Der schwierige Weg der Versöhnung

Cordula Schmid (ed.)

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2002), 240 pp.

Community Radio in the Asia Pacific

Sucharita Eashwar (ed.)

Kuala Lumpur: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD);UNESCO (2002), 96 pp.

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