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Digitalisation

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue April (2016), pp. 14-33
[...] , innovation enables developing economies to leapfrog technologies. Some former digital deserts have catapulted themselves into the information age. Landline telephony never reached the world’s poorer corners – even in the capital cities of developing countries. Mobile networks, however, s ... more
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Folklore, religion and the songs of a Bengali madman: A journey between performance and the politics of cultural representation

Carola Erika Lorea
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2016), xvi, 332 pp.
"This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if ex ... more
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Social Media and Social Movements: The Transformation of Communication Patterns

Bars Çoban
Lanham; Boulder: Lexington Books (2016), xix, 252 pp.
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Media Coverage on Reconciliation Issues in Sri Lankan Newspapers: A Discourse Analysis by Sri Lankan Journalists

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2016), 29 pp.
"In order to prepare media based support for reconciliation in Sri Lanka MICT conducted a discourse analysis that investigated media coverage of reconciliation issues in Sri Lankan newspapers. Under the supervision of MICT experts, a mixed group of 16 Tamil and Sinhalese journalists examined all art ... more
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more
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US Nation-building in Afghanistan

Conor Keane
London; New York: Routledge (2016), vii, 247 pp.
"Why has the US so dramatically failed in Afghanistan since 2001? Dominant explanations have ignored the bureaucratic divisions and personality conflicts inside the US state. This book rectifies this weakness in commentary on Afghanistan by exploring the significant role of these divisions in the US ... more
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Communicating with Disaster-Affected Children: A Case Study from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Response

Lotte Claessens, Olivia Forsberg
Plan International Sweden (2016), 37 pp.
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Digital Faith: Social Media and the Enactment of Religious Identity in Pakistan

Emrys Schoemaker
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Doctoral Thesis (2016), 256 pp.
"This thesis is a theoretically framed and historically informed sociological analysis of how digital technology usage shapes religious identity in Pakistan. The development literature is dominated by assumptions of technologically driven progress towards secularisation and studies of technology pro ... more
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The Road to Resilience: Press Freedom in South Asia 2015-16

Laxmi Murthy (ed.)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2016), 113 pp.
"As we stand now, Pakistan’s media continues its stratospheric expansion, but in the midst of curbs and controls and ongoing safety issues. Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are treading a precarious path to finding credible and independent spaces for the media against economic challenge and political c ... more
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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female

Azmat Rasul, Arthur A. Raney
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287
"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio ... more
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The Cost of Business: Gender Dynamics of Media Labor in Afghanistan

Matt Sienkiewicz
In: Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson (eds.)
University of California Press (2016), pp. 104-117
"In this chapter I have strived to move beyond the simple neoliberal critique, attempting to consider more closely the specific, concrete impact of American policies on the work of female Afghan media workers. It would be foolish and dishonest to deny that the American-imposed system of media that c ... more
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State of Emergency in Turkey: The Impact on Freedom of the Media

London: Article 19 (2016), 23 pp.
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Advocacy Campaign for the Rights of People with Disabilities: A Participatory Action Research Within a Community-Based Rehabilitation Project in Maharashtra, India

Atul Jaiswal, Shikha Gupta
Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, volume 27, issue 4 (2016), pp. 76-92
"This paper aimed to demonstrate how participatory action research (PAR) within a Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) project facilitated community participation to advocate for the rights of people with visual impairment. An advocacy campaign, led by the local people with and without disabilities, ... more
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Experiences of Peer Bullying Among Adolescents and Associated Effects on Young Adult Outcomes: Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Viet Nam

Kirilly Pells, María José Ogando Portela, Patricia Espinoza Revollo
Florence: UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti (2016), 61 pp.
"Being bullied has been found to have a significant impact on children’s physical and mental health, psychosocial well-being and educational performance, with lasting effects into adulthood on health, well-being and lifetime earnings. Little is known about bullying in low- and middle-income countr ... more
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Desecrating Expression: An Account of Freedom of Expression and Religion in Asia

Gayatri Khandhadai
Bytes for All; Asian Forum for Human Rights & Development; Global Partners Digital (2016), 80 pp.
"This report outlines the international human rights standards and processes related the protection of freedom of expression and religious belief, and discusses regional trends and challenges. The nine country case studies include the stories of many people across the region struggling to defend fre ... more
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Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South

Anis Rahman, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)
Burnaby: Simon Fraser University Library (2016), xiii, 131 pp.
"While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries a ... more
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Public Media Initiatives in Bangladesh and South Asia: Politics and Prospects

Anis Rahman
Burnaby: Simon Fraser University, School of Communication (2016), 35 pp.
"The multidimensional growth and transformation of state broadcasters in South Asia indicate that television occupies a major and significant space in the cultural politics of the region. Based on in-depth interviews and secondary data analysis, this paper examines how the state broadcaster in Bangl ... more
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Silencing Turkey’s Media: The Government’s Deepening Assault on Critical Journalism

Human Rights Watch (2016), 74 pp.
"Following the abortive July coup in Turkey, the government has accelerated and intensified a crackdown on independent media which had already been underway for more than a year. Under the state of emergency declared in the aftermath of the coup attempt, the government has closed down independent me ... more
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Elderly People's Choice of Media and Their Perceived State of Loneliness

Erdem Öngün, Feride Zeynep Güder
Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), pp. 35-47
"This study aims at finding the relationship between elderly people’s perceived state of loneliness and their choice of (old and/or new) media instruments. The sample of the study consists of randomly selected 300 elderly people over 60 who reside in rest homes in two different cities, Hatay and ... more
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News Literacy: People's Perception

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2016), 69 pp.