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Strategic Narratives, Public Opinion and War: Winning Domestic Support for the Afghan War

Beatrice de Graaf, George Dimitriu, Jens Ringsmose (eds.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2015), xxvii, 380 pp.
"This volume explores the way governments endeavoured to build and maintain public support for the war in Afghanistan, combining new insights on the effects of strategic narratives with an exhaustive series of case studies. In contemporary wars, with public opinion impacting heavily on outcomes, str ... more
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Security Versus Access: The Impact of Mobile Network Shutdowns. Case Study: Telenor Pakistan

London: Institute for Human Rights and Business (2015), 49 pp.
"Network shutdowns are usually justified on security grounds, and the counterargument is often framed around the impact on freedom of expression. However, the impacts of network shutdowns can have far-reaching, adverse economic and social implications and could affect future economic growth; further ... more
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Country Report: “Media and Gender in Nepal”

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 28 pp.
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Media Ownership and Finances in Turkey: Increasing Concentration and Clientelism

Asli Tunç
Ljubljana: Peace Institute; South East European Media Observatory (2015), 22 pp.
"The structural problems in the media ownership in Turkey have been embedded in the political system since mid-1980s. With the AKP government’s tenure, the “media pool” of uncritical government support was formed and the major media outlets were pacified by means of financial threats, self-cen ... more
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that ... more
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Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition

Maria Raicheva-Stover, Elza Ibroscheva (eds.)
New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.
"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers ... more
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The European Union's Rights-Based Support to the Media in the Enlargement Countries: With Special Attention to Turkey

Tolga Yazici, Sahin Karasar
International Journal of Arts and Commerce, volume 3, issue 7 (2014), pp. 12-24
"The European Union's dedication to freedom the media is articulated in different parts of its acquis and the European Union supports media freedom by funding member counties and enlargement countries. This study underlines the freedom of expression as a fundamental human right before the European U ... more
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The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Postconflict Reconstruction

Tim Kelly, David Souter
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 99 pp.
"Examines how policymakers, the donor community, and the private sector have prioritized and sequenced ICT initiatives in the aftermath of conflict. Case studies look at countries at different stages of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Liberia, Rwanda and Timor-Leste, and postrevolution ... more
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The Norwegian Media Image of the War in Afghanistan: Peacekeeping or Aggression?

Rune Ottosen
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 3, issue 1/2 (2014), 14 pp.
"This article analyzes the framing of Norwegian media coverage of the war against terror in Afghanistan with special emphasis on the coverage of the Norwegian military presence in Afghanistan. Norwegian forces became involved in a military intervention for the first time since the Second World War w ... more
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On Media, Social Movements, and Uprisings: Lessons from Afghanistan, Its Neighbors, and Beyond

Wazhmah Osman
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 39, issue 4 (2014), pp. 874-887
"From Tehran to Tahrir Square to Gezi Park-to mention only three key sites of protest made prominent in 2013-social media has been lauded as one of the key factors enabling popular uprisings and social movements. This has provided further hype for new or digital media, which were already being toute ... more
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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.
"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more
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Study on the Economic Contribution of Copyright Industries in Turkey

Ramazan Aktas et al.
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2014), 114 pp.
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Bangladesh's Changing Mediascape: From State Control to Market Forces
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Brian Shoesmith, Jude William R. Genilo (eds.)
Bristol: intellect (2014), xvi, 404 pp.
"Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats, including television, newspapers, radio, film and photography; policy issues; and the challenge that new media poses to governance in a developing nation faced with innumerable economic, social and political probl ... more
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Ein Fall für Kommissar Amanullah. Justizaufbau mit Fernsehkrimis: Westliche Entwicklungsfachleute rümpfen die Nase, doch in den Wohnzimmern in Kabul kommt die Botschaft an

Dorn Townsend
welt-sichten, 26. Juni (2014)
"Seit einigen Jahren zeigt das afghanische Fernsehen zahlreiche Krimis und Dokumentationen von Gerichtsprozessen. Sie werden von Afghanen produziert, aber aus dem Ausland finanziert, unter anderem von der Europäischen Kommission, den Vereinten Nationen und der US-amerikanischen Entwicklungsagentur ... more
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Cultures of Memory in South Asia: Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance

D. Venkat Rao
New Delhi: Springer (2014), xvi, 336 pp.
"Cultures of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main ... more
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Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance

Yusuf Kalyango, David H. Mould (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 283 pp.
"Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia a ... more
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ICT Economic Impact Assessment

Philibert de Mercey, Daniel Skillings, Camille Le Coz
Altai Consulting; USAID (2014), 90 pp.
"The ICT sector is one of few undeniable success stories in Afghanistan’s development over the past 12 years. In 2002, telecommunications services were virtually non-existent, restricted to a very small number of fixed-line connections and satellite communications were unaffordable to the general ... more
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How Structure Shapes Content, or Why the 'Hindi Turn' of Star Plus Became the 'Hindu Turn'

Santanu Chakrabarti
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 4 (2014), pp. 473-490
"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental, ... more
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Media Freedoms and Covert Diplomacy: Turkey Challenges Europe Over Kurdish Broadcasts

Christian Sinclair, Kevin Smets
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 3 (2014), pp. 319-331
"Focusing on Kurdish television broadcasts in Europe, this article sheds light on how minority broadcasting interrelates with national and intergovernmental political agendas and issues of national security. Drawing from a thorough analysis of policy and diplomatic documents, press articles, academi ... more
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Citizens' Access to Information in South Asia

Kathmandu: Asia Foundation (2014), vii, 58 pp.