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Mapping Digital Media: Pakistan

Huma Yusuf

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 113 pp.

"Pakistan has long suffered from high inflation, led by soaring food prices, which has increased poverty levels. According to the United Nations’ 2011 Human Development Report, half the population suffers deprivations of all types. Only half is literate. Even then there are only 12 million televis ... more

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Media Under Attack: Balkans and Former Soviet Union Press Freedom Review, January 2011 - December 2013

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2013), 69 pp.

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Strengthening Media and Civic Education to Enhance Democracy in Bhutan: Final External Project Evaluation

Chimmi Dolkar

UNDP;Bhutan Center for Media and Democracy (BCMD);United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2013), 44 pp.

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Health on the Move: Can Mobile Phones Save Lives?

Yvonne MacPherson, Sara Chamberlain

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 24 pp.

"With its rapidly expanding penetration within the developing world, mobile telephony offers major new opportunities to build upon and augment existing health communication efforts. As Usha Kiran Tarigopula of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India Programmes put it: “It is increasingly… clea ... more

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Western Balkans and Turkey Media and Freedom of Expression Fact-Finding and Scoping Study

Bjørn Erichsen, Rita Naseniece, Dušan Reljic, Günter Seufert, Aleksandra Tomanic, Isabela Uribe

European Commission;Particip (2013), 104 pp.

"The first component of this report focuses on the improvement of the performance of public sector broadcasters. Based on evidence that the team gathered during field research, and the preparatory survey of the existing body of knowledge, 23 main problems were identified in this component [...] The ... more

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ICTs and Development: A Study of Telecentres in Rural India

Maitrayee Mukerji

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 264 pp.

"This volume juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D and telecentres with in-depth empirical case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecenters in rural India to draw implications for policy and practice. It suggest that access and use of telecentres and their services are mediated by the ... more

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What Do You See? Design of a Communication Strategy to Promote Positive Change for Unorganized Workers in Karnataka, India

Sabina von Kessel

Bangalore: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2013), 61 pp.

"The specific objectives of this paper are to review and evaluate the print material used by the GIZ [in Karnataka] and examine if it can be read, understood and related to by the participants; to provide a channel for clear and understandable communication that supports and incorporates the visual ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)

Wiley;Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.

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Killing Me Softly with His Words: Censorship and Self-Censorship from the Perspective of Turkish Journalists

Esra Arsan

Turkish Studies, volume 14, issue 3 (2013), pp. 447-462

"Turkey is a country where democratization process has been repeatedly interrupted by military interventions in the past 50 years. Censorship and self-censorship have become ordinary practices in the media, mainly due to weak parliamentary representations followed by oppressive coup periods. Yet eve ... more

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Performance Evaluation of the Alternative Resources in Media (ARM) Project: Mid-Term Evaluation Report

Suren Deheryan

Yerevan: USAID Armenia (2013), 53 pp.

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Operational Handbook on Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for RNTCP

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

New Delhi: FHI 360;ihbp;USAID India (2013), 95 pp.

"The Handbook on Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for RNTCP aims to provide momentum and build ACSM capacity by clearly describing the processes involved in planning and implementation of ACSM activities in support of TB control and prevention. It seeks to help the reader bett ... er understand the significance of ACSM in TB-control interventions under the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP). The handbook provides practical guidelines and describes the ‘nuts and bolts’ of operational activities with examples of planning and implementing different ACSM programs and activities. The experience of assessing the ACSM scenario in five states, viz., Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, and Meghalaya, conducted by IHBP during 2012, came useful in developing this handbook. This document remains a dynamic and living document that will be updated with inputs from the field during its operationalization at state and district levels. The handbook has been organized into seven parts: Part 1 of the handbook describes the background and context of TB-related ACSM in India and provides conceptual clarity on the strategy framework of ACSM as distinct but mutually supporting interventions for TB prevention and cure. Part 2 outlines the strategy and explains step-by-step processes of ACSM situation analysis to prepare robust, evidence-based program implementation plans (PIPs). Part 3 describes ACSM objectives, approach, and implementation plan. Part 4 discusses the selection of channels and messages based on the ‘strengths’ and ‘weaknesses’ of different channels to enable selection of costeffective channels/vehicles of message delivery to targeted audiences and design of appropriate messages. Part 5 describes the different tools that could be used for ACSM activities and preparation of PIPs at district and state levels as well as describes various ACSM activities with practical operational details for implementation. Part 5 outlines the processes and targeted staff for ACSM capacity building. Part 6 emphasizes the need for rigorous monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and provides simple guidelines for conducting M&E to make ACSM activities more effective in support of RNTCP." (About this handbook, page 9) more

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The Indian Media Business

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar

New Delhi et al.: Sage India, 4th ed. (2013), xxxviii, 442 pp.

"The Indian Media Business, Fourth Edition gives you detailed analysis, perspective and information on eight segments of the media business in India—print, TV, film, radio, music, digital, outdoor, and events. It presents the business history, current dynamics, regulation, economics, technology, v ... more

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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012

Katherine Ann Brown

New York City: Columbia University, Doctoral Thesis (2013), xxi, 407 pp.

"This dissertation examines the United States’s elite news media’s hegemony in a global media landscape, and how it can come to stand for the entire American nation in the imagination of outsiders. In this transnational, instantaneous digital media arena, what is created for an American audience ... more

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Glossary of Hate Speech in the Media of Armenia and Azerbaijan

Baku; Yerevan: Yerevan Press Club;"Yeni Nesil" Journalists’ Union of Azerbaijan;Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF);Foreign & Commonwealth Office (2013), 96 pp.

"The present analytical list of the most common clichés, stereotypes and examples of inaccurate (or reasonably questioned) information in the media of Armenia and Azerbaijan is based on the findings of a number of joint studies, administered by Yerevan Press Club and “Yeni Nesil” Journalists’ ... more

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Communicating India's Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood

Daya Kishan Thussu

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 227 pp.

"Daya Thussu's book rescues the concept of soft power from American hands and applies it insightfully to India, and the concept is made richer and more useful as a result. With its dynamic and prosperous diaspora, the growing global popularity of its spiritual beliefs and practice, its reach as a gl ... more

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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image

Christiane J. Gruber, Sune Haugbolle (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xxvii, 343 pp.

"The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East ... more