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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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Framing Sustainability: A Case Study Analysis of the Environment and Sustainability Discourse in the Indian English Language Press

Prithi Nambiar
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2014), pp. 93-110
"Using elements of framing and grounded theory, a qualitative interpretive case study analysis of environment and sustainability related articles from a leading English language fortnightly magazine in India reveals that highly emotive frames are being used in media construction of the environment a ... 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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Barriers to Coverage of Transborder Environmental Issues in the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia

Eric Freedman
Applied Environmental Education & Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2014), pp. 48-55
"Three former Soviet republics occupy Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, a region of serious transborder environmental problems, especially ones that involve water and energy. Most news organizations in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan provide little in-depth coverage of these issues. Journalists ... more
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Second Follow-up Study: Children in Bangladesh News Media

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2014), 90 pp.
"This report analyses the findings of a follow-up survey of child-related news contents, in newspapers with an aim to assess the coverage trend and its ethical standards. The survey monitored 10 national-level mainstream dailies over a year (January 2013 to December 2013). A secondary set of data fr ... 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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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte
Access Info Europe; Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.
"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th ... more
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Needs Assessment on Promoting Ethics and Transparency in Pakistani Media

Afia Salam
Karachi: Pakistan Press Foundation; Pakistan Coalition for Ethical Journalism (2014), 23 pp.
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Afghanistan in the British Print Media Report

Sarah-Jane Cooper-Knock, Stuart Gordon, Jenny Humphreys et al.
London: British & Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) (2014), 34 pp.
"Understanding how the British media has framed British aid efforts to Afghanistan is imperative to successfully campaign for continued public support for the long term development of the country. This is especially important given the scheduled troop withdrawal in 2014, which many commentators have ... more
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Public-Interest Journalism: A Guide for Students

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan (2014), 222 pp.
"In the context of increasing corporatisation of the media, this volume shows why public-interest journalism is crucial to a healthy democracy. It also introduces aspiring journalists to the main methods of the craft. Those methods are sorely needed in the contemporary news media, and will be be a c ... more
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Connecting on Environmental Issues in North & South Caucasus: Insights from 36 In-Depth Interviews with Journalists, Environmental Activists, and Environmental Scholars in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia

Nino Japaridze
London: Internews Europe (2014), 35 pp.
"Key recommendations: Invest in increased nationwide coverage of environmental issues and media professionalism across all media platforms [...] Conduct more targeted, specialised training on effective environmental reporting [...] Build on dynamism of online information initiatives [...] Begin educ ... more
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Situation Analysis and Sustainability of Community Radio in Bangladesh

Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 77 pp.
"This document details the current situation in seven out of 14 Community Radios in operation in Bangladesh at present. While one of the motives behind this study is to see how these young stations are faring and catering programmes to the target audiences, but definitely the study's scope is not li ... more
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The “politicization” of Turkish Television Dramas

Kumru Berfin Emre Cetin
International Journal of Communication, volume 8 (2014), pp. 2462-2483
"Turkish television has undergone a distinctive transformation since the early 2000s in which new regulations, rapid market growth, and political pressures have interacted with and transformed each other. As Turkey set new records in 2013 for the highest number of journalists arrested worldwide, tel ... more
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Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit
Key Guides

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, Vasuki Belavadi, Aditya Deshbandhu, Preeti Raghunath
New Delhi; Hyderabad: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA); UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, version 2.0 (2014), vii, 64 pp.
Provides indicators of performance along 9 parameters: 1. Content Generation and Programming; 2. Policies and Guidelines; 3. Volunteers; 4. Technology: Access and Management; 5. On-Air Standards of Broadcasting; 6. Governance; 7. Feedback and Grievances; 8. Content Sharing and Networking; 9. Revenue ... more
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PakVotes: A Social Media Experiment in Elections Monitoring

Nadia Naviwala
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2014), 5 pp.
"PakVotes, a pilot project supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), used social media platforms and a network of reporters located in areas outside of major cities in Pakistan to track violence during the 2013 elections. The project offers lessons that could guide future efforts to use socia ... 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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The Stories Women Journalists Tell: Women in Media in South Asia

Geeta Seshu
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific; South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2014), 24 pp.
"The promotion of gender equality among journalists is a key objective of the SAMSN gender project going forward in 2014. The roundtables and the gender networking conference discussed strategies and campaigns that could address the issues faced by women in South Asia. The conference also put forwar ... more
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Community Radio for Social Change: Compendium 2014

Jayalakshmi Chittoor (ed.)
New Delhi: OneWorld Foundation India; Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (2014), 143 pp.
"122 Indian community radio stations present their background, programming focuses and contact details." (commbox)
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Media Survey Findings: Nationwide National Opinion Survey, Wave III, September 2014

Internews (2014), 36 pp.
Key findings include: 35% of people interviewed had family members working outside of Nepal; 86% of households had a working mobile phone (92.5% in urban; 84.3% in rural areas); 49% had a working television (79.5% in urban; 42.3% in rural areas); 45% a working radio (46.1% in urban; 45.3% in rural a ... more
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Seizing Opportunities: For Free and Independent Media Worldwide

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 34 pp.