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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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How the Segmentation Analysis for Climate Asia Was Conducted

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 12 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more
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Mit einem Fuß im Gefängnis

Guljan Jergalijewa
welt-sichten (2013)
"Die Chefredakteurin des oppositionellen Magazins „ADAM reader’s“ berichtet, wie sie arbeitet und warum sie die Hoffnung auf Demokratie noch nicht aufgegeben hat." (Einleitung)
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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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Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema

Anjali Gera Roy
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 183-194
"While acknowledging the contribution of the dominant Hindi Sanskritic narrative tradition to the shaping of popular Hindi cinema, this chapter aims to explore the alternative narrative streams that have governed storytelling in Hindi films, particularly the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa and dast ... more
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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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Rethinking the Public Sphere Through Transnationalizing Processes: Europe and Beyond

Armando Salvatore, Oliver Schmidtle, Hans-Jörg Trenz (ed.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xvi, 296 pp.
"This book discusses the extent to which the theoretical relevance and analytical rigor of the concept of the public sphere is affected (or undermined) by current processes of transnationalization. The contributions address fundamental questions concerning the viability of a socially and politically ... more
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India’s Media Boom: The Good News and the Bad

James Painter (ed.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xv, 86 pp.
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands

Jorrit Kamminga
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi ... 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
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Community Radio: Celebrating a Decade of People’s Voices

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting; One World Foundation India (2013), 271 pp.
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Shades of Expression: Online Political Journalism in the Post-Colour Revolution Nations

Simon Gwyn Roberts
Chester: University of Chester Press (2013), xi, 188 pp.
"This book captures a snapshot of the contemporary role of online journalism in rapidly evolving post-Soviet, post-Colour Revolution political environments, exploring the wider journalistic and political context alongside the use and influence of online news sites. In particular, it aims to fill a g ... more
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‘Citizens’ Access to Information in South Asia: Diagnostic Analysis. Bangladesh Chapter

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2013), 96 pp.
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Media Perceptions and Portrayals of Pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

Mike Shanahan
London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2013), 28 pp.
"Pastoralists use their mobility to take advantage of resources – pasture and water – that are patchily distributed in space and time. Pastoralism can make major contributions to food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity. However, these benefits often go unacknowledged – by policy mak ... more
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Rethinking the growth of print media in India

Gopalan Ravindram
Media Development (WACC), volume 60, issue 2 (2013), pp. 28-31
"Recent times have seen an increasing number of reports about the plight of press systems in the Western hemisphere in contrast to the growing prospects of the print media in Asia, particularly in countries like India and China. While many attribute the success stories of the Indian and Chinese news ... more
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How the people of Nepal live with climate change and what communication can do

Anna Colom, Sabina Pradhan
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 72 pp.
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How the people of Bangladesh live with climate change and what communication can do

Md. Arif Al Mamun, Naomi Stoll, Sonia Whitehead
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 70 pp.
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How the people of Pakistan live with climate change and what communication can do

Khadija Zaheer, Anna Colom
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 88 pp.
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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