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Teaching Journalism in Developing Countries and Emerging Democracies: The Case of UNESCO’s Model Curricula

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 70 pp.
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The Relationship Between State and Media and its Effect on Conflict Resolution: DPI Roundtable Meeting, Mardin, 29 June 2013

London: Democratic Progress Institute (2013), 142 pp.
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New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

Francesco Mancini (ed.)
New York: International Peace Institute (IPI); UNDP (2013), iv, 94 pp.
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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass.; Ottawa et al.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2012), xv, 414 pp.
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more
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Crucial Reform of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Remains a Distant Dream

Sana Majeed McMillion
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (2012), 19 pp.
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The Right to Remain Silent: Freedom of Expression in Azerbaijan Ahead of the 7th Internet Governance Forum

Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 40 pp.
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Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais;Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales;Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities;Diasporas, migrations, technologies de la communication et identités transnationales

Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), 527 pp.
"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna ... more
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Nepalese Diasporic Websites, Signs and Conditions of a Diaspora in the Making?

Tristan Bruslé
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 16 pp.
"Taking into account the performativity of the term “diaspora”, the author tries to understand how Nepalese diasporic websites are the sign and conditions of an “incipient diaspora”. Analysis of authoritative websites and links between different websites helps understand the structure of the ... more
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Country Case Study: Bangladesh. Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained

Francis Rolt
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 24 pp.
Examining Bangladesh’s booming and dynamic media sector, this report finds that there is an increasing tendency for political discourse to be based around personality rather than policy.
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Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained: What Works and Why? Global Synthesis Report

Mary Myers
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 32 pp.
"This report addresses the challenges of supporting independent media in countries where media freedoms are restricted, based on country case studies in Bangladesh, Cambodia, South Sudan, Syria and Uganda. According to Myers, the dilemmas of foreign support include short-term donor strategies, the l ... more
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Opening Closed Regimes: Civil Society, Information Infrastructure, and Political Islam

Muzammil M. Hussain, Philip N. Howard
In: Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study
Eva Anduiza Perea, Michael James Jensen, Laia Jorba (eds.)
New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 200-220
"Ruling elites often try to co-opt civil society groups, and in times of political or military crises they can attempt to control the national information infrastructure. But a defining feature of civil society is independence from the authority of the state, even in countries such as Saudi Arabia a ... more
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Role of Media in Uncovering Political Corruption in South Asian Perspective

Farruque Ahmed
Asian Journal of Public Affairs, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 20-37
"Bangladeshi media have undergone significant changes since the 1990s. Despite a boom in the media industry, journalists are reluctant to uncover the misdeeds of politicians because of threats and torture. The media has been politicised in Bangladesh as media supporting the incumbent party in power ... more
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Salvaging the Records of Salvage Ethnography: The Story of the Digital Himalaya Project

Mark Turin
Book 2.0, volume 1, issue 1 (2012), pp. 39-46
"The Digital Himalaya Project is a collection, storage and dissemination portal for scholarly content and research findings about the Himalayan region. The project website connects a worldwide user community to a vast corpus of digital resources from or about India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan pla ... more
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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.
"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more
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National Minorities and the Media: Situation in Georgia

Tobias Akerlund
Flensburg: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) (2012), 28 pp.
"This working paper envisages analyzing issues related to media and national minorities in Georgia in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the current situation of minority media and of the impact of media on majority-minority relations. To gather data on this topic, 30 interviews with variou ... more
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Bangladesh: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 135 pp.
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How Pakistani Media Reports Terrorism Related Conflict: Media Content Monitoring and Analysis, January - March 2012

Sadaf Baig
Karachi: Intermedia Pakistan (2012), 52 pp.
"This report is part of an ongoing project to monitor various types of conflicts as covered by select samples of media in Pakistan, including newspapers and TV channels the media. In this report, the focus is on terrorism related conflict. The report contains in depth content analysis of terrorism r ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2012: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2012), xxi, 359 pp.
"TThe 2012 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia revealed a mix of positive developments, regression, and stagnation (or resilience, depending on one’s point of view). Nearly half of the 21 countries included in this study showed little change either way, their overall score moving by 0.10 or less. Six c ... more
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How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media

Dwight H. Friesen
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 120-143
"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th ... more