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Media Development Assessment 2010

Thimphu (BT): Ministry of Information and Communications, Department of Information and Media; UNESCO; UNDP; International Media Support (IMS) (2010), xxi, 96 pp.
"The Media Development Assessment 2010 is an evaluation of the rapidly changing media climate in Bhutan. The study, based on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) media development indicators (MDIs), is the first of its kind to be conducted in the country. Thi ... more
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Guidelines for the Production of Radio Programmes on Disaster Risk Management

Ram Chandra Neupane
Kathmandu: Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal (ACORAB) (2010), 19 pp.
"There are various risks at the local level. On one hand, Nepal lies on a seismically active zone and has a fragile geological structure and, on the other hand, proper policies, government access to rural and remote places, and public awareness and knowledge are lacking. There is an urgent need for ... more
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Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages

Kirill Postoutenko (ed.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2010), 316 pp.
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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam

Philip N. Howard
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.
"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar ... more
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Nicht frei, aber lebendig? Massenmedien und Journalismus in Kasachstan

Birgit Brauer
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 30 (2010), pp. 2-9
"Als in diesem Jahr der OSZE vorstehendes Land sollten für Kasachstan ganz besondere Anforderungen auch in Hinblick auf seine Pressefreiheit gelten. Die internationalen Rankings kommen allerdings zu einem äußert kritischen Urteil. Die Realität scheint komplizierter. Aus ihrer langjährigen Erfah ... more
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Attacks on the Press in 2009: A Worldwide Survey

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2010), 359 pp.
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Minutes from the International Partnership Meeting

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2010), 40 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the discussions and conclusions from the International Partnership Meeting in New York on 26 January 2010 organised by the Open Society Institute and International Media Support. At the meeting, 30 media support and press freedom organisations from across the wor ... more
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Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones on Indian Agriculture

Surabhi Mittal, Sanjay Gandhi, Gaurav Tripathi
New Delhi: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) (2010), 46 pp.
"The study found evidence that mobiles are being used in ways which contribute to productivity enhancement. However, to leverage the full potential of information dissemination enabled by mobile telephony will require significant improvements in supporting infrastructure and capacity building amongs ... more
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Waves of Peace: Experiences of Nepali Radio

Mohan Mainali (ed.)
Kathmandu: Search for Common Ground (2010), 43 pp.
"There are many examples in Nepal of radio programs helping in peace building. A few of these examples are included in this book. The personal stories of the radio producers are as interesting and inspiring as the examples of positive impacts their radio programs had in their societies. Success stor ... more
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Media Policies and Regulatory Practices in a Selected Set of European Countries, the EU and the Council of Europe

European Commission; Mediadem (2010), 524 pp.
"This collective report examines the principal dimensions of media policy in 14 European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the UK), probing into the historical forces, national traditions and distinct politi ... more
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Social Media and Politics: Online Social Networking and Political Communication in Asia

Philip Behnke (ed.)
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2010), 140 pp.
"This is a compilation of 13 essays and studies that show the role social networking is playing in political communication in Asia. Each of the 13 chapters describes how various online social communities and networks such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs, are being used as tools in general political c ... more
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E-Governance Report Card

New Delhi: OneWorld Foundation India (2010), 37 pp.
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The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives

S. Elizabeth Bird (ed.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), viii, 328 pp.
"The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective—as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and eth ... more
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Media in Balochistan: Blighted, But a Brave New World Beckons

Aurangzaib Khan
Islamabad: Intermedia (2010), 94 pp.
"Media in Balochistan - the largest of Pakistan's four province in land mass - in general and provincial capital Quetta in particular has visibly expanded since 2000 in a trend that largely reflects the shifting media landscape in the rest of Pakistan. With the doors thrown open to private ownership ... more
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Dokumentarfilme der türkisch-deutschen Arbeitsmigration: Ein Bericht und eine Filmographie

Yvonne Nadler
Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, Institut für Germanistik (2010), 42 pp.
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Afghanistan, War and the Media: Deadlines and Frontlines

Richard Lance Keeble, John Mair (eds.)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Arima Publishing (2010), x, 295 pp.
"This book explores the journalism coming out of the Afghan war from the frontline and from the greater comfort of the library. It is an unusual hybrid: the testimony of some of the best frontline correspondents of our era, much of it placed in appropriate historical contexts, alongside detailed aca ... more
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Authoritarian Regimes, Muslims' Religious Rights in Central Asia, and Lack of Foreign Press Coverage of Rights Violations

Eric Freedman
Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 11, issue 1 (2010), pp. 146-158
"Today, extended geographical links are the most important yet far from the only factor that makes Central Eurasia highly significant for China's conceptualization of its security. The Soviet Union's disintegration, which created newly independent states, also generated favorable conditions for Chin ... more
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Media and governance in Pakistan: A controversial yet essential relationship

Marco Mezzera, Safdar Sial
Brussels: Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP); Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations (2010), 47 pp.
"Probably one of the most relevant pieces of military legislation affecting the media has been the establishment and formalisation of a media regulatory authority. The Regulatory Authority for Media Broadcast Organisations (RAMBO), the predecessor of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authorit ... more
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Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia

Diana Dimitrova (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)
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Theological Perspectives in Social Communication

George Plathottam
New Delhi; Mumbai: Don Bosco Communications (2010), 290 pp.
"This textbook is a wide-ranging introduction to the theology of communication, written by the executive secretary of the Social Communications Commission of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI). The primary aim is to help develop the capacity to understand social communication from the p ... more