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"Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the A ... more

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Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), x, 441 pp.

"Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. Taking as his timeframe the era of celluloid, which is also marked by public experiences of spectatorship and uses ... more

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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
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Raghu Mainali, Yadab Chapagain, Bikram Subba

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 292 pp.

"This guidebook offers instructions for strengthening the organisation of community radio stations, in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. The all-embracing essentials of community radio station management, ie, governance and programme/financial/technical management, are discussed i ... more

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Directory of Community Radios and Related Organizations in Asia Pacific

Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Office;Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 136 pp.

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Negotiating Power: Community Media, Democracy, and the Public Sphere

Saima Saeed

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 466-478

"Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to business ventures resulting in Habermasian ‘refeudalisation of the ... more

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Community Radio for Social Change: Evaluating Chala Ho Gaon Mein in Jharkhand

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik

Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication (2009), 45 pp.

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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds

Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.

"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more

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Radio Namobudhha: Baseline Survey on Consciousness and Viewpoint of Listeners

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 66 pp.

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Radiomost 100.5 FM: Pioneer of Community Radio in Kyrgyzstan

Gulmira Osmonova, Bettina Ruigies

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 134 pp.

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Attacks on the Press in 2008: A Worldwide Survey

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2009), 341 pp.

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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.

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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar, Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom;International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp.

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u ... more

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SkillCity Master Trainers Manual on Investigative Journalism with a Focus on Accountability and Transparency in Afghanistan

Wali Zahid

Kabul: Saba Media Organisation (2009), 143 pp.

"This guide, compiled with the most updated sources at the time of going to press in early 2009, will take you step by step towards becoming an effective investigative journalist, gaining and practicing the necessary skills and thus gaining the self-confidence required to do a job that is both effec ... more

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM);Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.

"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more

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Between Radicalisation and Democratisation in an Unfolding Conflict: Media in Pakistan

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.

"After nine years of military rule, Pakistan today finds itself in the second year of a challenging transition to democracy. Unlike previously unsuccessful transitions to democracy, this transition is characterised by the presence of a newly liberalised mass media. This can prove to be to be a cruci ... more

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A Call to End Violence and Impunity: International Press Freedom and Freedom of Expression Mission to Nepal

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.

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Internationales Handbuch Medien
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Hans-Bredow-Institut

Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.

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Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.

"While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabli ... more

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