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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
Key Guides

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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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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Theatre for Transformation and Empowerment: A Case Study of Jana Sanskriti Theatre of the Oppressed

Sandra Mills
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 550-559
"This article analyses the importance of participation in development discourse and examines the effectiveness of theatre as a participatory technique and communication channel. It considers how theatre forms and aesthetics have potential power to produce individual and collective knowledge and alte ... more
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Faith, Church and Audiovisual Media: Case Studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe

Daniela Frank
In: Faith and Media: Analysis of Faith and Media. Representation and Communication
Hans Geybels, Sara Mels, Michel Walrave (eds.)
Brussels: Peter Lang (2009), pp. 175-190
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Best Practices and Potential for Improved Information Flows in Media and Civil Society

Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) (2009), 84 pp.
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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

Daya Kishan Thussu
London: Sage (2009), ix, 214 pp.
"This first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ‘dumbing down’ discourse, largely confined to the ... more
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Exploring the Role of Civil Society in the Formulation and Adoption of Access to Information Laws: The Cases of Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Andrew Puddephatt
Washington, DC: World Bank; World Bank Institute (2009), vii, 45 pp.
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Violence, Intimidation and Legal Cases Against Journalists and the Media in Armenia 2008-2009

Liana Sayadyan (ed.)
Yerevan: Investigative Journalists NGO (2009), pp. 88-159
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Media, Democracy and Freedom: The Post-Communist Experience

Marta Dyczok (ed.)
Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2009), 246 pp.
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Journalism Education: Improvement of the Quality of Education and New Technologies. 11th Central Asia Media Conference, Bishkek 15-16 October 2009

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2009), 232 pp.
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The Impact of the BBC World Service Trust's Programme Afghan Woman's Hour: Results from a National Survey in Afghanistan

Andy Bhanot, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge
Safia Haleem (ed.)
Kabul: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 68 pp.
"1. Overall awareness of Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH) in Afghanistan was found to be high; 50% of all those who had listened to the radio in the previous month were aware of AWH. Awareness was higher in the South Western region at 64% compared with the lowest level of awareness at 23% in the Hazarjat ... 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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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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Journalismuswelten: Ein Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen in 17 Ländern

Thomas Hanitzsch, Josef Seethaler
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 57, issue 4 (2009), pp. 464-483
"Der vorliegende Aufsatz berichtet erste deskriptive Befunde aus einer multinationalen Studie zum Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen. Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden insgesamt 1700 Journalisten in 17 Ländern zu ihren professionellen Orientierungen befragt. Im Vordergrund standen Fragen nach dem Verst ... more
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Video in Development
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Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler
Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), 60 pp.
"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... 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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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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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
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Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more
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Changing Media, Changing Societies: Media and the Millennium Development Goals

Indrajit Banerjee, Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), 219 pp.
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Media Under Fire: Press Freedom Lockdown in Sri Lanka

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 26 pp.