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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
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Leif Packalén, Sharad Sharma

Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.

"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s ... more

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Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to Planning, Implementing, and Delivering Literacy Initiatives

Juliet McCaffery, Juliet Merrifield, Juliet Millican

Oxford: Oxfam (2007), xii, 289 pp.

"The first part sets out the four key concepts of literacy (as skills, tasks, social practices, and critical reflection), and describes associated approaches used throughout the world. The second half covers preparation and planning, offering practical guides for each key element of literacy-program ... more

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Die Projekte der DW-Akademie in Afghanistan: Medien stärken heißt Demokratie fördern

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2007), 39 pp.

"Als Partner des staatlichen Rundfunks Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) leistet der Auslandssender Deutsche Welle (DW) einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Demokratisierungsprozess in Afganistan. Denn freie, unabhängige und verlässliche Medien sind in einer Demokratie unverzichtbar. Sie versorgen die Men ... more

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Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperation. 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2007), 81 pp.

"The symposium Measuring Change. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation1: The adding of “Planning” to “Monitoring and Evaluation” in the subtitle indicates that emphasis was laid on learning from monitoring and evaluation experie ... more

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Journalism Afghan Style: Afghanistans Medienlandschaft und ihre Besonderheiten

Merjam Wakili

Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin (wvb) (2007), 212 pp.

"Wie arbeiten Journalisten in einem Land wie Afghanistan? Wie sah und vor allem wie sieht die Medienlandschaft und die Pressefreiheit in dem vom Krieg geschundenen Land am Hindukusch aus? Die vorliegende Arbeit liefert Antworten zu diesen bisher von der Forschung komplett vernachlässigten Fragen. D ... more

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Donors and Media Development: Reports from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

New York: Open Society Institute (2007), 140 pp.

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Production Costs of Audiovisual Works in Developing Countries

Emmanuel Cocq (coord.)

Paris: UNESCO (2007), 110 pp.

"This study aims at facilitating cost determination and levels of support for local content production in developing countries. It is based on the collection of detailed production costs for feature films for theatrical or television release, television fictions and works of animation, documentaries ... more

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Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology

Sarah Pink (ed.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2007), ix, 324 pp.

"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co ... more

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Media in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Strategies

Shira Loewenberg, Bent Nørby Bonde (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle Media Services;Bonn Network (2007), 169, 21 pp.

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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
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Nalaka Gunawardene, Frederick Noronha (eds.)

Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok;Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.

"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res ... more

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Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report
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Walter Jawardene; Mustafa Gündogudu (eds.)

London: Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP);Index on Censorship;Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales;Article 19;Centre for European Studies (2007), 74 pp.

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A State of Denial: The Crisis of Press Freedom and Journalist Safety in Pakistan

Chris Morley, Maheen A. Rashdi, Iqbal Khattak

Redfern: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2007), 15 pp.

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Access to Information: An Instrumental Right for Empowerment

London; Buenos Aires: Article 19;Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (2007), 36 pp.

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The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India

Britta Ohm

Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.

"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist ... mobilisation and discursive strategies of Hindu nationalism. It looks at the economic, technological, medial, political, social, visual/iconographic and legal aspects of this interplay and delineates their concrete manifestations in news as well as in entertainment programming of everyday television (particularly in very popular shows and channels at the time). These aspects are set into the larger framework of globalisation, privatisation, commercialisation and neo-liberal policies, the related thrusts of social upward mobility (especially in the new middle classes), ‘good governance’ (instead of socio-economic justice) and shifting class-, caste-, majority-minority and national-regional relations in the context of a re-formulation of nation and state that defines and legitimises new logics of inclusion and exclusion. Secondly, this work is a study of "Indianisation" and lingual/representational politics in the context of the growing precariousness of the liberal-secular discourse and of democratic, independent mass media in India. Especially English-language journalists, whose largely critical coverage of the anti-Muslim violence experienced an hitherto unknown rejection on the part of TV audiences (and consequently produced a slump in advertising revenues), turned with the Gujarat crisis out to epitomise the ambivalence of challenging the definitional power of a privileged postcolonial class: its rightful critique carries the danger of vindicating and naturalising anti-minority cultural nationalism. The study follows and examines, before the background of a normative construction of a Hindi-speaking, ‘authentic’ media consumer, the changing position of both English and Hindi-producing journalists and producers, their respective perceptions of alienation, speechlessness and empowerment, their unwanted role as activists in the context of shifting meanings of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity', their difficulties or agility in assessing their options and maintaining, changing or even developing their convictions, and the strategies they find or reject for adapting to the circumstances." (Abstract) more

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Social Marketing: Marketing Moral, Human, Social and Cultural Values

Magimai Pragasam (ed.)

Kuala Lumpur: Signis Asia (2007), 104 pp.

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Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio
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Bruce Girard (Coord.)

Amparo Cadavid; Martin Faye; Raghu Mainali; Carlos Rivadeneyra; Nkopane Maphiri (contrib.)

Washington, DC: World Bank Institute (WBIST), Program on Civic Engagement, Empowerment & Respect for Diversity (CEERD) (2007), 249 pp. [60 pp. + 5 annexes]

"This report is one of the first studies comparing systematically different aspects of community radio practice in developing countries. Based on five country surveys - Colombia, Mali, Nepal, Peru and South Africa - it provides descriptions and analyses of: participatory processes and volunteerism; ... more

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Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930

Dwayne Roy Winseck, Robert M. Pike

Durham: Duke University Press (2007), xx, 429 pp.

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Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow

Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)

Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), 267 pp.

"Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global. The surge in transnational traffic in ... more

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Asian Cinema: A Field Guide

Tom Vick

New York: Collins (2007), xiv, 274 pp.

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Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media
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Kalinga Seneviratne (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (2007), vi, 273 pp.

"This book is the result of a research project covering eight countries in South and South East Asia examining the role and impact of alternative media. The definition of alternative media depends very much on the political, social, cultural and economic environment you live in. Thus, this book give ... more

Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool Key Guidance

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book Inspiring Practice

Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report Top Insights

Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio Inspiring Practice

Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media Top Insights

Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
Key Guidance

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
Inspiring Practice

Reform and Regression: Freedom of the Media in Turkey. Fact-Finding Mission Report
Top Insights

Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio
Inspiring Practice

Media Pluralism in Asia: The Role and Impact of Alternative Media
Top Insights