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Promoting Media Professionalism, Independence and Accountability in Sri Lanka

Madeleine Elmqvist, Sunil Bastian

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2006), 45 pp.

"This is an evaluation of the project “Promoting Professionalism, Independence and Accountability in Sri Lanka” under the Sri Lanka Press Institute, SLPI. SLPI has two major departments: the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka, PCCSL, and the Sri Lanka College of Journalism, SLCJ. PCCSL is ... more

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Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
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Helen Darbishire, Thomas Carson

New York: Open Society Institute (2006), 188 pp.

"This report records and analyzes the results of a study in which partners of the Justice Initiative in 14 countries filed a total of 1,926 requests for information. In each country, seven different requesters twice submitted up to 70 questions to 18 public institutions. Requesters included NGOs, jo ... more

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South East Europe Media Handbook 2005/2006

Oliver Vujovic (ed.)

Belgrade: South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) (2006), 748 pp.

"It is a simple fact that it is hard to find reliable information on the media in South Eastern Europe. The 'South East Europe Media Handbook' bridges this gap in a unique way and offers basic information about the situation of the media in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, ... more

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IFJ Research Findings on Reporting HIV/AIDS in Six Countries in Africa and Asia

Chansok Lay, Arul Selvan, Tunde Aremu et al.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 81 pp.

"Media monitoring found a low incidence of HIV/AIDS stories across most media in the six countries. Researchers variously described the incidence of HIV stories during the media monitoring as “small” (Cambodia and the Philippines), “miniscule” (South Africa), and “infrequent” (India). In ... more

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Building a Community Radio Network in Afghanistan

Krishna Kumar

In: Promoting Democracy in Postconflict Societies

Jeroen de Zeeuw; Krishna Kumar (eds.)

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner (2006), pp. 257-272

"The experience of establishing community stations in Afghanistan provides four distinct, but interrelated lessons [...] The project has demonstrated that international organizations can promote community stations in impoverished, war-tron societies that have had no experience of independent or comm ... more

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Policy Guidelines for Setting Up Community Radio Stations in India

Government of India (2006), 10 pp.

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Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age. Practitioners’ Reflexions from an Interactive Roundtable at the World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD)

Montreal; Paris; Berne: AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters;UNESCO;Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2006), 77 pp.

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Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle

Asha Kasbekar

Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2006), xx, 336 pp.

"The purpose of this book is to provide a first step for anyone interested in discovering popular culture in India today. The chapters cover cinema, television, and radio; newspapers and magazines; music, theater, and literature; and sport, providing an explanation of the critical developments in ea ... more

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Place et rôle de la communication dans le développement international

Jean-Paul Lafrance, Anne-Marie Laulan, Carmen Rico de Sotelo (eds.)

Québec: Presse de l'Université du Québec (2006), xx, 168 pp.

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Women in Newspapers in South Asia: Changes and Challenges

Kavitha Shetty (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2006), 188 pp.

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Terrorismus: Der unerklärte Krieg

Bruce Hoffman

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 596 pp.

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Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

Thomas L. McPhail

Malden; Oxford: Blackwell, 2nd ed. (2006), xiv, 357 pp.

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Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Anne Tereska Ciecko (ed.)

Oxford: New York: Berg (2006), vi, 250 pp.

"With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, the book presents the most authoritative assessment of contemporary Asian cinema available. Each chapter describes the cultural aspe ... more

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Catholic Communications India: Findings of a Nation-Wide Survey 2005
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Henry D'Souza, Valerian Rodrigues (eds.)

New Delhi: Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Commission for Social Communications (2006), 384 pp.

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Die neue al Qaida: Innenansichten eines lernenden Terrornetzwerks

Yassin Musharbash

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 300 pp.

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Evaluation Reports on Selected Projects

Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2006), 147 pp.

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Making News: Handbook of Media in Contemporary India

Uday Sahay (ed.)

New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2006), xxii, 282 pp.

"This book is a collection of articles based on first-hand experiences in news media by eminent Indian media personalities. It is a comprehensive collection, exploring different kinds of news reporting across TV, print, and radio as also across different genres like sports, business, entertainment, ... more

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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film ... more

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Public Service Broadcasting in the Age of Globalization

Indrajit Banerjee, Kalinga Seneviratne

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2006), 348 pp.

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Media's Challenge: Asian Tsunami and Beyond
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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) (2006), 266 pp.

"The tsunami demonstrated that modern journalists can do more than just bring unfolding stories to the world. One of the biggest lessons of the tsunami that is unravelling is that the modern journalist can also help to heal communities, rebuild lives, keep families intact and raise funds. The media ... more

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Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
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Catholic Communications India: Findings of a Nation-Wide Survey 2005
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Media's Challenge: Asian Tsunami and Beyond
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