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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu
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Country Report: “Media and Gender in Sri Lanka”
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 39 pp.
Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations of Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific
Paris; Bangkok: UNESCO;UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (2015), ix, 90 pp.
"On average across Asia and the Pacific, women make up 28.6 percent of the media workforce. The proportions are lower in decision-making roles in media organizations where women make up 17.9 percent of executive roles, 19.5 percent of senior editorial and 22.6 percent of mid-level editorial position
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15
New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 113 pp.
"The year under review in this report (May 2014 to April 2015) shows that journalists and media workers remain victims and, too often, targets in the deadly power struggles on which that they report. Within this time period, 14 journalists lost their lives, mostly in targeted attacks. Pakistan was t
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Asian Comics
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.
"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp
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Digital, Social & Mobile in APAC in 2015: We Are Social and IAB Singapore's Compendium of Asia-Pacific Digital Statistics
Singapore: We Are Social;IAB Singapore (2015), 319 slides
South Asian Newspaper Directory 2015-2017
Chennai: WAN-IFRA South Asia (2015), 136 pp.
"A look at the past three editions of the South Asian Newspaper Directory show significant trends. Newspaper publishers continue to increase the number of editions and printing centres; many publishers have opted for double-width presses, a new trend particularly among the local language / regional
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The Stories Women Journalists Tell: Women in Media in South Asia
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific;South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2014), 24 pp.
"The promotion of gender equality among journalists is a key objective of the SAMSN gender project going forward in 2014. The roundtables and the gender networking conference discussed strategies and campaigns that could address the issues faced by women in South Asia. The conference also put forwar
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Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
Molefi Kete Asante; Yoshitaka Miike; Jing Yin (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479
"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no
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The Campaign for Justice: Press Freedom in South Asia 2013-14
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2014), 81 pp.
Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa
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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.
"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines
Wiley;Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.
The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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Data Journalism in Asia: A Collection of Articles from Members of the Society of Asian Journalists (SAJ)
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 90 pp.
Broadcasting in Sri Lanka
In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2014
Oxford: WRTH Publications (2013), pp. 26-29
Analyzing the Spell of War: A War/peace Framing Analysis of the 2009 Visual Coverage of the Sri Lankan Civil War in Western Newswires
Mass Communication & Society, volume 15 (2012), pp. 169-200
"The goal of this study was to analyze the extent to which the visual coverage of the final stages (April=May 2009) of the long-lasting Sri Lankan Civil War relied on war and peace frames. Based on the revolutionary conceptual work of Norwegian scholar Johan Galtung, who viewed war and peace journal
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Asian Communication Handbook
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Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), 466 pp.
"The first "theoretical perspectives" section has opinions and research articles by academic scholars and expert practitioners on new media and communication Issues and trends in Asia. Some of the topics covered include the dynamics arising out of the shift to the 'digilogue', mobile activism, corpo
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Digital Media Preservation: Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive (and What They Can Do Instead)
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 40 pp.
"This study focuses on digital archive management and will review the current “state of play” in archive management for content creators. It includes both academic and industry research, as well as the results of site visits to nine media organizations located in Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and
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