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Internal Migration: A Manual for Community Radio Stations

N. Ramakrishnan, Venu Arora

New Delhi: UNESCO;Internal Migration in India Initiative;Ideosync (2015), 134 pp.

"The manual has been structured so as to enable you to understand migrants as a unique and critical audience within your station’s larger listenership. Often, out-migration is seen as desertion by people who stay behind in the villages, and there is a general negative public opinion about internal ... more

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Community Radio and Sustainability: A Participatory Research Initiative

Venu Arora, N. Ramakrishnan, Leonea Fernandez

Haryana; New Delhi: Ideosync;Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);UNESCO (2015), 46 pp.

"Community Radio is still nascent in Bangladesh while in India it has completed a decade and in Nepal it has existed in its myriad forms without a policy for much longer [...] The existence or non-existence of a guiding national CR policy plays an important role in determining the kind of Community ... more

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Innovations in Community Radio: With Special Reference to India

Ankuran Dutta, Sanjaya Mishra

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2015), ix, 18 pp.

"This research explores the present status of the community radios (CR) in India in the initial sections. But the main focus has been given on the innovative practices of the community radios scattered in nook and corner of the country. Emphasis has also been given to classify the possible innovatio ... more

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Our Media, Our Principles: Building Codes of Practice for Community Radio in India

Kanchan K. Malik

Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 5 (2015), pp. 750-764

"The overarching philosophy of community radio, acknowledged worldwide, is that it is a tool for social justice and a platform for community voices. Community radio seeks to counter the hegemony of the mainstream media and move away from the commerce-driven negative tendencies of media and journalis ... more

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The Role of Community Radio in Empowering Women in India

Yalala Nirmala

Media Asia, volume 42, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 41-46

"Community radio is a third tier broadcasting along with public and private radio broadcasting. Community radio is managed, run, controlled and owned by a community for the benefit of the community and serves the needs, interests and aspirations of a community. CR (Community Radio) gives marginalise ... more

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Community Radio for Good Governance

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (2015), 173 pp.

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TRAI Consultation on Community Radio: Survey on Advertising and Other Community Radio Related Issues

New Delhi: OneWorld Foundation India (2015), 14 pp.

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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.

"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that ... more

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A Moving Faith: Mega Churches Go South

Jonathan D. James (ed.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2015), xvi, 243 pp.

"A Moving Faith captures the dynamic shift of Christianity to the South and portrays a global movement that promises prosperity, healing, empowerment, and gender equality by invoking neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic resources. It postulates that neither North America nor Europe is the current center ... more

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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.

"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more

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Oral Tradition of Jainism Discourse in the Wake of Digital and Social Media: A Communication Study of Jain Mendicants and Lay People

Komal Shah

Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 159-173

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Changing Cultures and Religious Practices in Asia

Binod C. Agrawal (ed.)

Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2015), 162 pp.

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Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India

Leslin Bastian

Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2015), pp. 65-81

"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians ... more

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The BRICS Journalist: Profession and Practice in the Age of Digital Media

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-138

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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 ... more

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Asian Comics

John A. Lent

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 ... more

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Digital, Social & Mobile in APAC in 2015: We Are Social and IAB Singapore's Compendium of Asia-Pacific Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp

Singapore: We Are Social;IAB Singapore (2015), 319 slides

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Theorizing About Communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Tradtions in Rhetorics and Aesthetics

Keval J. Kumar

In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 160-178

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Mythology and Society Continuum: A Study of an Indian Television Serial

Arbind Sinha

Religion and Social Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2014), pp. 19-34

"The study is based on the analysis of legends of 'Devon Ke Dev Mahadev', a mythological drama series that is shown on Indian television channel "Life OK" [...] The story revolves around Lord Shiva or Mahadev - the Lord of Lords as one of the three most powerful mythical characters. The serial is a ... more

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The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis

Peter J. Anderson, George Ogola, Michael Williams (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), xi, 330 pp.

"This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds. Its detailed evaluat ... more

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