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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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Protecting the Rights of Children: The Role of the Media. Lessons from Brazil, India and Kenya

London: Internews Europe (2014), 79 pp.

"In Brazil, India and Kenya, a wide range of factors currently inhibit media from playing their full role in promoting awareness of child rights and in helping children realise their rights, says this report. Crucial issues identified in all three countries include lack of media coverage, inadequate ... more

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Cultures of Memory in South Asia: Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance

D. Venkat Rao

New Delhi: Springer (2014), xvi, 336 pp.

"Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main a ... more

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Bits and Atoms: Information and Communication Technology in Areas of Limited Statehood

Steven Livingston, Gregor Walter-Drop (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp.

"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone ... more

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Social Media, Culture and Politics in Asia

Lars Willnat, Annette Aw (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xi, 350 pp.

"Leading media scholars from nine Asian nations focus on three main questions: How frequently do Asians use social media to access and discuss political information? Does the use of social media increase political participation? What political, social and cultural factors influence the impact of soc ... more

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Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.

"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more

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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.

"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic ... more

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Die orientalischen Christen: Eine unterdrückte und verfolgte Minderheit

Heinz Finger, Werner Wessel (eds.)

Rudolf Solzbacher; Nadim K. Ammann (collab.)

Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek (2014), 361 pp.

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Theorizing Development, Communication, and Social Change

Pradip N. Thomas

In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 213-227

"This chapter will focus on the theorizing of communication and social change. It will argue that theory must enable people to know the world. It will also argue the limits to token participation and the unsustainability of "behavioral change communication'' that is theorized outside of structures, ... more

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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.

"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more

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Global Communication: New Agendas in Communication

Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Joseph D. Straubhaar, Shanti Kumar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), ix, 206 pp.

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Global Digital Statistics 2014: We Are Social's Snapshot of Key Digital Indicators

Singapore: We Are Social (2014), 181 slides

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The Stories Women Journalists Tell: Women in Media in South Asia

Geeta Seshu

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 ... more

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Influences of Religious Telecast in Multi-Religious India: An Analysis of Hindu and Muslim Television Viewers

Binod C. Agrawal

Religion and Social Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2014), pp. 54-69

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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.

"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more

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Promoting Alternative Views in a Multipolar World: BRICS and Their Evolving Role in Developing Media Markets. 9th Symposium Forum Media and Development, 10/11 October, 2013, Berlin

Stuttgart; Aachen: Robert Bosch Stiftung;Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2014), 75 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

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 ... more

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De-Americanizing Soft Power Discourse?

Daya Kishan Thussu

Los Angeles: USC Center on Public Diplomacy;Figueroa Press (2014), 31 pp.

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Community Radio Continuous Improvement Toolkit
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Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik, Vasuki Belavadi, Aditya Deshbandhu, Preeti Raghunath

New Delhi; Hyderabad: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, version 2.0 (2014), vii, 64 pp.

Provides indicators of performance along 9 parameters: 1. Content Generation and Programming; 2. Policies and Guidelines; 3. Volunteers; 4. Technology: Access and Management; 5. On-Air Standards of Broadcasting; 6. Governance; 7. Feedback and Grievances; 8. Content Sharing and Networking; 9. Revenue ... more

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Community Radio for Social Change: Compendium 2014

Jayalakshmi Chittoor (ed.)

New Delhi: OneWorld Foundation India;Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (2014), 143 pp.

"122 Indian community radio stations present their background, programming focuses and contact details." (commbox)

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