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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora

David Knaute

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.

"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian ... more

Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web

Ingrid Therwath

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.

"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c ... more

Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.

"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more

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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders

Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.

"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me ... more

Mapping Digital Media: India

Vibodh Parthasarathi, Alam Srinivas

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 155 pp.

"The United Nations pointed out in 2010 that more Indians have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet. There are over 800 million mobile connections, although the number of unique users (excluding inactive connections) is estimated at around 600 million. Together with the fact that 60 percent of ... more

Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness: A Training Handbook

New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ);Indo-German Environment Partnership Programme (IGEP) (2012), viii, 122 pp.

"The main objective of the media component of the Environmental Planning and Disaster Risk Management (EPDRM) programme of GIZ in India is to enable journalists to better and more efficiently perform their roles, functions and tasks in the context of disaster risk management, i.e. information to the ... public, awareness building with regard to disaster risks and preparedness, warning in case of disasters, information on response, relief and reconstruction. In order to achieve this objective, the project has been planned under different components, viz., orientation workshops for the practicing journalists in different high-on-disaster-risk states; facilitating a virtual platform for information exchange and knowledge sharing among participants from the orientation workshops as well as other experts; and developing curriculum on reporting disaster for the journalism students of various Indian journalism institutes. Orientation workshops were conducted in seven states (Tamilnadu, Odisha, Gujarat, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Assam and Punjab) during 2010-2011. A Facebook community and a web portal have been established to facilitate the virtual exchange among the journalists and thematic experts. In order to extend awareness and capacity building activities related to disasters to journalists, the project also facilitated development of a curriculum on reporting disaster to be used in journalism departments of universities and media training institutes. A core-group of experts and trainers from media training institutes, as well as from other relevant organizations was formed, which deliberated upon the overall structure and outline of the DRR curriculum required to be introduced to the students of journalism. A team of authors and editors had then put together the contents of the curriculum along with guidance on how to use the contents, which is being produced in the form of this handbook. This curriculum was piloted in September this year, with journalism students in the North Eastern Region of India, and inputs on the training methods used were also received from faculty members during a ToT of this curriculum. This Training Handbook on "Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness" provides basic concepts, case studies, and examples that can be customized as a module in a course or an entire course as part of the overall curriculum of a journalism course in Indian universities and institutes." (Preface) more

„The Whole Idea is to Entertain Them": Musik im indischen Wahlkampf

Cornelia Günauer

Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2012), 93 pp.

"Music is an omnipresent part of the often so-called great Indian election circus and much more than a mere by-product of what is the greatest democratic exercise worldwide. Songs and tunes are an integral part of political communication, strategically used by political actors which are confronted w ... more

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Indian Media: Global Approaches

Adrian Athique

Cambridge: Polity Press (2012), v, 186 pp.

"The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian scene a prerequisite for any serious study of media in the twenty-first century. As one of the largest and most influential emerging economies in the wor ... more

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Twitter as Media Watch-Dog? Lessons from India’s Radia Tapes Scandal

Kalyani Chadha

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 171-176

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Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space

Isabelle Rigoni, Eugénie Saitta (ed.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xv, 172 pp.

"Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyond the opposition between ethnicity and citizenship and demonstrate ways to achieve equality in multicultural and globalised societies." (Publisher desc ... more

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Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self

Youna Kim (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiii, 258 pp.

The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

The Use of Radio in Disasters: 2008 Flood Response, North India. Case Study of First Response India

Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2012), 3 pp.

"Since the Bihar flooding, First Response India has gone on to train other teams in disaster radio response. Its aim is to equip other teams across India with the skills needed to improve collaboration and communication with people affected by crisis. Radio can also play a key role in other phases o ... more

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How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media

Dwight H. Friesen

Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 120-143

"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th ... more

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New Media and Intercultural Communication: Identity, Community and Politics

Pauline Hope Cheong, Judith N. Martin, Leah P. Macfadyen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp.

"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

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Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium

Shoma Munshi

New Delhi et al.: Penguin (2012), xix, 353 pp.

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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

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