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ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance

Ashwani Saith, M. Vijayabaskar, V. Gayathri (eds.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2008), 418 pp.

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Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry

Selvaraj Velayutham (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2008), xvi, 201 pp.

"Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It o ... more

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Affirming Life and Diversity: Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India

P. V. Satheesh, Michel Pimbert

London; Hyderabad: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);Deccan Development Society (DDS);DDS Community Media Trust (2008), xiii, 60 pp.

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Church and Social Communication in Asia: Documents, Analysis, Experiences

Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, 2nd ed. (2008), 232 pp.

"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese ... more

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Training Journalists to Report on HIV/AIDS: Final Evaluation of a Global Program

Jon Cohen, Laurie Zivetz, Mia Malan

Arcata: Internews Network (2008), 50 pp.

"Internews Network, a U.S.-based organization that for more than two decades has trained journalists around the world, in 2002 received funding from the United States Agency for International Development to launch a project in Africa to help media improve their coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cal ... more

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Status and Relevance of Journalism Education in Asia

Media Asia, volume 35, issue 2 (2008), pp. 60-132

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Teaching Religion and Film

Gregory J. Watkins (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 309 pp.

"Part I presents general categories for thinking about the intersection between religion and film, as well as an argument for an emerging line of theoretical inquiry. The chapters in Part II examine the use of film in teaching religious traditions, whether movies are seen from the critical perspecti ... more

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Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and Voice

Sina Odugbemi, Thomas Jacobson (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xxi, 525 pp.

"This book is a contribution to efforts to improve governance systems around the world, particularly in developing countries. It offers a range of innovative approaches and techniques for dealing with the most important nontechnical challenges that prevent many of those efforts from being successful ... more

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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

James E. Katz (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.

"This book offers a view of the cultural, family, and interpersonal consequences of mobile communication across the globe. Scholars analyze the effect of mobile communication on all parts of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of mobile phones to the use of ringtone ... more

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Asia's Media Innovators

Stephen Quinn

Werner vom Busch (introd.)

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2008), 170 pp.

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Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy

Paula Chakravartty, Yuezhi Zhao (ed.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), xi, 359 pp.

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Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives

Indrajit Banerjee, Madanmohan Rao (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 348 pp.

"This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the AMIC Annual Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. It features over a dozen contributions from around the region, providing a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking ne ... more

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The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture

Kirsten Drotner, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)

London et al.: Sage (2008), xxi, 537 pp.

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Information Literacy Competency and Readership Study of Five Specific Localities in the Urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban Areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City

Chaitali Dutta

New Dehli: UNESCO (2008), 62 pp.

"The objectives of this field survey are as follows: to attempt a critical study of the readership of people from different social strata of five specific localities of Kolkata Metropolitan City; to attempt a study of the influence and to measure the encroachment of different media on people’s rea ... more

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Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India

Pradip Thomas

New Dehli: Sage (2008), xvii, 207 pp.

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Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

Nalin Mehta (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2008), ix, 170 pp.

"This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which cam ... more

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Media and Conflict Reporting in Asia
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Shyam Tekwani (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 203 pp.

"The thirteen significant case studies presented here examine the challenges faced by media practitioners reporting on conflicts across the diverse media ecologies of Asia. Significant themes covered include: how media culture affects the way conflict is covered, including aspects such as resource l ... more

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Free Markets Free Media? Reflections on the Political Economy of the Press in Asia

Cherian George (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2008), 164 pp.

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21st Century Journalism in India

Nalini Rajan

New Delhi: Sage (2007), 324 pp.

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An Evaluation Report on "Building ICT Opportunities for Development Communications" Project: A Part of the Building Communication Opportunities (BCO) Programme

Siddartha Shresta

Kathmandu: Panos South Asia (2007), 39 pp.

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