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Urvashi Butalia

Africa Quarterly (New Delhi), volume 46, issue 1 (2006), pp. 28-29

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Der Blick der Anderen: Europa in der Wahrnehmung von Medien Afrikas, Asiens und Lateinamerikas

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Catholic Communications India: Findings of a Nation-Wide Survey 2005
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Making News: Handbook of Media in Contemporary India

Uday Sahay (ed.)

New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2006), xxii, 282 pp.

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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

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Transnational Television Worldwide: Towards a New Media Order

Jean K. Chalaby (ed.)

London et al.: Tauris (2005), viii, 264 pp.

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Media and Democracy: The KAF Democracy Report 2005

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) (ed.)

Bonn: Bouvier (2005), 323 pp.

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Community-Based Networks and Innovative Technologies: New Models to Serve and Empower the Poor

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New York: UNDP (2005), 183 pp.

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Perspectives on Distance Education: Educational Media in Asia
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Usha V. Reddi, Sanjaya Mishra (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2005), 206 pp.

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Information and Communication Technologies and Large-Scale Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

Kitty Warnock, Ravi Wickremasinghe (eds.)

London: Panos (2005), 48 pp.

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