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ICT for Anti-Corruption, Democracy and Education in East Africa

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Financial Proficiency for Media Executives 1. AMI/AfDB Regional Financial Proficiency Workshop for Media Executives Simba Lodge, Naivasha, Kenya 7th – 8th June

African Media Initiative (AMI); African Development Bank (2013), 36 pp.
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Citizens Rising: Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy

David Hoffman
New York: CUNY Journalism Press (2013), 244 pp.
"As founder of Internews, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to information access and independent media, David Hoffman has had a backstage pass to many of the seminal world political upheavals in recent years. In these pages we see how media have been used for good and bad—to trigger gen ... more
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Many Clicks But Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia

Merlyna Lim
Journal of Contemporary Asia, volume 43, issue 4 (2013), pp. 636-657
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Indonesia: Crisis Communication Channels. Case Studies in Humanitarian Communication Preparedness and Response

Matt Abud
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 68 pp.
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Spider Stories 2012

Katja Sarajeva (ed.)
Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions; Stockholm University (2013), 99 pp.
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Online Comment Moderation: Emerging Best Practices

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Darmstadt: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 77 pp.
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Qualitätsmodelle im Hörfunk: Mehr als Quoten und Formate

Kirsten Annette Vogel, Ursula Wienken (eds.)
Bad Honnef: Katholisch-Soziales Institut (KSI) (2013), 164 pp.
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L. Meghan Mahoney, Benjamin R. Bates
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What We Learned Testing the Humanitarian Data Toolkit

Tara Susman-Peña
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 56 pp.
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Haiti Beneficiary Communications Review

Caterina Monti et al.
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Media Interventions

Kevin Howley (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2013), xvi, 430 pp.
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Maitrayee Mukerji
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 264 pp.
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Design Research for Media Development: A Guide for Practitioners

Panthea Lee
New York: Reboot Design; Internews (2013), 125 pp.
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A Pragmatic Trial in the Rio De Janeiro Subway to Capture Smokers for a Quitline: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities

Adré Salem Szklo et al.
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Cultura digital en América Latina: Investigación interuniversitaria Educación y Evangelización

Bogotá: Centro de Comunicación Educativa Audiovisual (CEDAL); Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM); RIIAL (2012), 356 pp.
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The Data Journalism Handbook: How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News
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Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Lucy Chambers (eds.)
Sebastopol, Calif. et al.: O'Reilly (2012), xvii, 220 pp.
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Paraguayos en el mundo: Migración, comunicación y ciudadanía en disputa

Gerardo Halpern
In: Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais
Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), pp. 161-178
"El presente artículo describe y problematiza la experiencia de un colectivo de paraguayos migrantes denominado Ápe Paraguay. Se trata de un proyecto político comunicacional nacido en Buenos Aires en 2008 que se ha constituido en un espacio de articulación social vinculando a una importante cant ... more
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Changes in Patterns of Contemporary China’s Radio: Programs - Helping Each Other in Beijing: A Case Study

Lu Cao, Wei Meng
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 229-238
"Great changes have been taken place in the patterns of China’s radio programs since 1980s. Its role has changed from the government’s “propaganda tool” to meet the multiple needs of the radio listeners; its profit mode somehow has varied from full national funding to making profit independe ... more
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Bollyworld Neukölln: MigrantInnen und Hindi-Filme in Deutschland

Florian Krauß
Konstanz; München: UVK (2012), 312 pp.
»Bollyworld Neukölln« ist nicht nur die erste umfassende Studie zum Hindi-Kino in Deutschland, die spezifische, inoffizielle und migrantische Rezeptionswege mitberücksichtigt, sondern zeigt auch neue empirische Perspektiven auf Migranten und Medien auf. Anstatt MigrantInnen unreflektiert nach be ... more