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In the Service of the Public: Functions and Transformation of Media in Developing Countries
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Jan Lublinski, Petra Berner, Merjam Wakili (eds.)
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 300 pp.
"This study constitutes the attempt to draw some initial conclusions from the work conducted by DW Akademie and other media development organizations in the past. It aims at a better understanding of which public service functions former state broadcasters can provide at all and which approaches of ... more
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Windows of Opportunity: The Transformation of State Media to Public Service Media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia

Jan Lublinski, Erik Albrecht, Petra Berner, Laura Schneider, Merjam Wakili, Jackie Wilson
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 30 pp.
"The transformation of state media to public service media (PSM) is one of the most ambitious endeavors in the field of media development. Not many efforts to free the national media from government control have succeeded in the past decades. In this paper the comparatively promising cases of Kyrgyz ... more
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Mobile Community Reporting: A Grassroots Perspective on Journalism

Olivier Nyirubugara
Leiden: Sidestone Press (2014), 144 pp.
"In this book, the author presents what he calls the 'Mobile Community Reporting' approach based on a six-year training experiment [of the Voices of Africa Media Foundation] in which he was involved as trainer and coach in eight African countries. The main argument underlying the MCR approach is the ... more
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Salam from Pesantren: Santri’s Experience in Managing Media for Peace

Nor Ismah
Jakarta: Search for Common Ground (2014), 62 pp.
"The following stories come from ten pesantren (Islamic boarding schools) in Indonesia that participated in Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia’s project to promote peace and tolerance in pesantren across Indonesia [...] Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Indonesia implemented this two-year pro ... more
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Freedom of Expression and Access to Information: Innovative Projects

Isabel Rodde, Friederike Brinkmeier
Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 5 pp.
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FM Bajo Flores: Micrófonos para el pueblo (o cómo un barrio parió una radio comunitaria) en historieta

Buenos Aires: Patria Grande; Radio Comunitaria FM Bajo Flores, 3a ed. (2014), 222 pp.
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What Was the Role of the Debate Programme Sema Kenya in the 2013 Kenyan Election?

Angela Githitho Muriithi, Georgina Page
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 62 pp.
"This paper seeks to identify the extent to which the national TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks), part of BBC Media Action’s governance work in Kenya, supported accountability, peace and inclusion at the time of the 2013 Kenya election. It shows the specific value placed on Sema Ken ... more
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The Media Business for Pioneers: How to Attract Advertisers and Media Planners

Rainer Schmidt et al.
Berlin; Amsterdam: Plural Media Services; Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT); DOEN Foundation (2014), 109 pp.
"Why is advertising crucial for sustainability of independent media, and does it influence content? What makes advertisers choose certain media? Who within a company decides on advertising? How influential are media agencies? And how can media organisations conduct or commission audience research? T ... more
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Status of Content and Programming by Community Radio Stations in Kenya

Nairobi: Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET) (2014), 73 pp.
"This assessment was done to determine the level of quality content at the community radio stations in Kenya, as well as the key determinants of this content quality, with the aim of informing interventions to address the identified challenges or gaps at the various targeted radio stations. The asse ... more
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The role of community radio in empowerment and social change: An analysis of Radio Jamia 90.4 FM, Delhi and Sangham Radio 90.4, Medak, Andhra Pradesh

Moina Khan
Indira Gandhi National Open University, School of Journalism and New Media Studies, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 256 pp.
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Communicating with Communities: A Case Study and Guide from Pakistan and Elsewhere

Brian Kelly, Ariane Quentier
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM); Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) (2014), xix, 109 pp.
"The purpose of this handbook is to highlight achievements, as well as ongoing efforts and future plans, in improving information delivery to and communication with affected communities. This guide highlights the lack of critical information in emergency response and what needs to be done to ensure ... more
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Front Line Public Diplomacy: How US Embassies Communicate with Foreign Publics

W. Rugh
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 276 pp.
"This book is about public diplomacy as it is practiced by American diplomats at US embassies around the world. The focus is intentionally on field operations, since that is an aspect of public diplomacy that has been neglected in the literature. The book shows how American diplomats cope with the c ... more
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The Development and Sustainability of Indigenous African Language Newspapers: A Case Study of 'Seipone', 'Nthavela' and 'Nghoho News'

Edgar Julius Malatji
Limpopo: University of Limpopo, Master Thesis (2014), ix, 149 pp.
"There is a conspicuous importance of having newspapers that publish in the indigenous African languages for the indigenous population in a democratic dispensation. The indigenous African languages are key components of their respective cultures. The survival of the language is, in some way, depende ... more
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E-storias d’igualdade

Ana Filipa Oliveira, Ana Grave, Ana Sofia Pinheiro, André Sá, Carla Cerqueira, Carlos Narciso et al.
Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2014), 48 pp.
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Türkisches Fernsehen in Deutschland: Narrenfreiheit und mangelnde Medienaufsicht

Çiçek Bacik
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann (2014), 205 pp.
"Ethnische Medien in Deutschland befinden sich in einer Nischenökonomie und sind aufgrund der mangelnden Einbindung in den deutschen Medienmarkt informellen Strukturen unterworfen. Die Schattenwirtschaft der ethnischen Medien in Deutschland mündet demzufolge in einen Schlamassel. Diese Studie befa ... more
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Our Voice, Our Power: Empowering Women Through Community Media in Bangladesh

Fahmida Akhtar, Protiva Banerjee (eds.)
Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) (2014), 27 pp.
"The book contains profiles of 12 women between the ages of 18 and 26 that were selected to follow a 3-month journalism fellowship and work at community radio stations. The program was designed and implemented by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) in cooperation with 11 comm ... more
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DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media

Matt Ratto, Megan Boler (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2014), x, 450 pp.
"Today, DIY- do-it-yourself - describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's "Twitter revolution" of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new user-generated content) in order to offer political counternar ... more
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A Guide for Professional Journalism in Conflict Zones

Jerusalem: Search for Common Ground (2014), 59 pp.
"This manual is an output of a two year project, funded by USAID, involving Israeli and Palestinian senior and mid-level journalists in Israeli and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Our goal is to share the learnings from the participating journalists, and the project as a whole, in the hope that ... more
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More or Less Equal: How Digital Platforms Can Help Advance Communication Rights

Philip Lee, Dafne Sabanes Plou (eds.)
Geneva: Globethics.net (2014), 158 pp.
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Social Innovation Camps and Labs: Lessons from Internews' Experience

Tara Susman-Peña
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2014), 54 pp.
"Takes a broad look at the Innovation Camps and Labs convened by Internews during 2011 and 2012. It identifies what they can achieve, how best to run the events, and pitfalls to avoid. The study focuses on these key questions: The organization and process of the Innovation Camps/Labs: what were the ... more