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Changing Focus: Exploring Images of Women and Empowerment in Egypt

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Stefan Weinmann, Ruta Yemane
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Lu Cao, Wei Meng
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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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Mobilizing the Hordes: Radio Drama as Development Theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa

Victor N. Gomia
Bamenda (CM): Langaa (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
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Reaching the Community Through Community Radio: Readjusting to the New Realities. A Case Study Investigating the Changing Nature of Community Access and Participation in Three Community Radio Stations in Three Countries New Zealand, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Ahmed Zaki Nafiz
Canterbury: University of Canterbury, Doctoral Thesis (2012), xii, 331 pp.
"In this case study, I have studied three community radio stations- RS in Nepal, KCR in Sri Lanka and SCR in New Zealand- investigating how the radio management policies are positively or negatively, affecting community access and participation. The study shows that in their effort to stay economica ... more
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Free Space of Expression: New Media and Thailand's Politics

Isriya Paireepairit
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 72 pp.
"The rise of new media in Thailand has occurred during one of the toughest periods in Thailand’s recent political history. A political crisis since 2005 has created an increasingly divided society. Whilst Thailand’s press freedom was previously considered “free,” existing political challenge ... more