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Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan's Digital Doldrums
Ottawa: SecDev Group (2012), 21 pp.
"Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more ef!cient governance. Hundreds of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the
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Internet Enemies Report 2012
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 72 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2012: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2012), xxi, 359 pp.
"TThe 2012 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia revealed a mix of positive developments, regression, and stagnation (or resilience, depending on one’s point of view). Nearly half of the 21 countries included in this study showed little change either way, their overall score moving by 0.10 or less. Six c
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After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2011), 299 pp.
New Developments in Central Asian Mass Media Research
Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 12, issue 4 (2011), pp. 128-143
"This wide range of contemporary mass media research illustrates how Central Asia press outlets remain tightly controlled and manipulated, first under the czars, then under the Soviets, and now under authoritarian regimes. Over the past two decades, the press systems have not achieved even minimal d
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Media Sustainability Index 2011: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xxiii, 321 pp.
"With three notable exceptions—Belarus, Russia, and Uzbekistan—the media sector in the countries included in the first edition of the MSI in 2001 have over time either improved overall or stayed more or less the same. But, a review of overall MSI scores is just one way to use the MSI to see how
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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.
"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2010), xxi, 287 pp.
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2010), xvi, 617 pp.
"Internet censorship and surveillance becomes more sophisticated. The first-generation controls like China's "Great Firewall" are being replaced by techniques that include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, take-down notices and stringent terms-of-usa
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Video in Development
Key Guides
Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), 60 pp.
"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif
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La video dans le developpement: Filmer pour le changement rural
Wageningen; Rome; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), v, 60 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2003: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2004), xxi, 277 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2002: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2003), xxi, 232 pp.
World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide
Detroit: Gale, 2nd ed. (2003), xxviii, 1285 pp.
"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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The Media Situation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: Five Country Reports
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2002), 130, 150 pp.
"These five country reports: on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, provide a general overview of the current state of media affairs in the country concerned, focus on media legislation and cases of harassment of journalists and provide country-specific recommendations t
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Post-Soviet Media Law & Policy Newsletter: Special vol.
New York: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1998), 48 pp.
Media in the CIS: A Study of the Political, Legislative and Socio-Economic Framework
Düsseldorf: European Institute for the Media (1997), 289 pp.
Der Film in den sowjetischen Unionsrepubliken
Frankfurt am Main: Kommunales Kino (1982), 176 pp.
