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Digital Plans and Reality: Switchover in Russia and Other CIS Countries

Andrei Richter
IRIS Plus (European Audiovisual Observatory), issue 2013-1 (2013), pp. 3-23
"The advent of digital television has accelerated the elaboration of regulation and related processes in the countries of the region. Some countries adopted changes in their broadcasting statutes (Ukraine in 2006; Armenia in 2008 and 2010; Kazakhstan in 2012) or their mass media statute (Russia in 2 ... more
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The Highland Pilot of the Airwaves: Radyo Sagada

Sagada: Sagada Community Media Network (2013), 23 pp.
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Christen in großer Bedrängnis: Diskriminierung und Unterdrückung. Dokumentation 2013

Berthold Pelster (Red.)
München: Kirche in Not (2013), 184 pp.
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Mapping Digital Media: Kazakhstan

Frederick Emrich, Yevgeniya Plakhina
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 114 pp.
"The story of Kazakhstani media is of two contrasting dynamics: the increasingly controlled and innovation-shy offline space, and the vibrant, less-restricted digital environment. The rise of digital media has yielded benefits for citizens and democracy, albeit these are limited by the dominance of ... more
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The "Social Tsunami": Media Coverage of Child Abuse in Malaysia's English-Language Newspapers in 2010

Sara Niner, Yarina Ahmad, Denise Cuthbert
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 4 (2013), pp. 435-453
"Since the early 1990s, Malaysian society has displayed a deepening concern over steady increases in reported cases of child abuse in the country. For many Malaysians, knowledge of this issue comes from the mainstream media. This research analyses media coverage of child abuse in two mainstream Engl ... more
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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

Tejaswini Ganti
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.
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Hinduism and Internet in 2010-12: An Essay on Websites, Blogs, Social Media, Censorship and 'Internet Hindu'

Kiran Thakur, Achyut Vaze
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 53-62
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more
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Missionary Printing

M. Antoni Üçerler
In: The Book: A Global History
Michael F. Suarez, H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 107-115
"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo ... more
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Assessing the Potential of Channel NewsAsia as the Next ‘Al Jazeera’: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC

Shangyuan Wu
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 83-99
"The Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, has emerged as a prime example of a global media contra-flow that has been able to give its region a voice in the international news arena. At a time when developments like the global economic crisis have called for greater checks and balances on Western governm ... more
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More Than a Belated Gutenberg Age: Daily Newspapers in India. An Overview of the Print Media Development Since the 1980s, Key Issues and Current Perspectives

Nadja-Christina Schneider
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), 25 pp.
"The Indian newspaper market still keeps growing and has attracted the interest of multinational corporations. One reason for this is that India is presently one of the largest markets for English-language newspapers and magazines in the world. Notwithstanding the continued growth of the English-lan ... more
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Performance Evaluation of the Alternative Resources in Media (ARM) Project: Mid-Term Evaluation Report

Suren Deheryan
Yerevan: USAID Armenia (2013), 53 pp.
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CCTV’s International Expansion: China’s Grand Strategy for Media?

Anne Nelson
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 37 pp.
"China Central Television has come a long way since its founding as a domestic party propaganda outlet in 1958. The domestic service has been supplemented by an international service, boasting three major global offices in Beijing, Washington, and Nairobi, and more than 70 additional international b ... more
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Global Right to Information Update: An Analysis by Region

Lydia Medland, Toby Mendel (eds.)
Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) (2013), 91 pp.
"The Update reveals that the challenges faced by advocates, and the campaigning tactics used in each region, are at times remarkably similar. National civil society coalitions, for example, are mentioned by many authors as having made a central contribution to campaigns. In other cases, challenges d ... more
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Climate Change in the Media: Reporting Risk and Uncertainty

James Painter
London; New York: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xvi, 173 pp.
"Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the ‘risks‘ posed by climate change rather than the ‘uncertainties‘ can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger ... more
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Participatory Theater, is it Really? A Critical Examination of Practices in Timor-Leste

Julia Scharinger
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2013), pp. 102-119
"Dance, music, and oral narratives are an important and vibrant part of cultural practice and heritage in Timor-Leste. But while Timorese people have used such creative methods and processes during rituals, celebrations, and their fight for independence, today arts and artistic expression become an ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2013: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2013), xx, 317 pp.
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands

Jorrit Kamminga
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi ... more
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The Book: A Global History

Michael F. Suarez, H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), xx, 748 pp.
"A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume. The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history. Including 21 thematic studies on topics such ... more
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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.
"Exploring communication ecologies rather than discrete communication practices remains a difficult challenge. Indonesia: Crisis Communication Channels is one of the early attempts to develop this practice, with case-study examples [...] The three case-study disasters are: Jakarta’s January 2013 f ... more