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Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
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Ian Pringle, Ekta Mittal, Mónica Valdés (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.
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Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

Des Freedman, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xiii, 322 pp.
"Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the world's media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and user-friendly with lively and current case studies, it is a perfect student text and is an ... more
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Digital Media Preservation: Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive (and What They Can Do Instead)

Anthony Bouch
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 40 pp.
"This study focuses on digital archive management and will review the current “state of play” in archive management for content creators. It includes both academic and industry research, as well as the results of site visits to nine media organizations located in Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and ... more
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Strategic Communications in Afghanistan’s Transition Context

Jamil Seddiqui
Swansea: Swansea University, Thesis (2012), v, 64 pp.
"Following a decade of extensive international involvement and arduous fighting, Afghanistan is currently going through a significant Transition intended to enable Afghans to assume responsibility for their own security, development and governance. In addition to opportunities, this process provides ... more
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Afghanistan Media Development & Empowerment Project (AMDEP) Media Law and Policy Program. Participants' Manual

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), iv, 381 pp.
"Through the design, development and delivery of curricula and the training program in Afghanistan on the subject of media law, the hope is to empower Afghan lawyers to serve as a critical resource to journalists, media managers, and local government officials. Through the trainings, participants ch ... more
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Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict

Paul Verschueren
New York: Hampton Press (2012), xiii, 199 pp.
"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2012: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)
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 ... more
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Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East. Selected Data from Freedom House's Annual Press Freedom Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 40 pp.
"The improvements in the Arab world were the most significant findings of Freedom of the Press 2012: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the latest edition of an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980. The gains came on the heels of eight consecutive years of decline in the global ave ... more
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Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere

Merlyna Lim
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), pp. 127-140
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Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis

Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller (eds.)
London: Reaktion Books (2012), 319 pp.
"From the massacre of the Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee to the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, from famine in China to apartheid in South Africa, Picturing Atrocity examines a broad spectrum of photographs. Each of the essays focuses specifically on an iconic image, offering a distinct approach ... more
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Community Radio and Gender: Towards an Inclusive Public Sphere

Kanchan K. Malik, Daniela Bandelli
Brisbane: Paper presented at the India Media Symposium: Public Spheres, the Media & Social Change in India (2012), 20 pp.
"Gender is a significant dimension in community radio (CR) initiatives that are seeking to deploy communication technologies for social change in general and empowerment of women in particular. CR not only provides an opportunity for women’s access to information, but, more significantly, also all ... 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
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Deepening Shadows: The Eclipse of Press Rights in Kyrgyzstan

Eric Freedman
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2012), pp. 47-64
"In March 2005, a relatively nonviolent uprising ousted an authoritarian president in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. In the aftermath of the so-called Tulip Revolution, press rights advocates and journalists welcomed the promise of greatly enhanced freedoms. However, the new regime proved ... more
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Burma Media Use 2012

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 2 pp.
"Despite the country’s long history of censorship, Burmese do not currently appear to be apathetic about news coverage. Almost half (47.5%) say they access some type of news – whether via radio, TV, Internet, newspapers, etc. – at least daily, and 78.5% do so at least once a week. Radio remain ... more
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Media Use in Burma: Findings from the 2012 International Audience Research Project

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 52 slides
"Burma s media environment is underdeveloped and firmly anchored in old media, but changes have started. Radio is the most used media for entertainment and news in Burma, and domestic outlets have expanded rapidly in recent years. Television s growth in urban areas has been striking in recent years. ... more
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Exploring Citizen Journalism for Rural Indonesia: Research Report on a Pilot Project Using Text Messaging and Interactive Voice Response Technology

Restu Pratiwi
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 26 pp.
"To help improve the flow of information among marginalized communities of West Kalimantan Indonesia, where large palm oil companies wield tremendous power, the Internews Center for Innovation and Learning initiated a three-month pilot project in September 2011 that combined the power of mobile phon ... more
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Asian Media Barometer: Pakistan 2012

Berlin; Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 84 pp.
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Community Radio in Bangladesh: Achievements and Challenges

Amin Al Rasheed
Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC); Free Press Unlimited (2012), 19 pp.
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The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), 554 pp.
"Bringing together the perspectives of more than 40 internationally acclaimed authors, The Handbook of Global Media Research explores competing methodologies in the dynamic field of transnational media and communications, providing valuable insight into research practice in a globalized media landsc ... more
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Social Media, Cyber-Dissent, and Constraints on Online Political Communication in Central Asia

Brian J. Bowe, Eric Freedman, Robin Blom
Central Asia and the Caucasus, volume 13, issue 1 (2012), pp. 144-152
"This paper reviews recent events and legal developments related to the Internet and social media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. They include legislation extending libel laws to online communications, blocking of oppositional and independent websites, and punishi ... more