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Community MHz II: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ); Open Society Foundation (2012), 94 pp.
"The Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) at the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) assessed the performance of 15 community radios based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) in 2012. The assessment was a first full-fledged test after a successful piloted the ... more
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Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China

Ying Jiang
Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press (2012), xi, 141 pp.
"The prevailing consumerism in Chinese cyberspace is a growing element of Chinese culture and an important aspect of this book. Chinese bloggers, who have strongly embraced consumerism and tend to be apathetic about politics, have nonetheless demonstrated political passion over issues such as the We ... more
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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web

Ingrid Therwath
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.
"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c ... more
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Open and Closed Communicating Networks: Sectarian and Liberal Muslim Movements in Indonesia

John Mansford Prior
Religion and Social Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2012), pp. 19-38
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Nepalese Diasporic Websites, Signs and Conditions of a Diaspora in the Making?

Tristan Bruslé
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 16 pp.
"Taking into account the performativity of the term “diaspora”, the author tries to understand how Nepalese diasporic websites are the sign and conditions of an “incipient diaspora”. Analysis of authoritative websites and links between different websites helps understand the structure of the ... more
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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

Bronwyn T. Williams, Amy A. Zenger
New York: Routledge (2012), xiv, 219 pp.
"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ ... more
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New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism: Online and Offline

Rüdiger Lohlker (ed.)
Göttingen: V & R Unipress, Vienna University Press (2012), 224 pp.
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Responding to an Activist Public: Hangzhou Press Office Rethinks its Role

Hugo de Burgh, Zengole Rong, Mi Miao
Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1013-1027
"In China as elsewhere, netizens have made new demands upon government and challenged conventional media to respond to popular concerns. Established approaches to controlling the media may be otiose; Party leaders are stressing the value of cooperation rather than confrontation and calling for a new ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio

John Allen Hendricks (ed.)
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xxxiv, 590 pp.
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Asian Media Barometer: Pakistan 2012

Berlin; Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 84 pp.
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2012

Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; ITU (2012), vi, 239 pp.
"This Little Data Book presents tables for over 213 economies showing the most recent national data on key indicators of information and communications technology (ICT), including access, quality, affordability, efficiency, sustainability, and applications." (Abstract)
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Safeguarding Media Rights and Ending Impunity in Nepal: International Fact-Finding and Advocacy Media Mission to Nepal

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 42 pp.
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Methodological Pluralism: Interrogating Ethnic Identity and Diaspora Issues in Southeast Asia

Umi Khattab
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 227-244
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Indigenous Voices in Asia-Pacific: Identifying the Information and Communication Needs of Indigenous Peoples
Deep Insights

Bangkok: UNDP (2012), 64 pp.
"The current report presents the highlights of five country assessments that were undertaken to identify the communication and information needs of indigenous peoples. The starting point for this regional initiative was that access to information and communication avenues have an empowering element, ... more
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Credibility of TV News in a Developing Country: The Case of Bangladesh

Syed Saad Andaleeb et al.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 89, issue 1 (2012), pp. 73-91
"Television has recently experienced unprecedented expansion in Bangladesh. Given its popularity and influence, and with more people using it for their information, research on the credibility of TV news is warranted. Perceived independence of TV channels, their social role, source expertise, object ... more
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Asian Media Barometer: Mongolia 2012

Berlin; Ulaanbaatar: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 69 pp.
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Radio Namaskar: Catalyst of change in Orissa

Daniela Bandelli
Media Development (WACC), volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 48-51
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The Potential of Foreign News as International Development Communication

Bella Mody
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special Issue (2012), pp. 45-58
"This article investigates what the news says about inequity-driven civil wars and economic underdevelopment. Dewey argued that the lack of causal knowledge that distinguishes between symptoms and root causes would limit potential effective and transformative public action. Political scientists have ... more
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Media Watch and Journalism Rights Organisations as Advocates of Press Freedom in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Richard Shafer, Eric Freedman
Journal of Development Communication, volume 23, issue 1 (2012), pp. 56-75
"In the bleak press rights territory of post-Soviet Central Asia, domestic and international nong-overnmental organisations, foreign governments, news outlets, and multinational entities such as the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) and UNESCO monitor constraints on the pres ... more
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Burmese Media Spring

Benjamin Ismail
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 35 pp.