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Searching for Home: Explorations in New Media and the Burmese Diaspora in New Zealand

Violet Cho
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 17, issue 1 (2011), pp. 194-209
"This study examines the place of new media in the maintance of Burmese diasporic identities. Political oppression in Burma, the experience of exile and the importance of opposition movements in the borderlands make the Burmese diaspora a unique and complex group. This study uses tapoetethakot, an i ... more
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Ein Hauch von Frühling: Die Medienlandschaft in Kirgistan ein Jahr nach der April-Revolution

Thomas Völker
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 43-44 (2011), pp. 14-18
"Die Freiheit der Arbeit von Journalisten ist immer auch ein wichtiger Indikator für den Grad der Demokratisierung eines Staates. Kirgistan ist diesbezüglich ein zerrissenes Land, welches sich zwischen Fortschritten und Rückfällen hin und her bewegt und auch in dieser Hinsicht stark von den Nach ... more
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The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

Thomas K. Nakayama (ed.)
Chichester (UK); Malden, MA; New York: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xvii, 630 pp.
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Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

Andrew N. Weintraub (ed.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2011), xv, 259 pp.
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Das Chinesische Kino nach der Kulturrevolution: Theorien und Analysen

Karl Sierek, Guido Kirsten (eds.)
Marburg: Schüren (2011), 454 pp.
"Seit dem Ende der Kulturrevolution 1976 hat das festlandchinesische Kino verschiedene Phasen durchlaufen und erstaunliche Entwicklungen vollzogen. Im Zentrum dieses Buchs stehen Analysen herausragender Spielfilme der Vierten bis Sechsten Generation sowie wichtiger Werke der Neuen Dokumentarfilmbewe ... more
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Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
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Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Gerry Power (eds.)
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2011), xxiii, 324 pp.
"By assessing edutainment as a space of cultural translation, Drama for Development advances an often neglected perspective in this topics' research. It focuses on what happens when various goals, worldviews and needs from donors, producers and the audiences come together in the production and meani ... more
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Religious Media Content: A Cable TV Phenomenon

Gayatri Murthy
audiencescapes (2011), 7 pp.
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Peace Journalism Produces More Hope and Empathy in Filipino Audiences

Annabel L. R. MacGoldrick
Tambara, volume 28 (2011), pp. 43-80
"This interdisciplinary article weaves together journalistic practice with psychological testing to explore whether ideas about the framing of news to contribute to peace actually make any difference to consumers, both cognitively and emotionally. Hence, the first half considers the historical backg ... more
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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.
"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more
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China in South Africa: The Media’s Response to a Developing Relationship

Herman Wasserman
Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2011), 20 pp.
"Literature about China’s role in Africa suggests that China’s presence on the continent is often viewed in stark binary terms, as either an exploitative, predatory force or a benevolent, development partner. An analysis of attitudes in the South African media over the last three years (if De Be ... more
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Mapping Digital Media: Thailand

Somkiat Tangkitvanich, Worapoj Wongkitrungruang
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 80 pp.
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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Joe Karaganis (ed.)
New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2011), 425 pp.
"This publication is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in the developing world, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, the study tells two overarching stories: on ... more
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National Communication Strategy for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 2011-16

Kathmandu: Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population, National Health Education Information Communication Centre (2011), 71 pp.
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Caucasus Analytical Digest, issue 25 (2011), pp. 1 -17
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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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Framing Religious Conflict: Primordialism Writ Large

Steve Sharp
Asia Pacific Media Educator, issue 21 (2011), pp. 1-23
"Is there a dynamic correspondence between the unfolding of media narratives about conflict and how that conflict plays out on the ground? In particular, can this question be applied productively to the Maluku wars, an outbreak of religious violence at the end of Indonesia’s long developmentalist ... more
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Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
Deep Insights

John D. H. Downing (ed.)
Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage (2011), xxvii, 602 pp.
"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries [...] The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented amon ... more
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Interactivity, the Global Conversation and World Service Research: Digital China

Hugh Mackay, Jingrong Tong
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 48-74
"This paper examines the relationship between a broadcaster’s research methods and aspects of the environment in which it operates, specifically its accountability to its funders and the growth of interactivity by its users. It is concerned with (1) how the BBC World Service’s funding by the UK ... more
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A News Portal Without a News Team: Journalistic and Marketing Logics at the Malaysian National News Agency

Amira Firdaus
In: Making Online News, Vol. 2: Newsroom Ethnographies in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism
David Domingo, Chris Paterson (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 141-150
"The internet has offered national news agencies the opportunity to extend the reach of their services to non-media consumers. This chapeter analyzes the case of BERNAMA, highlighting the tensions between journalism and marketing in the process of blurring the traditional definitions of news agency ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2011: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)
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 ... more