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ICTs for Development: Improving Policy Coherence

Paris: OECD (2009), 203 pp.
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Usbekistan

Bernhard Chiari, Magnus Pahl (eds.)
Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2009), 312 pp.
"Usbekistan ist schon seit 2001 der »Flugzeugträger« für den Nachschub des ISAF-Einsatzes und damit auch der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. Das Land an der sagenumwobenen Seidenstraße hat eine Schlüsselrolle in Zentralasien, nicht nur für den aktuellen deutschen Einsatz oder seiner Rohstoffe wege ... more
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ICT4D: Learnings, Best Practices and Roadmaps from the Pan Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme

Madanmohan Rao, Nanditha Raman
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), xii, 148 pp.
"This unique book presents extensive analysis and discussion from the Pan-Asia ICT R&D Grants Programme covering 56 projects in 18 countries across Asia-Pacific. In addition to inputs from the ICT4D project heads, the book features insights from 6 ICT experts who personally visited these projects fo ... more
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Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), vii, 343 pp.
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Press Constraints as Obstacles to Establishing Civil Societies in Central Asia: Developing a New Model of Analysis

Richard Shafer, Eric Freedman
Journalism Studies, volume 10, issue 6 (2009), pp. 851-869
"More than a decade and a half after independence, none of the press systems in Central Asia's five former Soviet republics are categorized as free, nor have any of these countries transitioned to democracy. The question becomes: Why have they failed to evolve into democratic nations after successfu ... more
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Background Paper for Identifying the Best Practice of ICT Implementations in Asia and the Pacific

ESCAP (2009), 36 pp.
"Based on the above preliminary research on the current status of the digital divide, latest and emerging technologies, and ICT for development initiatives in Asia and the Pacific, this report concludes that the LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS still face numerous difficulties in terms of implementation of ICT ... more
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The Philippine President as Tortfeasor-in-Chief: Establishing Civil Liability for Constitutional Negligence

Florin Ternal Hilbay
Asian Journal of Comparative Law, volume 4 (2009), pp. 1-54
"This article analyzes the liability of the Philippine President for the tort of constitutional negligence in relation to the murders and forced disappearances of leftists, journalists, and other dissidents. It uses the international law doctrine of command responsibility as a form of attribution th ... more
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Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2009: Conflict Prevention in the Multimedia Age

Christoph Schmidt, Wilfried Solbach, Marc von Boemcken (eds.)
Bonn: Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2009), 279 pp.
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Internationales Handbuch Medien

Hans-Bredow-Institut
Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.
"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
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Digital Review of Asia Pacific: Feedback and Assessment

Randy Spence
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2009), 86 pp.
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China in the African Mediascape: A Critical Injection

Fackson Banda
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 3 (2009), pp. 343-361
"This study sets out to historically contextualize Chinese support to the African mediascape, arguing that contemporary Chinese media interventions in Africa must be seen as part of China's long history of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggle in its project of national and international identifi ... more
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TV Soap Operas in HIV Education: Reaching Out with Popular Entertainment
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Stuart Adams
Eschborn: German HIV Peer Review Group (PRG); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2009), 38 pp.
"This publication looks closely at cases where Germany has supported the production and broadcast of television soap operas as key components of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) in three very different countries with three very different HIV epidemics: In Kyrgyzstan, the epidemic is largely conce ... more
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Accès aux nouvelles technologies en Afrique et en Asie: TIC et service universel

Annie Chéneau-Loquay (coord.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 252 pp.
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Medien, Migration, Identität: Migranten und ihre Mediennutzung. Drei Projektberichte aus der Urbanregion Stuttgart

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)
Stuttgart: Hochschule der Medien (2009), 105 pp.
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.
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Final Program Report: Core Media Support Program for Armenia

Washington, DC: IREX (2009), 52 pp.
The USAID-funded Core Media Support Program for Armenia (CMSPA) began in September 2004 after a several year hiatus of intensive USAID support to the Armenian media sector; it concluded on September 27, 2009.
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Tamil Cinema

Perianayagam Jesudoss
Communication Research Trends, volume 28, issue 4 (2009), pp. 3-27
"India, unlike the USA, has multiple centers of production just as its languages and cultures still maintain their identities in India instead of being amalgamated into a singlular overarching popular culture as appears in the Los Angeles-dominated film industry of the United States. Even with produ ... more
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Between Radicalisation and Democratisation in an Unfolding Conflict: Media in Pakistan

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.
"After nine years of military rule, Pakistan today finds itself in the second year of a challenging transition to democracy. Unlike previously unsuccessful transitions to democracy, this transition is characterised by the presence of a newly liberalised mass media. This can prove to be to be a cruci ... more
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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
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Raghu Mainali, Yadab Chapagain, Bikram Subba
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 292 pp.
"This guidebook offers instructions for strengthening the organisation of community radio stations, in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. The all-embracing essentials of community radio station management, ie, governance and programme/financial/technical management, are discussed i ... more