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Communicating Sustainability: Using Community Media to Influence Rural People’s Intention to Adopt Sustainable Behaviour

Md. Shahzalal, Azizul Hassan
Sustainability, volume 11, issue 812 (2019), 28 pp.
"Sustainable development is a big challenge for developing countries, due to lack of effective communication about sustainability to the rural population. This paper aims at building a theoretically and statistically sound model to communicate sustainability more effectively in rural areas in order ... more
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Theorising Voice in India: The Jan Sunwai and the Right to Information Movement

Pradip Ninan Thomas
In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Chris Atton (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 134-143
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Community Radio for SDGs

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India; One World Foundation India (2019), 205 pp.
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Media Sustainability Index 2020: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Sri Lanka

Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 22 pp.
"The year 2019 was challenging for Sri Lanka, with the Easter Sunday Attacks and the subsequent anti-Muslim riots paralyzing the country and the economy. After the Easter Sunday attacks, the first terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan soil in a decade, it was expected that the media would play a responsib ... more
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Born Digital, Born Free? A Socio-Legal Study on Young Women’s Experiences of Online Violence in South India

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan, Nandini Chami
IT for Change (2019), 49 pp.
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Hostile Bytes: A Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists

Hija Kamran
Media Matters for Democracy (2019), 50 pp.
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The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

Jessica Retis, Roza Tsagarousianou (eds.)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), xxi, 602 pp.
"The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumptio ... more
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"Owned and conducted entirely by the native Christian community": Der "Christian Patriot" und die indigen-christliche Presse im kolonialen Indien um 1900

Klaus Koschorke
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2019), viii, 303 pp.
"Der ‚Christian Patriot. A Journal of Social and Religious Progress‘ existierte von 1890 bis 1929 und verstand sich als „Sprachrohr“ der indisch-protestantischen Gemeinschaft Südindiens. Das Blatt befand sich in „alleinigem“ Besitz indischer Christen. Als solches eröffnet es ganz neue ... more
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The Community Radio in Kashmir: A Way Forward

Ruheela Hassan
International Journal of Communication and Media Studies (IJCMS), volume 9, issue 2 (2019), pp. 61-72
"In India, the campaign to legitimise community radio began in mid-1990s, soon after the Supreme Court of India ruled in its judgment of February 1995 that “airwaves are public property. Though the approval for setting up of Community radio stations in India was granted in 2002, it is yet to devel ... more
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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University; ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.
"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more
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Safety culture changing visual representations of wars? The case of Afghanistan

Saumava Mitra
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 13 pp.
"In international conflict correspondence safety mechanisms are unequally employed to protect local news-staffs in contrast to international staffs. Arguably, this has had the greatest impact on image production from war zones, exposing local photojournalists to increased dangers. But it also raises ... more
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‘Meaningful Participation’: Exploring the Value of Limited Participation for Community Radio Listeners

Bridget Backhaus
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 253-270
"Community radio represents an opportunity for audiences to play a lead role in the production, dissemination and ownership of media channels and content. The active participation of audiences is one of the primary differences between community radio stations and their commercial and state-run count ... more
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Mapping Digital Disinformation Around Elections: A Case Study of Pakistan’s 2018 General Elections

Talal Raza
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"The 2018 general election represented one of the first times digital disinformation occurred on a massive scale in Pakistan. This report examines different forms of disinformation that circulated online in the lead up to the 2018 elections and its impact on the country’s political discourse, and ... more
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Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
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Greta Gober
International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), 2nd ed. (2019), 110 pp.
"The Handbook showcases IAWRT members’ experiences and best practices for working towards advancing gender equality in and on the media in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, India and Uganda." (Publisher description)
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more
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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.
"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more
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Fragende Blicke: Neun Zugänge zu ethnografischen Fotografien. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Museum Fünf Kontinente in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Ethnologie der LMU München vom 07. Juli 2018 bis 05. Januar 2020

Paul Hempel, Anka Krämer de Huerta, Silvia Lamprecht (eds.)
München: Institut für Ethnologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2019), 126 pp.
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Fixers in corporate media: Pashtun journalists under threat in North Western Pakistan

Altaf Khan
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 9 pp.
"Local fixers are becoming increasingly important for international media due to escalating security threats to international journalists, budget cuts within international media organizations, and the disappearance of long-stay correspondents. Local fixers give local color and context to news storie ... more
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Culture of impunity and safety of journalists: Is safe journalism a distant dream in Pakistan?

Sadia Jamil
Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 1 (2019), pp. 51-66
"Pakistan’s journalists confront fatal safety risks in the line of their duty and are at the mercy of various types of pressure and extremist groups that threaten, kidnap and even murder them with almost total impunity. Despite the growing violence against journalists in Pakistan, there is a deart ... more
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Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
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Beatrice Dernbach, Beate Illg (eds.)
Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.
"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of ... more