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Khel Badal: Dismantle Patriarchy. Community Video Production

Khel Badal
Video Volunteers (2016), 54 pp.
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Communicating with Disaster-Affected Children: A Case Study from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Response

Lotte Claessens, Olivia Forsberg
Plan International Sweden (2016), 37 pp.
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Accountability, Nation and Society: The Role of Media in Remaking Nepal

Kiran Bhandari, Dipak Bhattarai, James Deane
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 23 pp.
"This briefing explores some of the key challenges facing the Nepali media. It outlines growing concerns over politicisation and co-option, particularly of the mainstream Kathmandu-based media, as well as other economic and technological challenges facing the media. The briefing further outlines how ... more
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more
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The enigma of news media development with multi-pronged ‘capture’: The Afghanistan case

Jeannine E. Relly, Margaret Zanger
Journalism, volume 18, issue 10 (2016), pp. 1233-1255
"This qualitative study of influences on a purposive sample of Afghan journalists was carried out in the year after the US military mission was declared over. After more than a hundred million dollars of Western government funding had been invested in development of liberal democratic journalism, th ... more
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Stifling Dissent: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in India

Human Rights Watch (2016), 117 pp.
"This report details how the criminal law is used to limit peaceful expression in India. It documents examples of the ways in which vague or overbroad laws are used to stifle political dissent, harass journalists, restrict activities by nongovernmental organizations, arbitrarily block Internet sites ... more
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ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications

Bidit Dey, Karim Sorour, Raffaele Filieri (eds.)
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.
"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of cont ... more
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Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Conditions: Worldwide Perspectives
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Kristin Skare Orgeret, William Tayeebwa (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression, Media Development and Global Policy (2016), 202 pp.
"The aim of the present book is to provide both empirical and theoretical input to the discussions of the role of journalism and media in conflict and post-conflict situations and in the often rather muddy waters between them. Together, the contributions to this book from different parts of the worl ... more
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News Literacy: People's Perception

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2016), 69 pp.
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Digital Faith: Social Media and the Enactment of Religious Identity in Pakistan

Emrys Schoemaker
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Doctoral Thesis (2016), 256 pp.
"This thesis is a theoretically framed and historically informed sociological analysis of how digital technology usage shapes religious identity in Pakistan. The development literature is dominated by assumptions of technologically driven progress towards secularisation and studies of technology pro ... more
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Public Media Initiatives in Bangladesh and South Asia: Politics and Prospects

Anis Rahman
Burnaby: Simon Fraser University, School of Communication (2016), 35 pp.
"The multidimensional growth and transformation of state broadcasters in South Asia indicate that television occupies a major and significant space in the cultural politics of the region. Based on in-depth interviews and secondary data analysis, this paper examines how the state broadcaster in Bangl ... more
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Refugees, Migration and the Media
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Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 6, issue 1 (2016), various pag.
"This special issue contains three peer-reviewed articles - on hostile media perceptions in the refugee debate in Germany, the news framing of Lampedusa in the German Süddeutsche Zeitung and the English Guardian, and migration news framing in South Asia and the Pacific -, two essays - on "Compassio ... more
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Archiving as History-Making: Religious Politics of Social Media in India

Sahana Udupa
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 212-230
"This article explores the case of right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteers in India, to turn a critical eye on a digital practice that has become prominent on new media in India in recent times-the assembling of facts, figures, and treatises as an ideological exercise by the net-savvy "nonexperts." ... more
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Can Mass Media Cause Change? A Randomised Control Trial Finds Out

BBC Media Action (2016)
"Can the mass media cause changes in an audience’s knowledge, attitudes and intention to practise behaviours? At BBC Media Action, we have just successfully conducted a randomised control trial (RCT) to investigate this chain of causality in a prime time health TV drama in Bangladesh." (Introducti ... more
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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.
"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more
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Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia

Larissa Hjorth, Olivia Khoo (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 475 pp.
"While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in the future, today we are seeing a much more complex picture of contesting new media practices and production. As "new media" becomes increasingly an ever ... more
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Digital Journalism Start-ups in India

Arijit Sen, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 48 pp.
"In this report, we analyse six examples of digital journalism start-ups developing new editorial priorities, distribution strategies, and funding models for an increasingly digital Indian media environment. After years of slow growth, internet use and digital advertising has grown very rapidly in I ... more
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Technology and Society as Embedded: An Alternative Framework for Information and Communication Technology and Development

Natascia Boeri
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 107-118
"An emerging topic in the development field is how information and communication technology (ICT) can be used for economic and social development. The general approach relies on technological determinism, whereby the discussion revolves around how and to what extent will ICT support development. It ... more
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Radio, Politics and Trust in Afghanistan: A Social History of Broadcasting

Andrew Skuse
International Communication Gazette, volume 64, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-279
"This article examines the sociohistorical role of radio broadcasting in Afghanistan and analyses the interplay between the radio choices of the audience, political change and conflict. Though never explicitly trusted as a credible information source, the popularity of national radio in Afghanistan ... more