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Oral Tradition of Jainism Discourse in the Wake of Digital and Social Media: A Communication Study of Jain Mendicants and Lay People

Komal Shah
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 159-173
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Balochistan: Reaping the Benefits of Peace Journalism

Shabir Hussain, Haseeb ur Rehman
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 14, issue 2 (2015), 12 pp.
"If the focus of peace journalism is to press for quality journalism during conflict reporting which will ultimately contribute to peace, then the findings of this study show that the available reporting on the Balochistan conflict passes the litmus test. The coverage is pro-people, and the reporter ... more
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Why Community Radio Matters in Bangladesh

Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) (2015), 16 pp.
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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
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Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement

Sarah Pink, Simone Abram (eds.)
New York: Berghahn (2015), vi, 228 pp.
"Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Be ... more
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Video Games Around the World
Deep Insights

Mark J. P. Wolf (ed.)
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2015), xiv, 697 pp.
"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur ... more
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Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India

Leslin Bastian
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2015), pp. 65-81
"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians ... more
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Changing Cultures and Religious Practices in Asia

Binod C. Agrawal (ed.)
Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2015), 162 pp.
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Die Medien der Religion

Jürgen Mohn (ed.)
Zürich: Pano Verlag (2015), 280 pp.
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Media and Religious Communication in Multi-Cultural Asia: An Eclectic Research Agenda

Binod C. Agrawal (ed.)
Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2015), xviii, 180 pp.
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Media barriers in Afghanistan

Mina Saboor
Media Development (WACC), issue 4 (2015), pp. 18-22
"Afghanistan once housed tourists from around the world intrigued by the Silk Road stories, the poetic and mystic culture, the majestic landscape and the hospitable people. Their experience in Afghanistan was frequently captured through journalism and photojournalism of the early 1900s. However, Afg ... more
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Indian News Media: From Observer to Participant

Usha M. Rodrigues, Maya Ranganathan
Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage (2015), xiv, 240 pp.
"This book makes a new and significant argument that Indian news media are no longer just observers but active participants in the events that direct the nation. It explores the changing role and performance of Indian news media in the past 25 years by examining their coverage of some of the landmar ... more
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Asian Comics

John A. Lent
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2015), x, 342 pp.
"As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philipp ... more
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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.
"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more
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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion

Kim J. Andreasson (ed.)
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu ... more
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Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalisation India: Focus on and Beyond the "Delhi Gang Rape"

Nadja-Christina Schneider, Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (eds.)
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2015), 217 pp.
"This volume aims to look both at as well as beyond the ‘Delhi Gang Rape’ through the lens of Indian Media Studies. The editors consider it a critical event, or rather critical media event that needs to be contextualized within a rapidly changing, diversifying and globalizing Indian society whic ... more
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Country Report: “Media and Gender in Pakistan”

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 41 pp.
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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.
"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

Bill Sweeney (ed.)
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); Wiley (2015), 256 pp.
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Media Messaging and its Impact on Afghan Women: Survey Report

Cooperation for Peace and Unity; Afghan Women Rights (2015), 48 pp.
"Television remains the most popular medium in all provinces surveyed and among the different groups of respondents. It is also the most preferred source of information, followed by Radio. A great majority of the population watches TV on a daily basis. More than half of the population spends between ... more