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Digital, Social & Mobile in APAC in 2015: We Are Social and IAB Singapore's Compendium of Asia-Pacific Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social; IAB Singapore (2015), 319 slides
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Right to Information and Media Laws in Pakistan

Muhammad Aftab Alam
Islamabad: Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives (CPDI) (2015), iii, 19 pp.
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A Moving Faith: Mega Churches Go South

Jonathan D. James (ed.)
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2015), xvi, 243 pp.
"A Moving Faith captures the dynamic shift of Christianity to the South and portrays a global movement that promises prosperity, healing, empowerment, and gender equality by invoking neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic resources. It postulates that neither North America nor Europe is the current center ... more
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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.
"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more
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Political Parody and Satire as Subversive Speech in the Global Digital Sphere

Sangeet Kumar, Kirk Combe (eds.)
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 3 (2015), pp. 211-311
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more
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Women’s Participation in Community Radio in Bangladesh

Mahuda Anwar
Guelph: Guelph University, Master Thesis (2015), 99 pp.
"This study is about women‘s engagement in community radio (CR) in Bangladesh which is a relatively new innovation in the country. The thesis seeks to describe the current situation of how CR facilitates women‘s access to and participation in media content, organizational structure, and media fa ... more
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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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Social Media and Articulation of Radical Narratives in Afghanistan

Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Musab Omer, Mohammad Irfani
Kabul: Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (2015), 70 pp.
"This research paper explores the role of social media as a medium of articulation of religiously-inspired radical ideologies and narratives in Afghanistan. The term ‘radicalization’ is used here to refer to processes of emergence and evolution of ideological and behavioral tendencies that are c ... more
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Afghan Media in 2014: Understanding the Audience

Altai Consulting; Internews (2015), 169 pp.
"In 2014, competition in the Afghan media sector has increased in order to attract diminishing advertising revenue. This has led to increased professionalization and a certain degree of segmentation with the introduction of specialist, niche channels. The pace of development of new outlets has slowe ... more
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Pioneering, Connecting and Empowering Voices for Change – Strengthening Community Radio in Bangladesh to Fight Poverty and Promote Development: Final Evaluation Report on the Project Supported by the European Union (February 1st 2013 – May 31st 2015)

Ashish Sen
Free Press Unlimited (2015), 75 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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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
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Disaster Response: Nepal Earthquake Response and Recovery. Overview

London: GSMA (2015), 24 pp.
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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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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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Mapping BRICS Media

Kaarle Nordenstreng, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 272 pp.
"The volume brings together leading scholars, mainly from the BRICS nations, to examine how the emergence of the BRICS media will impact on global media and communication. Contextualizing the rise of the BRICS nations within the broader shifts in global power relations, the chapters investigate the ... more
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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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Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal: Evaluation Report UDF-NEP-10-387

Sue Nelson, Sita Gautam Acharya
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2015), 30 pp.
"The Institutionalizing Social Accountability of Community Radio in Nepal project sought to strengthen the institutional capacity of community radios to promote social accountability and represent the interests of their constituencies. Its intended outcomes were to: 1) improve internal governance, o ... more
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Country Report: “Media and Gender in Nepal”

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 28 pp.