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Pakistan: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 139 pp.
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Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Deep Insights

Ian Pringle, Ekta Mittal, Mónica Valdés (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.
"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 1: Forms

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2012), xi, 208 pp.
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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web

Ingrid Therwath
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.
"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c ... more
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Global and Local Televangelism

Pradip Thomas, Philip Lee (eds.)
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
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Credibility of TV News in a Developing Country: The Case of Bangladesh

Syed Saad Andaleeb et al.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 89, issue 1 (2012), pp. 73-91
"Television has recently experienced unprecedented expansion in Bangladesh. Given its popularity and influence, and with more people using it for their information, research on the credibility of TV news is warranted. Perceived independence of TV channels, their social role, source expertise, object ... more
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Reaching the Community Through Community Radio: Readjusting to the New Realities. A Case Study Investigating the Changing Nature of Community Access and Participation in Three Community Radio Stations in Three Countries New Zealand, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Ahmed Zaki Nafiz
Canterbury: University of Canterbury, Doctoral Thesis (2012), xii, 331 pp.
"In this case study, I have studied three community radio stations- RS in Nepal, KCR in Sri Lanka and SCR in New Zealand- investigating how the radio management policies are positively or negatively, affecting community access and participation. The study shows that in their effort to stay economica ... more
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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora

David Knaute
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.
"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian ... more
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Guidelines for Community Radio Support Scheme (CRSS)

New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Ministry (2012), 41 pp.
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Social Accountability Status of Community Radios in Nepal

Chakupat, Lalitpur (NP): Association of Community Radio Broadcasters Nepal (ACORAB); United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2012), 82, xli pp.
"About half of the community radios have set their Strategic Plan and Annual Budget System in place. Out of eight such institutional documents, the majority of radios have at least six of them and fewer of them are yet to set these frameworks. Radios are found to be socially inclusive. Though there ... more
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Reporting Disaster and Disaster Preparedness: A Training Handbook

New Delhi: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Indo-German Environment Partnership Programme (IGEP) (2012), viii, 122 pp.
"The main objective of the media component of the Environmental Planning and Disaster Risk Management (EPDRM) programme of GIZ in India is to enable journalists to better and more efficiently perform their roles, functions and tasks in the context of disaster risk management, i.e. information to the ... more
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Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict

Paul Verschueren
New York: Hampton Press (2012), xiii, 199 pp.
"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a ... more
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Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self

Youna Kim (ed.)
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiii, 258 pp.
"At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life." (Publisher de ... more
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Afghanistan Media Development & Empowerment Project (AMDEP) Media Law and Policy Program. Participants' Manual

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), iv, 381 pp.
"Through the design, development and delivery of curricula and the training program in Afghanistan on the subject of media law, the hope is to empower Afghan lawyers to serve as a critical resource to journalists, media managers, and local government officials. Through the trainings, participants ch ... more
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Mapping Digital Media: India

Vibodh Parthasarathi, Alam Srinivas
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 155 pp.
"The United Nations pointed out in 2010 that more Indians have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet. There are over 800 million mobile connections, although the number of unique users (excluding inactive connections) is estimated at around 600 million. Together with the fact that 60 percent of ... more
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The Use of Radio in Disasters: 2008 Flood Response, North India. Case Study of First Response India

Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2012), 3 pp.
"Since the Bihar flooding, First Response India has gone on to train other teams in disaster radio response. Its aim is to equip other teams across India with the skills needed to improve collaboration and communication with people affected by crisis. Radio can also play a key role in other phases o ... more
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Crucial Reform of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Remains a Distant Dream

Sana Majeed McMillion
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (2012), 19 pp.
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Bollywood en Perú: Culturas populares y globalización de las emociones

Martin León Geyer
Nueva Sociedad, issue 241 (2012), pp. 133-148
"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n ... more
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„The Whole Idea is to Entertain Them": Musik im indischen Wahlkampf

Cornelia Günauer
Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2012), 93 pp.
"Music is an omnipresent part of the often so-called great Indian election circus and much more than a mere by-product of what is the greatest democratic exercise worldwide. Songs and tunes are an integral part of political communication, strategically used by political actors which are confronted w ... more
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Indian Media: Global Approaches

Adrian Athique
Cambridge: Polity Press (2012), v, 186 pp.
"The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian scene a prerequisite for any serious study of media in the twenty-first century. As one of the largest and most influential emerging economies in the wor ... more