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Mapping Media Education Policies in the World: Visions, Programmes and Challenges

Divina Frau-Meigs, Jordi Torrent (eds.)
New York; Paris; Huelva: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations; UNESCO; Grupo Comunicar (2009), 259 pp.
"This publication offers a comprehensive and multidimensional approach to media education, considering it from three inter-related dimensions: its national, regional and global contexts; its value to citizens and civic participation; and the crucial role of collaboration among governments, civil soc ... more
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Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency

Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), x, 441 pp.
"Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. Taking as his timeframe the era of celluloid, which is also marked by public experiences of spectatorship and uses ... more
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Internationales Handbuch Medien

Hans-Bredow-Institut
Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
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Between Radicalisation and Democratisation in an Unfolding Conflict: Media in Pakistan

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.
"After nine years of military rule, Pakistan today finds itself in the second year of a challenging transition to democracy. Unlike previously unsuccessful transitions to democracy, this transition is characterised by the presence of a newly liberalised mass media. This can prove to be to be a cruci ... more
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Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action. Vol.1: Understanding Development Communication

Kiran Prasad
Delhi: B.R. Publishing (2009), xv, 286 pp.
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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM); Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.
"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more
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Popular Culture in a Globalised India

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.
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Tamil Cinema

Perianayagam Jesudoss
Communication Research Trends, volume 28, issue 4 (2009), pp. 3-27
"India, unlike the USA, has multiple centers of production just as its languages and cultures still maintain their identities in India instead of being amalgamated into a singlular overarching popular culture as appears in the Los Angeles-dominated film industry of the United States. Even with produ ... more
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Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), vii, 343 pp.
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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

Daya Kishan Thussu
London: Sage (2009), ix, 214 pp.
"This first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ‘dumbing down’ discourse, largely confined to the ... more
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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
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Raghu Mainali, Yadab Chapagain, Bikram Subba
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 292 pp.
"This guidebook offers instructions for strengthening the organisation of community radio stations, in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. The all-embracing essentials of community radio station management, ie, governance and programme/financial/technical management, are discussed i ... more
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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)
London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.
"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more
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Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millenium Development Goals

John V. Vilanilam
New Dehli: Sage (2009), xx, 272 pp.
"Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millennium Development Goals analyzes seven Indian newspapers for a period of seven months and evaluates the extent to which development issues are addressed in them. The findings reveal an under-representation of development issues in the media ... more
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ICTs for Development: Improving Policy Coherence

Paris: OECD (2009), 203 pp.
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Best Practices and Potential for Improved Information Flows in Media and Civil Society

Colombo: Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) (2009), 84 pp.
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SkillCity Master Trainers Manual on Investigative Journalism with a Focus on Accountability and Transparency in Afghanistan

Wali Zahid
Kabul: Saba Media Organisation (2009), 143 pp.
"This guide, compiled with the most updated sources at the time of going to press in early 2009, will take you step by step towards becoming an effective investigative journalist, gaining and practicing the necessary skills and thus gaining the self-confidence required to do a job that is both effec ... more
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Exploring the Role of Civil Society in the Formulation and Adoption of Access to Information Laws: The Cases of Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Andrew Puddephatt
Washington, DC: World Bank; World Bank Institute (2009), vii, 45 pp.
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The Impact of the BBC World Service Trust's Programme Afghan Woman's Hour: Results from a National Survey in Afghanistan

Andy Bhanot, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge
Safia Haleem (ed.)
Kabul: BBC World Service Trust (2009), 68 pp.
"1. Overall awareness of Afghan Woman’s Hour (AWH) in Afghanistan was found to be high; 50% of all those who had listened to the radio in the previous month were aware of AWH. Awareness was higher in the South Western region at 64% compared with the lowest level of awareness at 23% in the Hazarjat ... more
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Television Studies After TV: Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay (eds.)
Abingdon: Routledge (2009), x, 214 pp.
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La video dans le developpement: Filmer pour le changement rural

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler
Wageningen; Rome; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), v, 60 pp.