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Video in Development
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Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler
Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), 60 pp.
"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more
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Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action. Vol.2: Advanced Development Communication

Kiran Prasad
Delhi: B.R. Publishing (2009), pp. 287-608
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Media development in Afghanistan

Massoumeh Torfeh
Media Development (WACC), issue 1 (2009), pp. 39-44
"The international community entered Afghanistan in December 2001 to oust the Taliban. It promised reconstruction, development and democratisation. At the time, the trauma of 25 years of war had left civil society in Afghanistan shattered and the media had become mere tools in the hands of the dicta ... more
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Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar, Patricia Arinto (eds.)
Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp.
"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u ... more
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.
"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
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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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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more
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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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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
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Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more
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Von Chatraum bis Cyberjihad: Muslimische Internetnutzung in lokaler und globaler Perspektive

Matthias Brückner, Johanna Pink (eds.)
Würzburg: Ergon (2009), xiii, 215 pp.
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.
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Under Fire: Press Freedom in South Asia 2008-2009

Sukumar Muralidharan (ed.)
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2009), 45 pp.
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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.
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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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Peace Journalism in Times of War

Susan Dente Ross, Majid Tehranian (eds.)
New Brunswick; London: Transaction Publishers (2009), 156 pp.
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Directory of Community Radios and Related Organizations in Asia Pacific

Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Office; Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 136 pp.
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Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.
"While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabli ... more
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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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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds
Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.
"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... 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.