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Adoptability and acceptability of peace journalism among Afghan photojournalists: Lessons for peace journalism training in conflict-affected countries

Saumava Mitra
Journalism Education, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 17-27
"In this article, I seek to inform Peace Journalism (PJ) education and training in conflict-affected countries in particular. Based on a case study of the professional experiences of Afghan photojournalists, I offer insights into the acceptability and adoptability of PJ practice by journalists from ... more
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m ... more
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Political Communication and Mobilisation: The Hindi Media in India

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xv, 234 pp.
"This book provides a fresh perspective on the importance of the Hindi media in India's political, social and economic transformation with evidence from the countryside and the cities. Accessed by more than forty percent of the public, it continues to play an important role in building political awa ... more
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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more
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Critical Analysis of Press Freedom in Nepal after the Peace Agreement 2006

Binod Kumar Paudel
Advances in Journalism and Communication, volume 5, issue 4 (2017), pp. 218-235
"A decade long civil war ended with a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2006. To address the political developments, the Interim Constitution was promulgated in 2007. Though the Interim Constitution of Nepal 2007 guarantees press freedom, every year various incidents of press freedom violation ... more
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Digital Publishing Report

New Delhi: German Book Office (2017), 7 pp.
"India’s book market is overall the sixth largest in the world and the second largest among English language book markets, and it is expected to reach INR739 billion by the year 2020. More than 70 per cent publishers in India have digitised their content to produce e-book versions. E-readers as we ... more
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Holocaust memory in a globalizing world

Jacob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis (eds.)
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 278 pp.
"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg ... more
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How Safe Is It? Being an activist citizen journalist in Turkey

Bora Ataman, Baris Çoban
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson, Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 279-288
"This study discusses how and in what ways activist citizen journalists in Turkey develop safety tactics against the repressive strategies of a neoliberal authoritarian government. By drawing on the theories of alternative new media and citizen journalism, we conducted interviews with activist citiz ... more
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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Afghanistan: Final Evaluation

Anna Godfrey, Georgina Page, Ahmad Tamim Sharifzai
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 59 pp.
"In 2012 the opportunity for ordinary Afghans to communicate with political authorities or hold them to account was extremely limited. To help address this BBC Media Action worked with state broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and the BBC Afghan Service to co-produce the TV and radio nati ... more
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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Deep Insights

Veronica Baxter, Katharine E. Low (eds.)
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.
"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing ... more
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Community Networks: The Internet by the People, for the People. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
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Luca Belli (ed.)
Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (2017), 244 pp.
"This volume is structured in two sections exploring benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks and analysing a series of community network case studies and forward-looking proposals, from which useful recommendations can be drawn. As a conclusion, this book includes the updated v ... more
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Offenes Erzählen: Experimente im zeitgenössischen indischen Dokumentarfilm

Ulrike Mothes
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 203 pp.
"Der Dokumentarfilm gilt in Indien als kommerziell schwer auswertbares Genre - und stellt dennoch ein Feld dar, in welchem Experimente entstehen können. Angesichts der gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche untersucht Ulrike Mothes den aktuellen indischen Dokumentarfilm hinsichtlich seiner fil ... more
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Ascendant India, Digital India: How Net Neutrality Advocates Defeated Facebook’s Free Basics

Revati Prasad
Media, Culture & Society, volume 40, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-431
"This article analyzes the 2015 campaign by net neutrality advocates against Facebook’s Free Basics service in India, and argues that their victory can be best understood by analyzing their privileged place in an India that imagines itself high tech and global. The advocates, predominantly tech wo ... more
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Indian News Media and the Production of News in the Age of Social Discovery

Zeenab Aneez, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, Vibodh Parthasarathi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2017), 29 pp.
"This report examines the social media strategies of a sample of six leading English-language Indian news organisations, two newspapers (Hindustan Times and The Indian Express), two television stations (NDTV and News18), and two digital-born organisations (Firstpost and The Quint). The context is ex ... more
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Social Media in South India

Shriram Venkatraman
London: UCL Press; University College London (2017), xi, 240 pp.
"One of the first ethnographic studies to explore the use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, 'Social Media in South India' provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what wa ... more
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Unshackling Expression: A Study on Laws Criminalising Expression Online in Asia

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2017), 141 pp.
"In this special edition of GISWatch, Unshackling Expression, APC brings together analysis on the criminalisation of online expression from six Asian states: Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Thailand. While the report mostly focuses on criminalisation, curbs placed on expression usin ... more
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Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media

Youna Kim
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2017), x, 204 pp.
"This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data ... more
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A Survey Report on the Public Perception of the Role of Civil Society Organizations and the Media in Nepal

Unity Service Cooperation Nepal
USAID; FHI 360 (2017), 39 pp.
"The vast majority of survey respondents, irrespective of their gender and geographical location, recognized the importance of media, particularly electronic media. They acknowledged media role in keeping people informed, entertained and opinion formation. Although people heralded the media for focu ... more
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A Study on Indian Journalists and their Stressful Working Conditions

Trishu Sharma
International Journal of Research in Informative Science Application & Techniques, volume 1, issue 1 (2017), pp. 35-39
"Journalism is considered as fourth pillar of any democratic society and it is only a Journalist who can take many challenges to bring truth in front of society. But sometimes journalist has to face difficult and stressful conditions while working in field where they have serious threat for their li ... more
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Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture

Nele Lenze, Charlotte Schriwer, Zubaidah Abdul Jalil (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxxii, 265 pp.
"This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions of the media’s influence on ... more