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Media Freedom is Part of the Solution to the Kurdish Issue: Turkey October 2015

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2015), 21 pp.
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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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The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan

Bunty Avieson
St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.
"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and ... more
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New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance

Anke Schwittay
London: Routledge (2015), xv, 189 pp.
"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance ... more
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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.
"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more
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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication

Monroe E. Price
New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.
"Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information managemen ... more
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Zwischen Hollywood und Bollywood: Das Autorenkino Mira Nairs

Lisa Marie Gadatsch
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 520 pp.
"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der ... more
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Innovations in Community Radio: With Special Reference to India

Ankuran Dutta, Sanjaya Mishra
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2015), ix, 18 pp.
"This research explores the present status of the community radios (CR) in India in the initial sections. But the main focus has been given on the innovative practices of the community radios scattered in nook and corner of the country. Emphasis has also been given to classify the possible innovatio ... more
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A Counter-Public of a Different Kind: Tajik Youth, Religious Authority and the Medialisation of Islam

Jeanine Elif Dagyeli
In: New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Nadja-Christina Schneider, Carola Richter (eds.)
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), pp. 149-173
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that ... more
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Situation Analysis and Sustainability of Community Radio in Bangladesh. Phase 2

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2015), 49 pp.
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Communicating with Communities: A Case Study and Guide from Pakistan and Elsewhere

Brian Kelly, Ariane Quentier
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM); Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) (2014), xix, 109 pp.
"The purpose of this handbook is to highlight achievements, as well as ongoing efforts and future plans, in improving information delivery to and communication with affected communities. This guide highlights the lack of critical information in emergency response and what needs to be done to ensure ... more
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Connecting on Environmental Issues in North & South Caucasus: Insights from 36 In-Depth Interviews with Journalists, Environmental Activists, and Environmental Scholars in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia

Nino Japaridze
London: Internews Europe (2014), 35 pp.
"Key recommendations: Invest in increased nationwide coverage of environmental issues and media professionalism across all media platforms [...] Conduct more targeted, specialised training on effective environmental reporting [...] Build on dynamism of online information initiatives [...] Begin educ ... more
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Bangladesh's Changing Mediascape: From State Control to Market Forces
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Brian Shoesmith, Jude William R. Genilo (eds.)
Bristol: intellect (2014), xvi, 404 pp.
"Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats, including television, newspapers, radio, film and photography; policy issues; and the challenge that new media poses to governance in a developing nation faced with innumerable economic, social and political probl ... more
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Global Digital Statistics 2014: We Are Social's Snapshot of Key Digital Indicators

Singapore: We Are Social (2014), 181 slides
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ICT Leadership in Higher Education: Selected Readings

Sanjaya Mishra (ed.)
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2014), 106 pp.
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Facebook for Self-Empowerment? A Study of Facebook Adoption in Urban India

Neha Kumar
New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 7 (2014), pp. 1122-1137
"This article presents an ethnographic study of the adoption and use of Facebook among urban Indian youth from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. Mobile-centric use of the Internet is widely prevalent here as general packet radio service (GPRS)-enabled mobile phones and data plans have bec ... more
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Media Survey Findings: Nationwide National Opinion Survey, Wave III, September 2014

Internews (2014), 36 pp.
Key findings include: 35% of people interviewed had family members working outside of Nepal; 86% of households had a working mobile phone (92.5% in urban; 84.3% in rural areas); 49% had a working television (79.5% in urban; 42.3% in rural areas); 45% a working radio (46.1% in urban; 45.3% in rural a ... more
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The Campaign for Justice: Press Freedom in South Asia 2013-14

Laxmi Murthy (ed.)
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2014), 81 pp.
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How Structure Shapes Content, or Why the 'Hindi Turn' of Star Plus Became the 'Hindu Turn'

Santanu Chakrabarti
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 4 (2014), pp. 473-490
"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental, ... more