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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012

Katherine Ann Brown
New York City: Columbia University, Doctoral Thesis (2013), xxi, 407 pp.
"This dissertation examines the United States’s elite news media’s hegemony in a global media landscape, and how it can come to stand for the entire American nation in the imagination of outsiders. In this transnational, instantaneous digital media arena, what is created for an American audience ... more
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‘Citizens’ Access to Information in South Asia: Diagnostic Analysis. Bangladesh Chapter

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2013), 96 pp.
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ICTs and Development: A Study of Telecentres in Rural India

Maitrayee Mukerji
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiii, 264 pp.
"This volume juxtaposes the global discourse on ICT-D and telecentres with in-depth empirical case studies on the pattern of access and use of telecenters in rural India to draw implications for policy and practice. It suggest that access and use of telecentres and their services are mediated by the ... more
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Killing Me Softly with His Words: Censorship and Self-Censorship from the Perspective of Turkish Journalists

Esra Arsan
Turkish Studies, volume 14, issue 3 (2013), pp. 447-462
"Turkey is a country where democratization process has been repeatedly interrupted by military interventions in the past 50 years. Censorship and self-censorship have become ordinary practices in the media, mainly due to weak parliamentary representations followed by oppressive coup periods. Yet eve ... more
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The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life

Assa Doron, Robin Jeffrey
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2013), xxxii, 293 pp.
"Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.
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Changing Media and Politics in Tajikistan

Esfandiar Adinabay
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 66 pp.
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Sustainable Development and Green Communication: African and Asian Perspectives

Jan Servaes (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xvii, 220 pp.
"Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In contrast to the more economically and politically oriented approach in traditional views on sustainable development, the central idea in alternative, more partic ... more
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Die Lage der Bistumspresse: Ein Blick über die Grenze. Kirchenzeitungen in Poona, Gitega und Leitmeritz

Andrea Franzetti, Annika Franzetti
Communicatio Socialis, volume 46, issue 1 (2013), pp. 44-55
"Anhand dreier Fallbeispiele aus Indien, Burundi und der Tschechischen Republik kann exemplarisch gezeigt werden, wie sehr das jeweilige Umfeld die Schwierigkeiten diözesaner Presse prägt. Mediensystem, gesellschaftliche und diözesane Rahmenbedingungen scheinen als Einflussgrößen auf die Bistum ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)
Wiley; Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.
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Global eBook: A Report on Market Trends and Developments

Rüdiger Wischenbart
Carlo Carrenho; Veronika Licher; Miha Kovac; Vinutha Mallya (contrib.)
O'Reilly, revised and updated ed. (2013), 111 pp.
"The report offers a status on the US and UK markets as well as close ups on ebook markets as they take shape across Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and in the Arab world. Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strate ... more
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Digital Plans and Reality: Switchover in Russia and Other CIS Countries

Andrei Richter
IRIS Plus (European Audiovisual Observatory), issue 2013-1 (2013), pp. 3-23
"The advent of digital television has accelerated the elaboration of regulation and related processes in the countries of the region. Some countries adopted changes in their broadcasting statutes (Ukraine in 2006; Armenia in 2008 and 2010; Kazakhstan in 2012) or their mass media statute (Russia in 2 ... more
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands

Jorrit Kamminga
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi ... more
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New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

Francesco Mancini (ed.)
New York: International Peace Institute (IPI); UNDP (2013), iv, 94 pp.
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Missionary Printing

M. Antoni Üçerler
In: The Book: A Global History
Michael F. Suarez, H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 107-115
"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo ... more
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Minderheiten machen Medien: Was gibt's Neues?

Pogrom, volume 44, issue 4-5 (2013), pp. 17-72
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Rethinking the growth of print media in India

Gopalan Ravindram
Media Development (WACC), volume 60, issue 2 (2013), pp. 28-31
"Recent times have seen an increasing number of reports about the plight of press systems in the Western hemisphere in contrast to the growing prospects of the print media in Asia, particularly in countries like India and China. While many attribute the success stories of the Indian and Chinese news ... more
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Broadcasting in Sri Lanka

Victor Goonetilleke
In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2014
Oxford: WRTH Publications (2013), pp. 26-29
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How the Segmentation Analysis for Climate Asia Was Conducted

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 12 pp.
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Mapping Digital Media: Kazakhstan

Frederick Emrich, Yevgeniya Plakhina
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 114 pp.
"The story of Kazakhstani media is of two contrasting dynamics: the increasingly controlled and innovation-shy offline space, and the vibrant, less-restricted digital environment. The rise of digital media has yielded benefits for citizens and democracy, albeit these are limited by the dominance of ... more