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Community MHz II: Assessing Community Radio Performance in Nepal

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ); Open Society Foundation (2012), 94 pp.
"The Community Radio Support Centre (CRSC) at the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) assessed the performance of 15 community radios based on the Community Radio Performance Assessment System (CR-PAS) in 2012. The assessment was a first full-fledged test after a successful piloted the ... more
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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora

David Knaute
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.
"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian ... more
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Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World

Philip Seib (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), 204 pp.
"For Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Arab revolutions of 2011 offered an opportunity that news executives dream about. It was the biggest story of the century, it was happening on home territory, and the channel had the expertise and the reportorial staff on the ground at levels its competitors could ... more
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National Minorities and the Media: Situation in Georgia

Tobias Akerlund
Flensburg: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) (2012), 28 pp.
"This working paper envisages analyzing issues related to media and national minorities in Georgia in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the current situation of minority media and of the impact of media on majority-minority relations. To gather data on this topic, 30 interviews with variou ... more
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Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives

Des Freedman, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xiii, 322 pp.
"Media and Terrorism brings together leading scholars to explore how the world's media have influenced, and in turn, been influenced by terrorism and the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11. Accessible and user-friendly with lively and current case studies, it is a perfect student text and is an ... more
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Country Case Study: Bangladesh. Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained

Francis Rolt
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 24 pp.
Examining Bangladesh’s booming and dynamic media sector, this report finds that there is an increasing tendency for political discourse to be based around personality rather than policy.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio

John Allen Hendricks (ed.)
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xxxiv, 590 pp.
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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.
"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more
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Twitter as Media Watch-Dog? Lessons from India’s Radia Tapes Scandal

Kalyani Chadha
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 171-176
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New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism: Online and Offline

Rüdiger Lohlker (ed.)
Göttingen: V & R Unipress, Vienna University Press (2012), 224 pp.
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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.
"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more
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Media Watch and Journalism Rights Organisations as Advocates of Press Freedom in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Richard Shafer, Eric Freedman
Journal of Development Communication, volume 23, issue 1 (2012), pp. 56-75
"In the bleak press rights territory of post-Soviet Central Asia, domestic and international nong-overnmental organisations, foreign governments, news outlets, and multinational entities such as the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) and UNESCO monitor constraints on the pres ... more
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The Right to Remain Silent: Freedom of Expression in Azerbaijan Ahead of the 7th Internet Governance Forum

Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 40 pp.
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Community Radio Directory in Bangladesh

Amin Al Rasheed (comp.)
Dhaka: Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) (2012), 48 pp.
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Nepalma Bikas Sancharbare Sandharbhasuchi = Bibliography of Development Communication in Nepal

Harsha Man Maharjan
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Memory and Political Change

Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt (eds.)
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." ( ... more
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The Media of Afghanistan: The Challenges of Transition
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David Page, Shirazuddin Siddiqi
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 27 pp.
"[...] Afghanistan is a fragile, fractured state and has one of the most fragile and fractured media, where almost anyone with sufficient funds and the opportunity to move quickly has been able to establish a media presence. This environment has enabled the flourishing of television, radio and other ... more
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How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media

Dwight H. Friesen
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 120-143
"It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus' life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille's The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes' Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson's Th ... more
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Ethical Practice Guidelines for Community Radio Stations

Jayalakshmi Chittoor
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2012), 37 pp.
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Reaching the Community Through Community Radio: Readjusting to the New Realities. A Case Study Investigating the Changing Nature of Community Access and Participation in Three Community Radio Stations in Three Countries New Zealand, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Ahmed Zaki Nafiz
Canterbury: University of Canterbury, Doctoral Thesis (2012), xii, 331 pp.
"In this case study, I have studied three community radio stations- RS in Nepal, KCR in Sri Lanka and SCR in New Zealand- investigating how the radio management policies are positively or negatively, affecting community access and participation. The study shows that in their effort to stay economica ... more