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Role of Media in Uncovering Political Corruption in South Asian Perspective

Farruque Ahmed
Asian Journal of Public Affairs, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 20-37
"Bangladeshi media have undergone significant changes since the 1990s. Despite a boom in the media industry, journalists are reluctant to uncover the misdeeds of politicians because of threats and torture. The media has been politicised in Bangladesh as media supporting the incumbent party in power ... 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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Bangladesh: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 135 pp.
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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Nepal

Dil Bahadur Khatri, Ramesh Prasad Bhushal, Naya Naya Sharma Paudel, Niru Gurung
Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2012), 20 pp.
"Results show that, overall, REDD+ has received limited attention in the Nepali media. Within the overall climate change discourse in Nepal, the melting of the Himalayan ice-caps and glaciers has dominated all other discourses, including that on REDD+. Nepali journalists have found the science behin ... more
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Who is the Community in Community Radio?

Savita Bailur
Economic & Political Weekly, volume 47, issue 17 (2012), pp. 92-99
"Despite the enthusiasm for community-owned radio, a movement which has been steadily gaining pace since the implementation of new legislation of 2006, we are yet to find an understanding of who the community is in community radio. Through an extended case study, this analysis shows how “community ... more
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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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Mapping Digital Media: Turkey

Asli Tunç, Vehbi Görgülü
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 81 pp.
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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.
"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... 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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Asian Media Barometer: Pakistan 2012

Berlin; Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 84 pp.
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Cluster Evaluation Report: UNDEF-Funded Media-Related Projects

Pierre Robert
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2012), 40 pp.
"This report is the cluster evaluation of 12 UNDEF-supported projects related to the media. It concerns projects that either focused on media capacity building or included a significant element of work with the media. The projects were implemented between 2007 and 2011; they lasted between 12 and 24 ... more
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Empowering Women Through ICT

Caroline Wamala
Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions; Stockholm University (2012), 72 pp.
"This publication covers five different projects carried out in six different locations. There were two projects in Bolivia, one focusing on empowering female indigenous leaders and the other provided female victims of domestic violence with a safe virtual environment where they could receive suppor ... more
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Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space

Isabelle Rigoni, Eugénie Saitta (ed.)
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xv, 172 pp.
"Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyond the opposition between ethnicity and citizenship and demonstrate ways to achieve equality in multicultural and globalised societies." (Publisher desc ... more
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New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

Bronwyn T. Williams, Amy A. Zenger
New York: Routledge (2012), xiv, 219 pp.
"How do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influ ... more
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Pakistan: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 139 pp.
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Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict

Paul Verschueren
New York: Hampton Press (2012), xiii, 199 pp.
"Picturing Afghanistan is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological warfare, journalism and the photobook, the author argues that there are no strong boundaries between photography in war and photography a ... 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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The Use of Radio in Disasters: 2008 Flood Response, North India. Case Study of First Response India

Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2012), 3 pp.
"Since the Bihar flooding, First Response India has gone on to train other teams in disaster radio response. Its aim is to equip other teams across India with the skills needed to improve collaboration and communication with people affected by crisis. Radio can also play a key role in other phases o ... more
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Verlagslandschaft und Lesekultur

Erika Glassen
In: Länderbericht Türkei
Udo Steinbach (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 497-501
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Der Film als Seismograph der Gesellschaft: Themen und Tendenzen im aktuellen türkischen Kino

Rüdiger Suchsland
In: Länderbericht Türkei
Udo Steinbach (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 521-530