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Ground Realities: Community Radio in India

New Delhi: UNESCO (2011), 75 pp.
"The Government of India has recognized community radio through its guidelines in 2002 and amended guidelines in 2006. Yet, in the domain of community media, a large gap remains between policy and practice. Communities from the media dark regions of India continue to struggle to get their voices hea ... more
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Glocal Media Ethics

Shakuntala Rao
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner, Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 154-170
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People, Politics and Change: Building Communication Capacity for Governance Reform
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Cecilia Cabañero-Verzosa, Helen R. Garcia (eds.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), viii, 465 pp.
"This is an applied facilitator’s guide for reform managers, change agents, development practitioners, and training professionals who need to use smart communication techniques—the relevant concepts, frameworks and applications—to promote change through governance reform. It is grounded on the ... more
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Ein Hauch von Frühling: Die Medienlandschaft in Kirgistan ein Jahr nach der April-Revolution

Thomas Völker
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 43-44 (2011), pp. 14-18
"Die Freiheit der Arbeit von Journalisten ist immer auch ein wichtiger Indikator für den Grad der Demokratisierung eines Staates. Kirgistan ist diesbezüglich ein zerrissenes Land, welches sich zwischen Fortschritten und Rückfällen hin und her bewegt und auch in dieser Hinsicht stark von den Nach ... more
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Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Vol. 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere

Ulrika Mårtensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris (2011), xi, 349 pp.
"How does religious fundamentalism operate in modern global society? This two-volume series analyses the dynamics of fundamentalism and its relationship to the modern state, the public sphere and globalisation. This second volume explores the links between fundamentalism and communication: the rise ... more
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Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
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Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Gerry Power (eds.)
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2011), xxiii, 324 pp.
"By assessing edutainment as a space of cultural translation, Drama for Development advances an often neglected perspective in this topics' research. It focuses on what happens when various goals, worldviews and needs from donors, producers and the audiences come together in the production and meani ... more
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Religious Media Content: A Cable TV Phenomenon

Gayatri Murthy
audiencescapes (2011), 7 pp.
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Radio Sound and Social Realism: In the Terrain of Drama for Development Production

Andrew Skuse
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 7 (2011), pp. 595-609
"This article explores the use of sound in the context of two BBC World Service development-focused social realist radio drama productions in Afghanistan (New Home, New Life) and Nepal (Sweet Tales of the Sarangi). It examines the various ‘sound strategies' employed to enhance the realist aspirati ... more
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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Joe Karaganis (ed.)
New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2011), 425 pp.
"This publication is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in the developing world, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, the study tells two overarching stories: on ... more
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National Communication Strategy for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 2011-16

Kathmandu: Government of Nepal, Ministry of Health and Population, National Health Education Information Communication Centre (2011), 71 pp.
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Caucasus Analytical Digest, issue 25 (2011), pp. 1 -17
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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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Türkei: Medienordnung auf dem Weg nach Europa? Dokumentation der Wissenschaftlichen Fachtagung Deutsche Welle Mediendialog Im April 2011

Christoph Schmidt, Rolf Schwartmann (eds.)
Berlin: Vistas (2011), 125 pp.
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Media Sustainability Index 2011: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xxiii, 321 pp.
"With three notable exceptions—Belarus, Russia, and Uzbekistan—the media sector in the countries included in the first edition of the MSI in 2001 have over time either improved overall or stayed more or less the same. But, a review of overall MSI scores is just one way to use the MSI to see how ... more
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Training of Trainers' Manual on Gender and Security for the Media and Civil Society in Nepal

Lesley Abdela, Tim Symonds, Sarah Dalrymple
London: Saferworld; IHRICON (2011), 60 pp.
"The manual is designed for a three-day workshop. It is accompanied by two sets of PowerPoint slides: Gender and security and Security and security sector reform (SSR) and a Companion workbook. The workbook contains tools, hand-outs, briefing information sheets and selected reading materials. It has ... more
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Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

Carolyn M. Byerly
Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.
"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more
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Trust in international news media in partially free media environments: A case study of five markets in Africa and South Asia

Anne Geniets
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 92 pp.
"This report is focused on attitudes to trust in international media. It collates findings from 36 focus groups and 11 immersion interviews conducted in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mumbai (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) in the summer and autumn of 2010 [...] The report explores th ... more
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Medios que mueven: Entretenimiento educativo para el cambio social
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Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal
La Haya: Oxfam Novib (2011), 82 pp.
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How Effective is Community Radio in Meeting the Needs of Remote Communities in Nepal? Case Study of Okhaldhunga, Nepal

Theodora Hannides
Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Master of Art in Development and Emergency Practice, Master Thesis (2011), 113 pp.
"The study uses qualitative and quantitative research to perform a community-based needs assessment. It highlights the underlying issues of a weak economy, infrastructure and caste system. It also highlights social and family networks that strengthen communities. The research then investigates how t ... more
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A Book is Not a Bomb! Media and Justice in Turkey, Mistrust and Repression

Johann Bihr, Jean-François Julliard
Reporters Without Borders (2011), 20 pp.
"Turkey has made important reforms over the past decade and the military’s influence on the media is now much less. Genuine progress has been made but a legislative straitjacket continues to stifle journalists. Reporting of some topics is still routinely punished by the courts. Journalists are arr ... more