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America Through the Eyes of China and India: Television, Identity, and Intercultural Communication in a Changing World

Edward D. Sherman
New York; London: Continuum (2010), ix, 167 pp.
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Handbook of Research on Overcoming Digital Divides: Constructing an Equitable and Competitive Information Society

Enrico Ferro (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2010), xxxvi, 737 pp.
"The Handbook presents a comprehensive, integrative, and global view of what has been called the digital divide. Collecting an international collaboration of experts, this Handbook of Research offers policy makers, academicians, managers, and researchers a complete reference source to the interactio ... more
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Religion Macht Frieden: Das Friedenspotenzial von Religionen in politischen Gewaltkonflikten
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Markus A. Weingardt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 480 pp.
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Free Expression Under Attack: Azerbaijan’s Deteriorating Media Environment

International Freedom of Expression Mission to Azerbaijan
London: Article 19 (2010), 29 pp.
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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam

Philip N. Howard
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.
"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar ... more
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Participatory Content Creation: Voice, Communication, and Development

Jo Tacchi, Jerry Watkins, Kosala Keerthirathne
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 573-584
"This article uses the example of a mobile mixed-media platform – a converted three-wheeled autorickshaw – in Sri Lanka in order to explore whether and how content-creation activities can enable marginalised communities to have a voice. It draws upon research into participatory content-creation ... more
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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
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Raghu Mainali, Yadab Chapagain, Bikram Subba
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 292 pp.
"This guidebook offers instructions for strengthening the organisation of community radio stations, in order to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. The all-embracing essentials of community radio station management, ie, governance and programme/financial/technical management, are discussed i ... more
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Changing Media, Changing Societies: Media and the Millennium Development Goals

Indrajit Banerjee, Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2009), 219 pp.
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Radio Namobudhha: Baseline Survey on Consciousness and Viewpoint of Listeners

Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2009), 66 pp.
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Catholic Communication Directory India 2009

New Dehli; Bangalore: Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Commission for Social Communications; Signis India; Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) (2009), 101 pp.
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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

Daya Kishan Thussu
London: Sage (2009), ix, 214 pp.
"This first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ‘dumbing down’ discourse, largely confined to the ... more
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Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millenium Development Goals

John V. Vilanilam
New Dehli: Sage (2009), xx, 272 pp.
"Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millennium Development Goals analyzes seven Indian newspapers for a period of seven months and evaluates the extent to which development issues are addressed in them. The findings reveal an under-representation of development issues in the media ... more
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Development Communication: Reframing the Role of Media

Thomas L. McPhail (ed.)
Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xiii, 239 pp.
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Theatre for Transformation and Empowerment: A Case Study of Jana Sanskriti Theatre of the Oppressed

Sandra Mills
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 550-559
"This article analyses the importance of participation in development discourse and examines the effectiveness of theatre as a participatory technique and communication channel. It considers how theatre forms and aesthetics have potential power to produce individual and collective knowledge and alte ... more
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Media Training Trends and Practices in Nepal: A Status Report

Shekhar Parajulee, Devraj Humagain, Arjun Panthi, Harsha Man Maharjan
Kathmandu: Martin Chautari (2009), vii, 62 pp.
"Martin Chautari (MC) has been researching various aspects of Nepali media for almost a decade now. In this study, MC’s focus is on one of the major components of the media sector in Nepal, namely, media training, a subject which has so far been neglected by academics and other researchers. In thi ... more
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Popular Culture in a Globalised India

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2009), xviii, 285 pp.
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Assessment of Media Development in the Maldives: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Toby Mendel
New Delhi: UNESCO Communication and Information Sector (2009), 18 pp.
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Negotiating Power: Community Media, Democracy, and the Public Sphere

Saima Saeed
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 466-478
"Given the centrality of communication to society, who ‘owns’ the media, who gets to speak on behalf of whom, and to what end are critical issues. The regression of ‘mainstream’ media from ‘watchdogs’ of democracies to business ventures resulting in Habermasian ‘refeudalisation of the ... more
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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)
London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.
"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more
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Communication for Development: Reinventing Theory and Action. Vol.1: Understanding Development Communication

Kiran Prasad
Delhi: B.R. Publishing (2009), xv, 286 pp.