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Tuned in to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of Interactive Radio Instruction for the Hardest-To-Reach

Jennifer Ho, Hetal Thurkal
Washington, DC: Education Development Center, Inc. (2009), iv, 64 pp.
"Evaluation data gathered between 1975 and 2000 demonstrated that Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) had improved learning outcomes in conventional classrooms by between 10% and 20% when compared with control classrooms not using IRI. These programs often had relatively well-funded evaluation compo ... more
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A Study on Media Influence on Public Policy in Bangladesh: Investment Climate Perspective

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2009), 36 pp.
"This paper has tried to find out whether newspapers in Bangladesh have any influence on policy formulation, revision and improvement in respect to investment climate. Reviewing two Bangla and two English newspapers for three fiscal years, we found that newspapers have strong interest in policy rela ... more
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Television Studies After TV: Understanding Television in the Post-Broadcast Era

Graeme Turner, Jinna Tay (eds.)
Abingdon: Routledge (2009), x, 214 pp.
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Violence, Intimidation and Legal Cases Against Journalists and the Media in Armenia 2008-2009

Liana Sayadyan (ed.)
Yerevan: Investigative Journalists NGO (2009), pp. 88-159
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Community Radio Organization Development Guidebook
Key Guides

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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Media Under Fire: Press Freedom Lockdown in Sri Lanka

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 26 pp.
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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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Media development in Afghanistan

Massoumeh Torfeh
Media Development (WACC), issue 1 (2009), pp. 39-44
"The international community entered Afghanistan in December 2001 to oust the Taliban. It promised reconstruction, development and democratisation. At the time, the trauma of 25 years of war had left civil society in Afghanistan shattered and the media had become mere tools in the hands of the dicta ... more
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Final Program Report: Core Media Support Program for Armenia

Washington, DC: IREX (2009), 52 pp.
The USAID-funded Core Media Support Program for Armenia (CMSPA) began in September 2004 after a several year hiatus of intensive USAID support to the Armenian media sector; it concluded on September 27, 2009.
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Grassroots Radio and the Episteme of Development: The NGO-ization of Community Radio in Nepal

Heather Gilberds
Ottawa: Carleton University, School of Journalism and Communication, Master Thesis (2009), iv, 146 pp.
"Nepal's community radio sector has flourished since it liberalized the airwaves for the first time in 1997. Drawing on an established tradition in other areas of the developing world, Nepal embraced community radio for its potential to overcome propagandistic and exclusive national media systems, t ... more
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Fokus Bollywood: Das indische Kino in wissenschaftlichen Diskursen

Claus Tieber (ed.)
Wien et al.: Lit (2009), 184 pp.
"Bollywood ist nicht nur ein Lifestylephänomen, auch die Wissenschaft beschäftigt sich zunehmend mit indischer Populärkultur. An der Universität Wien findet seit Jahren wichtige Forschung zu diesem Thema statt. Dieser Sammelband vereint Beiträge aus so unterschiedlichen Disziplinen wie Kultur- ... more
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Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

Nalin Mehta (ed.)
New York: Routledge (2008), ix, 170 pp.
"This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which cam ... more
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Asian Communication Handbook 2008
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Indrajit Banerjee, Stephen Logan (eds.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 548 pp.
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Global Bollywood

Anandam P. Kavoori, Aswin Punathambekar (eds.)
New York; London: New York University Press (2008), vi, 314 pp.
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Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia

Youna Kim (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2008), 238 pp.
"This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of global ... more
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Community Radio: Collective Marketing Strategy

Bikram Subba, Yadav Chapagain, Raghu Mainali
Kathmandu: Community Radio Support Center (CRSC), Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists (NEFEJ) (2008), 91 pp.
"This is an introduction to the collective marketing strategy with a regional and thematic emphasis on Nepalese community radio stations. In this publication, airtime is viewed as the "product" that all community radio stations sell, and which builds a link between them, as well as their mutual aim ... more
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Towards a New Model: Media and Communication in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
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Shanthi Kalathil, John Langlois, Adam Kaplan
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2008), 105 pp.
"There is very little undestanding of the role that communicartion processes play in the numerous starnds of post-conflict reconstruction, including peacebuilding, governance, and long-term development. This paper addressess this gap by distilling lessons learned from the media and communication str ... more
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Die Nase des Sultans: Karikaturen aus der Türkei = Padisahin burnu: Türkiye'den Karikatürler

Sabine Küper-Büsch, Nigar Rona (eds.)
Berlin; Istanbul: Dagyeli; Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayinlari (2008), 263 pp.
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The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India

Robert Jensen
Chicago: University of Chicago; NBER; Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies (2008), 41 pp.
"Cable and satellite television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world. These media sources expose viewers to new information about the outside world and other ways of life, which may a ect attitudes and behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television o ... more
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Information Literacy Competency and Readership Study of Five Specific Localities in the Urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban Areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City

Chaitali Dutta
New Dehli: UNESCO (2008), 62 pp.
"The objectives of this field survey are as follows: to attempt a critical study of the readership of people from different social strata of five specific localities of Kolkata Metropolitan City; to attempt a study of the influence and to measure the encroachment of different media on people’s rea ... more