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Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology

Sarah Pink (ed.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2007), ix, 324 pp.
"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co ... more
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Community Radio in Nepal: A Case Study of Radio Madanpokhara

Arjun Banjade
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Scripps College, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 353 pp.
"This study is about Community Radio Madanpokhara (CRM) in Palpa district in Western Nepal. Initiated and managed by the local residents, CRM has been on the air on frequency modulation (FM) band serving 800,000 potential listeners in the region since 2000. Triangulating in-depth interviews, observa ... more
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Community Media: International Perspectives
Deep Insights

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.
"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem ... more
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Money Matters: How Independent Media Manage to Survive. 15-16 September 2006

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome) (2007), 77 pp.
"Discussions on how to support sustainability of independent media generally focus on the political conditions, the legal framework and – especially in German development cooperation – on the quality of journalistic coverage. Nevertheless, economic factors are of equal importance, not only for p ... more
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Forging Innovations: Community Multimedia Centres in Nepal

Karma Tshering Bhutia, Kirsty Martin
New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 54 pp.
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Empowering Radio: Good Practices in Development and Operation of Community Radio
Deep Insights

Bruce Girard (Coord.)
Amparo Cadavid; Martin Faye; Raghu Mainali; Carlos Rivadeneyra; Nkopane Maphiri (contrib.)
Washington, DC: World Bank Institute (WBIST), Program on Civic Engagement, Empowerment & Respect for Diversity (CEERD) (2007), 249 pp. [60 pp. + 5 annexes]
"This report is one of the first studies comparing systematically different aspects of community radio practice in developing countries. Based on five country surveys - Colombia, Mali, Nepal, Peru and South Africa - it provides descriptions and analyses of: participatory processes and volunteerism; ... more
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Words to Action: Investigative Reporting on Corruption. A Guide for Media Professionals

Sunanda Deshapriya, Jacqueline Park, Claire Fletcher
Redfern; Colombo: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); Free Media Movement (FMM) (2007), 23 pp.
"In this handbook we aim to define the issues of corruption, put them into the context of Sri Lanka, and explore the media’s role in exposing corruption and encouraging accountability. We present and analyse the findings of our research into corruption investigative reporting (CIR) in the Sri Lank ... more
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Media and Communications in the Third World

Zahid Hussain, Vanita Ray (eds.)
New Dehli: Kanishka (2007), xix, 249 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2007: Focus on Participation

Karen Banks, Roberto Bissio, Willie Currie, Anriette Esterhuysen, Chat Garcia Ramilo (eds.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2007), 215 pp.
"The experience of citizen involvement in public policy advocacy around the world has shown that the status quo tends to prevail unless political will to implement change is strengthened by active citizen participation. A “Global Information Society Watch” is needed to make governments and inter ... more
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Allah & Eva: Frauen in Pakistan

Betsy Udink
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2007), 233 pp.
"Islamische Gesellschaften haben zwei Gesichter: Nach außen führen die Menschen ein freies und normales Leben. Aber unsichtbar, in den von den Vätern beherrschten Häusern, in den von religiösen Fanatikern kontrollierten Dörfern und in den Gefängnissen der staatlichen Geheimdienste, werden die ... more
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Social Marketing: Marketing Moral, Human, Social and Cultural Values

Magimai Pragasam (ed.)
Kuala Lumpur: Signis Asia (2007), 104 pp.
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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
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Leif Packalén, Sharad Sharma
Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.
"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s ... more
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A State of Denial: The Crisis of Press Freedom and Journalist Safety in Pakistan

Chris Morley, Maheen A. Rashdi, Iqbal Khattak
Redfern: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2007), 15 pp.
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The Business of Media: Third South Caucasus Media Conference, Tbilisi 2 November 2006

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2007), 75 pp.
I. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE PRIVATISED AND PUBLIC MEDIA IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS Media business changes journalists’ attitude to their rights / Oleg Panfilov, 7 The fate of the state media and the situation of the private media in Georgia / Zviad Koridze, 11 The newspaper business in Armen ... more
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Community Radio: A User's Guide to the Technology
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N. Ramakrishnan
New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 274 pp.
"According to the foreword, 'this manual is designed to accompany you in the demystification of each piece of equipment usually found in community radio stations'. This is exactly what the guide does. The first section provides an overview of all relevant technical questions to non-technicians, incl ... more
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Images and icons: Harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

Yvonne MacPherson
Gender & Development, volume 15, issue 3 (2007), pp. 413-423
"Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how ... more
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Poverty and Digital Inclusion: Preliminary Findings of Finding a Voice Project

Andrew Skuse, Joann Fildes, Jo Tacchi, Kirsty Martin, Emma Baulch
New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 48 pp.
"This paper presents preliminary findings from a multi-sited qualitative study of poverty and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in India, Indonesia Sri Lanka and Nepal. It draws upon data gathered by 12 ethnographic action researchers working across 15 community ICT initiatives. Thes ... more
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Open Access: Chancen und Herausforderungen. Ein Handbuch

Barbara Malina (Red.)
Bonn: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2007), 136 pp.
"Die Transformation des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens von der Gutenberg-Galaxie in den Cyberspace verlangt allen Beteiligten eine Neudefinition ihrer Rolle in dem System ab. Bei den anstehenden Veränderungen ist eine Fülle technischer, rechtlicher und wirtschaftlicher Gegebenheiten zu ber ... more
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Measuring Change: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation in Media and Development Cooperation. 3rd Symposium Forum Media and Development

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2007), 81 pp.
"The symposium Measuring Change. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation1: The adding of “Planning” to “Monitoring and Evaluation” in the subtitle indicates that emphasis was laid on learning from monitoring and evaluation experie ... more
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Other Voices: The Struggle for Community Radio in India

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik
New Dehli et al.: Sage (2007), 319 pp.
"This book not only offers a historical account of the struggle for community radio in India, but also provides a documentation of the efforts of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and rural communities to realise the Brechtian mandate to use radio as a tool to build a robust civil society in the ... more