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Election Times: Harnessing the Power of New Media. International Media Conference by the International Institute for Journalism in Cooperation with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Astrid Kohl, Melanie Wieland (eds.)

Bonn; Berlin: InWEnt;International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) (2009), 50 pp.

Poverty in the Media: Being Seen and Getting Heard

Fred Robinson, Richard Else, Maeve Sherlock, Ian Zass-Ogilvie

York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) (2009), 39 pp.

"Public understanding of poverty in the UK is limited. The media can give people with experience of poverty the opportunity to present their views, experiences and opinions, which can help to inform and create a groundswell of public opinion supporting efforts to tackle poverty. This study focuses o ... more

Smart Toolkit for Evaluating Information Products and Services
Key Guidance

Wageningen; The Hague; Amsterdam: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);Royal Tropical Institute (KIT);International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2009), xi, 321 pp.

"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri ... more

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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.

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Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies

Ivan Sigal

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 38 pp.

"Much violent conflict today takes place in or near civilian populations with access to global information networks, so the information gathered by various parties to conflict may potentially be distributed in real time around the globe. The ability to communicate, and to produce and receive diverse ... more

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The Role of New Media in the 2009 Iranian Elections

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 7 pp.

iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam
Top Insights

Gary R. Bunt

London: Hurst (2009), 358 pp.

"The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. While these electronic interfaces appear new and innovative in terms of how the media is applied, much of their content has a basis in cla ... more

Tiempos de cambio: Política y comunicación en América Latina

Andrés Cañizález (Coord.)

Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2009), 226 pp.

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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online

Guobin Yang

New York: Columbia University Press (2009), xv, 302 pp.

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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.

Wikiworld: Political Economy of Digital Literacy, and the Promise of Participatory Media

Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén

Tampere: Paulo Freire Research Center;University of Tampere, Hypermedialab (2008), 204 pp.

New Media and International Media Development: A Resource Guide for Europe and Eurasia

Matthew Vanderwerff

Washington, DC: USAID (2008), 32 pp.

"This paper begins by analyzing the trends and technologies comprising new media. Social networking sites, new mobile phone technologies, and online broadcasting sites like YouTube are assessed to show how they can be incorporated in media assistance projects. The second section continues to examine ... more

The Promise of Ubiquity: Mobile as Media Platform in the Global South
Inspiring Practice

Top Insights

John West

Paris: Internews Europe (2008), 89 pp.

"There have been an estimated 3.8 billion mobile phones in the world in 2008 and most of the growth has been taking place in the Global South. 15 million people in Africa now individually own mobile phones but do not have access to a TV at home. A higher percentage of Kenyans use mobile commerce tha ... more

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Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies

James E. Katz (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2008), ix, 472 pp.

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Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Graham Vickery

Paris: OECD (2007), 124 pp.

"Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwid ... more

Le journalisme à l'ère électronique
Key Guidance

Alain Joannès

Paris: Librairie Vuibert (2007), 247 pp.

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Online-Communities als soziale Systeme: Wikis, Weblogs und Social Software im E-Learning

Ullrich Dittler, Michael Kindt, Christine Schwarz (eds.)

Münster: Waxmann (2007), 223 pp.

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Media Communities

Brigitte Hipfl, Theo Hug (eds.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2006), 342 pp.

"This book analyzes the different ways in which media are being used for community building and it also critically interrogates the concept of community itself. The authors do that from a variety of different perspectives, ranging from fundamental philosophical questions regarding community, to the ... more