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Encyclopedia of social movement media

John D. H. Downing (ed.)

Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi; Singapore: Sage (2011), xxvii, 602 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-7619-2688-7 (hbk)

"This one-volume encyclopedia features around 250 essays on the varied experiences of social movement media over the planet in the 20th and 21st centuries ... The guiding principles have been to ensure that experiences from the global South are given voice; that women are properly represented among ... more

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Diasporas: concepts, identities, intersections

Kim Knott; Seán McLoughlin (eds.)

London; New York: Zed Books (2010), viii, 319 pp., illustr., Kt.

ISBN 978-1-84277-948-4 (pbk)

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Best practices of journalism in Asia

Eric Loo

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), xvi, 172 pp., illustr.

"The book’s narrative structure intentionally uses minimal theoretical academic abstractions. Instead, it adopts a pragmatic approach – journalistic to an extent – to speculate what works best for journalists in Asia given the political constraints and resource limitations that many are compel... more

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Digital review of Asia Pacific 2009-2010

Shahid Akhtar; Patricia Arinto (eds.)

Montréal; Ottawa; New Delhi et al.: Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); Sage (2009), xxvii, 391 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xxvii, index

ISBN 978-81-321-0084-3 (pbk); 978-1-5255-0456-7 (ebook)

"The biennial Digital Review of Asia Pacific is a comprehensive guide to the state-of-practice and trends in information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) in Asia Pacific. This fourth edition (2009-2010) features 30 economies and four subregional groupings. The chapters provide u... more

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Digital review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008: reports on 31 economies and 2 sub-regional associations

Felix Librero; Patricia B. Arinto

New Dehli: Sage India; Orbicom; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), xv, 373 pp., abbrev. p.xiv-xv, illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-52550-377-5 (IDRC); 978-0-7619-3674-9 (pbk); 978-81-7829-840-5 (pbk India)

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Building sustainability for media centres: a handbook on best practices

Yasha Lange; Thomas Hughes

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2007), 52 pp., illustr.

ISBN 87-92209-02-5

"Media centres around the world are facing the same challenges in ensuring long-term sustainability after “start-up” funding from donors ceases. In order to overcome these challenges, a number of centres have pioneered innovative approaches for ensuring financial and institutional viability and ... more

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Information and communication technologies and large-scale poverty reduction: lessons from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean

Kitty Warnock; Ravi Wickremasinghe (eds.)

London: Panos (2005), 48 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.43-46

"During the last decade, development partners around the globe have gained rich experience and knowledge about the application of ICT for poverty reduction and its value for reaching the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of Poverty Reduction Strategies. But scaling up the results of success... more

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Thumb culture: the meaning of mobile phones for society

Peter Glotz; Stefan Bertschi; Chris Locke (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2005), 296 pp.

ISBN 978-3-8394-0403-4 CC BY-NC-ND

Other Editions: also published in German

"Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effect... more

ICD media assistance workshop

Information and Communication for Development (ICD) Department for International Development (DFID) (2004), 127 pp.

"The purpose of the one day ICD workshop on media assistance was to raise the profile of media for development within DFID, to share media assistance strategies and good practice with organisations and individuals engaged in the field of development communications, and to chart a way forward for bot... more

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Access to information: UNDP's engagement and a guide to key actors

New York: Democratic Governance Group Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2003), 96 pp., abbrev., direct.

"The first section provides summary information on 69 UNDP supported projects and initiatives as of 2002/03. These initiatives were identified primarily by desk research from three main sources: (i) direct feedback from the Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs)2), the COs and Regional Bureaux, (i... more

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Making waves: stories of participatory communication for social change

Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

New York: Rockefeller Foundation (2001), vi, 352 pp., abbrev. p.337-342

ISBN 0-89184-051-6

Other Editions: also published in Arabic, French and Spanish

"What follows is a fascinating account of 50 experiments in empowering people— living in poor communities across the world—to seize control of their own life stories and begin to change their circumstances of poverty, discrimination and exclusion. Alfonso Gumucio spent nearly one year researchin... more

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Information technologies for newspaper publishing in Asia and the Pacific

Belinda Hopkinson (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (1997), 198 pp., 17 illustr., abbrev. p.10-12, bibliogr. p.185-189, index

ISBN 92-310334-4

"The present work considers the many possible uses of information technologies from the viewpoint of newspapers, with particular reference to small- and medium-sized papers in Asia and the Pacific. Despite, and perhaps even because of, the special challenges faced by this region, due for example to ... more

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World communication report: the media and the challenge of the new technologies

Lotfi Maherzi

Paris: UNESCO (1997), 298 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.280-283, abbrev. p.284-287, glossary p.288-298

ISBN 92-3-103428-6

"The purpose of producing a second edition of the World Communication Report was pragmatic: the aim was to provide a reference work for decision-makers, planners, researchers, students, media professionals and the general public. In view of the scope of the subjects covered and the rapid outdating o... more

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A passion for radio: radio waves and community

Bruce Girard (ed.)

Montreal; New York: Black Rose Books (1992), 212 pp.

ISBN 90-5638-0834 (ebook); 1-895431-35-2 (hbk); 1-895431-34-4 (pbk)

Other Editions: also published in French and Spanish

"The primary objective of this book is to present a wide range of community radio projects, not so that the “ideal” model can be identified, but in the hope that the book will serve as a useful tool for community broadcasters and potential community broadcasters looking to create or adapt models... more

Communication theory: the Asian perspective

Wimal Dissanayake (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1988), xiv, 214 pp.

ISBN 9971-905-29-9

"Many of the essays in this volume seek to interpret traditional Asian approaches to communication in the light of modern Western concepts. At one level, this might appear to compromise the integrity of the Asian approaches. However, it needs to be stressed that this is a calculated strategy on the ... more

World broadcasting systems: a comparative analysis

Sydney W. Head

Belmont: Wadsworth (1985), xix, 457 pp., abbrev., glossary p.403-420, bibliogr. p.421-438, index

ISBN 0-534-04734-3

"Instead of describing typical systems in their entirety ...," says Head in his foreword, "I decided to organize the text on the basis of the common problems faced by all systems" to show the basic, universal demands and dilemmas they all must face as each interacts with its particular national sett... more