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Gender equality and media regulation study: Bangladesh

Qurratul-Ain-Tahmina et al.

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2022), 108 pp.

ISBN 978-984-35-2469-0

"This study seeks to provide new knowledge and analysis about gender-equality related provisions in regulations, self-regulatory frameworks and policies concerning media in Bangladesh. It also explores their implementation and monitoring aspects. It seeks to provide clear recommendations and cite be... more

Indigenous language for development communication in the Global South

Abiodun Salawu; Tshepang Bright Molale; Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed; Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)

Lexington Books (2022), 310 pp.

ISBN 978-1-666912029

"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i... more

Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe

Dawud Ansari et al.

Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp., illustr., bibliogr., p.44-51

"... in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicatio... more

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“Fake news”, religion, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Rubal Kanozia; Ritu Arya

Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 313-321

"Salali and Uysal (2020) found in their study that vaccine acceptance significantly increased when people believe in the natural origin of the virus. Therefore, mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories about how the virus started need to be debunked, especially in countries having high vaccine hes... more

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The Routledge companion to digital media and children

Lelia Green; Donell Holloway; Kylie Stevenson; Tama Leaver; Leslie Haddon (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xxv, 603 pp., illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-138-54434-5 (hbk); 978-1-351-00410-7 (ebook)

"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen... more

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Bangladesh: a mapping of innovative media

digitally right; International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 10 pp.

"This study mapped 11 innovative and public interest media initiatives in Bangladesh seeking to reach diverse audience groups and communities with news and information in a changing media landscape. Each of these media initiatives has its unique strengths and weaknesses but managed to thrive to cont... more

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Community radio in South Asia: reclaiming the airwaves

Kanchan K. Malik; Vinod Pavarala (eds.)

New York et al.: Routledge (2020), 294 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-138-55853-3 (hbk); 978-1-00-305623-2 (ebook)

"This book tells the story of community radio in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The three parts of the book focus on policy (discussed country by country), issues in practice, and case studies. In effect, however, each of the chapters touches on these topics to ... more

The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga... more

Digital inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda; Anna Gladkova (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp., 20 illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-030-32706-4 (pdf); 978-3-030-32705-7 (print)

"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ... more

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Community radio policies in South Asia: a deliberative policy ecology approach

Preeti Raghunath

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 382 pp., abbrev. p.xix-xxii, 2 tables, bibliogr. p.339-361, index

ISBN 978-981-15-5629-6 (ebook); 978-981-15-5628-9 (hbk)

"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking, ... more

Thirty rising media markets 2016

Anne Austin; Jonathan Barnard; Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon... more

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Desecrating expression: an account of freedom of expression and religion in Asia

Gayatri Khandhadai

Bytes for All; Asian For Human Rights & Development; Global Partners Digital (2016), 80 pp.

"This report outlines the international human rights standards and processes related the protection of freedom of expression and religious belief, and discusses regional trends and challenges. The nine country case studies include the stories of many people across the region struggling to defend fre... more

Bangladesh's changing mediascape: from state control to market forces

Brian Shoesmith; Jude William R. Genilo (eds.)

Bristol: intellect (2014), xvi, 404 pp., many tables, figures, illustr., bibliogr. p.383-388, glossary p.389-392, index

ISBN 978-1-84150-473-5

"Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats, including television, newspapers, radio, film and photography; policy issues; and the challenge that new media poses to governance in a developing nation faced with innumerable economic, social and political probl... more

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Development efforts to promote investigative reporting: a preliminary assessment of centers in Azerbaijan, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Bosnia

Rosemary Armao

Paper presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Rio de Janeiro; Investigative Journalism Education Consortium (IJEC) (2014)

"This paper compares and contrasts four centers: The Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (CIN), The Journalism Training and Research Initiative in Bangladesh (JATRI), the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in Jordan (ARIJ), and The Caucasus Media Investigations Center (... 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)