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Bits and atoms: information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood

Steven Livingston; Gregor Walter-Drop (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp., bibliogr. p.173-185, index

ISBN 978-0-19-994161-2

"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone... more

Healthcare management strategy, communication, and development challenges and solutions in developing countries

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (ed.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2014), xvi, 240 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-739185667

"This publication analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their developm... more

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Communicating India's soft power: Buddha to Bollywood

Daya Kishan Thussu

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), 227 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.197-219, index

ISBN 978-1-137-02789-4 (ebook); 978-1-349-43981-2 (pbk); 978-1-137-02788-7 (hbk)

"Daya Thussu's book rescues the concept of soft power from American hands and applies it insightfully to India, and the concept is made richer and more useful as a result. With its dynamic and prosperous diaspora, the growing global popularity of its spiritual beliefs and practice, its reach as a gl... more

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TV's Betty goes global: from telenovela to international brand

Janet McCabe; Kim Akass (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-780762678

"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has since... more

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Climate change in the media: reporting risk and uncertainty

James Painter

London; New York: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xvi, 173 pp., bibliogr. p.162-173

ISBN 978-1-78076-588-4 (pbk); 978-075569-452-5 (online)

"Scientists and politicians are increasingly using the language of risk to describe the climate change challenge. Some researchers have argued that stressing the ‘risks‘ posed by climate change rather than the ‘uncertainties‘ can create a more helpful context for policy makers and a stronger... more

New media and intercultural communication: identity, community and politics

Pauline Hope Cheong; Judith N. Martin; Leah P. Macfadyen (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xx, 337 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-433-11365-9

"Chapters explore what happens in praxis when digital media are implemented across cultures and are contested and negotiated within complex local and political conditions. The book showcases interpretative and critical research from voices with diverse backgrounds, from locations around the world." ... 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

The vital drop: communication for polio eradication in India

Gitanjali Chaturvedi

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2008), xviii, 319 pp., abbrev. p.x-xiii, glossary p.295-304, bibliogr. p.305-311, index

ISBN 978-81-7829-866-5

"This book records the communication journey that began in 2002 through important innovations aimed at including segregated and marginalised populations, as well as a very successful mass media campaign featuring cine star Amitabh Bachchan. An important lesson learnt was that for any public health c... 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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Community media: local is focal

Nitin Paranjape

Community development journal, volume 42, issue 4 (2007), pp. 459-469

"Given the limited nature of global media with its emphasis on ‘infotainment’ driven by commerce, it has very little role in community development. We see the alarming and growing impact of the global media on the socio-cultural life of different communities in India. The rampaging growth of cen... more

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Community media: international perspectives

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4039-7794-6

"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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Open Access: Chancen und Herausforderungen. Ein Handbuch

Barbara Malina (Red.)

Bonn: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission (2007), 136 pp.

ISBN 3-927907-96-0 CC BY-NC

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Local information networks: social and technological considerations

Seema Nair; Megan Jennaway; Andrew Skuse

New Delhi: UNESCO (2006), 82 pp., illustr.

ISBN 81-89218-08-5

"This publication aims at understanding the nature and importance of various configurations of social and technological networks in community settings that combine to form a Local Information Networks (LIN). In this study LINs are conceptualised as comprising of two very different elements: one soci... 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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Transnational television worldwide: towards a new media order

Jean K. Chalaby (ed.)

London et al.: Tauris (2005), viii, 264 pp., tables, index

"This book is the first to offer a global perspective on the unique contemporary media phenomenon of transnational television channels. It is also the first to compare their impact in different regions of the globe. Revealing great richness and diversity across some of the world’s main geocultural... more

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War of words: conflict and freedom of expression in South Asia

London: Article 19 (2005), 241 pp.

"This study considers the conflicts in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, primarily looking at restrictions, highlighting similarities and differences and drawing some general conclusions about the ways in which authorities and combatants restrict freedom of expression. It also sets out international stand... more

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Puppets with a purpose: folk arts, cultural communication, and development in India

Eric Lee Littlepage

Thesis Department of Anthropology University of Virginia (2002), 66 pp.

"The use of folk arts in rural development clearly has limitations as to the role that it can play in changing people’s behavior, but it is an effective tool for communication in most cases. The greatest strength of this type of informal education lies in its ability to capture the audience’s at... more

Critical issues in communication: looking inward for answers. Essays in honour of K. E. Eapen

Srinivas R. Melkote; Sandhya Rao (eds.)

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2001), 491 pp., index

ISBN 0-7619-9511-0 (USA); 81-7036-990-8 (India)

"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher)

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

Third World film making and the West

Roy Armes

Berkeley: University of California Press (1987), xiii, 381 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.327-361, index

ISBN 0-520-05667-1; 0-520-05690-6

"This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output ... more