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NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations

Lisa Jordan, Peter van Tuijl (eds.)

London: Earthscan (2006), xii, 257 pp.

"This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and ques ... more

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
Inspiring Practice

Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp.

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N ... RM, particularly in Asia and Africa. There are many approaches and practices in development communication, and most of them have been implemented in the field of environment and natural resource management. But, even when considering participatory approaches in NRM, communication is often limited to information dissemination activities that mainly use printed materials, radio programmes and educational videos to send messages, explain technologies or illustrate activities. These approaches, with their strengths and weaknesses, have been well documented. Participatory development communication takes another perspective. This form of communication facilitates participation in a development initiative identified and selected by a community, with or without the external assistance of other stakeholders. The terminology has been used in the past by a number of scholars to stress the participatory approach of communication in contrast with its more traditional diffusion approach. Others refer to similar approaches as participatory communication for development, participatory communication or communication for social change. In this publication, participatory development communication is considered to be a planned activity that is based on participatory processes and on media and interpersonal communication. This communication facilitates dialogue among different stakeholders around a common development problem or goal. The objective is to develop and implement a set of activities that contribute to a solution to the problem or the realization of a goal, and which support and accompany this initiative. This kind of communication requires moving from a focus on information and persuasion to facilitating exchanges between different stakeholders to address a common problem, to develop a concrete initiative for experimenting with possible solutions, and to identify the partnerships, knowledge and materials needed to support these solutions." (Preface) more

Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame

Anne Tereska Ciecko (ed.)

Oxford: New York: Berg (2006), vi, 250 pp.

"With chapters on Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan, the book presents the most authoritative assessment of contemporary Asian cinema available. Each chapter describes the cultural aspe ... more

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Asia's March Towards Freedom of Expression and Development

Kalinga Seneviratne, Suganthi Singarayar (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (2006), 212 pp.

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Conflict, Terrorism and the Media in Asia

Benjamin Cole (ed.)

London: Routledge (2006), ix, 149 pp.

"There are many different kinds of sub-national conflicts across Asia, with a variety of causes, but since September 11, 2001 these have been increasingly portrayed as part of the global terrorist threat, to be dealt with by the War on Terror. This major new study examines a wide range of such confl ... more

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Manifesto for Development Communication: Nora Quebral and the Los Baños School of Development Communication

Linje Manyozo

Asian Journal of Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2006), pp. 79-99

"This article gives a critical review of the evolution of the concept ''development communication'' in the 1970s under the influence of professor nora quebral. As part of this retrospective, we also reprint the original 1971 article ''development communication in the agricultural context'' by nora q ... more

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"Unsere Opfer zählen nicht": Die Dritte Welt im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Birgit Morgenrath, Karl Rössel (eds.)

Berlin; Hamburg: Assoziation A;Rheinisches JournalistInnenbüro;Recherche International (2005), 444 pp.

"Im Oktober 1935 marschierten italienische Truppen in Äthiopien ein, um das afrikanische Land brutal zu unterwerfen; Ende 1937 begingen Soldaten des mit Deutschland verbündeten Japan ein Massaker im chinesischen Nanking. Diese imperialen Exzesse waren für viele Afrikaner und Asiaten mehr als nur ... more

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DED-Brief, issue 3 (2005), pp. 4-53

Freedom of Expression and the Media in the Philippines

London; Manila: Article 19;Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) (2005), 70 pp.

Perspectives on Distance Education: Educational Media in Asia
Top Insights

Usha V. Reddi, Sanjaya Mishra (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2005), 206 pp.

"The book opens with a review of the key issues in using media for education. It then proceeds through five country studies, written by highly qualified and experienced policy-makers and practitioners of educational media. The country studies are followed by research reviews that synthesise the majo ... more

The Audiovisual Markets in Developing Countries: Statistical Assessment Centred on 11 Countries

Emmanuel Cocq, Florence Lévy

Bangkok: UNESCO (2005), 68 pp.

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A Dangerous Profession: Press Freedom Under Fire in the Philippines

Gerard Noonan

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2005), 11 pp.

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Best Practices in Journalism Education in the Information Age: Proceedings

Violet B. Valdez, Chay Florentino Hofileña, Mark Vincent Escaler, Werner vom Busch (eds.)

Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Center for Journalism (CFJ) (2005), 172 pp.

"The contributions in this book are the result of four years of experience in online teaching at the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism (CFJ) at the prestigious Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. First presented at a workshop at the Ateneo de Manila in December 2004, the individual chapter ... more

Interreligiöse Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Erfahrungen der Hilfswerke und Literaturstudie zu Indonesien, Malaysia, Philippinen

Karoline Dietrich

Münster: Lit (2005), 248 pp.

Communicating Protected Areas

Denise Hamú, Elisabeth Auchincloss, Wendy Goldstein (eds.)

Gland (CH); Cambridge: IUCN (2004), 311 pp.

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Cyber Communities in Rural Asia: A Study of Seven Asian Countries

Kavita Karan (ed.)

Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic;Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2004), vi, 293 pp.

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Integrating ICTs Into Education: Lessons Learned. A Collective Case Study of Six Asian Countries

Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok (2004), 143 pp.

"Because of the different levels of ICT integration in the six countries, alongside many similarities in their experiences of ICT integration, there is a variety of approaches that should be explored and examined. An analysis of experiences and best practices and associated problems has generated le ... more

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Asian Cyberactivism: Freedom of Expression and Media Censorship

Steven Gan, James Gomez, Uwe Johannen (eds.)

Bangkok; Hong Kong: Friedrich Naumann Foundation;University of Hong Kong (2004), 644 pp.

"This book aims to record political activism on the Internet and "take stock of some of the successes and failures of cyberactivists as they try to beat the various censorship regimes in Asia." The sections of this 664-page book comprise of 'Political Frameworks & New Technology', 'Regulations and C ... more