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Taking Root: Human Rights and Public Opinion in the Global South

James Ron, Shannon Golden, David Crow, Archana Pandya

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2017), x, 255 pp.

"As international donors pour money into global human rights promotion, many governments—as well as scores of scholars and activists—fear a subtle, Western-led campaign for political, economic, and cultural domination. This book asks: What do publics in the global South think? Drawing on surveys ... more

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Media and Global Climate Knowledge: Journalism and the IPCC

Risto Kunelius, Elisabeth Eide, Matthew Tegelberg, Dmitry Yagodin (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xx, 309 pp.

"This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key elem ... more

In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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Anya Schiffrin (ed.)

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.

"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are ... more

Young Adolescents and Digital Media: Uses, Risks and Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Rapid Evidence Review
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Sonia Livingstone, Anulekha Nandi, Shakuntala Banaji, Mariya Stoilova

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE);Department for International Development (DFID) (2017), 54 pp.

"This rapid evidence review examines adolescents’ access to and use of digital media (especially mobile phones and the internet), together with the associated digital skills and practices, opportunities and risks, and forms of safety mediation, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The revi ... more

Guide to the Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS) Framework

Grahamstown; Oxford: African Journals Online (AJOL);International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2017), 10 pp.

"Journals in the developing world face challenges in becoming known and respected in the international research landscape. Since 1998 the Journals Online project has established a network of local journal platforms to help Southern journals gain an online presence and increase their global visibilit ... more

Radio as an Educational Tool in Developing Countries: Its Evolution and Current Usages

Bhaskar Sarmah, Sukmaya Lama

International Conference on Developmental Interventions and Open Learning for Empowering and Transforming Society (2017), 14 pp.

"This paper makes an attempt to trace the evolution and growth of radio as a tool of education, particularly distance education in the developing countries. Apart from that, the paper also makes an attempt to outline the content of the Radio programmes across these countries of the world. Last, but ... more

Guidebook Internet Governance: Media Freedom in a Connected World

Barbara Gruber, Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Steffen Leidel, Matthias Spielkamp (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;iRights.Lab (2016), 39 pp.

"To many in the media, Internet governance seems to be an issue far removed from their daily life and work. This misconception can have substantial consequences. The Internet is fast becoming the infrastructure for all communications between media and citizens. If journalists and media freedom activ ... more

Last Mile Connectivity in Emerging Markets

Developing Telecoms (2016), 28 pp.

"This report focuses on the difficulties faced by operators in emerging markets looking to deliver data bandwidth cost effectively to challenging locations, including remote communities and busy cities. While the challenges are myriad, improvements in technology are increasingly making the business ... more

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ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications

Bidit Dey, Karim Sorour, Raffaele Filieri (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.

"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of cont ... more

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Hands Off my Regime! Governments’ Restrictions on Foreign Aid to Non-Governmental Organizations in Poor and Middle-Income Countries

Kendra Dupuy, James Ron, Aseem Prakasha

World Development, volume 84 (2016), pp. 299-311

"Many resource-strapped developing country governments seek international aid, but when that assistance is channeled through domestic civil society, it can threaten their political control. As a result, in the last two decades, 39 of the world’s 153 low- and middle-income countries have adopted la ... more

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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication

Monroe E. Price

New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.

The Media and Development

D+C: Development and Cooperation, volume 42, issue 1 (2015), pp. 10-29

Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice

Christiaan De Beukelaer

Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp.

"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks ... more

Emerging Markets Telecom Trends 2015

Developing Telecoms (2015), 48 pp.

Sustainable Radio: Summary of the Online Debate

Sofie Jannusch, Birgitte Jallov (eds.)

Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2015), 36 pp.

Comunicación para el cambio social: La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial

Thomas Tufte

Barcelona: Icaria Editorial (2015), 255 pp.

"El inicio del siglo XXI ha venido marcado por los debates que, en el plano internacional, están sometiendo a revisión la comunicación para el desarrollo con el fin de proponer otras alternativas como comunicación para el cambio social o comunicación para el empoderamiento ciudadano y ecosocial ... more

Nexus Between State, Civil Society and Media: Innovative Projects

Tim Auracher, Katharina Kammerer, Sonja Taylor

Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ);Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ);Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 6 pp.

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Phoning it in: Theory in Mobile Media and Communication in Developing Countries

Katy E. Pearce

Mobile Media & Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2014), pp. 76-82

"As 75 percent of the world’s mobile subscriptions are in developing countries, studies of use patterns are essential to broader understanding. However, scholars should engage with existing theory and literature in order to operate within a framework and expand readership. Rigorous and ethical res ... more