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Die weltweite Situation der christlichen Minderheiten

Hans Zehetmair (ed.)

München: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (HSS) (2013), 88 pp.

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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.

"After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center of world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for thi ... more

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Web Radio: A Manual for Streaming Audio on the Web
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Zahir Koradia

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2013), x, 60 pp.

"This is a basic manual for audio streaming and establishing a web radio station. Web radio is an increasingly popular, low-cost option for community radio. The manual outlines how web radio works, explaining the components involved and the roles they play, and giving details about the requirements ... more

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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

Tejaswini Ganti

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.

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How the people of India live with climate change and what communication can do

Varinder Gambhir, Prerna Kumar

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 89 pp.

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Missionary Printing

M. Antoni Üçerler

In: The Book: A Global History

Michael F. Suarez; H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 107-115

"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo ... more

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Qissa and Popular Hindi Cinema

Anjali Gera Roy

In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 183-194

"While acknowledging the contribution of the dominant Hindi Sanskritic narrative tradition to the shaping of popular Hindi cinema, this chapter aims to explore the alternative narrative streams that have governed storytelling in Hindi films, particularly the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa and dast ... more

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Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Ulla Carlsson, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom;UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (2013), 416 pp.

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Health on the Move: Can Mobile Phones Save Lives?

Yvonne MacPherson, Sara Chamberlain

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 24 pp.

"With its rapidly expanding penetration within the developing world, mobile telephony offers major new opportunities to build upon and augment existing health communication efforts. As Usha Kiran Tarigopula of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation India Programmes put it: “It is increasingly… clea ... more

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Media Perceptions and Portrayals of Pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

Mike Shanahan

London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2013), 28 pp.

"Pastoralists use their mobility to take advantage of resources – pasture and water – that are patchily distributed in space and time. Pastoralism can make major contributions to food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity. However, these benefits often go unacknowledged – by policy mak ... more

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TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
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Janet McCabe, Kim Akass (eds.)

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

"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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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.

"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more

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More Than a Belated Gutenberg Age: Daily Newspapers in India. An Overview of the Print Media Development Since the 1980s, Key Issues and Current Perspectives

Nadja-Christina Schneider

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), 25 pp.

"The Indian newspaper market still keeps growing and has attracted the interest of multinational corporations. One reason for this is that India is presently one of the largest markets for English-language newspapers and magazines in the world. Notwithstanding the continued growth of the English-lan ... more

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The Global Social Network Landscape: A Country-By-Country Guide to Social Network Usage

Mitchel Winkels

eMarketer (2013), 40 pp.

"Though Facebook’s near-ubiquitous lead might indicate that the global social network landscape is simplifying, it quickly becomes clear this is not the case. This report aims to help marketers assess the social network landscape in 27 countries by briefly examining four key factors: top social ne ... more

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Rethinking the Growth of Print Media in India

Gopalan Ravindram

Media Development, volume 60, issue 2 (2013), pp. 28-31

"Recent times have seen an increasing number of reports about the plight of press systems in the Western hemisphere in contrast to the growing prospects of the print media in Asia, particularly in countries like India and China. While many attribute the success stories of the Indian and Chinese news ... more

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Regional Segment Profiles

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 7 pp.

"In order to understand people’s needs and identify opportunities to communicate with them effectively, Climate Asia has analysed survey data from across the seven project countries – Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, and China – and placed people into five discrete segme ... more

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India’s Media Boom: The Good News and the Bad

James Painter (ed.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xv, 86 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2013), 240 pp.

"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.

"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more

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Entertainment Education and Social Change

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 27, issue 1 (2013), 146 pp.

Web Radio: A Manual for Streaming Audio on the Web Key Guidance

TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand Top Insights

Web Radio: A Manual for Streaming Audio on the Web
Key Guidance

TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
Top Insights