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The Use of Radio in Disasters: 2008 Flood Response, North India. Case Study of First Response India

Health Communication Resources (HCR) (2012), 3 pp.

"Since the Bihar flooding, First Response India has gone on to train other teams in disaster radio response. Its aim is to equip other teams across India with the skills needed to improve collaboration and communication with people affected by crisis. Radio can also play a key role in other phases o ... more

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Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space

Isabelle Rigoni, Eugénie Saitta (ed.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xv, 172 pp.

"Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyond the opposition between ethnicity and citizenship and demonstrate ways to achieve equality in multicultural and globalised societies." (Publisher desc ... more

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Culture, Communication, Christianity: Challenges for Christian Communication in India

George Plathottam

Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection, volume 76, issue 9 (2012), pp. 707-719

"The author makes a serious discernment of the values and the dangers of the media or the virtual world developing as a result of the communication revolution in the last decades. He pleads for an effort on the part of the church to enter the secular media so as to be within it a seed that bears fru ... more

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Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self

Youna Kim (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiii, 258 pp.

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Who is the Community in Community Radio?

Savita Bailur

Economic & Political Weekly, volume 47, issue 17 (2012), pp. 92-99

"Despite the enthusiasm for community-owned radio, a movement which has been steadily gaining pace since the implementation of new legislation of 2006, we are yet to find an understanding of who the community is in community radio. Through an extended case study, this analysis shows how “community ... more

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Empowering Women Through ICT

Caroline Wamala

Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions;Stockholm University (2012), 72 pp.

"This publication covers five different projects carried out in six different locations. There were two projects in Bolivia, one focusing on empowering female indigenous leaders and the other provided female victims of domestic violence with a safe virtual environment where they could receive suppor ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

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Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
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Ian Pringle, Ekta Mittal, Mónica Valdés (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.

"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti ... more

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„The Whole Idea is to Entertain Them": Musik im indischen Wahlkampf

Cornelia Günauer

Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2012), 93 pp.

"Music is an omnipresent part of the often so-called great Indian election circus and much more than a mere by-product of what is the greatest democratic exercise worldwide. Songs and tunes are an integral part of political communication, strategically used by political actors which are confronted w ... more

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Compendium 2012: Community Radio Stations in India

Jayalakshmi Chittoor (ed.)

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (2012), 275 pp.

90 Indian community radio stations present their background, programming focuses, lessons learned and contact details.

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Abiding Voices: Sustainability of Community Radio in India

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);UNICEF (2012), 131 pp.

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Ethical Practice Guidelines for Community Radio Stations

Jayalakshmi Chittoor

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2012), 37 pp.

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Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium

Shoma Munshi

New Delhi et al.: Penguin (2012), xix, 353 pp.

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Reality Must Improve: The Perversity of Expertise and the Belatedness of Indian Development Television

William Mazzarella

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 215-241

"This essay argues against reducing the recent history of global television to an oversimplified transition between ‘statist’ and ‘consumerist’ dispensations. As apparently irreconcilable ideologies of television, the statist and consumerist models represent two ways of imagining the relatio ... more

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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora

David Knaute

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.

"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian ... more

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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web

Ingrid Therwath

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.

"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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Home of Hope: Voicings, Whiteness, and the Technological Gaze

Yahui Zhang, Radhika Gajjala, Sean Watkins

Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 36, issue 3 (2012), pp. 202-221

"This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks ... more

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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; Ottawa et al.: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2012), xv, 414 pp.

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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.

"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more

Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America Inspiring Practice

Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Inspiring Practice