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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film ... more

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IFJ Research Findings on Reporting HIV/AIDS in Six Countries in Africa and Asia

Chansok Lay, Arul Selvan, Tunde Aremu et al.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 81 pp.

"Media monitoring found a low incidence of HIV/AIDS stories across most media in the six countries. Researchers variously described the incidence of HIV stories during the media monitoring as “small” (Cambodia and the Philippines), “miniscule” (South Africa), and “infrequent” (India). In ... more

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News Around the World: Content, Practitioners, and the Public

Pamela J. Shoemaker, Akiba A. Cohen

New York: Routledge (2006), 409 pp.

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Policy Guidelines for Setting Up Community Radio Stations in India

Government of India (2006), 10 pp.

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Place et rôle de la communication dans le développement international

Jean-Paul Lafrance, Anne-Marie Laulan, Carmen Rico de Sotelo (eds.)

Québec: Presse de l'Université du Québec (2006), xx, 168 pp.

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Women in Newspapers in South Asia: Changes and Challenges

Kavitha Shetty (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2006), 188 pp.

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

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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Public Service Broadcasting in the Age of Globalization

Indrajit Banerjee, Kalinga Seneviratne

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2006), 348 pp.

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Catholic Communications India: Findings of a Nation-Wide Survey 2005
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Henry D'Souza, Valerian Rodrigues (eds.)

New Delhi: Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), Commission for Social Communications (2006), 384 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

International Communication: Continuity and Change

Daya Kishan Thussu

London: Hodder Arnold, 2nd ed. (2006), 336 pp.

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Der Blick der Anderen: Europa in der Wahrnehmung von Medien Afrikas, Asiens und Lateinamerikas

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)

Bochum: Paragon Verlag (2006), 161 pp.

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