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In this section IAMCR members can announce their recently published books and book chapters to the IAMCR community and website visitors. If you are a member of IAMCR and would like to have your recent books or book chapters listed, send us an email...
The Production of Modernization: Daniel Lerner, Mass Media, and 'The Passing of Traditional Society'
by Hemant Shah
Daniel Lerner's 1958 book The Passing of Traditional Society was central in shaping Cold War era ideas about the use of mass media and culture to promote social and economic progress in postcolonial nations. This book examines Lerner’s work and the intellectual trajectory of his thinking about mass media and modernization.
After the Czars and Commissars: Journalism in Authoritarian Post-Soviet Central Asia
E. Freedman & R. Shafer (eds.)
From Czarism and Bolshevism to the current post-communist era, the media in Central Asia has been tightly constrained. Though the governments in the region assert that a free press is permitted to operate, research has shown this to be untrue.
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Ringtones of Opportunity: Policy, Technology and Access in Caribbean Communications
Editor: Hopeton S. Dunn
This multi-authored volume is one of the first books to present scholarly research on the liberating opportunities offered by information and communications technologies in the Caribbean and the global south. While acknowledging challenges of policy implementation and technology adaptation, the book nevertheless identifies a range of empowering development options in media literacy, e-fisheries, m-banking, mobile telephony, m-agriculture, tele-working, techno-driven environmental strategies and intellectual property reforms.
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