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Tibet media use 2012: word-of-mouth a top source for reliable information

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 46 slides

"Television is the most widely used media among this population: 9 out of 10 interviewed reported watching it at least once last month; satellite dishes are the dominant way of receiving television signal in rural areas (Cable more prevalent in urban areas). Chinese channels are largely reserved for... more

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Reading habits in Armenia: results of a survey on readership carried out in December 2012

Ruzan Tonoyan

[no publisher] (2012), 60 pp.

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"About 39 percent started to read regularly at elementary school age, and 44 percent at primary and high school age. As compared to the last five years, 37 percent of respondents stopped reading completely, 43 percent read less, 6 percent read as much as they read before, and only 14 percent said th... more

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Media use in Indonesia: findings from the 2012 international audience research project

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 41 slides

"Conclusions: Television remains the most important medium by far, both in terms of overall reach and as a news source. Internet access - heavily driven by mobile take-up - has reached critical mass, especially among key demographics. This phenomenon is national in nature and not just confined to mo... more

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Palestine online: transnationalism, the internet and the construction of identity

Miriyam Aouragh

London; New York: Tauris (2012) new paperback ed., xix, 272 pp., 18 illustr., 7 tables, bibliogr. p.249-264, index

ISBN 978-1-84885-364-5 (print); 978-0-7556-0788-4 (online)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2011

"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban... more

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Public memory, public media, and the politics of justice

Philip Lee; Pradip Thomas (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp., index

ISBN 9780230354067 (hbk); 978-1-349-34616-5; 978-1-137-26517-3 (ebook)

"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are... more

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Media use in Zimbabwe 2012: rise in satellite ownership, internet use

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 33 slides

"The notion that Zimbabwe is a radio-only market is outdated. With the strong growth in TV and New Media in urban areas, a multi-platform approach is needed to reach different demographics." (Conclusions, p.33)

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Media use in Burma: findings from the 2012 international audience research project

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 52 slides

"Burma s media environment is underdeveloped and firmly anchored in old media, but changes have started. Radio is the most used media for entertainment and news in Burma, and domestic outlets have expanded rapidly in recent years. Television s growth in urban areas has been striking in recent years.... more

The performance of vernacular radio stations in Kenya: monitoring report

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), viii, 33 pp., 15 figures, 17 tables

"The Media Council of Kenya (MCK), the statutory body established under the Media Act 2007 that regulates media and advances professionalism of the media in Kenya, monitored a set of ten vernacular radio stations in September/October 2011 in order to assess their current performance. The study looke... more

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Building your child helpline: a user-friendly guide to starting or scaling-up a child helpline

Amsterdam: Child Helpline International (2011) rev. 4th ed., 96 pp.

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"This compilation has been divided into four chapters. The first chapter briefly explains what a child helpline is, draws attention to the key elements of a child helpline and attempts to answer some of the questions you may have regarding particular activities of a child helpline and about getting ... more

Body parts on planet slum: women and telenovelas in Brazil

Lisa Beljuli Brown

London: Anthem Press (2011), xxv, 156 pp., glossary p.137-138, bibliogr. p.139-148, index

ISBN 978-0-85728-446-4 (online); 978-0-85728-797-7 (print)

"Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochisti... more

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Designs, devices and development: audience research as creative resource in the making of an Afghan radio drama

Andrew Skuse; Marie Gillespie

Participations, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153

"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust...ainability of the highly popular Afghan radio soap opera New Home, New Life. This is a ‘development drama’ that has been broadcast across Afghanistan since 1993. It is based on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers and produced by BBC Afghan Education Projects (BBC AEP). Audience research has been vital to forging a dynamic relationship between the creative teams who make the drama, the donors who pay for it, and the audiences who consume it. The article addresses three broad themes. First, we outline how data gathered in formative audience research, prior to the creation of the drama, provides the creative team with the dramatic raw material for the radio serial. The extensive qualitative data gathered by Afghan researchers in local milieux is translated so as to enable culturally diverse teams of writers and producers to ground the serial narratives in the lived experiences of its audiences, and to introduce multiple local perspectives on development issues. Second, we show how evaluative audience research, data gathered in the postproduction phase, plays a key role in providing critical audience interpretations of New Home, New Life’s dramatic themes. In so doing, it creates feedback loops that allow audiences to become active participants in the ongoing creation of the drama. The research designs and devices, developed over the last two decades to document the changing life-worlds of Afghan citizens-cum-audiences, are part of an ongoing set of transcultural encounters that contribute to strengthening the social realist appeal of the drama and to calibrating how far any given storyline can be pushed in terms of cultural propriety. Third, we examine how during periods of military conflict, when routine audience research becomes dangerous or impossible and audience feedback loops are disrupted, the writers and producers have to rely on their own personal and political experiences, often with unpredictable ideological consequences. We draw attention to the limitations and challenges of making dramas for development in highly charged politicised and postcolonial contexts. While, development dramas may be a cheap and effective way of dealing with certain informational needs, such as landmine awareness, they cannot redress social and structural inequalities or, as Western donors wish, eradicate opium cultivation." (Abstract) more

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El cine de los otros: la representación de "lo indígena" en el cine documental ecuatoriano

Karolina Romero

Quito: FLACSO; Abya-Yala (2011), 128 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.117-121, filmogr. p.123-124

ISBN 9978-67-269-9 (FLACSO); 978-9978-22-959-0 (Abya-Yala)

Other Editions: also Quito, FLACSO, Sede Ecuador, Master Thesis, 132 p.

"Esta investigación aporta a la comprensión del contexto histórico-social de la construcción del cine documental en Ecuador desde una visión que valora y entiende al cine documental como parte de la cultura visual ecuatoriana, el mundo de las imágenes, su vida social y las representaciones que... more

The collective memory reader

Jeffrey K. Olick; Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi; Daniel Levy (eds.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2011), xviii, 497 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-19-533742-6 (pbk); 978-0-19-533741-9 (hbk)

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Working towards a deeper understanding of digital safety for children and young people in developing nations

Urs Gasser; Colin Maclay; John Palfrey

Cambridge, Mass.: Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2010), 32 pp.

"While the safety of children and young people in digital spaces has become an important issue of qualitative as well as quantitative research in the developed world and has led to a significant body of knowledge, the research efforts in the developing nations, with few exceptions, are still relativ... more

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Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: reflections inspired by studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa

Africa spectrum, volume 45, issue 1 (2010), pp. 57-93

ISSN 1868-6869 (online) CC BY-ND

"This paper demonstrates the extent to which the media and belonging in Africa are torn between competing and often conflicting claims of bounded and flexible ideas of culture and identity. It draws on studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa, inspired by the resilience of the politicizati... more

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African languages in a digital age: challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing

Don Osborn

Cape Town; Ottawa: HSRC Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvi, 150 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xvi, bibliogr. p.135-145, index

ISBN 978-1-55250-473-4 (IDRC); 978-0-7969-2249-6 (pbk); 978-0-7969-2300-4 (pdf)

"This book is the result of several years of observation, analysis, consultation and synthesis of the adaptation of ict s to local languages in Africa. The goal of the Pan Africa Localization project led by Don Osborn was to closely track the progress of ict s in African languages and clearly identi... more

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Diasporas: concepts, identities, intersections

Kim Knott; Seán McLoughlin (eds.)

London; New York: Zed Books (2010), viii, 319 pp., illustr., Kt.

ISBN 978-1-84277-948-4 (pbk)

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Children accused of witchcraft: an anthropological study of contemporary practices in Africa

Aleksandra Cimpric

Dakar: UNICEF (2010), 55 pp., bibliogr. p.50-55

"This study addresses the issue of children who are victims of violence and mistreatment due to local beliefs, representations and practices, in particular, relating to witchcraft. While the harmful consequences of these beliefs have been publicised internationally, their origins often remain unclea... more

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Mediennutzung von Migranten in Deutschland

Susanne Worbs

Nürnberg: Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (2010), 58 pp., 9 illustr., 8 tables, bibliogr. p.51-58

ISSN 1865-4770 (print); 1865-4967 (online)

"Die türkischstämmigen Migranten neigen im Vergleich mit anderen Herkunftsgruppen am stärksten zur Nutzung muttersprachiger Medien. Für sie gibt es auch das größte entsprechende Angebot, besonders bei Fernsehen und Printmedien. Hingegen scheinen insbesondere Migranten aus dem ehemaligen Jugosl... more

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Indígenas no Brasil: demandas dos povos e percepçoes da opiniao pública. Módulo II – Survey nacional

Fundação Perseu Abramo (FPA); Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2010), 182 pp., many diagr.