"Islamische Gesellschaften haben zwei Gesichter: Nach außen führen die Menschen ein freies und normales Leben. Aber unsichtbar, in den von den Vätern beherrschten Häusern, in den von religiösen Fanatikern kontrollierten Dörfern und in den Gefängnissen der staatlichen Geheimdienste, werden die... Menschen - meist Frauen und Mädchen - grausam unterdrückt. Die Journalistin Betsy Udink hat sich in Pakistan, dem"Land der Reinen", das sich als ideales muslimisches Gemeinwesen versteht, an diese sonst kaum sichtbaren Schauplätze begeben. Sie berichtet von der ständigen Angst von Frauen und Mädchen, von ihren Vätern oder Ehemännern im Namen des Korans und der Familienehre mißhandelt, verstümmelt oder getötet zu werden. Sie erzählt vom sexuellen Mißbrauch kleiner Jungen, den brutalen Folgen der Gesetze gegen Gotteslästerung und von einem Frauengefängnis, in dem selbst kleine Kinder wie Vieh gehalten werden. Das wunderbar lakonisch geschriebene Buch besteht aus Miniaturen über das Leben in Pakistan, die sich zu einer großen Erzählung über das Leben der Frauen im Islam zusammenfügen. An keiner Stelle werden Pakistan oder der Islam pauschal angeklagt. Die Autorin behält immer die Distanz der Beobachterin." (Verlag)
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"Der Band fasst wesentliche Ergebnisse aus dem EU-Praxisforschungsprojekt CHICAM (Children in Communication about Migration) zusammen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Erfahrungswerte aus der medienpädagogischen Praxis mit Kindern und Jugendlichen aus sechs europäischen Ländern (UK, Schweden, Italien, G...riechenland, Niederlande und Deutschland). Hinweise zur Entwicklung mediengestützter Forschungsprojekte für Studierende sowie Beispiele zur Gestaltung von Hochschulseminaren im Bereich interkulturelle Medienpädagogik möchten dazu beitragen, das Thema Interkulturelle Kommunikation mit Foto und Video in Ausbildung und pädagogischer Praxis zu fördern." (Verlag)
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"Isis International-Manila welcomed the suggestion of Min-WoW to collaborate on a project on engendered peace journalism and community radio. Thus, the project, “Women Making Airwaves for Peace,” was conceptualized based on the media experiences of Min-WoW and Isis’ experience on community rad...io in Asia Pacific. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives provided the necessary financial support to implement the project. This primer “Engendering Peace Journalism: Keeping Communities Whole” combines the two organizations’ expertise in monitoring and analyzing media from a Southern feminist perspective together with experiences of the women from the three training activities conducted in North-Western Mindanao, Philippines in 2006-2007. Practitioners from both mainstream and community and independent media, women’s and peace NGOs and grassroots organizations attended the training." (Preface)
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"The media has the greatest potential of bringing home the tragedies that befall children such as being drop-outs from schools due to poverty, exploited though trafficking or labour, abused or victimized by war, most of which are sadly, accepted as part of life. Television with its great potential t...o do good for the children is within the command of many of us broadcasters. Given such enormous power and influence of the medium we work with, we all have a special responsibility to harness the potential of television for the good of children. Television can help promote and protect the rights of children by taking a more pro-active role in helping to educate them and their families. These are facts that we all too often hear, and are aware of children having being denied their basic rights. Therefore there is an absolute need to explicitly examine the vital role of the media which not only can create awareness on children´s right to access to information and freedom of expression but also for their protection from harmful and violent media content as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child." (Foreword, p.vi-vii)
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"This handbook introduces the principles of public awareness-raising with particular emphasis on global efforts to promote awareness of Information Literacy. Information Literacy is defined by the Association of College and Research Libraries in the United States as "the set of skills needed to find..., retrieve, analyze, and use information." These skills are viewed by many policy makers and educators as critical to the creation of an equitable global 'Information Society' in which both developed and developing nations can share in social and economic development. This handbook has been developed primarily as a resource for administrators, librarians, teachers, lecturers and community leaders charged with responsibility for raising public awareness about Information Literacy. It is hoped that the various approaches and strategies suggested in this publication will serve to stimulate further discussion about Information Literacy and inspire innovative new awareness-raising campaigns." (Introduction, p.3-4)
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"Eileen Blumenthal provides a comprehensive overview of the history and technique of puppetry and examines in depth and detail the unique nature and abilities of puppets and the countless roles they have played in human societies across the globe for thousands of years. Blumenthal draws examples fro...m an astonishing array of puppeteers and performances, as well as works of art and historical artifacts to provide readers with a comprehensive view of the world of constructed actors and the eclectic, and often eccentric, artists who created them. From bunraku to Miss Piggy, from the shadow puppets of Java to Howdy Doody, from African marionettes with outsize genitalia to sweet and loveable Lamb Chop, from Senor Wences's famous hand (literally) puppet to the minimalism of Russian puppet master Sergei Obraztsov, whose puppets consisted of nothing more than two small balls, each stuck on the end of a finger - the spectacular range and variety of the world's puppets is explored through more than 300 illustrations and Blumenthal's lively, accessible prose." (Publsher)
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"Gegenstand der hier vorgestellten Arbeit sind Streetpapers und deren Anpassung an ihr jeweiliges Verbreitungsgebiet. Beispielhaft werden die „Trott-war“ aus Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland, und „The Big Issue Namibia“ analysiert. Die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Streetpapers sowie zu ko...mmerziellen Printmedien werden untersucht, unterteilt in Unterschiede bezüglich journalistischer Inhalte und struktureller Besonderheiten, und in Zusammenhang mit den Gegebenheiten im jeweiligen Verbreitungsgebiet gebracht. Im Vorfeld dieser Untersuchung wird das publizistische Phänomen der Streetpapers zusammengefasst. Länderprofile von Baden-Württemberg und Namibia sowie deren Medienlandschaften werden erstellt." (Kurzfassung)
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"De facto ist die Bundesrepublik ein Einwanderungsland geworden. Viele Institutionen und offizielle Repräsentanten verschließen sich dieser Tatsache jedoch bis heute. Die vorliegende Publikation zielt darauf, den Verantwortlichen in Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur ein Sachwissen zu liefern, um die ...Medienstrukturen an die sozio-kulturelle Realität anpassen zu können. Dazu wird ein breiter Überblick über den Stand der verschiedenen Forschungsansätze gegeben. Grundlage dabei bilden die Ergebnisse, die das Forschungsprojekt "Mediale Integration ethnischer Minderheiten in Deutschland, den USA und Kanada an den Universitäten Dortmund und Siegen zwischen 2002 und 2004" erbracht hat. Die den Einzelbeiträgen zugrundeliegende Frage lautet, wie sich der Medienumbruch am Übergang zum 21. Jahrhundert, vor allen Dingen durch Internet und Satellitenfernsehen, auf die öffentliche Kommunikation zwischen Mehrheitskultur und ethnischen Minderheiten in Deutschland auswirkt. Weitere Schwerpunkte bilden die "mediale Integration", die Frage nach dem Verhältnis ethnischer Minderheiten zu den deutschen Massenmedien, die sogenannten "Ethnomedien" sowie die Mediennutzung ethnischer Minderheiten." (Abstract ifa-Bibliothek Stuttgart)
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"Media, Audiences, Effects teaches students how to evaluate media effects research and better understand the role media play in our everyday lives. This text introduces readers to more than 300 contemporary research studies focusing on twelve important topic areas, including television violence, gen...der and ethnicity, sexuality and pornography, and advertising bans. It provides a framework for understanding how researchers study media effects and what mass communication theory and research tell us about the relationship between media and society." (Publisher)
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"Save the Children Sweden has had a Hotline website in place for more than four years, receiving more than 22,000 tips about child pornography on the Web. The importance of such a channel and the importance of international co-operation are spelled out in the following report. Save the Children Swed...en believe that public hotlines should be run and managed by the police; in any case, the function itself has been proved invaluable. If the same conclusion is reached in other countries, it is important to see that the national police are aware of this and are supported in any way possible." (Preface)
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"In dieser Publikation wird eine alternative medienpädagogische Rahmenkonzeption für die interkulturelle Medienarbeit mit Kindern aus Migrationskontexten entwickelt. Dabei wird ein Schwerpunkt auf Lernumgebungen mit klar strukturierten ästhetischen Problemstellungen gelegt, die Kindern die Mögli...chkeit geben, sich auf handelnde, spielerische und selbstentdeckende Weise ein breites Spektrum mediengestalterischer Kompetenzen anzueignen. Mit der Differenzierung in didaktische Prinzipien und Medienformate einerseits sowie konkrete methodische Bausteine und Übungen andererseits ist ein flexibles und anschlussfähiges medienpädagogisches Konzept entstanden, das - sofern nicht als Rezept missverstanden - die medienpädagogische Arbeit von PädagogInnen in schulischen und in außerschulischen Kontexten bereichern kann." (Buchrücken)
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"A look at the world media landscape for children and youth immediately presents two opposing themes: opportunities and risks. For example, globalization of media brings opportunities to broaden children’s outlooks and provide more equal access to information, but it also threatens cultural identi...fication and values. Technological advances bring the promise of new skills and greater youth participation in society, but also increase the risk of child exploitation and informational divides. There is an urgent need for societies to both protect youth and empower them to shape their own media environments, as spelled out by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and increasingly by media experts and educators around the globe. This overview of trends and issues concerning young people and the media is based on a broad review of existing print and electronic sources, interviews with child media experts from different regions, and analysis of InterMedia’s surveys in transitional and developing countries. The trends and issues highlighted here—from young people’s media options and behavior, to the quality and influence of media aimed at them—all point to the need for more effective use of the vast positive potential of mass media and new technologies to advocate for, and enrich the lives of, children and young people worldwide." (p.3)
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"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil...mmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed." (Publisher)
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"Das BMZ hat bereits zu Beginn der von den Vereinten Nationen ausgerufenen indigenen Dekade (1994 – 2004) ein Konzept zur Zusammenarbeit mit indianischen Bevölkerungsgruppen erarbeitet, das für die GTZ und KFW Entwicklungsbank verbindlichen und für NROs orientierenden Charakter hat. Dieses Konz...ept ist die Richtschnur für die Zusammenarbeit mit indigenen Völkern und ihre adäquate Berücksichtigung in den Vorhaben der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ). Damit lag relativ früh ein Grundlagenpapier vor. Davon ausgehend beleuchtet der vorliegende Reader die indigene Thematik im Kontext der deutschen EZ aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Die Beiträge der Autoren und Autorinnen und die in ihnen genannten Beispiele konzentrieren sich auf Erfahrungen in der deutschen Technischen Zusammenarbeit, greifen aber auch solche aus anderen Institutionen der internationalen Zusammenarbeit auf. Ein Beitrag der KFW Entwicklungsbank ergänzt die Palette um die Erfahrungen der Finanziellen Zusammenarbeit mit indigenen Völkern und den Sozialinvestitionsfonds. Das vorliegende Buch möchte Mitarbeitern und Mitarbeiterinnen der EZ und anderen Interessierten eine Einführung und einen Überblick zur Thematik geben." (Vorwort)
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"Hotlines offer an effective way to provide callers with accurate information, counseling, and referrals to appropriate community-based services or resources. The anonymity of a hotline is a key asset, especially in working with adolescents, because it allows the caller to ask questions that may be ...difficult or awkward to address in a face-to-face context ... Approaches to using hotlines differ, but in general they aim to: provide accurate and timely information; provide an opportunity for dialogue; give support to callers by listening to them and counseling them when necessary; provide referral information; and identify trends in information requests from the audience. This guide can assist you in starting a hotline or improving and expanding an existing one. It can inform your strategic thinking and planning for a hotline and provide the necessary tools and information in an easy, step-by-step approach to set up your hotline. By sharing our experience and providing examples of hotlines in various countries, we hope to help you decide what will work best in your context and inspire you to create a hotline that will best meet the needs of your audience." (Introduction, p.v-vi)
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"The current discourse on globalization has many far-reaching implications not only for African economics and politics, but also for the vital question of how we communicate in a ‘global village’. African governments and their development partners often tend to extrapolate communication models f...rom the developed world and apply them wholesale in local environments in Africa that are quite unique. This paper argues that such communication strategies often do not impact on the rural masses for which they are meant because they are not ‘contextualized’ to the local settings, cultural dialectics and worldview of the people. The bulk of the rural people are non-literate, poor and have little or no access to modern mass media such as television, radio, film, newspapers, the internet and email. The roll-out of modern media should continue to occupy centre stage in planning by African governments, development agencies and nongovernmental organizations, and these modern media should continue to be used to disseminate various campaign messages (HIV/AIDS awareness, immunization of children, maternal health care, poverty eradication, etc.) to the communities. But given the dearth of these media in many poor countries, the limitation of their coverage to the urban centres, and the costly equipment involved, a strategy that relies solely on them has its drawbacks. Communication planners should not overlook the significant role indigenous forms such as popular theatre, drumming, village criers, storytellers, orators, etc., have played – and continue to play – in communication among rural, poor communities. The paper illustrates the ways in which these media continue to be utilized in development communication in Uganda, for instance, because of the way they are embedded in the cultural ideology of the rural people." (Abstract)
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"In the area around Cerro de Pasco, where these interviews were gathered, people’s herding lifestyle has undergone great change, principally as a result of Peru’s most important industry: mining. While it has brought employment and infrastructure to the region, the industry paid scant regard to ...its environmental impact: waste from the mines seeped into the water supply, and polluted the springs that run through the pastures; lakes once full of fish, and a magnet for birds, are discoloured, empty of life and their surroundings silent. Fumes from the smelter and other processing plants have polluted the air and stripped the nearby slopes of vegetation. The health of people and livestock has been badly affected, animal numbers have dramatically declined and few farmers now make a living from herding alone. And, as many narrators point out, working in the mines has weakened people’s bonds with the environment on which they previously depended ...The impact of the mining industry underlies most narrators’ stories, which were gathered in 1995. Some stress social and cultural change; others highlight the economic impact. Almost all bear witness to the effects on the land, livestock and people’s health. The focus on industry, and the positive and negative results of being a mineral-rich highland area, is particular to this collection. But as resource extraction in mountain regions accelerates, these narrators’ experiences will be of interest to many other communities. In Peru alone, the area taken over for mining activities had expanded from 6 million hectares in 1992 to 24 million hectares by 2000. As in other areas in the Central Andes, out-migration is a major issue. Young people’s need for education and employment takes them away from the highlands. Some return, but most—without adequate job opportunities in their home area—end up staying in Lima or other cities. But many would stay if they could, say narrators, and faithfully return to celebrate their community fiestas. These testimonies bear witness to a still vibrant culture, mixing Catholic, Andean and other influences, and distinguished above all by a still powerful bond with the land and the mountain." (Introduction, p.1-2)
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"The use of folk arts in rural development clearly has limitations as to the role that it can play in changing people’s behavior, but it is an effective tool for communication in most cases. The greatest strength of this type of informal education lies in its ability to capture the audience’s at...tention through entertaining spectacles and to convey new ideas and information to people. In addition, the Bhats’ social position plays an important role in the education process, as they are a marginal community that has provided social commentary through performance arts for centuries. Thus by employing them, NGOs and government agencies appropriate the benefits of their ritual discursive authority. Also, these organizations are aided by the inversions of the social order that occur during shows because the folk artists are able to command the attention of large audiences and thus disseminate their messages among diverse groups of people. In addition, the kathputli tradition of North India is steeped in mythology and symbolism, and these traits give the puppets themselves special ideological status as metonyms and liminars. In turn, these attributes allow the puppets to exist in a realm that is different from that of live actors, and thus they can communicate more effectively as they are exempt from many of the rules and biases that are linked to human behavior. Despite the numerous benefits of using folk arts in development programs, follow-up sessions and more extensive education for villagers and performers are needed to change behaviors regarding complex issues. These performances are quite successful at conveying information, but people are unlikely to incorporate into their lives new ideas regarding issues like folk medicines." (Conclusion, p.63)
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" ... Wenn Mediennutzung einen Teil der Kommunikation bildet, dann ist Mediennutzung in der Familie auch ein Teil der Familienkommunikation.Und die Aufgabe, vor der Familien immer stehen - ihr Leben miteinanderzu gestalten -, umfasst dann auch die Pflege der Medienkommunikation im Gesamt der Familie...nbeziehungen. Deshalb erfordert Medienkompetenz mehr als die Fähigkeit, mit Medien überhaupt umgehen zu können und ihre Regeln und Besonderheiten zu verstehen. Sie steht vielmehr vor der Aufgabe, die Medien so in das Gesamt der Familie zu integrieren, dass die Kommunikation insgesamt reicher und weiter und nicht ärmer und enger wird. In Problemen der Mediennutzung in der Familie zeigen sich oft Probleme der Familienkommunikation insgesamt. Grundlegend für das Leben in der Familie ist, wie sich Mann und Frau, Eltern und Kinder sowie die Geschwister untereinander begegnen und miteinander reden. Wenn sie in guter Weise im Gespräch sind, ist die Gestaltung des Mediengebrauchs in der Familie immer noch eine manchmal schwierige und strittige, aber insgesamt bereichernde Aufgabe." (Geleitwort, S.6-7)
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