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Trauma and cinema: cross-cultural explorations
Hong Kong:
Hong Kong University Press
(2004), 288 pp., index
ISBN 978-962-209-979-1
ICD media assistance workshop
Information and Communication for Development (ICD) Department for International Development (DFID)
(2004), 127 pp.
"The purpose of the one day ICD workshop on media assistance was to raise the profile of media for development within DFID, to share media assistance strategies and good practice with organisations and individuals engaged in the field of development communications, and to chart a way forward for bot...
Media ethics and social change
Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press
(2004), 229 pp., bibliogr. p.209-222, index
ISBN 9780415971997 (pbk); 9780415971980 (hbk)
Other Editions: also published by Routledge, 2004
"An engaging and original study of current issues in media ethics, this book challenges students to explore the relationship between media ethics and social change. It considers the potentially beneficial uses of media practice for humanity, addressing questions of inclusivity and diversity and spec...
Women and media in the Middle East: power through self-expression
London; New York:
Tauris
(2004), viii, 248 pp., bibliogr. p.228-240, index
"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...
The media tool box 3: Public broadcasting
Windhoek:
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
(2004), 55 pp.
"Public broadcasting has a lot of friends in the world today - but they do not always seem to be loving quite the same thing, and certainly not for the same reasons. For some, the term merely refers to radio and television which is not commercial, following the common distinction between public and ...
Access to information: UNDP's engagement and a guide to key actors
New York:
Democratic Governance Group Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
(2003), 96 pp., abbrev., direct.
"The first section provides summary information on 69 UNDP supported projects and initiatives as of 2002/03. These initiatives were identified primarily by desk research from three main sources: (i) direct feedback from the Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs)2), the COs and Regional Bureaux, (i...
The one to watch: radio, new ICT and interactivity
Contributor(s): Alfonso Gumucio Dagron; Jean-Pierre Ilboudo; Johan Deflander
Rome:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
(2003), 250 pp.
ISBN 92-5-104950-5
CC BY-NC-ND
Other Editions: also published in Spanish
"The topic of this anthology is communication in rural areas. Most of the 17 contributions are concrete experience reports from radio and internet projects and networks. Especially worth reading are the contributions that deal with the combination of both technologies." (Commbox-CD)
La situation de la communication pour le développement au Niger (Etat des lieux): tome 1
Rome:
Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture (FAO); PNUD; UNICEF; Ministère de la Communication (Niger)
(2003), 171 pp., abbrev. p.xii-xiv
Intellectual property: a power tool for economic growth
Geneva:
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
(2003), 377 pp., abbrev. p.343-347, index
ISBN 92-805-1113-0
"This book is designed to be a practical guide to the use of intellectual property as a "power tool" for economic growth and wealth creation. Its aim is to give the interested non-specialist an understanding of how intellectual property, such as patents, trademarks and copyright have become increasi...
European media ownership: threats on the landscape. A survey of who owns what in Europe
Brussels:
European Federation of Journalists
(2003) updated ed., 49 pp.
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2002
"This report concludes that there are major threats in Europe’s media landscape. Some of the threats identified are political and private threats to public service broadcasting, power over global media in the hands of few, more and more media concentration, the threat to emerging markets in Easter...
An operational framework for media and peacebuilding
Vancouver:
Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) Institute for Media
(2002), 27 pp.
"The framework provides some common indicators or consequences for the media in environments of pre-, overt and post-conflict. It presents a typology of interventions potentially appropriate to the media conditions that exist in those stages of conflict, or in others. It provides indicators for asse...
The media situation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: five country reports
Vienna:
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
(2002), 130, 150 pp.
"These five country reports: on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, provide a general overview of the current state of media affairs in the country concerned, focus on media legislation and cases of harassment of journalists and provide country-specific recommendations t...
Khmer internet: Cambodia case study
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2002), 42 pp., illustr., tables, abbrev. p.38, web direct. p.39
Manual for media trainers: a learner-centred approach
Kuala Lumpur:
Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD)
(2001), x, 133 pp., illustr.
ISBN 983-408-36-02
"This manual is intended for persons whose media organization has asked them to plan and present training programs. Our main concern is with programs where employees are taken out of their normal assignments to attend activities aimed at helping them learn new skills or develop their existing skills...
"We are all natives now": an overview of international and development communication research
Communication yearbook, volume 24 (2001), pp. 159-186
ISBN 0-7619-2246-6
"This chapter reviews the historical and conceptual parameters of the international communication research area, followed by a focus on communication and development. Both parts of the chapter define the scope of the areas discussed, summarize the main theoretical approaches, and present major trend...
Internet-Hotlines: Evaluation und Selbstregulierung von Internetinhalten;Evaluation and self-regulation of internet content
Gütersloh:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
(2001), 80 pp.
ISBN 3-89204-555-0
"In this book we present the operating methods of Internet Hotlines and argue that they are essential instruments for the limiting of illegal content on the Internet. The Hotline can take on a central role within a self-regulation system involving the state, media supervisory bodies, the Internet in...
Satellite realms: transnational television, globalization and the Middle East
London; New York:
Tauris
(2001), xiii, 266 pp., bibliogr. p.243-251, index
"In transcending territorial boundaries, satellite television has the potential to liberate viewers from government controls on national media. Why is this potential liberation yet to be fully realized in the Middle East? This dynamic book explores the development through the 1990s into the 21st cen...
Medienförderung in Afrika: Dokumentation der Mitarbeiterkonferenz der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Afrika. Dakar, 24.-28. Februar 2001
Sankt Augustin:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
(2001), 68 pp.
"Die hier vorgelegte integrierte Medienstrategie für die Konrad Adenauer Stiftung im Bereich Subsahara-Afrika (festgemacht an den kohärenten Subregionen Ostafrika und südliches Afrika) kommt einer qualitativen Klammerfunktion über alle Projekte, Partner, Erfahrungen und Möglichkeiten der Stiftu...
African broadcast cultures: radio in transition
Oxford:
James Currey Publishers
(2000), xvi, 256 pp., 8 illustr., abbrev. p.xiv-xvi, index
ISBN 0-85255-828-7
"Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and development on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. This text examines African radio broadcast cultures." (Publisher)
The media situation in Tajikistan
Geneva:
CIMERA
(2000), 24 pp.
"This report provides a comprehensive overview of the role and position of the media in Tajikistan. The contributors explain that the weakness of the media there is due to many different reasons and linked to the general political, social and economic circumstances in the country. The report explain...
