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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

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National studies on assessing the economic contribution of the copyright-based industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 392 pp.

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Towards a theory of communication for Africa: the challenges for emerging democracies

Levi Obonyo

communicatio: South African journal for communication theory and research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20

"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of... more

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The economic contribution of copyright-based industries in Bhutan

Ministry of Economic Affairs Royal Government of Bhutan

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 62 pp., 27 tables, 7 charts

"Based on the study estimates, the total contribution of CBIs to the Bhutanese economy in 2008 was 5.5% of GDP or Nu.3,009 million; 10.1% of total employment or 25,215 persons; 4.0% of total exports or Nu. 912.4 million; 6.9% of total imports or Nu.1,604.8 million. The contribution of CBIs to GDP wa... more

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El radiodrama en la comunicación de mensajes sociales: apuntes teórico-prácticos para la producción integral

Francisco Godinez Galay

Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne; Centro de Producciones Radiofónicas (2010), 166 pp., bibliogr. p.155-166

ISBN 978-987-25418-4-2 CC BY-NC-SA

"El presente texto es una aproximación básica a distintas cuestiones de la producción de radio que son necesarias para comenzar. No aspira a ser un manual de uso, de esos que tienen pasos a seguir para lograr el éxito, sino todo lo contrario: aspira a ser un texto de guía basado en conocimiento... 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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The guide to researching audiences: concise edition

Rachel Quirk; Martin Olver; Max Hammond; Claire Davies

Guildford, Surrey: JISC; Strategic Content Alliance; Curtis+Cartwright Consulting (2009), 26 pp.

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"This is the 'concise edition' of 'The Guide to Researching Audiences'. It is a shorter version of the main Guide, designed to provide an easily accessible summary of the key principles of audience research and some practical information. The full version of the Guide contains more detailed informat... more

Alarming reports: communicating conflict in the daily news

Andrew Arno

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2009), vii, 208 pp., bibliogr. p.191-202, index

ISBN 978-1-845455798

"News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News a... more

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Twelve years of measuring linguistic diversity in the internet: balance and perspectives

Daniel Pimienta; Daniel Prado; Alvaro Blanco

Paris: UNESCO (2009), v, 56 pp.

Other Editions: also published in French

"FUNREDES and Union Latine have designed an original research method to measure linguistic diversity in cyberspace. The aim was to use search engines and a sample of word-concepts to measure the proportionate presence of these concepts in their various linguistic equivalences (in Latin languages, En... more

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L'audience

Régine Chaniac (ed.)

Paris: CNRS Editions (2009), 184 pp.

ISBN 978-2-271-06849-1

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Radio journalism

Guy Starkey; Andrew Crisell

Los Angeles; London: Sage (2009), 173 pp., bibliogr. p.160-167, index

ISBN 978-1-4129-3014-7; 978-1-4129-3015-4

"'Radio Journalism' combines an awareness of theory and practice in order to explore what makes radio reporting distinctive, and demonstrates its continuing importance in the news landscape." (Publisher)

Mobile phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn; Francis Nyamnjoh; Inge Brinkman (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp., illustr., bibliogr.

"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom... more

Historical dictionary of journalism

Ross Allan Eaman

Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press (2009), xliii, 387p., chronol. p.xii-xliii, bibliogr. p.307-385

ISBN 978-0-8108-6289-0 (ebook); 0-8108-6075-9 (hbk)

"This Historical Dictionary of Journalism shows both sides of the picture. The dictionary presents entries on some of the finest newspapers as well as those of lesser repute, many exceptional journalists as well as others the profession would rather forget, major advances such as investigative repor... more

Dicionário do livro: da escrita ao livro electrónico

Maria Isabel Ribeiro de Faria; Maria da Graça Pericão

Coimbra: Almedina (2008), 1285 pp., bibliogr. p.1251-1285

ISBN 978-972403499-7

Other Editions: Sao Paulo: EDUSP, 2008, 768 p.

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The guide to researching audiences

Rachel Quirk; Martin Olver; Max Hammond; Claire Davies

Guildford, Surrey: Curtis+Cartwright Consulting; Strategic Content Alliance (2008), 74 pp., bibliogr. p.70-73

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"This guide has been written for people in the UK public sector delivering online digital services who wish to research their audiences. Although it is focused on online digital services, it will also be useful for researching audiences reached via other channels. It is primarily aimed at non-expert... more

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Textbooks and school library provision in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa

Washington, DC: Africa Region Human Development Department Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA) World Bank (2008), xxxii, 98 pp., 12 tables, abbrev. p.xi-xv, bibliogr. p.97-98

ISBN 978-0-8213-7344-6 (print); 978-0-8213-7345-3 (ebook) CC BY

"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the ... more

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Bibliotecas indígenas en Oceanía: revisión bibliográfica y estado actual de la cuestión

Edgardo Civallero

Córdoba: Wayrachaki (2008), 61 pp.

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"A través de experiencias, protocolos, estrategias y bibliografía (especialmente accesos web) este libro permite echar un vistazo a la realidad de las bibliotecas destinadas a las poblaciones aborígenes de las islas de Oceanía, las cuales poseen algunos de los estándares más avanzados en esta ... more

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Corruption and development aid: confronting the challenges

Georg Cremer

Boulder, Colorado; Freiburg: Rienner; Lambertus (2008), xiv, 169 pp., bibliogr. p.141-158, index

ISBN 978-1-68585-426-3 (online); 978-1-58826-571-5 (pbk)

Other Editions: German ed.: Korruption begrenzen. 2nd ed. Freiburg: Lambertus, 2008; 1st. ed. 2000

"Although corruption has always been a quietly recognized aspect of development aid programs, the taboo against openly discussing it is only now being widely overcome. Georg Cremer systematically addresses the subject, exploring the nature and impact of corruption, the conditions under which it is m... more