"Die vorliegende Publikation beleuchtet den Umgang mit Bildmaterial auf dem Handy und fokussiert dabei die von Kindern und Jugendlichen selbst erstellten Fotos und Filme. Das Handy dient selbst initiierter ästhetischer Praxis, trägt über Momente der Selbstinszenierung zur eigenen Selbstverortung
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bei und entwickelt sich zu einem zentralen Medium der Identitätskonstruktion. Basierend auf empirisch gewonnenen Erkenntnissen werden nach einer knappen medienpädagogischen Positionierung Impulse für den Einsatz des Handys im Unterricht formuliert. Das Buch wendet sich an Lehrkräfte, die das Handy als Instrument zum Fotografieren und Filmen im Unterricht nutzen wollen." (Klappentext)
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"The essays in this volume reflect a wide-range of issues and concerns related to children’s media culture in Africa. For example, several address the role of entertainment television in Addis Abba, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia and in the lives of Muslim children. Other essays introduce
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us to children-centered media from Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and the innovative programs of PLAN-International. In addition to entertainment media and children-centered media, media education and digital media literacy are also discussed." (Publisher description)
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"This paper asks how images of children are used by prominent signatories to NGO codes of conduct. The answer is that images of childhood and shared codes of conduct are both means through which development and relief NGOs produce themselves as rights-based organisations. The iconography of childhoo
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d expresses institutional ideals and the key humanitarian values of humanity, neutrality and impartiality, and solidarity. Images of children are useful for NGOs in reinforcing the legitimacy of their ‘emergency’ interventions as well as the very idea of development itself. But the dominant iconography is also inherently paradoxical, as the child image can be read as both a colonial metaphor for the majority world and as a signifier of humanitarian identity. The question then for NGOs using this image in social justice campaigns is whether overtly political accompanying texts can nullify the contradictory subliminal messages that emanate from the iconography of childhood." (Abstract)
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"Theatre has become a prominent tool in the extensive struggle to address social problems in Africa, and it is fairly logical that puppets - as part of the traditional forms of dramatic expression of many African countries - would surface in theatre for social change. A variety of reasons are given
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by theatre practitioners for their choosing puppetry to do this. This paper analyses the reasons given by some of the most prominent practitioners in Africa as a developing continent and the puppet's abilities to act as an efficient code to represent and transmit messages directed toward social change." (Page 1)
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