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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.

"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

Estereotipos mediáticos o sociales: Influencia del consumo de televisión en el prejuicio detectado hacia los indígenas mexicanos

Carlos Muñiz, Francisco Javier Serrano, Rafael Enrique Aguilera, Alejandra Rodríguez

Global Media Journal - México, volume 7, issue 14 (2010), pp. 93-113

"Diversos estudios han observado el efecto que puede tener el consumo de televisión en los estereotipos o rasgos con que las personas identifican a los grupos minoritarios (Busselle y Crandall, 2002). En el caso mexicano, aunque el colectivo indígena de la población ha sido estudiado desde divers ... more

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Voces del sistema de radiodifusoras culturales indigenistas: Audiencia y programación en cinco emisoras

José del Val, Juan Mario Pérez Martinéz, José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez (eds.)

México, DF; Puebla: Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas;Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM);Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (2010), 88 pp.

Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films

Abdalla Uba Adamu

In: Media and Identity in Africa

Kimani Njogu; John Middleton (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 171-184

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

Fundação Perseu Abramo (FPA);Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2010), 182 slides

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Language, Cultural and Communication Rights of Ethnic Minorities in South Africa

Last Moyo

International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 4-5 (2010), pp. 425-440

"This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given ... more

Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Opportunities & Impediments

Solani Ngobeni (ed.)

Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (2010), xxv, 378 pp.

"The proceedings of a conference held at the Africa Institute of South Africa in 2009, this is a major new collection of essays on the state of scholarly publishing in Africa, with a strong emphasis on the situation in South Africa. The conference was convened, and the papers published, in an attemp ... t to influence “policymakers and other relevant stakeholders in developing an enabling environment for scholarly publishing to thrive.” Containing a total of 26 papers – all of them, usefully, preceded by abstracts – content is arranged under seven sections: (i) The State of Research Publishing in Africa, (ii) The State of Scholarly Publishing in Africa, (iii) The Challenges of Book Distribution, (iv) The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Scholarly Publishing, (v) Alternative Publishing Models, (vi) The Politics of Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing, and (vii) Scholarly Publishing and Intellectual Property Development in Africa. While the majority of the contributors are from South Africa, other contributors include Kenyan veteran publisher Henry Chakava, James Currey of James Currey Publishers, Mary Jay, Chief Executive of the Oxford-based African Books Collective, and a number of academics from the West African region. The book is particularly strong in overviews of scholarly publishing in South Africa, covering both book and journal publishing. It offers some interesting discussions and fresh insights about alternative publishing and distribution models, with articles reporting about new initiatives and strategy approaches, and also including papers on the politics and practise of the peer review process, and on South African intellectual property rights. One or two papers, by academics from other regions of Africa, unfortunately are weak and poorly informed about the current state of scholarly publishing in Africa, for example citing literature that goes back to books and articles published in the 1970s and 1980s. However, the book can be seen as a useful companion to ‘African Scholarly Publishing Essays’, edited by Alois Mlambo, and published by African Books Collective in 2006." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2581) more

Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today

Peter Bates, Moe Chiba, Sabine Kube, Douglas Nakashima (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2009), 127 pp.

"The book is organised into three sections. The first addresses the link between indigenous knowledge and indigenous language, and explores the opportunities this interconnection provides for understanding and countering declines in both. The second section examines how the loss of indigenous knowle ... more

Transformar: Tras las huellas de la voz de los K'iches. La experiencia de una radio en Sololá, Guatemala

Lourdes Barrezueta Barzola, Edgar Dávila Navarro

Buenos Aires: Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias América Latina y Caribe (AMARC ALC);Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2009), 31 pp.

"[...] Radio Nawal Estéreo [es] una emisora indígena que transmite en idiomas K’iche, Kat’chiquel y castellano. Está ubicada en la localidad de Nahualá que, traducido al español, significa «el espíritu de las aguas». La ciudad, con unos 70.000 habitantes, huele a leña y a resistencia y ... more

Communication for Empowerment in Lao PDR: An Assessment of Communication and Media Needs Among Ethnic Peoples

Bangkok; South Orange, New Jers.: UNDP;Communication for Social Change Consortium (2009), 92 pp.

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Self-Determination in Practice: The Critical Making of Indigenous Media

Juan Francisco Salazar

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 504-513

"The article examines the notion of development as self-determination in the context of current politicisation of indigenous peoples’ affairs. It looks at the links between development studies, indigenous social movements, and community media practices; and more specifically between specific views ... more

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Memorias chipayas

Manuel Chaparro Escudero

iMEDEA (2009), 101 pp.

"En 1953, el cineasta boliviano Jorge Ruiz realizó el documental 'Vuelve Sebastiana' con la ayuda de Augusto Roca, Chovel, conocido como 'Pajarito' y el guión de Luis Ramiro Beltrán. Este libro es un homenaje a aquella aventura y especialmente a Sebastiana Kespi, su protagonista, y al admirado y ... more

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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.

"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

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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.

"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

Radio in Accra: Communicating Among Linguistically and Ethnically Diverse Audiences

Kwasi Boateng

Intercultural Communication Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2009), pp. 161-175

"This article explains the change in radio programming in Accra, Ghana, in terms of the concepts of hybridization, hegemony, and the public sphere. It argues that private radio has transformed communication among linguistically and ethnically diverse groups of people. It discusses how local language ... more

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Alarming Reports: Communicating Conflict in the Daily News

Andrew Arno

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2009), vii, 208 pp.

"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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Von Pfeil und Bogen zum "Digitalen Bogen": Die Indigenen Brasiliens und das Internet
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Eliane Fernandes Ferreira

Bielefeld: transcript (2009), 253 pp.

"Seit den 1980er Jahren setzt sich die indigene Bevölkerung Brasiliens verstärkt für ihre Rechte in der Gesellschaft ein. Kommunikation spielt hierbei eine entscheidende Rolle - besonders das Internet gewinnt als Medium im Alltag indigener Gemeinschaften immer mehr an Bedeutung. Aber wie wird das ... more

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Walking the Talk: Reflections on Indigenous Media Audience Research Methods

Michael Meadows

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2009), pp. 118-136

"Anthropological research methods are characteristic of much of the investigation of remote Indigenous media production in Australia and have enabled the voices of some Indigenous audiences to be heard. However, these approaches generally have been concerned with the social organisation of productio ... more