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Media & Information Literacy
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Media Literacy: Understanding the News
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 28 pp.
"Media literacy training is a tool the development sector can use to educate citizens and other stakeholders to better understand the role of information in a democracy and pressure governments to be accountable and to root out corruption. A media literate citizenry is essential to building and sust
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Media Literacy: Citizen Journalists
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.
"In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalist
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Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
New York; London: Routledge (1999), 390 pp.
"From outbreaks of the flesh eating viruses Ebola and Strep A, to death camps in Bosnia and massacres in Rwanda, the media seem to careen from one trauma to another, in a breathless tour of poverty, disease and death. First we're horrified, but each time they turn up the pitch, show us one image mor
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