"Media Power in Central America is unique in the field, very readable, and tells an exciting story about the relationship between strong commercial media and authoritarian regimes. Rockwell and Janus provide a valuable description and analysis of the history, politics, culture, and economics of the
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print and electronic media in the six countries." (Elizabeth Fox, senior advisor with USAID and the author of Latin American Broadcasting: From Tango to Telenovela)
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"Section One, Fundamental Concepts in Environmental Education and Communciation (EE&C) provides an orientation to four theoretical perspectives that have shaped GreenCOM’s approach to environmental education and communication projects: behavior change, participation, gender, and systems thinking.
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Each has its own research framework and following, yet each contributes an important set of ideas to environmental education and communication activities. In Section Two, Planning EE&C Programs, a variety of GreenCOM experiences illustrate the basic process of designing education and communication programs: needs assessment, formative research, pre-testing, and evaluation. Taken together they form a reliable and well-tested model for program development. Section Three, Conducting EE&C Activities, looks at staff and participant training workshops, mass media campaigns, and how EE&C can affect public policy. Section Four, Putting It All Together, highlights several successful countrywide strategies from GreenCOM’s field experience. These cases illustrate some of the diverse approaches to building capacity and planning and implementing environmental education and communication. The projects involved training, policy initiatives, awards schemes, curriculum development, and multifaceted communication campaigns." (Page xiv)
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"Rebel Radio is the story of Radio Venceremos, one of the stations operated by guerillas during the decade-long civil war in El Salvador. It is told through the experiences of the men and women who worked for the station. As such, it is not just about radio, but about the daily lives of the guerilla
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s in the mountains of Morazán. It would make a great novel, but everything in this book actually happened. Originally published in Spanish in 1991, the book comes with eleven black and white photos and two maps. If you ever wondered what motivates people to operate radio stations in conditions of extreme danger, this book is for you." (Radio Netherlands Media Network 1996)
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"El libro reúne las experiencias de diez destacadas rádios populares u organizaciones de capacitación, mostrando los cambios metodológicos y del contenido en el transcurso de los últimos 30 años y señalando las posibilidades y los límites de educación por radio. Se trata de Radio Santa Mar
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a de la República Dominicana (desde 1963), de ICER de Costa Rica (desde 1973), de Radio San Gabriel (desde 1955) y PARI (desde 1988) de Bolivia, de ERPE (desde 1962), Radio Latacunga (desde 1981) e IRFEYAL (desde 1974) de Ecuador, de Radio Cutivalú de Perú (desde 1985), Radio Fe y Alegría de Venezuela (desde 1975) y de PEBA de El Salvador (desde 1986). Aparte de estas experiencias concretas el libro documenta las reflexiones y pautas que fueron frutos de un seminario llevado a cabo el año pasado por ALER y La Red Latinoamericana de Información y Documentación de Educación (REDUC)." (CAMECO Media Forum 2-1994)
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"Tanto los periodistas como /os medios de información colectiva, que cada vez manejan con mayor y admirable agilidad las nuevas tecnologías, que salvando fronteras, distancias y barreras lingüísticas, con una facilidad casi inimaginable, llevan sus mensajes diarios hasta los lugares más apartad
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os de la tierra, deben contribuir a que se cree una conciencia social en favor de la preservación del medio ambiente." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Recoge las experiencias más importantes habidas en las últimas décadas en América Latina, especialmente con estudios de caso de Cuba, Perú, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador, Argentina y Brazil. Los autores estudian las relaciones de los medios con la política, sus implicaciones, la prens
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a alternativa etc." (Álvarez/Martínez Riaza: Historia de la prensa hispanoamericana. Madrid 1992)
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"This is a survey of the state of the press in 180 countries, organized in four sections: Section I, "The International Press"; Section II, "The World's Developed Press Systems"; Section III, "Smaller and Developing Press Systems, " and Section IV, " Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems." Covera
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ge is alphabetical by country within the sections. Discussions and data for the various countries in the first three sections are under the following headings: "Basic Data: Background and General Characteristics"; "Economic Framework"; "Press Law"; "Censorship"; "State Press Relations"; "Attitude Toward Foreign Media"; "News Agencies"; "Electronic News Media"; "Education and Training"; and in conclusion "Summary," with a discussion of trends and prospects; followed by "Chronology." Preceding each country is a table of basic data, and following it a bibliography. Section IV, "Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems," treats each country briefly in tabular form. Appendixes list 50 of the best known daily newspapers, the news agencies of the world, selected periodicals dealing with the press, media multinationals, press-related associations, unions and organizations, advertising expenditures, radio transmitters and receivers, and television transmitters and sets." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 239)
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