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ICD Media Assistance Workshop

Department for International Development (DFID), Information and Communication for Development (ICD) (2004), 127 pp.

"The purpose of the one day ICD workshop on media assistance was to raise the profile of media for development within DFID, to share media assistance strategies and good practice with organisations and individuals engaged in the field of development communications, and to chart a way forward for bot ... more

Report on Regional Public Television in Europe: Albania, Belgium, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden

Lugano: Instituto Media e Giornalismo, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, Università della Svizzera Italiana (2004), 131 pp.

"What follows from the analysis of the surveyed cases is a high level of variety of public television activity on the regional level. This clearly depends on the size and population of different countries, on the central and local administrative organization, on the level of linguistic homogeneity a ... nd from a series of historical, political and cultural factors. For this reason is difficult to talk of variable models of public regional television. In reality, however, there is an important factor of comparison, which allows us to subdivide the surveyed cases in two large categories how we did in the first step report: the statute of regional television centres in terms of independence or organic dependence on the national television companies. In Bosnia, Denmark, Greece, Netherland, Portugal, Russia and Serbia there are public regional television centres independent from national television companies. In Albania, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland and Slovenia there are regional centres, which constitute an organic and integrated part of the national television companies. Where regional public televisions are independent in some cases they broadcast only to the regional population as in Denmark, Portugal, Netherland, Finland, Russia, in other cases they broadcast at national level as in Belgium and Greece. Where regional public televisions are local branch of national companies in some case they produce only for regional transmissions as in Albania and Finland, in other cases they produce also for national public television channels as in Czech Republic and Sweden. In the case of Portugal, regional television centres are independent companies, owned in part by national public television, and they produce programs also for the international public channel to reach the “diaspora” of regional population. A second factor of comparison concerns the relationship between the regional television centres and the regional political, cultural, and social context. In some cases the relationship is important as in Bosnia, Portugal, Belgium, Russia, Serbia in other are not evident as in Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland. A third factor of comparison concern the extension of regional broadcasting activities. In some cases the regional activity is limited to some daily news broadcasted in a window inside the national programs as in Finland and Ireland, in other cases it concern a more or less wide range of programs of various genres as in Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Portugal. In correspondence to that dimension there are differences of the economic resources at disposal of each regional television." (Introduction, page 2-3) more

Westliche Förderprogramme in der Ukraine: Einblicke in die europäisch-nordamerikanische Unterstützung ukrainischer Reformbestrebungen seit 1991

Andreas Umland

Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa (2004), 43 pp.

"Diese Untersuchung kommt zu dem Schluss, dass der Umfang der westlichen Förderung der Transformationsprozesse in der Ukraine seit 1991 nicht unerheblich war. Doch leiden sowohl die nichtstaatlichen als auch staatlichen Programme an konzeptionellen und organisatorischen Mängeln. Nachholbedarf best ... more

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Beyond Borders: Research for International Broadcasting 2003

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)

Bonn: Conferende of International Broadcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) (2004), 168 pp.

Media Sustainability Index 2003: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia

Mark Whitehouse, Theo Dolan (eds.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2004), xxi, 277 pp.

Media Ownership: Impact on Media Independence and Pluralism in Slovenia and Other Post-Socialist European Countries

Sandra Bašic-Hrvatin, Brankica Petkovic, Lenart J. Kucic

Ljubljana: Peace Institute (2004), 89 pp.

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Freedom of the Press 2004: A Global Survey of Media Independence

Karin Deutsch Karlekar (ed.)

Lanham; New York: Rowman & Littlefield;Freedom House (2004), xii, 197 pp.

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Ending the Chilling Effect: Working to Repeal Criminal Libel and Insult Laws. Proceedings of the Roundtable “What Can be Done to Decriminalize Libel and Repeal Insult Laws”, Paris, 24-25 November 2003

Ana Karlsreiter, Hanna Vuokko (eds.)

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2004), 103 pp.

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The Challenge of Indigenous Education: Practice and Perspectives

Linda King, Sabine Schielmann (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2004), 283 pp.

"Traditional indigenous education and its structures should be respected and supported. Our knowledge has not been written down by us – on the contrary: we dance it, we draw it, we narrate it, we sing it, we practise it. There is a need for a deeper understanding of what knowledge and learning are ... more

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Deutschsprachige Medien in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Berichte und Analysen

Annette Gallus, Sonja Richter (red.)

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2004), 95 pp.

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Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistances

Pradip N. Thomas, Nain Zaharom (eds.)

Penang: Southbound (2004), 330 pp.

Global Journalism: Topical Issues and Media Systems

Arnold S. De Beer, John C. Merrill (eds.)

Boston: Pearson Education, 4th ed. (2004), 474 pp.

Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: A Report on Gender and ICT in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Bratislava: UNDP;UNIFEM (2004), xiii, 113 pp.

Freedom and Responsibility. Yearbook 2004

Arnaud Amouroux, Ilia Dohel et al.

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2004), 323 pp.

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The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook

Mary Kelly, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Denis McQuail (eds.)

London: Sage, 3rd revised ed. (2004), 274 pp.

"Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study.The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Group ... more

Secreto a Voces: Radio, NTICs E Interactividad
Inspiring Practice

Bruce Girard (ed.)

Rome: FAO;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2004), 250 pp.

"El tema principal de este libro es la combinación de Internet y la radio, que ofrece un rango potencial y nuevo de posibilidades para los proyectos de comunicación para el desarrollo. Sus 17 capítulos examinan algunos proyectos que incorporan radio e Internet y los agrupan en tres amplias catego ... more

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International Communications: A Media Literacy Approach

Art Silverblatt, Nikolai Zlobin

Amonk, London: Sharpe (2004), xv, 295 pp.

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Privatizing Russian Radio: A Post-Perestroika Perspective

Michael C. Keith, Christopher H. Sterling, Anna Yudin

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 2, issue 2 (2004), pp. 67-76

"Just five years ago, at the end of 1999, Russia celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the inception of regularly scheduled radio broadcasting in the country. The landmark offers a good occasion to reflect on the past and present of Russian radio. For most of the twentieth century the medium o ... more

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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2004/2005

Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 27th ed. (2004), 1200 pp.