"This book includes 17 articles on the current state of communication for development from renowned communication practitioners and scholars. It covers five areas: an introduction to the relationship between development, participation and communication; the theoretical underpinnings of development c
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ommunication; the development communication strategies of international institutions like UNESCO, FAO and UNICEF; concrete experiences in HIV/AIDS communication and the concepts behind; and case studies on community media and media projects in conflict areas. The special value of this book is that the project examples are not just presented in a descriptive manner, but analyzed in detail according to the underlying communication concepts. In addition, various contributions trace the history of participatory communication approaches to development. This is a revised and updated version of a 2003 UNESCO publication called Approaches to Development: Studies on Communication for Development." (CAMECO Update 4-2008)
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"The term 'Social Communication' (lat. 'Communicatio Socialis') was coined at the Second Vatican Council. The decree Inter Mirifica (1963) uses this expression to point to the communication processes of and in human society beyond technical means. According to this Festschrift marking the 75th birth
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day of Franz-Josef Eilers SVD, Social Communication has been his lifelong Leitmotif. Eilers has been one of the most prominent writers on Church and intercultural communication. He founded and for many years edited the scholarly quarterly Communicatio Socialis, and he served as collaborator and director of CAMECO and the Office for Social Communication of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. 15 international communication experts, from Catholic as well as ecumenical viewpoints, contributed to this book. The articles cover a broad range of issues, from practical experiences ('Radio Broadcasting in the Brazilian Amazon') to trend reports ('The rediscovery of religion by journalists in the Netherlands') and theological reflections ('The concept of dialogue and its ethical implications')." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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"'Alternative Media' is the term used to describe non-mainstream media forms that are independently run and community focussed, such as zines, pirate radio, online discussion boards, community run and owned broadcasting companies, and activist publications such as Red Pepper and Corporate Watch. The
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book outlines the different types of 'alternative" (Publisher description)
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"Grundlage des Bandes ist eine internationale Tagung zur Rolle der Massenmedien bei der Integration von Migranten. Die Beiträge präsentieren nicht nur Forschungsergebnisse zur Situation in Deutschland, sondern es kommen auch Experten aus den USA, Kanada und den Niederlanden zu Wort, wo Medien und
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Sozialwissenschaftler langjährige Erfahrungen mit Migration haben. Ein weiterer Teil des Bandes ist dem Dialog zwischen Medienforschern und Medienpraktikern von Fernsehen, Hörfunk und Presse gewidmet." (Buchrückseite)
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"This book aims to provide a descriptive and analytical account of subsidy policies for periodical publications in Western Europe in 2006. It sets out the position of the policymakers who design and implement such policies, of sector industrial federations and of academics specialised in media polic
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ies and economics, as presented at the First International Symposium Press Subsidies in Europe: Development, Pluralism and Transparency, held in Barcelona on 19 and 20 June, 2006, and promoted and organised by the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya via the Communication Secretariat, the Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries and Patronat Català Pro Europa) and by the Institute of Communication of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona." (Back cover)
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"This collection of essays explores current issues surrounding the media and conflict in the Twenty-first Century. Essays will look at the role of evolving media technologies, the globalization of television and communications, public diplomacy, gender and war coverage, terrorism, and other issues."
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"In Shooting the Family, twelve authors investigate the transfigured role of the family in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television, as well as through particularistic media like home movies and videos. "Shooting the Family" has a
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double meaning. On the one hand, this book claims that the family is under pressure from the forces of globalization and migration; it is the family that risks being shot to pieces. On the other hand, family matters of all kinds, including family values, are increasingly being constructed and refigured in a mediated form. The audiovisual family has become an important medium for intercultural affairs - this is a family that is being re-established as a place of security and comfort in times of upheaval; it is the family shot by cameras that register and simultaneously create new family values." (Publisher description)
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"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
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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)
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"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
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, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe." (Publisher description)
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"Das Handbuch liefert eine Fülle von Denkanstössen, um Journalisten, Medienmacher und Interessierte für die Bedeutung interkultureller Kompetenz für die Medienpraxis zu sensibilisieren. Im Zentrum des Bandes steht der Alltag der Berichterstattung in und aus Deutschland sowie über Projekte aus d
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em europäischen und aussereuropäischen Ausland, die sich die Verbesserung der interkulturellen Kompetenz von Medienvertretern zum Ziel gesetzt haben. Das Handbuch, von Medienfachleuten geschrieben, bietet zahlreiche Anregungen und Hinweise für einen dialogischen Journalismus, der der Umsetzung des Prinzips 'Dialog der Kulturen' verpflichtet ist." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio continues to provide distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, yet also enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. Ranging from radio
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among the primordial communities to digital broadcasting and the internet, these essays suggest that the benefits and gratifications which radio confers remain unique and irreplaceable in this multi-media age." (Publisher description)
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"This report concludes that there are major threats in Europe’s media landscape. Some of the threats identified are political and private threats to public service broadcasting, power over global media in the hands of few, more and more media concentration, the threat to emerging markets in Easter
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n and Central Europe and regulation getting weaker as media power grows." (Summary of findings, page 4)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"The following questions will be examined: Which methods of communication (mass communication, Internet, personal communication) promise effective communication with smokers? Which messages (contents) promise effective communication with smokers? Which multipliers promise effective communication wit
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h smokers? Which settings promise effective communication with smokers? What communication problems arise in motivating smokers to stop smoking? Is it necessary to differentiate between target sub-groups when addressing smokers? Finally, after discussing the results presented, conclusions are drawn in Chapter 5 with respect to the effectiveness of communication measures and the requirements to be taken into account, particularly as regards mass media communication. Chapter 6 gives a complete review of the literature used. In conclusion, the Annex describes in detail the most important studies considered in this report." (Introduction, page 13)
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