"The purposes of the present study are: (1) to examine the nature of the modernization process among peasants in one less developed country, Colombia, and (2) to determine the cross-cultural validity of these findings in other of the less developed nations. Peasants are important subjects of study b
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y social scientists because they constitute a majority of the population of most less developed nations. In this book modernization is viewed as essentially a communication process; modernizing message must reach the peasant via such communication channels as the mass media, change agents, or the villager's trips to cities. The methodological approach to theory construction in the present work is middle-range analysis. Data were gathered from peasants in six Colombian villages varying in degree of modernization; comparable data-gathering procedures and measures were used in two studies in India and one in Kenya in order to provide cross-cultural tests of generalization. Functional literacy was measured among the Colombian peasants by asking each respondent to read a six-word sentence in Spanish. Highly positive relationships were obtained between functional literacy scores and (1) self-defined literacy, and (2) years of formal education. These findings have been confirmed with data from a sample of 702 Indian peasants, whose responses lend cross-cultural credence to the conclusions." (ERIC databse)
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"Utilisation du cinéma pour le développement d'une population de « bidonvilles « de la région de Lima: projection de films, débats, explications — Les thèmes des films projetés sont l'initiation à la vie urbaine (industrie, circulation). l'artisanat populaire et des thèmes catéchitiques
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." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2022, topic code 310.321.1)
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"Bolivie: Très faible activité en matière de radiodiffusion et de télévision éducatives — Equateur: Pas de grandes activités dans le domaine — Colombie: Action culturelle populaire de Radio Suatenza — Télévision éducative du Minsitère de l'Education publique — Formation éducative
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au sein des universités — Programme d'alphabétisation — Pérou: organisation générale de la radio-télévision éducative — Aperçu sur les programmes — Caractéristiques générales — Problèmes de développement — L'avenir de la télé-éducation — Vénézuela: Deux programmes éducatifs pour adultes pour ce qui est de la radio, activités du Centre national des moyens audio-visuels de Caracas, en ce qui concerne la télévision — Le rapport fournit d'assez amples informations surtout pour la Colombie et le Pérou." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 235, topic code 210.330, 410.330)
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"There are differences as well as similarities in the work of journalists in Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico — Their professional aspirations are very real but they might be tempted to compromise their code of ethics for economic gain." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass medi
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a in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 586, topic code 162)
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"Sans statut — Une menace — Les salaires — Liberté de la presse — Instruction académique." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 91, topic code 110.1, 162)
"While newspapers reach more of the ghetto dwellers than might be expected, radio has access to a far larger proportion especially among women — In Indian slums, listeners regard radio as more believable than the press." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the devel
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oping countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2134, topic code 172, 352, 262, 452)
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"The research underlying these case studies was done by the International Institute for Educational Planning in 1965-66 under a contract with the United States Agenciy for International Development, which gave the Institute full freedom of research and the right to publish its findings for general i
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nternational use. The project was directed for the Institute by Wilbur Schramm. His principal collaborators at the Institute were Philip H. Coombs,director of IIEP, Friedrich Kahnert, and Jack Lyle." (Page 4)
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"This is a study of mass media exposure of peasants in five Colombian villages. It relates this exposure to prior literacy, education, social status, age, and cosmopoliteness, and measures its consequences in terms of empathy, innovativeness, political knowledge, achievement, and aspiration." (Abstr
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act)
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"Réalisations principales du Collège National des Journalistes de Colombie — Activité syndicale — Statut du journaliste professionnel — Logement — Sièges — Culture." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr.
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919, topic code 162)
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"Deux facteurs négatifs pour le libre exercice de la profession continuent à s'accentuer: 1. la tendance des grands journaux monopolisés à nier par les faits la défense tant vantée de la liberté de la presse ; 2. La tendance syndicale des journalistes — La lutte pour la dignité de la press
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e continue." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 114, topic code 110.32)
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"Distinction entre la presse patronale qui défend les grands intérêts et qui est soumise au contrôle total des organismes américains et la presse indépendante et progressiste qui a conscience de sa dignité et qui dénonce systématiquement la traîtrise et l'immoralité des milieux officiels.
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" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1721, topic code 110.32)
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"Résolutions concernant la persécution des journalistes entre autres pays au Vietnam, pays d'Amérique Iatine, République Dominicaine, le Panama, le Pérou, pays d'Afrique." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 19
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61, topic code 161.2)
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"Premier Congrès National des Journalistes Colombiens — Discussion sur divers points ayant trait aux problèmes professionnels, techniques, éthiques du journaliste colombien." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr.
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1754, topic code 110.1)
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"Saisie de journaux organes de partis socialistes, communistes ou d'opposition — Persécution de journalistes démocratiques." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1719, topic code 110.32)
"Contre la persécution des journalistes du Brésil — d'Equateur — du Paraguay — Solidarité avec le peuple et les journalistes de Cuba. CICPLA = Commission d'Information et de Coopération des Journalistes d'Amérique latine." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media i
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n the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 475, topic code 110.32)
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"Even at the lowest level of development of a small village of the Andes, in Colombia, some people receive information from the modern mass media — The author thinks that the process of building up an audience may be fundamentally the same as in the United States, despite the difference in the cul
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tures." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 621, topic code 051)
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