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Gender and Media: A Holistic Agenda

Media Development, volume 65, issue 1 (2018), pp. 4-40

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Community Media Networks in Latin America

María Soledad Segura

Media Development, volume 65, issue 1 (2018), pp. 41-44

"Community, alternative and popular radio stations have a long tradition in Latin America that began in the middle of the 20th century. They accompanied the struggles of social organizations and popular sectors against dictatorial or authoritarian states despite the fact that those states persecuted ... more

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Media barriers in Afghanistan

Mina Saboor

Media Development, issue 4 (2015), 5 pp.

"Afghanistan once housed tourists from around the world intrigued by the Silk Road stories, the poetic and mystic culture, the majestic landscape and the hospitable people. Their experience in Afghanistan was frequently captured through journalism and photojournalism of the early 1900s. However, Afg ... more

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Communication Among the Pacific Islands

Media Development, volume 61, issue 3 (2014), pp. 4-25

"In the context of the Pacific, as articles in this issue of Media Development underline, journalists can play a key role in identifying and making public the global, national and local concerns and aspirations of vulnerable people and their communities. They can also tell success stories, and share ... more

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What Future for Community Radio?

Media Development, volume 60, issue 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

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Rethinking the Growth of Print Media in India

Gopalan Ravindram

Media Development, volume 60, issue 2 (2013), pp. 28-31

"Recent times have seen an increasing number of reports about the plight of press systems in the Western hemisphere in contrast to the growing prospects of the print media in Asia, particularly in countries like India and China. While many attribute the success stories of the Indian and Chinese news ... more

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Building Alliances for Gender and Media

Media Development, volume 60, issue 4 (2013), pp. 1-36

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Citizen Journalism is Here to Stay

Media Development, volume 60, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-18

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News Audiences Beware! Insights from Darfur

Bella Mody

Media Development, volume 58, issue 4 (2011), pp. 32-36

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Peace Journalism: Giving Power to the People

Media Development, volume 58, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-35

"Peace journalism finds its place in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, in film and documentaries, in digital media and mainstream cultural events such as public exhibitions and debates. There are also transnational online communities like Avaaz.org, which is dedicated to organizing ... more

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Right to Memory

Media Development, volume 57, issue 2 (2010), pp. 3-59

"How reliable are the mass media’s stories and images of yesterday let alone of the more remote past? Only by rigorously cross-checking different sources of public or cultural memory might one reach a point that is reasonably balanced and accurate – an exercise in triangulating memory’s ever ... shifting terrain. This, of course, is the essence of positive revisionist history (rather than its negative counterpart, in which one must beware the hidden agendas of politics, ideology, class, gender, and religion.) The notion of a right to memory is, therefore, fraught with difficulty. Whose memories are being sought? How are they to be (re)constructed? How can their veracity, integrity, and credibility be guaranteed? And, in today’s information-sharing societies, what are the relationships between the right to memory, the right to information, and the right to communication? In Cambodia, a cultural unwillingness not to speak ill of the past is confronted by the extreme discomfort of survivors of the Pol Pot regime that killed 1.7 million (one sixth of the population). While the Cambodian government pursues reconciliation based on the political expediency of amnesty, the people’s right to communicate their stories stands precariously on their inability to recover the truth of what happened. In Uruguay a freedom of information law passed in 2008 provides the legal framework for public access to a vast quantity of secret state information pertaining to the country’s military dictatorships. The law clearly stipulates that there can be no restrictions when it comes to investigating violations of human rights. In South Africa, after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had completed its work, the essential question was how to generate the will to form restorative relationships that could tackle resentment, bring economic restitution, and forge new political structures that were just and equitable. Restorative relationships require coming to terms with memories that others might wish to forget. In this respect, a litmus test for a right to memory is how it might be used to transcend traumatic events in ways that overcome hatred, fear, guilt, and revenge. How might a right to memory contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable future? And a litmus test for political, social and cultural responses to the questions at the heart of public memory is how critical and balanced they are when issues of power, privilege, and impunity haunt the present. As Paul Ricoeur has pointed out, ‘The duty of memory is the duty to do justice, through memories, to an other than the self.’" (Editorial, page 2) more

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Using Visual Storytelling for Women's Empowerment

Tamara Plush

Media Development, volume 60, issue 3 (2013), pp. 25-29

"Communicators who work with photography and video in the development context know the power visuals can have in bearing witness to the reality people living in poverty face. When contextualized, visuals can transcend distance and create a global dialog around topics in need of deeper understanding ... more

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Changing Paradigms of Ecumenical Communication

Stephen Brown

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 33-39

"The process of communication between individuals and institutions was central to the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948. Yet communication is often taken for granted, being understood as a tool to advance the organizational objectives of ecumenical organizations. Only on occasions h ... more

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Mediating Freedom of Religion

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 2-47

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The Great Georgian/Russian Media War

Jörg Becker

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 51-56

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Christian Communication in Sri Lanka

Avanka Fernando

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 43-47

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Radio Namaskar: Catalyst of Change in Orissa

Daniela Bandelli

Media Development, volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 48-51

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Tackling HIV and AIDS Stigmatization and Discrimination

Media Development, volume 58, issue 4 (2011), pp. 1-23

"Mass and community media can unthinkingly reinforce stigmatisation and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. Beyond the important question of language and image, there are those of care, respect, support, and human dignity. As one writer in this issue comments, "HIV and AIDS is no ... more

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Dialogue on Communication and Theology

Media Development, volume 58, issue 3 (2011), 72 pp.

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Peace Journalism Training in East Africa

Levi Obonyo

Media Development, issue 3 (2010), pp. 59-63