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"This paper examines how banks can translate the potential of mobile phones into greater financial access for poor people. Although mobile phone operators have been able to use the mobile phone for mobile remittance and bill payment services in several countries, banks have had little success in usi ... more

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Más una ventana que un espejo: La percepción de adolescentes con discapacidad sobre los medios de comunicación en Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay

Brasilia: ANDI Agencia de Noticias por los Derechos de la Infancia (2008), 40 pp.

"Jóvenes con discapacidad de tres países de América Latina debaten sobre cuándo y de qué manera retratan su realidad los medios de comunicación, especialmente en el caso de la televisión. Las opiniones documentadas dan pistas sobre cómo se construye una disociación en el ámbito discapacida ... more

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Illegale Drogen in populären Spielfilmen: Eine kommentierte Übersicht über Spielfilme zum Thema illegale Drogen ab 1995. Mit ergänzenden Handlungsempfehlungen für den Einsatz von Spielfilmen im Rahmen der Suchtprävention

Sabine Goette, Renate Röllecke

Köln: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA), 2. erw. und überarb. Aufl. (2008), 135 pp.

"Die Autorinnen dieses Fachhefts liefern zunächst einen historischen Abriss zur Geschichte des Drogenfilms und stellen im Anschluss daran 20 Kinoproduktionen (aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2005) vor, bei denen Drogen, Drogensucht und Drogenhandel zentraler Bestandteil der Haupthandlung sind beziehungswei ... more

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Enhancing the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor Through ICT: A Knowledge Map

Kerry McNamara

Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2008), iv, 308 pp.

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Teaching Effective Media Relations to NGOs, PLHIV and Government Communications Officials: A Manual for Trainers

Mia Malan

Washington, DC: Internews Network (2008), 64 pp.

"This manual is intended to help you train non-governmental organizations working in HIV-related fields and People Living with HIV (PLHIV) Networks on how to work effectively with the media. The manual is based on Internews Network’s Local Voices Training Curriculum that was developed by the Kenya ... more

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Report on Media Workshops for UN-HABITAT’s Water for Asian Cities Programme

Dick de Jong

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (2008), 76 pp.

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What Makes Some Campaigns More Effective Than Others? An Analysis of Three Mass Media PSI HIV/AIDS Campaigns in Kenya

Nathabhona Marianne Mabachi

Ann Arbor: University of Kansas, Doctoral Thesis (2008), 163 pp.

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The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a Health Communication Crisis

John H. Powers, Xiaosui Xiao (eds.)

Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (2008), vi, 242 pp.

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Karibuni Wananchi: Theatre for Development in Tanzania. Variations and Tendencies

Jule Koch

Eckersdorf: Thielmann & Breitinger (2008), 193 pp.

"Stock taking of organisational forms, methodologies, intentions, themes and aesthetic form of Theatre for Development in Tanzania 1980 to 2002. In spite of the widely criticized dependency on funding organisations, Theatre for Development is still a vibrant form of theatre in Tanzania. The aestheti ... more

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Women in Action No.2/2008: People's Communications for Development (PC4D)

Tesa Casal de Vela, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo (eds.)

Quezon City: Isis International (2008), 94 pp.

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La formación on-Line: Una mirada integral sobre el e-Learning, b-Learning...

Gregorio Casamayor (ed.)

Barcelona: Editorial Graó (2008), 238 pp.

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Entertainment-Education and Audience Responses: The Case of Menta-Menged Radio Serial Drama in Ethiopia

Aderaw Genetu

Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, Master Thesis (2008), vi, 89 pp.

"This study attempts to explore entertainment-education (E-E) radio drama audience responses/reactions, their motivating factors in writing letters to the drama and the relationship between audience responses and over all program goals of the drama, Menta Menged (Crossroads), in Ethiopia. Because en ... more

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ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty, Governance

Ashwani Saith, M. Vijayabaskar, V. Gayathri (eds.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2008), 418 pp.

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Puppets in Theatre for Social Change: An Analysis of the Popularity of Puppets in Africa

Marie Kruger

African Performance Review, volume 2, issue 2-3 (2008), pp. 7-31

"Theatre has become a prominent tool in the extensive struggle to address social problems in Africa, and it is fairly logical that puppets - as part of the traditional forms of dramatic expression of many African countries - would surface in theatre for social change. A variety of reasons are given ... more

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Por los caminos de la educación radiofónica

Dulce García (ed.)

Caracas: Fe y Alegría (2008), 331 pp.

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The Media, Poverty and Public Opinion in the UK

John H. McKendrick, Stephen Sinclair, Anthea Irwin Hugh et al.

York, UK: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) (2008), 72 pp.

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Interviewing & Counselling at the Grassroots: A Manual for People in Developing Countries Wishing to Improve Their Interviewing and Counselling Skills

Maeve Moynihan (ed.)

Amsterdam: Networklearning (2008), 37 pp.

"This manual is, firstly, about Interviewing (Section Two). This is the art and skill of getting the information you need from someone. Information may be facts – perhaps those needed to register a new client - or you might want to go further, looking perhaps for an understanding of the new contac ... more

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Grassroots, Participatory Communication

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 1, issue 1 (2008), 137 pp.