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Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Charles A. Riley

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (2005), xviii, 258 pp.

"In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and prof ... itable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of “overcoming.” According to Riley, this cliché plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of “fixing” the disability and rendering the “sufferer” as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the “back of the book” health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends. Riley’s lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the “discovery” by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity." (Publisher description) more

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Health and Media In-Country Course 2005: Advocating Healthy Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. Participants' Manual

Angela Dawson

Colin Lloyd (ed.)

Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA);Gates Malaria Partnership, 2nd ed. (2005), 124 pp.

"This practical workshop manual forms part of a five day course run by the Health and Media Partnership. The workshop aimed to teach reporters how to report on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in ways that contribute to the prevention and control of these diseases and positively influence the attitudes and ... more

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Knowledge Maps: ICT in Education

Michael Trucano

Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program;World Bank (2005), vi, 70 pp.

"The impact of ICT use on learning outcomes is unclear, and open to much debate. Widely accepted, standard methodologies and indicators to assess impact of ICTs in education do not exist. A disconnect is apparent between the rationales most often presented to advance the use of ICTs in education (to ... more

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Media Coverage and Foreign Assistance: The Effects of US Media Coverage on the Distribution of US Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Recipient Countries

John S. Kim

Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2005), 45 pp.

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A Healthy Workforce: A Toolkit for HIV and AIDS Advocacy and Behaviour Change Communication in the Workplace

Washington, DC: Center on AIDS & Community Health (2005), 68 pp.

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Building Trust and Responding to Adverse Events Following Immunisation in South Asia: Using Strategic Communication

Kathmandu: UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (2005), vi, 57 pp.

"To develop communication capacity specifically around adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) organized a joint regional workshop "Strategic Communication: Building Trust and Responding to ... more

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Strategic Communication for Behaviour and Social Change in South Asia

Kathmandu: UNICEF (2005), xvi, 70 pp.

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HIV/AIDS in News: Journalists as Catalysts. Toolkit for Trainers

Dilip Jha, Ajeet Prasad, Nandini Datta

New Delhi: UNDP (2005), 95 pp.

"This toolkit is a collection of participatory exercises for use in sensitisation of media persons involved in HIV/AIDS coverage. It can also be integrated with the existing curriculum of schools of journalism and mass communication. The toolkit has been developed keeping in view the needs of journa ... more

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Communication in Public Health Programs: The Leprosy Project in India

Supriya Mukherji, Meera Priyadarshi et al.

Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), x, 30 pp.

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Spot on Malaria: Facilitator's Manual for Workshops on Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
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Cate Cowan, Lonna Shafritz

Washington, DC: USAID, Change Project (2005), 178 pp.

A companion facilitator's manual to the "Spot on Malaria" guide (2005) for conducting an five-day hands-on workshop.

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Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart

Matthew Bernier, Judith O'Hare (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse (2005), xvi,, 212 pp.

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Tsha Tsha: Key Findings of the Evaluation of Episodes 1-26

Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) (2005), 62 pp.

"Tsha Tsha is an entertainment-education television drama series focusing on young people and dealing with love, sexuality and relationships in a world affected by HIV/AIDS. Audience research utilised by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) showed that episodes 1-13 achieved an audience ... more

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Massenmedien und sozialer Wandel

Michael Kunczik, Astrid Zipfel

In: Publizistik: Ein Studienhandbuch

Michael Kunczik; Astrid Zipfel

Köln et al.: Böhlau (2005), pp. 104-128

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HIV/AIDS in News: Journalists as Catalysts

UNDP (2005), vii, 162 pp.

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Behavior Change Perspectives and Communication Guidelines on Six Child Survival Interventions

Kim S. Martin (ed.)

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (2005), xi, 178 pp.

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Radio Soap Operas for Peacebuilding: A Guide. Part 2
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Jon Hargreaves, Francis Rolt

Search for Common Ground;Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2005), various pag.

"This is a guide for those training writers of radio soap operas for peacebuilding. It contains a ten day training course, materials, and background information which are invaluable to facilitators." (Back cover)

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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

Jim Downs (ed.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2005), 191 pp.

"This volume grew out of the Why We Write conference held at Columbia University in the spring of 2003. The conference was the second part of a series of conferences organized by graduate students in the history department that explored issues related to history, social change, and the politics of w ... more

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Yaaba (Idrissa Ouedraogo)

Reinhard Middel

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2005), 24 pp.

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Tsunami Media Evaluation Report. Period: December 26th 2004 to March 26th 2005

UNICEF;Echo Research Inc. (2005), 29 pp.

"This media analysis report by global reputation analyst Echo Research reviews UNICEF’s communications following the Tsunami and the impact of communication on government policies and UNICEF programs in Sri Lanka and Indonesia (the Tsunami Zone). The analysis looks at UNICEF coverage related to th ... more

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Theatre for Development Source Book

Gemma Knight, Caroline Brown

Village Volunteers (2005), 16 pp.

Spot on Malaria: Facilitator's Manual for Workshops on Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots Key Guidance

Radio Soap Operas for Peacebuilding: A Guide. Part 2 Key Guidance

Spot on Malaria: Facilitator's Manual for Workshops on Adapting, Developing and Producing Effective Radio Spots
Key Guidance

Radio Soap Operas for Peacebuilding: A Guide. Part 2
Key Guidance