"Focusing on issues of access to and participation in community media, this report reviews progress so far and analyzes the difficulties that underlie the transfer and adaptation of community communications media in developing countries. The first chapter contains introductory material on the subjec
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t of community media and development and describes a participative model for using media in community development situations. The second chapter discusses the practice of community communications by defining objectives, presenting background information on present projects, and describing criteria for selecting community media. The third chapter examines three community development communications projects in detail to show the development of methods that suit particular tasks and the choice of media that suit particular conditions, and the fourth chapter offers an appropriate methodology for using media in community development, with implications for future projects." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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"10 contributions, e.g. on literacy and rural communication. The "Bibliografia de Estudos Norte-Americanos sobre Comunicação no Brasil. Bibliografia Anotada" (pages 151-246) includes 235 North American publications on communication in Brazil." (commbox)
"An analysis of the struggle between the Western concept of the press as a means through which the public is freely informed about those in authority so that it can form judgments and act accordingly, and the Third World concept that the press should be a national voice functioning to make a better
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life for the people in terms of such things as nutrition and literacy." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 354)
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"The monograph, as the name suggests, is about visual literacy, communication and visual design. It goes beyond mere definition and does more than provide a theoretical framework. The monograph relates to the practical concerns of designing culture-oriented visual materials for use in functional lit
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ercy and development communication in different cultures and countries. The guidelines are intended to be useful to all designers of visual materials whatever their cultural setting. The message is: read your own culture and understand your own visual language as you design visual messages for use in your particular cultural setting." (Page 8)
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"Este libro recoge en forma acertada y amena todo aquel conjunto de pequeños grandes detalles que sumados hacen que funcione una radiodifusora, no solamente tomando en cuenta la parte técnica como base del engranaje, sino principalmente, las características del elemento humano que la conforma. El
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autor brinda espontáneamente todo aquel legado de experiencias adquiridas prácticamente en el diario trajinar de la radiodifusión y sistematizado en la docencia académica del aula universitaria." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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