"This article draws on the first extensive study of community radio audiences in the Middle East to contribute new insights about documenting the impacts of community radio, and the evaluative mechanisms that should be in place for non-profit, community media to better fulfill their mission to serve
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the community. Building on critical ethnographic audience research, I argue for a storytelling approach that facilitates personal narratives and cooperative focus groups among community radio audiences." (Summary)
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"With its emphasis on the lives and interests of upper-middle-class women who live out the success of the African dream, 'Society' [a miniseries aired in 2007 on SABC television channel] has been compared to the HBO drama 'Sex and the City' (1998-2004), with its portrayal of conspicious consumption
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and highly sexualised representations (Brown 2009). Yet, as a show populated almost solely by black women, and incorporating the particularities of the South African context beyond its glamorous setting in Johannesburg, 'Society' offers a unique perspective on the feminine possibilities available to women in post-apartheid South Africa." (Page 280)
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"This article discusses the trial of visual research methods in a socio-economic research and development project with women subsistence farmers and their families in two regions of Papua New Guinea. It reports on the benefits and challenges of three visual research methods (drawing, participatory p
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hotography, and picture elicitation) to explore the agricultural practice of women subsistence farmers and their families. The paper discusses the potential of these methods for enhancing community engagement, reducing the power imbalance between researchers and participants, and promoting dialogue and reflection to better understand the needs and practices of subsistence farmers." (Abstract)
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"Lisa Marie Gadatsch liefert mit dieser Künstlermonographie eine erste umfassende Studie des filmischen Gesamtwerks der indisch-amerikanischen Regisseurin Mira Nair. Nairs Filme changieren zwischen Arthousekino, Hollywood und Weltkino und reflektieren den vielschichtigen kulturellen Hintergrund der
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Ausnahmeregisseurin. Die Autorin stellt die kulturellen Kontraste, Referenzen und Ambivalenzen als integralen Bestandteil Nairs postkolonialer Filmkunst heraus und erkennt in ihrem Kino eine transkulturelle Filmpoesie, die paradigmatisch für eine Generation junger und global inspirierter Filmschaffender ist." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This paper provides one of the first studies on the role of social media in articulating individuals’ experiences and memories and (re-)shaping collective memory in contemporary China. It investigates how social media enable and facilitate the participation of ordinary citizens in distributing an
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d accumulating alternative narratives and memories of the past against the authoritarian version by taking the debate over China’s Great Famine – a topic long considered a political taboo – on Sina Weibo, one of the country’s most popular social media sites, as the case study. This study demonstrates that weibo provides people with an alternative communicative sphere for sharing previously suppressed, marginalised, “unofficial” memories as civil disobedience and accumulating them into an alternative collective memory that is relevant to the changing socio-political context of China." (Abstract)
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"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries
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where online video is still in its early stages of growth, what we see is that online video consumption has risen sharply over the past few years and has begun to attract budget-switching from TV advertising. TV remains, of course, the world’s most popular advertising channel, and will be so for some years yet. Nevertheless, networks and studios are having to adapt to the new importance of digital." (Introduction, page 1)
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"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr
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ough a process of participatory methodologies, the young children developed a cricital consciousness about their lived experiences and were empowered to actively participate in decision making and their right to treatment." (Abstract)
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"As in much of the Arab World, satellite TV is almost ubiquitous in Iraq, present in 97.3% of households (versus 35.1% with radio and 50.4% with the Internet). Ethnic Kurds and those with a college degree are much more likely t han other Iraqis to have Internet access at home; those living in Anbar
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province are less likely than average to have it (21.9%), as are Iraqis with only some intermediate education or less (37.7%). More than nine in 10 Iraqis (92.2%) have their own mobile phone, and 35% have accessed the Internet via mobile device in the past week. The ongoing conflict has displaced many residents and has hindered their access to TV, radio, and the Internet. More than one-quarter (27.0%) of Iraqis say that they have been “displaced” in the past 12 months." (Page 1)
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"Los programas de interés general dedicaron un 27,2% de su programación a la presentación de temas que involucran a niñas, niños y adolescentes. Sin embargo, esta presencia notablemente alta en los ciclos del género no implica necesariamente un tratamiento positivo, una participación activa y
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un rol como sujetos de derecho, tal como se propone desde la Convención de los Derechos del Niño –Ley 23.849– y desde la Ley 26.061. En efecto, al profundizar en las modalidades en que son abordados los segmentos, se advierte que durante la mitad de ese tiempo de programación NNyA son representados/as mediante aspectos negativos." (Conclusiones, página 71)
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"This publication is intended to provide guidance to individuals and organizations wishing to train animators on the use of the films Out of the Shadows and Red Top, Blue Top, which were created in partnership between No Strings International and Catholic Relief Services. The films aim to support em
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otional and social resilience of children affected by conflict in the Middle East. Since the creation of the films in 2013, a cohort of implementers have trained animators in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan on their use. The Guidance on Training is an attempt to synthesize and systematize the way trainings are conducted throughout the region. It focuses on puppets (manipulating puppets, showing children how to make puppets), working with children, key messages of the films, and session planning. The Guidance on Training includes the components needed for a successful training on the use of these films. It is not, however, prescriptive, and should be adapted as appropriate to each individual context. The Guidance includes both a 3-day agenda, suitable for training on one of the films, and a 5-day agenda, suitable for training on both films." (Introduction, page 1)
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"Das Fernsehen ist nach wie vor das reichweitenstärkste Medium zur Information und Meinungsbildung. Mit einer „informierenden“ Tagesreichweite von knapp 60% liegt es deutlich vor dem Radio (51%) und der Tageszeitung mit 35% [...] Bei der informierenden Nutzung gestern zeigen sich deutliche Zusa
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mmenhänge mit dem Alter und Geschlecht sowie der formaler Bildung: Unter 30-Jährige informieren sich eher über das Internet als via Tageszeitung. In dieser Altersgruppe liegt das Internet sogar bereits um 10 Prozentpunkte vor dem Fernsehen klar auf Rangplatz 1. Frauen informieren sich insgesamt und insbesondere im Internet deutlich weniger (23 zu 35%). Allerdings ist die Tagesreichweite des Internets (allgemeine Nutzung) bei Frauen auch deutlich geringer als bei Männern (54 zu 65%). Ähnlich wie bei Männern verhält es sich bei formal höher Gebildeten: Insgesamt informiert sich diese Gruppe überproportional oft. Das Internet – und auch Zeitschriften, wenn auch auf niedrigerem Niveau – sind überdurchschnittlich relevant." (Seite 51-52)
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"This text is a review of some changes that have recently taken place in literary creation and script writing in TV programs for children 0-6; a complex set of different influences has triggered changes on children conception; a new image of the child has emerged, different from the old behaviorist
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one; new quality criteria have emerged for production and exhibition of socio-emotional TV programs." (Abstract)
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"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide
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ntified, catalogued and digiti sed through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history." (Back cover)
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"This article describes the precarious and sensitive relationship prisoners have with television; it focuses exclusively on the voices of male prisoners to identify how they relate to their viewing experiences within the prison space. This article foregrounds the chief emotional responses prisoners
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articulated in relation to both prison life and television; boredom, frustration, and happiness. This discussion offers readers an emotive perspective on the ‘pains of imprisonment’ (Sykes 1999). This typology has traditionally underplayed the role of affect. Like other recent prison research this paper calls for a centring of emotion to more fully understand imprisonment. Television plays an important and valuable tool for prisoners’ coping strategies. It is co-opted as a therapeutic tool or ‘protective device’ (Layder 2004:26) to mitigate against the harms of daily life and supply social and psychological nourishment within the prison space." (Abstract)
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