"This comprehensive MIL (Media and Information Literacy) Policy and Strategy Guidelines resource is the first of its kind to treat MIL as a composite concept, unifying information literacy and media literacy as well as considering the right to freedom of expression and access to information through
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ICTs [...] The MIL Policy and Strategy Guidelines resource is divided into two parts. Part 1 is the MIL Policy Brief, and is designed for policy or decision makers and can serve as a summary of the publication. Part 2 is divided into several comprehensive chapters and suggests: 1) how to enlist MIL a development tool; 2) conceptual frameworks for MIL policies and strategies; and 3) model MIL policy and strategies that can be adapted by countries globally." (Foreword)
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"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
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and action for social change." (Page 25)
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"This study has looked at the opinions of ordinary citizens (n=2000) as well as a small sample of decision makers at community level (n=200). Chapters 1 and 2 provide a background sketch and methodology for the survey, followed by a detailed overview of the findings for the general public and decisi
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on makers in Chapters 3 and 4. Overall, ordinary citizens and decision makers alike feel the Tanzania's media sector is growing and improving over time, and the sector is serving a news-hungry public that wants the media to keep those in positions of power accountable. However, this study also points to perceptions of shortcomings in the media, both in terms of the content it provides to the public and the quality of the services it provides." (Executive summary)
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"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a
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nd violence against women online all of which are on the increase globally." (www.giswatch.org, July 6, 2014)
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"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti
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ons, as well as the topic of the year, herein, “Social Memory and Television Fiction”. The second part, “Fiction in the Obitel Countries”, is composed by twelve chapters (one for each country), with a structure of fixed sections, though some are more specific than others [...] The third part is an “Appendix”, where are collected the top ten TV fictions in the Obitel countries with basic and necessary information about these productions." (Pages 19-20)
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"The goal of this book is to present in a systematic way the results of analysis of content of media in minority languages in four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), relying on past practice, expertise and research results related to analysis of minority media and
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treatment of minorities in media. The analysis conducted in 2012 by the research team gathered around this project focused, in addition to minority media content, on analysis of the legislative context and socio-economic status of minority communities in these countries." (Introduction, page 14-15)
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"The potential of audience participation constitutes a most important characteristic of digital journalism. This article presents an inductive study of audience participation in the production of online news in a Danish context, analysing how audiences participate, and what relationships between jou
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rnalists and audiences accompany this participation. The article discusses the concept of participation, arguing on the basis of sociological theory that it should be understood as those instances where the audience influences the content of the news through their intentional actions. Applying this definition, it proposes four ideal types of audience participation in the production of online news, namely sharing of information, collaboration, conversation and meta-communication." (Abstract)
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"The overall objective of the research is to provide the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and its Libyan Government counterparts with an updated assessment of the Libyan media landscape that measures consumption habits, perceptions of trust towards certain outlets, and attitudes towards government invo
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lvement in Libyan media, leading to recommendations for improving communication between the Libyan Government and the Libyan people. This report is a collection of the most informative results from this research, which was conducted across Libya’s 22 districts between February and April 2013. Overall, the project involved interviewing 3,196 randomly-selected Libyans with a 65-question questionnaire, together with 26 Paired Interviews and 40 Key Informant Interviews covering most of the influential television, radio and publications outlets." (Executive summary)
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"The guidelines are intended to ensure that all actors who play a role in facilitating or engaging in media reporting on gender-based violence (GBV) are aware of and able to prioritize the ethical and safety considerations that preserve the safety, confidentiality and dignity of survivors, their fam
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ilies, their communities, and those who are trying to help them. The audience for these guidelines is two-fold: first, the guidelines are meant to support those actors who are working in humanitarian contexts to address the needs of GBV survivors, e.g. as part of a UN, NGO or Government entity, including senior management of these organisations. Second, the guidelines propose best practices for journalists and other media professionals who are reporting on GBV in emergency contexts." (Page 1)
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"This pioneering study examines television’s impact on an Amazonian river town from the first broadcasts in Gurupá, in 1983, to the present." (Publisher website)
"Die Arbeit bietet eine Literaturübersicht zum aktuellen Stand des Forschungsgebiets „Jugendliche und Medien”. Dabei werden die folgenden vier Schwerpunktthemen bearbeitet: Mediennutzung von Jugendlichen, Medienrezeption von Jugendlichen, Medienkonsum der Eltern und ihr Erziehungsverhalten sowi
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e die Medienkompetenzstärke der Jugendlichen. Der Fokus liegt auf 12- bis 19-jährigen Jugendlichen. Als Grundlage für die Übersicht dienen repräsentative Studien ab dem Jahr 2009." (Zusammenfassung, Seite 7)
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"Con ocasión de los veinticinco años de nuestra fundación como asociación, organizamos una serie de mesas redondas, conferencias y talleres con la finalidad de discutir y analizar la situación de los pueblos indígenas en nuestro país pero a partir de la mirada de otras realidades de la regió
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n americana. Con este fin se convocó a diversos comunicadores indígenas y no indígenas para reflexionar sobre los contenidos de los programas de TV de señal abierta, por el peso social ya descrito que este tiene. A partir de preguntas como ¿porqué la representación estereotipada de pueblos y culturas indígenas no es abiertamente cuestionada en nuestra sociedad? ¿Qué mecanismos subconscientes sostienen las representaciones que tenemos de nosotros y nosotras? ¿Los medios de comunicación están condenados a apelar a los referentes sociales (estereotipos, miedos/prejuicios) para construir sus mensajes? ¿Quién o quienes determinan los límites de la libertad de expresión en sociedades regidas por códigos y representaciones racistas? y ¿qué ejemplos o experiencias para enfrentar el racismo y construir una imagen positiva e inclusiva de los pueblos indígenas en los medios de comunicación, pueden ser aplicables a nuestra realidad? Las y los comunicadores convocados analizaron el papel de la comunicación en la construcción de sociedades excluyentes y al mismo tiempo, reflexionar sobre las capacidades y posibilidades de la comunicación para el fortalecimiento de las organizaciones indígenas y la construcción de una voz e imagen desde los pueblos indígenas, pero no solo para los pueblos indígenas, sino que sirva para afirmarnos como sociedades diversas. Racismo, Medios de Comunicación y Pueblos Indígenas es la edición de la mesa redonda titulada “Diálogo en torno al racismo en los medios de comunicación y los pueblos indígenas” realizado el 22 de junio de 2011 en los ambientes de la Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos. Con la presente publicación CHIRAPAQ, Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú comparte estas reflexiones y planteamientos que nos permiten unir nuestras voces y construir una imagen diversa, más cercana y cálida de nuestra sociedad." (Página 8)
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"The articles contained in this special issue build on the conversations initiated at the Cairo Symposium and try to make sense of the shifts and transformations in media and gender relations in Africa. Some bring new perspectives to bear on how traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio and te
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levision) continue to be implicated in questions of gender, while others address new questions raised by new media forms and formats. Four articles (three in French and one in English) tackle the impact of ICTs and social media from different theoretical perspectives, locations and experiences (see Palmieri, Kane, Rouamba and Mbure). Three other articles examine the representational practices of newspapers and magazines in political and social discourses relating to gender (see Anate, Ossome and Eshiet). The contribution by Chiweshe and Bhatasara reflects on popular culture, specifically the construction of gender in music, while that of Yeboah and Thompson examine on the outstanding qualities that enable three women to rise to decision-making positions in the public relations, advertising and broadcast industries in Ghana." (Introduction, page 2-3)
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"Since1993 to the present, a group of Mapuche activists hasaired the bilingual radio shot Wixage anai! in Santiago, Chile; on the other side of the Andes, another Mapuche collective, the Equipo de Comunicación Mapurbe, produced and broadcast a series of brief radio programs between 2003 and 2005 in
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Bariloche, southern Argentina. In this article, I argue that these radio programs constitute an exercise of Mapuche agency that challenges what I call the acoustic colonialism of corporate and criollo mass media in both countries. This article illustrates how Mapuche activists creatively use radio as a connective medium among Mapuche communities and a space for the public audibility of their own voices, sounds, and modes of speech. I analyze the history, cultural politics, and performative features of these two initiatives, engaging theoretical and critical views on sound media, state cultural policies, and politics of indigenous agency." (Abstract)
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