"The future of Indigenous Australians, especially Indigenous youth, in remote regions is a subject of great concern to all Australians. The view commonly presented in media reports and public commentary is unrelentingly bleak. While we recognise the challenges young people face, in this book we inte
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nd to dispute that view. The prevalent media images, newspaper headlines and opinion pages are so focused on examples of dysfunction that few Australians would ever imagine that many Indigenous young people are quietly leading productive and meaningful lives and moving confidently toward a future while walking in two worlds. Throughout this book you will meet some of these Indigenous young and dedicated individuals who reinvigorate faith in the potential that lies unacknowledged in the remote context. Our aim is to showcase a range of ‘out-of-school’ youth learning contexts in remote Australia, to analyse the factors that enable positive learning and to provide some working principles for facilitating and supporting effective youth learning in the remote Indigenous context." (Introduction, page 2)
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"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish
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ing ML FM the post-apartheid leadership created a case for residual and incremental policy models. As a residual policy model, ML FM stands as the inherited radio broadcasting structure of the apartheid system, whereas social transformation processes and human agency including the formulation and implementation of new policies marks a point of departure as an incremental policy model. Local content usage in programming and music for the Tsonga as an ethnic group projects ML FM as the voice of the Tsonga people. Through different programmes, social meanings, symbols, world-views and life-worlds are created. As part of the radical transformation of SABC and as a decentralised public broadcaster ML FM can be seen as the conduit for the eschatologies of liberation and social transformation." (Abstract)
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"Burma s media environment is underdeveloped and firmly anchored in old media, but changes have started. Radio is the most used media for entertainment and news in Burma, and domestic outlets have expanded rapidly in recent years. Television s growth in urban areas has been striking in recent years.
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A very limited number of private players have gained market access, tapping into a deep desire for entertainment, religion, and "news you can use." Burmese are cautious but appear to trust local media more than in the past. Web and mobile infrastructure lags with slow connections and low use. Mobile phone growth potential is high." (Conclusions, page 52)
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"For more than half a century, North Korea’s leaders have relied on a domestic media monopoly to control what information North Koreans can access and how narratives around that information are presented. But the situation on the ground is changing, thanks in large part to North Koreans’ expandi
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ng access to unsanctioned foreign media and information sources. InterMedia’s A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment documents this evolution based on research among recent North Korean defectors, refugees and travelers abroad. The project’s assessment of the current state of the media environment in North Korea suggests that substantial numbers of North Koreans are able to access various forms of foreign media. These include foreign TV and radio broadcasts, and particularly foreign DVDs brought into the country from China by cross-border traders and smugglers. Other vectors for information from abroad include smuggled mobile phones capable of receiving foreign signals, and the exchange of illicit foreign content on otherwise legal MP3/MP4 players and USB drives." (www.audiencescapes.org, June 18, 2012)
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"Static: Race and Representation in Post-apartheid Music, Media and Film critically examines music, cinema, social media and the politics of change after apartheid. It cuts across academic disciplines, the creative arts and the media and poses two central questions: Is South Africa changing for the
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better, or are we static? Is there too much static for us to hear each other clearly? Static provides key insights into recent media phenomena, such as Die Antwoord; the 2010 Soccer World Cup; Bok van Blerk; Tsotsi; Kuli Roberts' Sunday World column on 'coloureds'; revisionist film Afrikaaps and the University of the Free State's Reitz video scandal." (Publisher description)
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"State media will continue to play a critical role in Iran. The audience for external media platforms is large and will remain so absent any significant reforms in domestic media. Attitudes towards specific media outlets are rarely uni-dimensional, and few enjoy unqualified trust. Satellite TV remai
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ns the medium of choice for reaching Iranians from outside of the country. The audience for digital platforms continues to grow, but future will partly depend effectiveness of the Iranian's 'walled garden' approach. There continues to be an important role for international broadcasters like VOA, Radio Farda, BBC, and others." (Conclusions, slide 30)
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"There is a vast scholarly literature tracing western stereotypes of Arab women from medieval times to the present. From 1800, the dominant western stereotype of Arab women depicts them as passive and oppressed. Thirty years of social science media research in the west has shown that media images of
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Arab women reinforce this two hundred year old stereotype. Much of this research has studied silent "image bites" of Arab women, where women are pictured in veils and their own voices are replaced by western captions or voice-overs. This book sets out to answer this question. To answer it, we contracted with a global news translation service from the Middle East to collect and translate a sample of 22 months of new summaries from 103 Arab media sources belonging to 22 Arab countries. Filtering the summaries that contained one or more female keywords (e.g., woman, mother, aunt, sister, she) yielded 2, 061 summaries between September 2005 and June of 2007. Using the 2,061 summaries as input data, a coding scheme was developed for "active" and "passive" female behaviors based on verb-phrase analysis and conventions of English-language news-reporting." (www.bloomsbury.com, January 19, 2015)
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"Das Buch 'Fremdsprachige Publikationen in Deutschland' ist das erste Verzeichnis der Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, die in der Bundesrepublik für Einwanderer, Minderheiten, Touristen, Sprachschüler und germanophile Ausländer produziert werden. Hier findet man Adressen und weitere Angaben zu Publik
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ationen in über 30 Sprachen - von A wie Arabisch über Dänisch, Englisch, Russisch und Sorbisch bis U wie Ungarisch. Allein im Kapitel "Russisch" sind weit über hundert Druckmedien aus Deutschland aufgeführt, die in keinem anderen Nachschlagewerk stehen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban
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on. She closely examines the uses and limits of internet technology under conditions of war, along with the ways in which virtual participation enables the generation of new ideals for political reconciliation and self-determination. Through the internet, participants reconstruct a virtual 'Palestinian homeland', gain a space for recovering the past, for overcoming issues of mobility, and for generating social change. This book provides a new angle on those affected by the Israeli-Palestine conflict, and furthers understanding about the connection between electronic media, politics and national identity more widely." (Publisher description)
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"The author analyzes the presence of Lebanese organizations on the Web and shows the transnational links between associations from different countries, starting from a case study including France and Canada. The nature and density of these connections are partly attributable to the importance of lin
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guistic, religious and/or political factors.. The graphs indicate that, while there is a real attempt to transcend the divisions in the diaspora cyberspace, the fragmentation of collective dynamics remains important. The most important alliances revolve around a few of individual portals and some institutional websites. However, the weakness of the Lebanese government does not allow its institutions to play a unifying role for the Lebanese diaspora. In fact, economic initiatives are more active than political ones. The connections between websites claiming to be apolitical show the persistence of selective alliances, which reflect the usual Christian/Muslim divide. Transnationality is thereby limited, and the Lebanese Canadian and French organizations are interconnected only through portals that are not representative of the grassroots community dynamics." (Abstract)
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"The article analyzes web-based networks of Palestinian communities in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Australia, United States, Canada, Spain, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The findings show a thematic and demographic shift from organizations of Palestinian communities abroad to a transnational so
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lidarity network focused on Palestinian rights and the Boycott movement. Although Palestinian Territories function as the network’s strong center of gravity, analysis of the references reveals that diaspora and non-diaspora actors operate as two distinct but intertwined networks: while diaspora actors are unique in putting emphasis on community as activity type and on diaspora and the right of return as primary cause, non-diaspora actors are mainly dedicated to solidarity as activity and Palestinian rights and the boycott movement as primary cause. Despite this, ties between diaspora and non-diaspora actors are stronger than among diaspora actors, which indicates that part of the dynamics of Palestinian communities is manifest not only between diaspora communities, but mostly between diaspora communities and civil society organizations in their host societies." (Abstract)
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"In einer repräsentativen Face-to-Face-Befragung wurden im Mai/Juni 2011 zunächst grundlegende Kommunikations- und Mediennutzungsstrukturen in Familien mit Kindern zwischen drei und 19 Jahren ermittelt, wobei alle Familienmitglieder einzeln befragt wurden. Ergänzend wurde eine Tagebucherhebung du
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rchgeführt, um allgemeine Tätigkeiten, Freizeitbeschäftigungen sowie die Mediennutzung und Kommunikation im Tagesablauf zu erfassen. Familie bedeutet für die Befragten vor allem Zusammenhalt, Zusammengehörigkeit und Geborgenheit. Familien sind sehr gut mit Medien ausgestattet: Computer, Internet, Fernseher, Radio, Handy und verschiedene Geräte zum Aufzeichnen von Fernsehinhalten gehören zur Standardausstattung fast aller Haushalte. Auch die Kinder der untersuchten Familien verfügten über eine breite Medienausstattung. Die Betrachtung der Mediennutzung der Eltern und der Kinder machte deutlich, dass dem Fernsehen in den Familien eine besondere Bedeutung zukommt. In der FIM-Studie lag der Fokus auf der gemeinsamen Mediennutzung. 71 Prozent der Eltern sahen regelmäßig, also mindestens mehrmals pro Woche, mit ihren Kindern fern. Beim Internet war die gemeinsame Nutzung eher selten: Nur 13 Prozent der Eltern gaben an, regelmäßig gemeinsam mit ihren Kindern das Internet zu nutzen – am häufigsten Shoppingseiten, Angebote von Sendern und Sendungen sowie Spielseiten. In aktuellen Fragen der Medienerziehung schätzten sich 21 Prozent der Eltern als sehr kompetent ein. Die Mehrheit mit 60 Prozent der Eltern formulierte dies mit „etwas kompetent“ deutlich zurückhaltender. 14 Prozent schätzten sich weniger kompetent ein, und 5 Prozent schrieben sich hier gar keine Kompetenz zu." (Zusammenfassung)
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"The tabloid news genre has been chastized for depoliticizing its public by causing cynicism about the democratic process and lowering the standards of rational public discourse. Counter-arguments point to the alternative public sphere offered by popular media such as ‘tabloid TV’ which is the f
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ocus of this study. The ‘tabloid TV’ genre is relatively new in Zambia and in the African context in general. This article sets out to examine the rapid rise in popularity of the Zambian private television station, Muvi TV. It examines Muvi TV’s main evening news as an example of the ‘tabloid TV’ news genre vis-à-vis the criticisms levelled against tabloidization. The article presents results from a reception study of viewers in the capital city, Lusaka. A three-stage qualitative study was carried out, consisting of a thematic/content analysis of news bulletins, focus groups and individual, semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest that audiences attach greater credibility to Muvi TV’s news broadcasts than those of the public broadcaster, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC). As such, Muvi TV can be seen to fulfil a political function despite its sensationalized approach." (Abstract)
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"El presente artículo describe y problematiza la experiencia de un colectivo de paraguayos migrantes denominado Ápe Paraguay. Se trata de un proyecto político comunicacional nacido en Buenos Aires en 2008 que se ha constituido en un espacio de articulación social vinculando a una importante cant
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idad de organizaciones paraguayas en diferentes lugares del mundo. Sus producciones informativas, las relaciones con otros colectivos, su utilización de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, así como sus heterogéneas iniciativas han convertido a Ápe Paraguay en una herramienta de producción simbólica y de demanda de ciudadanía en distintos planos. Ápe permite reflexionar, precisamente, sobre la construcción de la ciudadanía política de los migrantes paraguayos y sobre su ciudadanía cultural o comunicacional a ambos lados de las fronteras. El trabajo analiza las especificidades del caso y propone un conjunto de desafíos teóricos implicados en esta experiencia para pensar dinámicas comunicacionales que expresan hoy varias organizaciones de migrantes. En este sentido, se recuperan aportes del campo de las ciencias de la comunicación y del análisis sobre las migraciones internacionales para comprender esta iniciativa como parte de las formas emergentes de lucha por ciudadanía y acceso a derechos por parte de los migrantes contemporáneos." (Resumen)
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"Between June 30th and July 10th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults, representative of the adult population of the town of Zemio and its surroundings, over 1,000 km east of the capital Bangui in the prefecture of Haut Mbomou, near the bo
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rder with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The rapid assessment was conducted to serve as a comparison case to the previously published assessment conducted in Obo, the capital of Haut Mbomou, in July 2012. The Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic (CAR) is under the threat of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a notoriously violent armed group from northern Uganda. These results suggest that information must first be local. Respondents in Zemio lacked a local source of news that would contribute to a better perceived access and quality of information. However, having a local quality information source may not necessarily have an impact on understanding and reported perception of humanitarian action." (Internews website)
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