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Practical Community Radio Audience Measurement

Emma Ward, Tom Buckham, Lawrie Hallett

In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century

Janey Gordon (ed.)

Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 347-366

"For community radio stations, one important gauge of relevance is the Popularity of their programming outputs, as without evidence of this it is difficult to justify providing access to scarce broadcast frequency resources. In part, the popularity ofprogramming outputs can be assessed through varia ... more

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The Dimitra Community Listeners' Clubs on the Move

Dimitra Newsletter, issue 22 (2012), pp. 3-10

"In Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the rate at which listeners’ clubs are being formed and the fact that the approach is now being reproduced in various settings are indications of the success of this strategy and the extent to which it is proving sustainable. In South Kivu, for ... more

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Community Radio and Gender: Towards an Inclusive Public Sphere

Kanchan K. Malik, Daniela Bandelli

Brisbane: Paper presented at the India Media Symposium: Public Spheres, the Media & Social Change in India (2012), 20 pp.

"Gender is a significant dimension in community radio (CR) initiatives that are seeking to deploy communication technologies for social change in general and empowerment of women in particular. CR not only provides an opportunity for women’s access to information, but, more significantly, also all ... more

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Reaching the Community Through Community Radio: Readjusting to the New Realities. A Case Study Investigating the Changing Nature of Community Access and Participation in Three Community Radio Stations in Three Countries New Zealand, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Ahmed Zaki Nafiz

Canterbury: University of Canterbury, Doctoral Thesis (2012), xii, 331 pp.

"In this case study, I have studied three community radio stations- RS in Nepal, KCR in Sri Lanka and SCR in New Zealand- investigating how the radio management policies are positively or negatively, affecting community access and participation. The study shows that in their effort to stay economica ... more

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Raising the Civil Dead: Prisoners and Community Radio

Heather Anderson

New York: Peter Lang (2012), 275 pp.

"Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far. Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media, connecting d ... more

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"Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence Across Zambia, Ghana and Kenya

Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, Klara Debeljak

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 245-275

"In this chapter, we argue that citizen access to information is a catalyst to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [...] We examine how citizen access to information varies across a range of population sub-groups, different countries, and across a variety of topics and the exte ... more

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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

London; New York: Zed Books, 2nd ed. (2012), xv, 240 pp.

"To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imp ... more

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Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh: Experiences, Challenges and Possibilities

Samia A. Rahim

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 98-103

"This article reflects on a digital storytelling project undertaken for research, communication, and advocacy purposes in Bangladesh. The project trained young women from different regions of the country to make digital stories about their everyday struggles and journeys of personal growth. Excerpts ... more

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National Minorities and the Media: Situation in Georgia

Tobias Akerlund

Flensburg: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) (2012), 28 pp.

"This working paper envisages analyzing issues related to media and national minorities in Georgia in order to provide a comprehensive picture of the current situation of minority media and of the impact of media on majority-minority relations. To gather data on this topic, 30 interviews with variou ... more

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Desde la experiencia al saber: Sistematización de las experiencias en investigación de audiencias de ALER

María Cristina Mata (ed.)

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2012), 45 pp.

"Analiza el diseño, los métodos de investigación aplicados y la relevancia práctica de 23 encuestas de audiencia y estudios de evaluación realizados por la ALER entre 1981 y 2008." (commbox)

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Measuring Community Radio Audiences

Lawrie Hallett

In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings

Madalena Oliveira; Pedro Portela; Luís António Santos (eds.)

Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 377-386

"This paper will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data primarily through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires, exploring why the station felt such research to be both necessary and beneficial ... more

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Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History

Tanja Zimmermann (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2012), 270 pp.

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Feminist Media: Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship

Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2012), 291 pp.

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Changing Focus: Exploring Images of Women and Empowerment in Egypt

Kristina Hallez

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 104-109

"In moving away from prescriptive one-way communications exercises, participatory development communications use better strategies to engage communities and capture nuance. This article examines a communications case study in Egypt: a photography competition aimed at understanding how local photogra ... more

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Real World: Empowering Representations of Women through Film

Tessa Lewin

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 110-116

"This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium and Creative England, t ... more

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Reading Habits in Armenia: Results of a Survey on Readership Carried Out in December 2012

Ruzan Tonoyan

[no publisher] (2012), 60 pp.

"About 39 percent started to read regularly at elementary school age, and 44 percent at primary and high school age. As compared to the last five years, 37 percent of respondents stopped reading completely, 43 percent read less, 6 percent read as much as they read before, and only 14 percent said th ... more

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Women and the Web: Bridging the Internet Gap and Creating New Global Opportunities in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Yana Watson Kakar, Vicky Hausman, Andria Thomas, Chris Denny-Brown

Santa Clara, Calif.; New York: Intel;Dalberg Global Development Advisors (2012), 100 pp.

"This report [is] the first compilation of the global data on how women in developing countries access and use the Internet. I am convinced this report provides key insights for policy makers, the development community and industry. Based on interviews and surveys of 2,200 women in developing countr ... more

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Enquête exploratoire sur le web des Chinois d’outremer: Morphologie du web et production de la diaspora ?

Emmanuel Ma Mung Kuang

Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 14 pp.

"Cette enquête exploratoire s’inscrit dans une interrogation sur la façon dont des collectifs dispersés créent des mondes qui leur sont propres, l’objectif ici étant de voir comment l’usage de l’Internet configure leurs espace et temps singuliers (leurs mondes propres). Les résultats i ... more

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Raising Women’s Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa

Deborah Walter (ed.)

Johannesburg: People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA);Community Media for Development (CMFD) (2012), 12 pp.

"This case study is being produced to share the process, techniques, and lessons learned from "Zaphamban' izindlela!" radio drama both as way to document, as well as facilitate others working on women’s issues to undertake similar initiatives. The case study demonstrates how entertaining forms of ... more

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Changes in Patterns of Contemporary China’s Radio: Programs - Helping Each Other in Beijing: A Case Study

Lu Cao, Wei Meng

In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings

Madalena Oliveira; Pedro Portela; Luís António Santos (eds.)

Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 229-238

"Great changes have been taken place in the patterns of China’s radio programs since 1980s. Its role has changed from the government’s “propaganda tool” to meet the multiple needs of the radio listeners; its profit mode somehow has varied from full national funding to making profit independe ... more