"El objetivo fue conocer las actitudes, hábitos, evaluación y opinión de los niños y adolescentes peruanos sobre los medios de comunicación, especialmente la radio y televisión. Los principales temas considerados fueron la tenencia y uso de medios, hábitos de uso de medios y actividades cotid
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ianas, hábitos de consumo de radio y televisión, control parental, grado de satisfacción, programación infantil, percepción de géneros televisivos y radiales en adolescentes, y medios de comunicación en la escuela. La cobertura del estudio fue de 12 ciudades del Perú: Lima Metropolitana (Lima y Callao), Trujillo, Piura, Chiclayo, Ica, Cajamarca, Huancayo, Arequipa, Cuzco, Puno, Iquitos y Pucallpa. Universo: niños y adolescentes de 7 a 16 años. Diseño muestral: 5.851 personas: 1.110 en Lima Metropolitana y 431 en cada una de las 11 ciudades restantes." (www.concortv.gob.pe, June 16, 2011)
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"This article aims at understanding the popularity and cultural and social significance of the highly prominent Chinese television show Super Girls’ Voice (the 2005 season), a talent contest largely modeled upon “reality shows” such as American Idol in the United States and Pop Idol in the Uni
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ted Kingdom. We focus particularly on whether the show, as some critics have claimed, has altered the power relationship between the media and the audience. Theoretically, we follow Couldry’s (2000) framework and consider the media’s construction of the symbolic boundary separating the “media world” and the “ordinary world” as crucial to the legitimization of media power. Based on an analysis of media discourses, review of publicized materials about the show’s organization, and a focus group study on young female audience members, we contend that the Super Girls’ Voice has involved a temporary suspension of the media/ordinary boundary. Yet the boundary was re-established toward the end of the show, thus relegitimizing media power. The audience members, meanwhile, were largely complicit throughout the process: they both enjoyed the temporary suspension and the ultimate re-establishment of the media/ordinary boundary." (Abstract)
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"A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies." (Publisher
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"Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling sto
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ries that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality within and outside the U.S. comic book industry. Among the explorations of mainstream and independent comic books are discussions of the work of Adrian Tomine, Grant Morrison, and Jessica Abel as well as Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan's The Tomb of Dracula; Native American Anishinaabe-related comics; mixed-media forms such as Kerry James Marshall's comic-book/community performance; DJ Spooky's visual remix of classic film; the role of comics in India; and race in the early Underground Comix movement. The collection includes a "one-stop shop" for multicultural comic book resources, such as archives, websites, and scholarly books. Each of the essays shows in a systematic, clear, and precise way how multicultural comic books work in and of themselves and also how they are interconnected with a worldwide tradition of comic-book storytelling." (Publisher description)
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"The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) small grants fund was initiated in 2002 to support work on gender-related issues in information and communications technologies for the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions. GenARDIS recognises the constraints and
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challenges encountered by rural women, and has disbursed small grants to diverse and innovative projects in order to counter these barriers, to document the process and results, and to contribute to more gender-aware ICT policy advocacy. GenARDIS has supported projects which are as diverse as the countries where they are located. Over the years, GenARDIS has learned from and documented projects such as women’s community radio drama groups, pest control through information access, and using technology to promote women’s inheritance and land rights. Grantees have supported deaf women in Ethiopia to generate their own income through digital photography, and enabled rural mothers to earn additional income for their families because they can market to buyers from outside their community. In some areas, women small farmers are no longer being taken advantage of by the middleman as they now get a fair price for their crops by sending a simple SMS." (Pages 5-6)
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"This book is the result of several years of observation, analysis, consultation and synthesis of the adaptation of ict s to local languages in Africa. The goal of the Pan Africa Localization project led by Don Osborn was to closely track the progress of ict s in African languages and clearly identi
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fy the priorities that the Pan African Network for Localization (anloc) will pursue in its work plan. This book is a revised version of the project’s final report. By collecting and compiling all the data presented in this book, Don has helped establish anloc’s research network and has provided an accurate picture of ict localisation in Africa. This publication will thus be useful for decision-makers intending to develop a language policy, developers working on language processing, researchers in the area of languages and information technologies, donor agencies that fund projects to support local languages, and ict users wanting to use these technologies in their local language." (Foreword, page x)
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"The translation of films from languages such as English, Hindi/Urdu or Chinese into Swahili is a phenomenon that has quickly grown into a successful business in Tanzania in the last couple of years. The films are mainly products of the USA, of India and China, but also of countries such as Thailand
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, Malaysia or Nigeria. The pirate copies that reach Tanzania, however, seem to be primarily imported from China (Interview with DJ Mark, 2009). In Tanzania, the films are subject to a series of transformations that help to increase the appeal of these films to their predominantly youthful Tanzanian audience. This essay focuses on these transformation processes and aims to show how films are shaped by the work of the translators (“watafsiri”), but also by the people who work in the video parlours (“vibanda vya video”), the places where these films are usually consumed. It is based on research that was carried out in Masasi (Mtwara region) and Nachingwea (Lindi region) in February 2009 and in Dar es Salaam, Morogoro (Morogoro region) and Bagamoyo (Tanga region) in September 2009." (Pages 138-139)
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"This study investigates the relationship between Libyan university students' consumption of Libyan and international Arab satellite TV news services and their perceptions of gratifications received from these news services. A self-completion questionnaire survey was administered to a sample of 400
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university students that asked about the news consumption habits, reasons for watching specific TV news services, and personal details. The findings revealed that time spent with local TV news was negatively related to reported use of international TV channels. Students said that they got less news than they desired from local TV, especially the long-established Al-Jamahiriya TV channel. The data indicated that the new satellite broadcast international news service, Al Jazeera, played an important role in serving these young Libyans with the types of information they need. The findings are discussed in relation to the growing impact of international satellite broadcast news services and the need for local TV news services to find ways of making themselves distinctive in a way that provides an alternative but still relevant and valued news source." (Abstract)
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"This book seeks to address the complex and multi-faceted relationships between childhood, media, migration and globalisation. Our primary focus is on a specific group that has often been invisible or misrepresented in the debate: that is, migrant children. We are particularly concerned with childre
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n who have migrated in their own lifetimes – that is, first generation migrants – rather than the more established ‘ethnic minority’ communities that now exist in many parts of the world. In this respect, we are addressing an issue that is of considerable concern in contemporary public and political debate: it is an emotionally charged topic that raises challenging questions about social cohesion, nationhood, belonging and citizenship. Yet despite the intensity of these debates, the experiences and perspectives of children themselves are rarely brought to bear – except where they are portrayed as passive victims or (increasingly) as a threat. By contrast, we argue that children are often central actors in the process of migration. They are in the ‘front line’ as migrant families come to terms with their lives in their new location; and they are often the focus for parents’ fears and aspirations for the future and for the tension between cultural continuity and change. The media are frequently a crucial element in this process. Children in migrant families are likely to experience a wide range of media, from local, national, transnational and global sources." (Preface)
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"For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into th
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e study of memory." (Publisher description)
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"This training guide explains what a target audience is, why a target audience should be defined for every radio programme, and how conflict and target audience sensitive journalism can contribute to peace building in conflict and post-conflict regions. It emphasises the need to define a target audi
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ence, ie "a group of people which probably shares many of the same beliefs, the same ideas or the same values, and which may live or work in similar circumstances and environments", to ensure that the programme can be tailored to the various groups involved in a conflict. As a practical approach, the guide provides a step-by-step checklist of questions that need to be considered when producing programmes, for instance: what is the programmes' objective, who is the primary/secondary target audience, who is - in contrast - the target group, and when does the target audience listen? Furthermore, the publication introduces methods for evaluating conflicts, eg, the conflict tree, or for defining the target audiences' knowledge and beliefs, such as the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). The guide is a useful starting point for those who work in areas with a high potential for conflict and who wish to learn more about ways to reach conflicting groups." (commbox)
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"Investigación de la Universidad Diego Portales sobre pluralismo en el sistema informativo nacional que deja, en general, bien parada a la televisión y en mal pie a los medios escritos en temas como el grado de satisfacción y la credibilidad. Entre los atributos de los diarios impresos se destaca
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la calidad de la información que proporcionan, pero son mal evaluados cuando se pregunta a los encuestados por “la independencia con que realizan su trabajo”. La TV abierta figura con un mayor grado de pluralismo que la prensa, pero menor que la radio y la TV cable. Mayoritariamente, los consultados perciben que los diarios de cobertura nacional, salvo El Mercurio, no tienen gran influencia en las decisiones de las autoridades." (Página web Observatorio Fucatel, 07.10.2011)
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"In describing their understanding of trauma, disaster, and conflict photography, photojournalists in this qualitative study conceptualized abstract experiences using specific types of metaphors. Their metaphors focused on concepts such as violence, bewilderment, and health/affliction. The unique as
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pect of these metaphors was how they were reflective of aspects of journalism culture and the work of trauma photography. Through a metaphorical analysis of these figurative expressions, I show how metaphors construct a conceptual system of understanding the work of trauma photography and occupational identity, as well as influence the formation of the culture of journalism itself. Understanding this metaphorical picture may add to our knowledge about how traumatic stress injuries are recognized, managed, and aided in newsrooms." (Abstract)
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"This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given
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to community and public radio. The study is broadly theoretical and exploratory, and examines how such policies influenced institutional changes in broadcasting and the communication rights of ethnic minorities. The critique of policy is done within the broader context of international human rights law which the South African government has ratified. Some of these treaties clearly put an obligation on state parties to support the rights of ethnic and linguistic minorities. These obligations are not only discussed within a rights framework, but also the country’s specific social and historical context." (Abstract)
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