"This research project in Liberia has tried to do first steps to understand in detail the quality of media, especially radio, in Liberia and what the audience is thinking of and expecting from the media. Being the first of its kind in Liberia after the end of the civil war it has investigated a) the
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quality of media output by means of content analysis and b) audiences perceptions of the media quality extracted from focus group discussions." (Page 4)
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"This study attempts to explore entertainment-education (E-E) radio drama audience responses/reactions, their motivating factors in writing letters to the drama and the relationship between audience responses and over all program goals of the drama, Menta Menged (Crossroads), in Ethiopia. Because en
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tertainment-education mass media programs which aim at promoting pro-social behavior attract huge audiences both in listening and participating due to their entertainment and educational functions, this study explores these audiences’ feedback with the aim to understand the kind of relationship that exists between audiences and the radio drama. The data was collected through a textual or qualitative content analysis of audience letters, and focus group discussions with audience members; and it was qualitatively analyzed and discussed. The data showed that audiences typically have four kinds of reactions: commentaries, appreciations, associations and reflections with the drama, characters and actors. Furthermore, a number of motivating factors, in addition to the drama (both the messages and model characters), influenced audiences to respond to the drama and involved in the writing of letters. Interestingly, their reactions are mixed when compared to the program’s intended outcomes on audience behaviors." (Abstract)
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"Con este tercer manual, Comunicación y Comunicadores Indígenas, reafirmamos nuestra certeza en que la educación, la comunicación y la información constituyen procesos dinámicos e interactivos permanentes, en los que el aprendizaje y la enseñanza son recíprocos entre las partes. En este nues
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tro rol de apoyo y acompañamiento desde la comunicación a las organizaciones indígenas sentimos que hemos aprendido, tan igual como hemos enseñado y compartido. Con esta publicación cerramos un pequeño ciclo de trabajo y abrimos otro en el que aspiramos a contribuir de una manera más segura a la unidad, al fortalecimiento y al respeto de los pueblos indígenas y sus organizaciones representativas, alentando su protagonismo. Por eso, la difusión del manual irá acompañada -en la medida que los recursos humanos y financieros lo permitan- de jornadas de capacitación presencial en sesiones de trabajo descentralizadas con los comunicadores indígenas. El hecho de que ahora estén organizados en la Red de Comunicadores Indígenas del Perú (REDCIP) facilitará, sin duda, esta labor." (Presentación, página 10)
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"This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of global
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ization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new desires and threats, and the identities of people are being reworked at individual, national, regional and global levels. Within historically specific social conditions and contexts of the everyday, the chapters seek to provide a diversity of experiences and understandings of the place of the media in different Asian locations. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia." (Publisher description)
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"Theatre has become a prominent tool in the extensive struggle to address social problems in Africa, and it is fairly logical that puppets - as part of the traditional forms of dramatic expression of many African countries - would surface in theatre for social change. A variety of reasons are given
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by theatre practitioners for their choosing puppetry to do this. This paper analyses the reasons given by some of the most prominent practitioners in Africa as a developing continent and the puppet's abilities to act as an efficient code to represent and transmit messages directed toward social change." (Page 1)
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"The objectives of this field survey are as follows: to attempt a critical study of the readership of people from different social strata of five specific localities of Kolkata Metropolitan City; to attempt a study of the influence and to measure the encroachment of different media on people’s rea
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ding habit; to attempt an assessment of the probable causes behind the difference in pattern of the reading habits of people in different localities of Kolkata Metropolitan City; to attempt an assessment of the role played by Public Libraries in promoting reading habits; to attempt a mapping of the Information Literacy Competency Level of people living in urban, Industrial and Semi-Urban areas of Kolkata Metropolitan City." (Objectives, page 15)
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"This manual is, firstly, about Interviewing (Section Two). This is the art and skill of getting the information you need from someone. Information may be facts – perhaps those needed to register a new client - or you might want to go further, looking perhaps for an understanding of the new contac
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t’s emotional situation. The second half of the manual is about Counselling (Section Three), which is the art and skill of helping someone to make their own good choices. Guidance is a word for a similar process, when people offer informal ideas and solutions to others, as advice concerning the life challenges they are facing. But this manual uses the word counselling. It suggests finding solutions together, rather than one person offering solutions and the other person accepting them." (Page 3)
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"La presente investigación intenta descubrir y definir la influencia de la TV en los zutujiles de Santiago Atitlán en Guatemala. La misma está dividida en los niveles teórico y práctico. La parte teórica se remite a diversas fuentes históricas y científicas, que se enlazan con la dinámica s
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ocial y de la comunicación masiva por TV en Guatemala. La parte práctica consiste en un experimento para tratar de identificar la influencia de este medio en seis jóvenes de este pueblo. El experimento consiste en la realización de entrevistas personales a cada uno de los sujetos del estudio, seguidas por una representación en forma de sociodrama. En esta última, los sujetos deberán trasladar a la realidad de su pueblo, una escena de la realidad de la TV, de acuerdo a sus percepciones y recepciones de la misma. Nuestra tarea será posteriormente analizar estos dos ejercicios, el real de las entrevistas y la ficción del sociodrama, con el fin de poder interpretar formas y contenidos que nos delaten la influencia de la TV." (Introducción)
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"Mediengewalt ist immer wieder ein Thema öffentlicher Debatten. Insbesondere nach spektakulären Amokläufen taucht regelmäßig die Frage auf, ob Medien ihre Nutzer zu Gewalttätern programmiert und so die Tat verursacht haben. Dabei ist der kausale Zusammenhang alles andere als geklärt: Obwohl d
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ie empirische Mediengewaltforschung mit großem Aufwand betrieben wird, hat sie bis heute keine konsensfähige Antwort gefunden. Diese Studie sucht keine weitere Lösung, sondern fragt, wie sich die Kausalformel »Mediengewalt« historisch herausgebildet hat und welcher Gewinn darin liegt, die Mediengewalt-Debatte beständig mit ungeklärtem Wissen zu versorgen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a
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variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies." (Publisher description)
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"Viele Sender haben 2007 Integration auf ihre Fahnen geschrieben. Das ZDF hat beispielsweise mit einer Integrations-Programmwoche im Herbst vergangenen Jahres, mit öffentlichkeitswirksamen Maßnahmen wie der Wahl der Journalistin Dunja Hayali für das „heute-journal“ sowie durch eine Kooperatio
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n mit einem türkischen Fernsehsender versucht, sich deutlich als Integrationssender zu positionieren. Auffallend ist außerdem, dass seit dem vergangenen Jahr die Zahl der Veranstaltungen zum Thema Medien und Integration erkennbar zugenommen hat – von Berlin bis Karlsruhe, von Nürnberg bis Frankfurt betätigen sich Verbände, Stiftungen und Medieninitiativen auf diesem Feld in einem bisher unbekannten Maß. Die Bedeutung des Themas ist also erkannt. Die Gefahr besteht dabei aber, dass man immer wieder die Bedeutung der Aufgabe betont, ohne einen wesentlichen Schritt bei der Umsetzung weiter zu kommen. Wichtig ist, dass die Medienanbieter Strukturen, strategische Ziele und Umsetzungsinstrumente im Bereich Integration entwickeln. Der WDR hat diesen Weg eingeschlagen. Durch einen Integrationsbericht, der vom Integrationsbeauftragten jährlich den Gremien präsentiert wird, werden seit 2004 Fortschritte und Entwicklungen des Unternehmens in diesem Bereich systematisch und nachhaltig erfasst. Es geht heute mehr den je darum, die programmpolitische Diskussion weiter zu vertiefen und zu konkretisieren. In diesem Zusammenhang ist es sehr zu begrüßen, dass die CIVIS medien stiftung in Kooperation mit dem WDR und der Deutschen Welle im September 2008 eine Programmkonferenz zum Thema „Integration“ bei der Deutschen Welle in Bonn veranstalten wird. Dort soll anhand von Programmbeispielen über innovative Ansätze im fiktionalen und nonfiktionalen Bereich diskutiert werden." (Fazit, Seite 123-124)
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"En el presente estudio exploratorio se describirá las características de la percepción que las personas mayores tienen de los medios de comunicación (técnica de grupos focales) y se analizará la información que los medios (técnica de observación de medios) emiten acerca de las personas may
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ores." (Metodología, página 5)
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