"From influential national film agencies to smaller-scale local initiatives, this report provides a unique overview of the geographical spread, scale and scope of direct public funding to the sector in 37 European countries. Focussing on film funds and their activities in support of film, television
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and new media, the report examines the following topics for the period 2005 to 2009: Fund numbers and evolution, Trends in fund income, How funds are financed, Fund spend on activity and its evolution, Scope and scale of intervention, Types of projects supported. National, regional, supranational and funds for projects from outside Europe are all covered, reflecting the diversity of public policies concerning intervention in the film and television industry. The report also provides brief insights into a selection of special topics, including funding for the transition to digital cinema, tax incentives, public financial institutions active in the sector and a review of the public policy context at European level." (Back cover)
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"Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the-art research and theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting cutting-edge research, it focuses on classic theories and research findings that have influenced and revolutionized the way scholars conceptuali
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ze family interaction." (Publisher description)
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"While the technical capacity for worldwide television broadcasting has existed at least since 1967, when the live program Our World was beamed to thirty-one countries (Parks, 2003), the cultural challenges facing transnational television exchanges have proved more formidable. Even within a single n
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ation, cultural trends and audience tastes are fickle and unpredictable, making television programs risky commercial ventures. The added cultural differences that those programs face when they cross national, ethnic, and linguistic boundaries make it even more difficult to predict the potential popularity of any single television program. Nevertheless, international syndication markets have become more and more important for funding television production around the world over the past two decades (Havens 2006). Consequently, the global television business has developed a variety of strategies to deal with the risks posed by worldwide cultural differences. Central to these strategies are the relationships, reputations, and brand identities that get expressed and renewed at the global television sales fairs." (Abstract)
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"Die Herausgeber Stephan Moebius und Dirk Quadflieg bieten in Zusammenarbeit mit den Autorinnen und Autoren einen systematischen und – in seiner angelegten Breite – erstmaligen Überblick über aktuelle kultursoziologische und -wissenschaftliche Theorien. Die gegenwärtig wichtigsten Kulturtheor
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ien werden nach dem Kriterium ihrer interdisziplinären Relevanz für die zeitgenössischen Diskurse in der Soziologie, den Kulturwissenschaften, der Philosophie sowie den Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften einheitlich und verständlich vorgestellt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"With its key indicators, FOCUS 2010 gives you a complete overview of the fi lm industry worldwide, and highlights new and up-and-coming areas such as Latin America and the Middle East. It is an indispensable guide to understanding the undercurrents and changes in the international market, in a cont
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ext where it has become vital to anticipate changes as they happen, to adjust strategies." (Editorial)
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This guide is constructed partly as a "how to" guide, partly as a survey of markets and models, focusing especially on e-books and e-content. It also includes sections on audiobooks and digital printing.
"This paper examines the publishing activities of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and its ever-evolving publications and dissemination policies. The author offers this “as a possible model to inform and inspire institutions interested in a comprehens
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ive idea of open access in an interconnected world of local and global hierarchies, where producing and consuming difference is part and parcel of everyday life." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2580)
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"Este libro ambiciona explicar la naturaleza compleja de la comunicación iberoamericana, reconociendo que sus contornos geopolíticos y sus origenes etnoreligiosos constituyen variables fundamentales para entender el tejido multicultural de su identidad mestiza. Tomamos como referencia el método c
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omparativo, estratégia investigativa apropriadamente elegida por David Hees & Roberto DaMata para diseñar el concepto antropológico de cultura. 'Desde los años 80, el concepto de cultura se encuentra en dramática transición. [...] Para interpretar la cultura de forma abrangente, los antropólogos adoptan una postura comparativa'." (Introducción, página 9)
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"Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen der digitalen Ökonomie auf die Buchbranche. Während sich die Branche über einen langen Zeitraum in einem relativ stabilen Marktumfeld befand, ergeben sich aus der Digitalisierung ihres Kernprodukts und der Entwicklung neuer Technologien wie z.B
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. von Lesegeräten, die in der Lage sind, Texte in einer dem physischen Buch vergleichbaren Qualität darzustellen, vielfältige Herausforderungen. Die Musikindustrie sah sich Ende der 1990er Jahre mit einerähnlichen Situation konfrontiert, weshalb sie in dieser Arbeit als Referenz für die Auswirkungen von Digitalisierungsprozessen dient. Für die Musikindustrie führten diese Prozesse durch den Markteintritt neuer Wettbewerber und durch eine illegale Verbreitung der Inhalte zu einem tiefgreifenden Wandel des gesamten Sektors, der auch als Krise der Industrie bezeichnet wird. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob die Buchbranche mit ähnlichen Entwicklungen rechnen muss. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es also, die für die Krise der Musikindustrie verantwortlichen Faktoren aufzuzeigen und ihre Relevanz für die Buchbranche zu untersuchen, um daraus das Krisenpotential für die Branche abzuleiten." (Gegenstand und Ziel der Untersuchung, Seite 8)
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"This report created by Justin O'Connor, Professor of the Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, gives a thorough overview of literature that deals with the relationship between culture and economics that lie at the heart of this terminology. This acco
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unt takes a sixty-year trip, starting from the culture industry, leading through the cultural industries, and ending at the creative industries. It explores the history of the idea of the cultural industries, and how it has changed and developed the current interest in the creative economy. The work focuses on the conceptual ideas behind thinking in this area, and lays out the reasons behind the shifts in terminology and policy. The second edition of the report presents some additional reflections on the implications of the internet and the mobile communication technologies on the creative industries." (www.culturelink.org, September 27, 2011)
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"Children growing up in homes with many books get 3 years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of their parents’ education, occupation, and class. This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having
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a professional rather than an unskilled father. It holds equally in rich nations and in poor; in the past and in the present; under Communism, capitalism, and Apartheid; and most strongly in China. Data are from representative national samples in 27 nations, with over 70,000 cases, analyzed using multi-level linear and probit models with multiple imputation of missing data." (Abstract)
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"El presente texto es una aproximación básica a distintas cuestiones de la producción de radio que son necesarias para comenzar. No aspira a ser un manual de uso, de esos que tienen pasos a seguir para lograr el éxito, sino todo lo contrario: aspira a ser un texto de guía basado en conocimiento
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s obtenidos por la experiencia. Y cada experiencia, al ser distinta, puede generar distintos conocimientos. Por eso, en este texto se encontrarán algunas claves, algunos consejos, y la mención de algunos puntos a tener en cuenta, como para saber de su existencia, poder adentrarse en ellos y, sobre todo, animarse a investigar, intentar, equivocarse y encontrar las formas y estilos propios para encarar una producción radiofónica. Nos manejaremos otorgando conceptos habituales, herramientas útiles, caminos posibles. Hablaremos tanto sobre generalidades de la radio, sus formatos, sus características y posibilidades, la importancia de la radio social, como así también sobre claves para la producción, el guión, la edición y la difusión de contenidos. La intención es brindar herramientas para la producción independiente." (Introducción, página 7)
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"A partir de las primeras producciones ayacuchanas, que datan del año 1996, ha comenzado a constituirse una continua y creciente producción de largometrajes originados y producidos principalmente en sus propias regiones, con sus propios recursos, fuera del circuito de Lima, comúnmente pensado com
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o el principal y único centro de producción fílmica en el Perú. Este fenómeno cultural, que se ha denominado como Cines Regionales o Cine Provinciano – el nombre es un tema en discusión – se ha expandido, en una especie de efecto dominó, a varias regiones y ciudades de provincia como Juliaca, Puno, Arequipa, Moquegua, Huancayo, Trujillo, Cajamarca, Iquitos y Huancavelica. Hasta el momento se han producido más de 70 filmes con distintos estilos y temáticas." (Página 70)
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