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"Talvez este seja o momento de voltarmos os nossos olhos para a cinematografia em Cabo Verde, país que conta com apenas duas salas de cinema, pois, mesmo olhando de longe, eu venho observando desde o Brasil, há algumas tantas ações que demonstram um esforço para implantação e consolidação d ... more

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O nascimento do cinema moçambicano

Silvia Vieira

In: Cinema em português: VII jornadas

Frederico Lopes; Paulo Cunha; Manuela Penafria (eds.)

Covilhã: Livros LabCom (2015), pp. 69-85

"A produção cinematográfica em Moçambique depende de um sistema de produção muito frágil ancorado em apoios externos. A deficiente rede de distribuição e de difusão, e a escassez de salas, não permitem que o cinema moçambicano tenha grande visibilidade. Fora dos circuitos dos festivais, ... more

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Remediating Orality: The Cultural Domestication of Video Technology in Kenya

James Odhiambo Ogone

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 4 (2015), pp. 479-495

"The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality ... more

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Re-Conceptualizing the Analysis of Media Development and Trajectories hereof in Post-Colonial Societies

Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2015), pp. 131-146

"Using South Africa as a case study, this article presents a new argument for an adaptation of the Comparative Media Systems Model by Hallin and Mancini. The article proposes that factors of race, class and gender and intersections hereof as well as nation-building be added to the model to better su ... more

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De-Westernisation: Key Concept Paper

Antje Glück

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2015), 28 pp.

"This paper outlines the main debates surrounding De-Westernisation, which addresses global imbalances in the creation and distribution of academic knowledge. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the field, the working paper suggests further steps in order to enrich a global set of p ... more

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Defending Linguistic Rights: The Girona Manifesto

Carme Ramió Viñets, Neus Cunill i Cuadra

Linguapax (2015), 77 pp.

"This brief manifesto aims to help citizens and organisations of all types to realise the great importance of linguistic diversity and to become committed to defending it. It aims to be a tool for the necessary consensus to ‘correct language imbalance and to ensure respect and full development for ... more

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Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice

Christiaan De Beukelaer

Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp.

"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks ... more

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Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
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Esta de Fossard

New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xix, 293 pp.

"In many—if not most—countries of the modern world, radio is thought of as a provider of music, news, weather reports and traffic situations, but very little else. Yet in parts of the developing world, radio is still extremely important and valuable as a medium for encouraging and teaching life ... more

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Historia del cine infantil en la Argentina

Alejandro Malowicki et al.

Buenos Aires: Asociación de Productores de Cine para la Infancia (APCI) (2015), 266 pp.

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Throwing the Switch: An Update on the State of the Global Transition to Digital TV Broadcasting

John Burgess

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 10 pp.

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Human Rights Film Festivals: Activism in Context

Sonia Tascón

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiii, 248 pp.

"This book explores how human rights developed as a language located in history, space and time, and how the festivals continue with this tradition by adapting it for local audiences. The tensions produced by human rights' search for universality and the located-ness of the festivals are explored in ... more

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The Practicalities of Informed Consent in Development Photography

Nabila Idris

Dhaka: Save the Children (2015), 16 pp.

"Every photography subject deserves to be treated as an autonomous human being, capable of making independent decisions. In case of children, we also need to ensure their parents’ consent. We need to be constantly aware of our position in the power hierarchy — in the development world, in many c ... more

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Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for Addressing the High Cost and Low Availability Problem

Birger Fredriksen, Sukhdeep Brar, Michael Trucano

Washington, DC: World Bank (2015), xv, 106 pp.

"The objective of the study is to identify the cost and financing constraints to text book provision and thereby help countries remove constraints on timely provision of affordable textbooks to all students in primary and secondary education. To this end, the study focuses exclusively on cost and fi ... more

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Global Mental Health Communications Toolkit

Agnes Becker, S. Usmani, G. Ryan, M. De Silva

London: Mental Health Innovation Network;London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2015), 27 pp.

"This toolkit aims to help global mental health researchers communicate their findings to their stakeholders. The principles in this toolkit can be applied to all stakeholders, including policy-makers, and to key messages about your project’s implementation and policy influence activities. This to ... more

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100 ejercicios de fotografía

Mario Pérez, Caro Musso, Alexa de Blois

Blog del Fotógrafo (2015), 116 pp.

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Gaze Regimes: Film and Feminisms in Africa

Jyoti Mistry, Antje Schuhmann (eds.)

Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2015), xxxiv, 229 pp.

"Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of ... more

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Seven Essential Publishing Markets for 2015

Publishing Perspectives (2015), 12 pp.

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Assessment of the Observance of TV Programme Ratings in Uganda: A Case of Telenovelas

John Baptist Imokola

Makerere University (2015), xxii, 75 pp.

"The study finds that there is a general liking for Partenal Guidance (PG) ratings, based on the need to protect the children from harmful and foreign content, as well as to avoid adoption of foreign cultures. However, this does not translate into action in determining viewership decisions, with man ... more

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A guide for strengthening gender equality and inclusiveness in teaching and learning materials

Jennae Bulat, Michelle Lapp

Washington, DC: USAID (2015), IV, 28 pp.

Writing and Producing Radio Dramas Key Guidance

Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
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