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La radio en el Perú

Emilio Bustamante

Lima: Universidad de Lima (2012), 740 pp.

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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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Introduction: Is Development Research Communication Coming of Age?

Blane Harvey, Tessa Lewin, Catherine Fisher

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 2-8

"In this article we reflect on three themes that highlight current trends in research communication for development and, in turn, shape this issue of the IDS Bulletin. We argue that shifts in the sociopolitical and theoretical context within which development research communication is being put into ... more

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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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Vida digital: La tecnología en el centro de lo cotidiano

Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012), 159 pp.

"Este es un ensayo tentativo, exploratorio, que quiere proponer de manera asequible algunas rutas de exploración de las consecuencias que la presencia de la Internet, las distintas tecnologías de información y comunicación y en general las nuevas formas de comunicación, plantean a las personas ... 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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Author and Publisher Relations: How Publishers Stay Competitive in Digital Publishing

Ishøj: Schilling (2012), 19 pp.

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Reframing Digital Storytelling as Co-creative

Lara Worcester

IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 91-97

"This study of the digital storytelling (DST) project at the South Asia Hub of the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium examines the capacity of DST practice to articulate women’s diverse experiences of empowerment, given the genre’s formalities and narrative guideline ... more

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Film als Mittel der Befreiung und der Einheit Afrikas

Manthia Diawara

In: 50 Jahre afrikanische Un-Abhängigkeiten: eine (selbst)-kritische Bilanz

AfricAvenir International (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 170-179

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International Film Guide 2012: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema

Ian Haydn Smith (ed.)

Brighton: International Film Guide, 48th ed. (2012), 344 pp.

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Les cinémas du Maghreb et leurs publics

Patricia Caillé, Florence Martin (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2012), 344 pp.

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Promoting National Unity: The Role of Radio Broadcasting in the Process of Decolonisation in Namibia and Zambia

Robert Heinze

Universität Konstanz, Doctoral Thesis (2012), iv, 313 pp.

"This thesis operates from the observation that "Decolonising the Mind", i.e. a cultural decolonisation process, was needed after the independence of African countries to support and flesh out political decolonisation. Culture, as shown, played a major role in the mobilisation of support for nationa ... list movements, but after independence nationalist culture was just one among many. In both cases presented here, the most pressing issue after political independence was how to deal with the different identities that had previously existed and were onyl partially cushioned by political and cultural nationalism. Now that the political kingdom had been attained, the different language, cultural and political groups started to ask questions about their place in this kingdom. Although many politicians shared the idea that "once you have a national identity, the question of culture becomes something which flows automatically", it soon turned out to be misguided. Media and education were seen to be the major tools in "decolonising the mind". However, a close analysis of the electronic media in the two cases presented here shows that the policies for promoting national unity in programmes were largely ineffective. Instead, radio programmes, both before and after independence, provided a space to negotiate issues of national identity. This space was sometimes more, sometimes less restricted, but listeners used it as much as they could. Colonial media had, for all their focus on political control and censorship, accompanied and mediated social change. As described, this happened specifically in cultural programmes, where broadcasters were much freer in their work. However, Northern Rhodesian media were supposed to work as a catalyst to further the process of modernisation, and to help its listeners come to terms with the transition from being 'traditional' to becoming 'modern' Africans. In the Apartheid broadcasting system, culture was used consciously to construct a specific 'ethnic' identity, emphasising cultural traditions of the different language groups. But while the intentions were different, both broadcasting institutions were at the centre of negotiating ideas of tradition and modernity. Both were also established because there was a need to legitimate the respective political system. Be it the Central African Federation or a 'democratic' "South West Africa/ Namibia", the political models promoted by the authorities could not just be imposed on the people. The radios were established to give reality to these constructs, to make listeners identify with a social, political and cultural space that had been defined by colonial authorities. As shown, colonial ideologies not only surfaced in obvious propaganda programmes but also significantly determined the technical and managerial setup of the stations. While radio infrastructure was formed and reformed to structure that space – by linking three territories with different political and social power structures or, following Apartheid ideology, by assigning each language group their own space according to the homeland system – culturally as well as geographically. As shown, infrastructure mirrored the proposed political models, not just in its technical aspects (i.e., the stations' footprints, transmitting posts and frequencies), but also in management structure. As the Federal Broadcasting Services were subdivided in European and African Services, respectively catering for the whole White or Black population of all three territories, the South West African Broadcasting Corporation separated first Black and White, then subdivided the three Departments in the several language Services, each broadcasting to the designated "homeland". This infrastructure not only formed the whole process of programme production and reception but was also part of it as it imparted ideological considerations. The first order of business for independent countries was therfore to restructure the radio according to the needs of the new nations." (Conclusion, page 274-275) more

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Abécédaire du web: 26 concepts pour comprendre la création sur Internet

Joanne Lalonde

Presses de l’Université du Québec (2012), 135 pp.

"Ce livre présente un répertoire de vingt-six concepts qui décrivent de manière synthetique les enjeux théoriques et critiques autour de la création hypermédiatique, plus spécifiquement les oeuvres artistiques et littéraires conçues pour une diffusion sur Internet. Il accompagne une exposi ... more

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„The Whole Idea is to Entertain Them": Musik im indischen Wahlkampf

Cornelia Günauer

Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2012), 93 pp.

"Music is an omnipresent part of the often so-called great Indian election circus and much more than a mere by-product of what is the greatest democratic exercise worldwide. Songs and tunes are an integral part of political communication, strategically used by political actors which are confronted w ... more

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Communicating Between Cultures: An Introduction to Intercultural Communication

Franz-Josef Eilers

Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, 4th, updated ed. (2012), 220 pp.

"This introduction is more of an outline than a detailed description of and for intercultural communication. This book should help to introduce students and anybody interested into the field of intercultural communication. The main approach in the presentation comes from the social communications fi ... more

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Comunicación, medios y ciudadanía: Introducción al pensamiento comunicacional en Paraguay

Aníbal Orué Pozzo

Asunción: Arandurã Editorial (2012), 282 pp.

"Este trabajo busca discutir las relaciones que se han establecido en la sociedad paraguaya entre el Estado, la sociedad civil y los medios de comunicación como expresión de diversos intereses sociales, políticos y económicos. Al mismo tiempo, también se propone hurgar y desvendar por un lado, ... more

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Book Production
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Adrian Bullock

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2012), xviii, 197 pp.

"The first part deals with the increasingly important role of production as project managers, a role which has not been adequately written about in any of the recent literature on publishing. The second part deals with the processes and raw materials used in developing and manufacturing print on pap ... more

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Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice

Margrit Schreier

London et al.: Sage (2012), viii, 272 pp.

"This book takes students step-by-step through the process of doing qualitative content analysis. Margrit Schreier show how to: create a coding frame; segment the material; try out the coding frame; evaluate the trial coding and then carry out the main coding; and consider what comes next. She also ... more

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