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Promoting National Unity: The Role of Radio Broadcasting in the Process of Decolonisation in Namibia and Zambia
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
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Book History in the African World: The State of the Discipline
Book History, volume 15 (2012), pp. 248-300
"There is a key and oft-repeated assumption that the book is not indigenous to Africa, and has a relatively short history here.1 Thus, to tell the story of the book in Africa, some would start with the coming of the first printing presses, brought to missions, colonies, and trading posts around the
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Comunicación, medios y ciudadanía: Introducción al pensamiento comunicacional en Paraguay
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,
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Ours and Yours: On the History of Slovenian Newspaper Discourse of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Ljubljana: Peace Institute (2012), 93 pp.
"The book consists of six chapters on Slovenian media history. All the subjects (censorship, political struggles, the economic crisis, the Balkans, folk songs and racism) are as topical today as they were at the time when they were discussed. What has changed then? Obviously, “time” has changed,
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Os Moçambicanos perante o cinema e o audiovisual: Uma historia político-cultural do Moçambique colonial até à República de Moçambique (1896-2010)
Deep Insights
Maputo; Holsbeek: Dockanema; Afrika Filmfestival (2011), 677 pp.
"This is the first monograph on the history of film culture ever for lusophone Africa. It consists of three parts: the colonial period (1896-1974), the first years of independence (1975-1991) and the years of the liberalization of the media (1992-2010). In these three periods attention is given to t
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El cine que fue: 100 años de cine chileno
Santiago de Chile: ARCIS (2011), 192 pp.
El presente libro está constituido por diecisiete ponencias y/o artículos que se presentaron en el coloquio "El cine que fue: 100 años de cine chileno".
Audience Research at the BBC World Service 1932-2010
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 75-103
"This article examines the changing ways in which intelligence about the BBC’s international audiences has been gathered and used since the advent of the Empire Service in 1932. It is written from the perspective of a former Head of Audience Research (1982-96) at the BBC World Service. In BBC dome
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The Fourth Enemy: Journalism and Power in the Making of Peronist Argentina, 1930-1955
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (2011), xiii, 312 pp.
"The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists' struggle with the major commercial newspaper media played in the movement's evolution, or what the resulting transformati
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"Much work has been done to map out the contours of Islamic intellectual production in West Africa before the twentieth century. However, we still do not understand very well the process by which ideas and texts circulated in the region. Lists of specific books imported by West Africans during the n
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Valor y símbolo: Dos siglos de industrias culturales en la Argentina
Buenos Aires: Presidencia de la Nación, Secretaría de Cultura; Sistema de Información Cultural de la Argentina (SInCA) (2010), 189 pp.
"Este texto está dividido en seis capítulos que indagan, en el tiempo, los campos culturales de los diarios y revistas, los libros, los discos, las películas, la radio y la televisión. Es una obra colectiva que incluye investigaciones, estadísticas y cartografías generadas por el Sistema de In
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Apuntes para una historia del video en Chile
Santiago de Chile: Ocho Libros Editores (2010), 244 pp.
Diarios del Paraguay
Asunción: [author] (2010), 459 pp.
Comunicación multicultural en Iberoamérica: Historia contextual y teoría comparada
São Paulo: CONFIBERCOM; ALAIC; SOCICOM; Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação; Cátedra UNESCO-UMESP de Comunicação (2010), 137 pp.
"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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Prensa argentina siglo XIX: Imágenes, textos y contextos
Buenos Aires: Teseo; Biblioteca Nacional (2009), 114 pp.
"Durante el siglo XIX se desarrollaron en Argentina distintos proyectos periodísticos. La prensa fue trinchera de opinión política, provisión de imágenes para una sociedad en transformación, representación de intereses particulares y de culturas regionales. En el año 2007 la Biblioteca Nacio
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Histoire de la télévision en Afrique noire francophone, des origines à nos jours
Paris: Karthala (2009), 238 pp.
Historical Dictionary of Journalism
Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press (2009), xliii, 387 pp.
"This Historical Dictionary of Journalism shows both sides of the picture. The dictionary presents entries on some of the finest newspapers as well as those of lesser repute, many exceptional journalists as well as others the profession would rather forget, major advances such as investigative repor
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Politics and Book Publishing in the Pacific Islands
Wollongong: University of Wollongong, Doctoral Thesis (2008), xii, 407 pp.
"This dissertation discusses interactions between politics and book publishing by missions and colonial governments in areas of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia over approximately 200 years [...] From its inception, book publishing in the Pacific Islands has been a significant instrument of ideo
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The History of the Book in French-Speaking Africa: Where the Research Stands at Present
English in Africa, volume 35, issue 1 (2008), pp. 89-96
"The author believes that, in many respects, the history of the book remains ‘terra incognita’, despite the work that has been done in the field, and here presents a brief survey of the research that has been conducted on this topic in Germany, France and Tunisia, and the literature that is avai
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