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Medien – Machtmittel der Machtlosen

Querbrief (Weltfriedensdienst), issue 2 (2011), pp. 1-15

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New Projects Submitted to IPDC. Part 2: Asia and Pacific

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2011), 172 pp.

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New Projects Submitted to IPDC. Part 3: Latin America and the Caribbean

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2011), 160 pp.

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Well Informed - Acting Responsibly: The Global Media Programme of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 42 pp.

"Since the beginning of the 1970s, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has taken a holistic approach to its support of the media in its international and European cooperation efforts. What started as individual training projects for senior journalists and the support of communications studies in Latin Amer ... more

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Media in Africa: Twenty Years After the Windhoek Declaration on Press Freedom
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Guy Berger (ed.)

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 190 pp.

"What has been the state-of-play for African media in the 20 years since the historic Windhoek Declaration of 1991 which gave rise to World Press Freedom Day every 3 May? And what can be expected over the next decade? More than 70 commentators illuminate the trajectory in a range of contributions in ... more

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Media Modernisation in Kosovo: Intentions and Impacts of International Media Assistance in a Post-Conflict Society

Petra Sorge

Leipzig: Universität Leipzig, Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft, Master Thesis (Diplomarbeit) (2011), 153 pp.

"Nowhere in modern history has media assistance been as concentrated and large in scale as in the case of Kosovo, where under the auspices of the OSCE, different state and non-governmental actors have invested millions in the crisis-ridden media system. This thesis discusses the strategies for media ... more

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Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries: Toward Developing Common Principles and a Community of Practice

Amelia Arsenault, Sheldon Himelfarb, Susan Abbott

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 35 pp.

"A wide array of media development practitioners, donors, international broadcasters, and methodologists, all with extensive experience working in media initiatives in conflict environments met in Caux, Switzerland, in December 2010, to establish the Caux Guiding Principles, whose full text is in th ... more

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Addressing the Capitalization Gap for Independent News Media: Mobilizing Funding for Independent News Media

Saskia Veendorp

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA);Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2011), 51 pp.

"The capitalization gap for independent news media businesses in impact arguments to extend support to independent news media businesses. There are also convincing arguments that providing finance capital has a significant impact on independent media sustainability, as proven by recent successful pu ... more

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Journalism and Media Grant Making: Five Things You Need to Know, Five Ways to Get Started

Michele McLellan, Eric Newton

Miami; Philadelphia, Pa.: Knight Foundation;Penn Foundation (2011), 35 pp.

"Foundations are making more media and journalism grants not for the sake of media alone, but because they are finding they need a healthy news ecosystem in order to achieve their strategic goals." With this in mind, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the William Penn Foundation have pub ... more

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WACC Strategic Plan 2012-2016

Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2011), 32 pp.

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Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit und Journalismus: Theoretische Konzeption und empirische Implikationen im 21. Jahrhundert

Julian Mertens

Dortmund: Universität Dortmund, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Diplomarbeit (2011), v, 107 pp.

"Diese Arbeit skizziert Ansätze für eine holistische Theorie der Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit, kurz MEZ. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie sich die MEZ beschreiben lässt und in welchen Zusammenhängen sie gesehen werden muss. Forschung und Praxis haben dies bislang weitgehend versäumt, sodass unk ... more

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Overview Report: Measuring Media Development

Sanjukta Roy

Washington, DC: Internews;World Bank Institute (2011), 16 pp.

"The Media Map Project is investigating the relationships between media and development, and analyzing the impact of media development assistance in specific contexts. The project undertakes a three-pronged approach. Part 1, Quantifying Media is an extensive quantitative analysis of macro data, appl ... more

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Demokratieförderung im Zeitalter sozialer Medien: Risiken und Chancen

Anita Breuer

Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (2011), 4 pp.

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Indigenous Voices in the Philippines: Communication for Empowerment (C4E) Assessment Report

Bangkok: UNDP;Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD) (2011), 104 pp.

"This report examines the Philippine situation in relation to the media landscape and opportunities for participation by Indigenous Peoplese in \communicative spaces. as avenues for self-empowerment. As an assessment of the communications and media environment and their implications for Indige ... nous Peoples, the report looks into challenges and opportunities that could aid future development interventions that emanate from local needs and aspirations [...] Radio remains the predominant form of communication and information channel in Indigenous Peoples areas but digital communications through cellular phones and mobile internet are also slowly making inroads except in very inaccessible communities and places where conflict is ever present. However, communication and information exchanges through the news media whether newspaper, radio or television are mainly conducted in a language other than the Indigenous Peoples‘ mother tongue. The one exception is radio station DXUP in Upi, Maguindanao which broadcasts programs in a mixture of Teduray, Visayan, and English [...] The consensus among those who participated in the data gathering activities was the need for Indigenous Peoples communities to establish their own media, preferably radio as a means to effectively project their agenda on the larger, national development and political landscape. This was, for instance, expressed strongly during the tribal congress of the Teduray-Lambangian people in Mindanao and to a lesser extent by the Tagbanua of Palawan. While this is one way of addressing the exclusion of Indigenous Peoples from the mainstream news agenda, it has to be viewed in the context of capacity development that takes into consideration the larger enabling environment that could influence one way or the other the overall strategy of any development program. It has to consider also the importance of gaining a foothold in the mainstream media as the flip side of a community media owned and managed by Indigenous Peoples is that there might become a tendency to limit the conversation among indigenous communities and thus failing to articulate their aspirations to a larger audience especially when this impinge on policy." (Executive summary) more

French Media Assistance: Developing Tailor-Made Regional Cooperation Strategies

Florence Minery

In: The "Fourth Estate" in Democracy Assistance: Practices and Challenges of German and International Media Development Cooperation. 6th Symposium Forum Media and Development

Christoph Dietz; Julia Steffenfauseweh; Angelika Mendes (eds.)

St. Augustin; Berlin; Aachen: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2011), pp. 16-22

Norwegian Media Assistance: An Integral Part of Democracy Support

Ivar Evensmo

In: The "Fourth Estate" in Democracy Assistance: Practices and Challenges of German and International Media Development Cooperation. 6th Symposium Forum Media and Development

Christoph Dietz; Julia Steffenfauseweh; Angelika Mendes (eds.)

St. Augustin; Berlin; Aachen: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2011), pp. 23-32

The UK Perspective and Beyond: Growing Faultlines in Media Development

James Deane

In: The "Fourth Estate" in Democracy Assistance: Practices and Challenges of German and International Media Development Cooperation. 6th Symposium Forum Media and Development

Christoph Dietz; Julia Steffenfauseweh; Angelika Mendes (eds.)

St. Augustin; Berlin; Aachen: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2011), pp. 33-43

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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.

"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to ... more

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Designs, Devices and Development: Audience Research as Creative Resource in the Making of an Afghan Radio Drama

Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153

"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust ... ainability of the highly popular Afghan radio soap opera New Home, New Life. This is a ‘development drama’ that has been broadcast across Afghanistan since 1993. It is based on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers and produced by BBC Afghan Education Projects (BBC AEP). Audience research has been vital to forging a dynamic relationship between the creative teams who make the drama, the donors who pay for it, and the audiences who consume it. The article addresses three broad themes. First, we outline how data gathered in formative audience research, prior to the creation of the drama, provides the creative team with the dramatic raw material for the radio serial. The extensive qualitative data gathered by Afghan researchers in local milieux is translated so as to enable culturally diverse teams of writers and producers to ground the serial narratives in the lived experiences of its audiences, and to introduce multiple local perspectives on development issues. Second, we show how evaluative audience research, data gathered in the postproduction phase, plays a key role in providing critical audience interpretations of New Home, New Life’s dramatic themes. In so doing, it creates feedback loops that allow audiences to become active participants in the ongoing creation of the drama. The research designs and devices, developed over the last two decades to document the changing life-worlds of Afghan citizens-cum-audiences, are part of an ongoing set of transcultural encounters that contribute to strengthening the social realist appeal of the drama and to calibrating how far any given storyline can be pushed in terms of cultural propriety. Third, we examine how during periods of military conflict, when routine audience research becomes dangerous or impossible and audience feedback loops are disrupted, the writers and producers have to rely on their own personal and political experiences, often with unpredictable ideological consequences. We draw attention to the limitations and challenges of making dramas for development in highly charged politicised and postcolonial contexts. While, development dramas may be a cheap and effective way of dealing with certain informational needs, such as landmine awareness, they cannot redress social and structural inequalities or, as Western donors wish, eradicate opium cultivation." (Abstract) more

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Promoting Democracy with New Media: Challenges and Opportunities of Development Cooperation

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2011), 2 pp.

"New fields of action have emerged for those working in Germany’s development cooperation activities that are focused on media. Development cooperation can help new media become an established instrument used by civil society actors who are informed and monitoring political developments. This form ... more

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Media in Africa: Twenty Years After the Windhoek Declaration on Press Freedom
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