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Kommunikation - Partizipation - Entwicklung: Positionspapier Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit = Communication - Participation - Development: Policy Paper on Media Development Cooperation

Helmut Osang, Gerda Meuer, Ellen Schuster, Simon Didszuweit, Patrick Leusch, David Schieferdecker

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2010), 42 pp.

"Only a target-group oriented, sustainable and integrated development approach can improve long-term participation possibilities – and therefore people’s living conditions – in our partner countries. This approach ranges from the qualification of media content producers, to media legislation a ... more

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The Pentagon, Information Operations, and International Media Development

Peter Cary

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 43 pp.

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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.

"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more

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International Media Assistance and Aid Effectiveness: Conceptual Blindspots and Institutional Incentives

Abby Jones, Silvio Waisbord

[Washington, DC]: Paper prepared for presentation at American Political Science Association Conference (2010), 39 pp.

"This article analyzes how selected programs articulate broad media objectives with program goals and apply indicators to determine impact with the goal of understanding how media assistance goals are operationalized and measured, and how program goals are linked to broad objectives. Guided by the n ... more

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China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?

Iginio Gagliardone, Maria Repnikova, Nicole Stremlau

Oxford; London: University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP);Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp.

"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi ... more

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Problematizing 'media Development' as a Bandwagon Gets Rolling
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Guy Berger

International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 7 (2010), pp. 547-565

"International initiatives have gained momentum around analysing ‘media development’ — a notion related to, but generally distinct from, media’s contribution to ‘development’. The focus on the ‘development’ of media is conventionally (although not logically) about international inter ... more

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Untold Stories

Irit Neidhardt

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 2 (2010), pp. 31-50

"Since the mid 1990s the European Union (EU) and its member states, most prominently France and Germany, have encouraged cinematic co-productions between Europe and the Middle East. A large number of films were completed within various EU support and cooperation programmes, ranging from special inte ... more

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Media and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan

Sheldon Himelfarb

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 5 pp.

"Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Afghan media sector has experienced dramatic growth in all areas: television, radio, print, internet, mobile phones. As such, the sector holds tremendous potential for making significant contributions to peacebuilding in the country. However, the media sec ... more

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The Media in Kyrgyzstan: A Window of Opportunity

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS);AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters;Article 19 (2010), 32 pp.

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Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects

Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 26 pp.

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China in the African Mediascape

Fackson Banda

Rhodes Journalism Review, issue 29 (2009), pp. 52-53

"Chinese assistance to African media is not new. What is different now is that it is being administered in the post-Cold War era with a greater degree of openness." (Page 52)

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Digital Media in Conflict-Prone Societies

Ivan Sigal

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 38 pp.

"Much violent conflict today takes place in or near civilian populations with access to global information networks, so the information gathered by various parties to conflict may potentially be distributed in real time around the globe. The ability to communicate, and to produce and receive diverse ... more

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Media and Peacebuilding: The New Army Stability Doctrine and Media Sector Development

Sheldon Himelfarb

Media, War & Conflict, volume 2, issue 1 (2009), pp. 7-23

"In October 2008, the US Army released Field Manual 3-07 laying out its dramatically revised doctrine for peace and stability operations. At the heart of the new doctrine is a comprehensive approach to stability operations in fragile states that integrates the work of the military with that of inter ... more

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Funding for Freedom of Expression Organizations: Report of a Survey of IFEX Members

Lee B. Becker, Tudor Vlad

Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia, James Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research (2009), 67 pp.

"The vast majority of IFEX members say it is more difficult now than a year ago to find project funding. Half say it is more difficult now than five years ago to find project funding. The dominant source for project funding is foundations outside the country of the member. A majority of IFEX members ... more

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Media Literacy: Empowering Youth Worldwide

Paul Mihailidis

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 30 pp.

"Government agencies, NGOs, foundations, and private developers looking to support civic and democratic endeavors in the developing world should be made aware of media literacy as a key educational component for developing stable democratic discourse. This report explores support and development of ... more

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Media Literacy: Understanding the News

Susan D. Moeller

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 28 pp.

"Media literacy training is a tool the development sector can use to educate citizens and other stakeholders to better understand the role of information in a democracy and pressure governments to be accountable and to root out corruption. A media literate citizenry is essential to building and sust ... more

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There Will be Ink: A Study of Journalism Training and the Extractive Industries in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda

Ben Colmery, Adriana Diaz, Emily Gann, Rebekah Heacock, Jonathan Hulland, Eamon Kircher-Allen

New York: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, International Media and Communications Program (2009), 114 pp.

"This report is intended to serve as a guide for organizations considering establishing journalist-training programs in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda. The report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in the journalism profession in these three countries. Generalizations across countri ... more

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The A-Z of German Media Development Cooperation

Christoph Dietz (ed.)

Bonn: Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome);Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (2009), 3 pp.

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Radio, Newspaper and More: Media Tools for Peace. Experiences from the Field, 2002-2008

Martin Zint

Neuwied: Eirene (2009), 51 pp.

"This publication provides examples of the way in which media can be used for the non-violent management of regional conflicts. Practitioners from radio initiatives in Chad, Niger, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo report their experiences regarding the function and perception of the media i ... more

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Overview of UN Inter-Agency Round Tables on Communication for Development: Background Paper

Elizabeth McCall

Washington, DC: UNDP;World Bank (2009), 32 pp.

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