"Dans cette région d'Afrique, dont plusieurs pays ont connu, au cours des dernières années, des conflits violents ou des troubles importants, l'outil radiophonique joue un rôle essentiel dans les processus de reconstruction et de consolidation démocratique. A travers cet ouvrage, nous souhaiton
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s fournir aux acteurs du pluralisme radiophonique en Afrique centrale, aux partenaires au developpement, aux autorités publiques et aux associations professionnelles, un état des lieux des législations en vigueur, pays par pays, mais aussi de leur degré d'application, des éventuelles difficultés constatées et des expériences positives à souligner." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"'Informing Citizens: opportunities for media and communications in the Pacific' reports on the findings of a situation analysis and needs assessment (SANA) of the capacity of the media, government and civil society to produce information on good governance in 14 Pacific Island Forum countries. The
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report consists of 17 chapters in the following order: a regional overview chapter, a legislative overview chapter, a chapter on the findings of a news content analysis in the 14 countries, and 14 country chapters organised in alphabetical order, commencing with the Cook Islands. Chapter One, the Regional Overview, details the methodology for SANA, the principles which informed the research, and how the data was complied. The chapter contains an analysis of the major themes and issues that emerged in the 14 country chapters, divided into four sections: legislative environment, media sector, government sector, and civil society sector. It concludes with a list of regional strategies based on the research findings recommended by a SANA Reference Group of key stakeholders. Chapter Two, Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Media, analyses the constitutional guarantees for freedom of expression, freedom of the media and the right to information in the Pacific Island countries surveyed. It also analyses the degree to which public service broadcasting and media legislation guarantees separation from government in some of the countries surveyed. Section 1, Legislative Environment, in the country chapters provides further detail on the media regulatory environment in each country and complements Chapter Two. Chapter Three, Pacific News Content Analysis, summarises the findings of the news content analysis conducted in the countries surveyed. Its focus is the coverage of news on governance issues. Appendix F contains the breakdown of the regional findings and the findings for each country in alphabetical order. Chapters Four to Seventeen consist of country chapters. Each country chapter summarises the research findings for that country under the four main headings, Legislative Environment, Media Sector, Government Sector, and Civil Society Sector." (Page ix)
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"Dans les démocraties africaines encore fragiles et à citoyenneté postulée, ce livre, en prenant l’exemple du Sénégal, pose la question des mass média sénégalais dans la perspective historique de leur émergence, dans leurs tiraillements ontologiques (tradition ou modernité) et dans leur
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s orientations parfois contradictoires; le tout sous-tendu par la question prospective de leur devenir. Les mass média sénégalais, malgré leur foisonnement, sont encore en quête de leur identité. Des spécialistes se sont penchés avec intérêt sur les contradictions qui traversent cette presse, dont le rôle considérable joué dans les avancées démocratiques du pays, avec en point culminant, l’alternance politique survenue en 2000, est unanimement reconnu. Cependant, ce foisonnement exceptionnel et ce rôle incontestable ne sont pas forcément signe de maturité; dans une certaine mesure, les mass média sénégalais s’inscrivent dans un processus de maturation encore non abouti, malgré la croissance exponentielle des titres. Les medias sénégalais sont, en effet, tributaires d’un environnement social, économique et juridique qu’il est nécessaire de pénétrer pour comprendre leur dynamique propre et leurs difficultés, comme la contradiction entre oralité et nouvelles technologies qui n’est pas la moindre." (Préface, page 9-10)
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"This study proposes four focus areas for support to the media in these provinces including: Strengthening the Media Environment; Developing Professional Skills and Resources; Facilitating Information Flows and Access; Supporting Community-based Communication." (Recommendations, page 50)
"This is an exploratory study. It attempts to build on the work conducted for a series of papers which identify lessons learned from the international community’s attempts to use media as a means to consolidate democracy in Cambodia. The consensus is that, despite ten years of training programs an
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d financial assistance, radio news broadcasts still do not meet democratic norms for political communication. A shortcoming of these papers is that they are based on theory and research traditions outside media studies. As a result, they do not take into consideration processes of media production or audience reception when making their propositions for change. This study proposes that, by using methods of research from media studies, it may be possible to address these gaps in knowledge, and therefore strengthen these propositions. It combines peacebuilding and media theory in an effort to identify the normative assumptions of the lessons learned papers, and therefore develop an appropriate strategy for evaluating media performance, and for determining if the propositions in the lessons learned papers have the potential to be successfully implemented. The use of such a strategy was explored in pilot research conducted in Phnom Penh July 2004. It combined content analysis and interviews (with radio station directors, as well as representatives from political parties, non-government organizations [NGOs], and members of the international community.) This study concludes that, while some refinements are required in the design of the proposed research strategy, its use may allow future researchers to gain new insights – insights which compliment the lessons learned papers, and which could be valuable in implementing their propositions for change." (Abstract)
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"Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study. The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Grou
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p, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe." (Publisher description)
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"This report outlines the findings and conclusions derived from the assessment mission undertaken by the ‘Partnership for Media and Conflict Prevention in West Africa’ to Liberia in December 2003. This mission brought together the expertise of a number of the national, regional and international
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media development and freedom of expression actors. The report seeks to layout collaborative approaches for supporting the media during the immediate and longer-term transition periods, both in terms of overcoming obstacles and developing capacities and resources, as well as contributing towards the creation of lasting peace, stability and democracy." (Executive summary, page 3)
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