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"Describes, analyzes, and reproduces the front pages of eight newspapers published in the favelas of Rio, and lists eleven others. Includes a content analysis of the papers as a group and provides a bibliography." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)

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Os jornais de bairro na cidade de São Paulo

São Paulo: Cidade de São Paulo, Secretaria Municipal de Cultura (1985), 165 pp.

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Media for People in Cities: A Study of Community Media in the Urban Context

Peter M. Lewis (ed.)

UNESCO (1984), 239 pp.

"Although rural development, especially in the Third World, is a major concern of UNESCO, emphasis here is upon those uses of media which support community initiatives in urban settings or were introduced to help resolve tensions and problems. Media are not limited to newspapers and broadcasting; th ... more

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Communication in the Community: An International Study on the Role of the Mass Media in Seven Communities

Paris: UNESCO (1981), 85 pp.

"This publication consists of short accounts of seven studies carried out in seven different countries on the part played by the media in the development of "social consciousness" in two widely different social groups in each of the countries concerned. The research on which the accounts are based h ... more

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Use of the Mass Media by the Urban Poor: Findings of Three Research Projects with an Annotated Bibliography

Bradley S. Greenberg

New York et al.: Praeger (1970), xvi, 251 pp.

"Three research projects studied in detail the mass media behaviors of poor children, adolescents, and adults. These studies focused on a complete range of media behaviors - media use, availability, content preferences, functions, and attitudes. They considered a comprehensive set of media including ... more

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Public Opinion and Press Opinion in Four Latin American Cities

Robert N. Pierce

Journalism Quarterly, volume 46, issue 1 (1969), pp. 53-60

"Study of press opinion and public opinion in four Latin American cities: Mexico City, Rio, Caracas, Buenos Aires — Comparative study." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1747, topic code 030)

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Media and Developmental News in Slums of Ecuador and India

Robert E. Simmons, Kurt Kent, Vishwa M. Mishra

Journalism Quarterly, volume 45, issue 4 (1968), pp. 698-705

"While newspapers reach more of the ghetto dwellers than might be expected, radio has access to a far larger proportion especially among women — In Indian slums, listeners regard radio as more believable than the press." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the devel ... more

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The Problems of the Press in Multilingual Bombay

Edwin Hirschmann

Journalism Quarterly, volume 43, issue 3 (1966), pp. 519-524, 557

"The major problem of linguistic fragmentation in Bombay is that the public demands many small units instead of just a few larger and more powerful ones. Newspapers published in different languages are the easiest method of dealing with "multilingual" problems. Each publication continues to serve th ... more