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Manual: Instructivo con diseños y planos para construir antenas guía de ondas

Córdoba: [no publisher] (2023), 19 pp.

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Civil Resistance in the Digital Age: The Rise of Civic Tech in Belarus

Tatsiana Ziniakova

[no publisher] (2021), 9 pp.

"Civil society technology, or civic tech, is one of the novel notions introduced by the digital age – a new form of social interaction and implementation of fundamental human rights. The dominating discourse that civic tech is about optimising and digitising public services is challenged by the ex ... more

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Public Funding of High-Quality Journalism

Robin Foster, Mark Bunting

[no publisher] (2019), 58 pp.

"For this report, we have examined nine countries: the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Across all the countries surveyed, quality journalism is under pressure from well-documented and disruptive market and technology changes. Everywhere, there is growing public ... and political interest in finding new ways of securing the future of journalism, reflecting its perceived importance to society and the challenges faced by commercial providers. In some countries, the notion of public support for journalism is quite new, in others there has been a long-established tradition of government support since the 1960s. Different approaches have been taken, but there has emerged a common “toolkit” of measures: indirect support ( for example, a range of tax reliefs and exemptions which reduce costs to news providers and/or encourage higher consumption of news products and services); direct support (for example, direct grants which support various types of news production, marketing and distribution, or long-established public funding of public service media, such as the BBC); encouraging philanthropic support (for example, government support for private donations to support news provision). The longest established and most widely used schemes are typically based on indirect support for traditional media, in the form of sales tax or value-added-tax relief. These can be costly for government – for example many cost in the region of several hundred million AUD$ a year – and obviously vary by market size. Their critics argue that they can be a blunt form of support, as it is not clear how much of the direct cost of each scheme translates into actual benefits for the newspapers targeted, and they tend not to be linked to any specific type of content. As copy sales fall, they decline in cost and value. Recently, there have been moves (e.g. in France and the Nordic counties, with proposals to do so in the UK) to extend such schemes to digital news subscriptions, with the aim of reaching a wider group of beneficiaries (new as well as established news media), and offsetting a decline in the value of benefits to established publishers as their print sales decline [...] Alongside or in place of indirect support, the countries we surveyed are turning to more direct forms of public funding, which are seen to offer scope for better targeted support of the journalism that they believe matters to society. These include: • Support for research and innovation in business models, skills, distribution, marketing etc. Examples include new strategic and support funding schemes in France, new proposals in Sweden and Norway for platform-neutral innovation grants, an Italian fund to support pluralism and innovation, and the UK Cairncross proposal for an innovation fund. • Support for what in each country is thought to be the most “at -risk” journalism – typically local news in general, local “public interest” reporting, and investigative journalism. Examples include Canada’s proposed fund to support local journalism in underserved communities, the UK’s proposed local public interest journalism fund, France’s local and community media fund and similar proposals in Sweden • Support for journalism for indigenous communities or minority languages, where commercial provision is uneconomic – for example schemes in Canada and Finland • Tax credits which are tied to investment in all or particular aspects of news provision." (Executive summary, pages 4-5) more

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Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on Debate Participation in a Liberian Election

Jeremy Bowles, Horacio Larreguy

[no publisher] (2018), 45, 24 pp.

"In this paper we assess the electoral consequences of candidate selection into the supply of widely-disseminated programmatic information in the setting of Liberia, where clientelism is pervasive and the media sector is weak. We partnered with USAID and the NGO Internews to study the impact of rand ... omized elements of a nationwide initiative to hold debates for all 73 House of Representatives seats ahead of the Liberian election of October 2017. Beyond lawmaking, House members in Liberia control access to development funds as well as play key roles in the allocation and implementation of public goods, and thus voters have incentives to care about the policy priorities of the candidates and vote accordingly. However, historically, votes have been bought as often as won (Bowles et al., 2017). In an effort to improve democratic accountability, Internews organized 129 standardized debates, with at least one in each electoral district, to solicit the policy promises of the participating candidates. In the debates, the 59% of candidates who participated were asked a series of questions by moderating journalists on particular issues of local policy relevance, most often relating to district schools, primary healthcare facilities, and infrastructural investments. Rather than large townhall-style debates, the emphasis was on soliciting concrete policy platforms and promises from the candidates that would then be rebroadcast by community radio stations. To shock the supply of policy promises, we randomly varied the intensity of invitation efforts to persuade candidates to participate in the debates. The decision to participate is risky, particularly in clientelistic settings where the returns to programmatic competition can be both limited and highly uncertain. Candidates who ‘win’ a debate may enjoy greater publicity and net electoral gains, but ex ante they risk performing poorly, revealing their policy priorities to be disconnected from their constituents and restricting their ability to target campaign promises to small groups of influential voters. These risks are especially pronounced for the leading candidates (incumbents and their challengers), who enjoy greater resources for campaigning, are adapted to the existing clientelistic equilibrium, and are more likely to be attacked by opponents to gain publicity." (Pages 2-3) more

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The Beginning of Online Social Movements in Vietnam

Mai Duong

[no publisher] (2017), 14 pp.

"This study highlights the recent phenomenon of online social movements in Vietnam having some characteristics of the ‘horizontal networks’ and ‘mass self-communication’ conceptualised by theorist Manuel Castells. My arguments are developed on the basis of an analysis of original research in ... more

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Communiquer dans les diocèses en associant les différents médias

[no publisher] (2013), 82 pp.

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Reading Habits in Armenia: Results of a Survey on Readership Carried Out in December 2012

Ruzan Tonoyan

[no publisher] (2012), 60 pp.

"About 39 percent started to read regularly at elementary school age, and 44 percent at primary and high school age. As compared to the last five years, 37 percent of respondents stopped reading completely, 43 percent read less, 6 percent read as much as they read before, and only 14 percent said th ... more

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International Mission to Bahrain Report. Justice Denied in Bahrain: Freedom of Expression and Assembly Curtailed

[no publisher] (2012), 27 pp.

The following report documents the findings of a delegation comprised of representatives from six international rights groups (three members and three partners of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, IFEX), which carried out a fact-finding mission between 20-30 November, 2011, in order ... more

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La radio en América Latina y el Caribe: Mapa interactivo

Tito Ballesteros López (coord.)

[no publisher] (2012), 52 pp.

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Pilot Study on Vietnam’s Media Landscape Based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators

Nina Vennevold

[no publisher] (2011), 38 pp.

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Technology for Transparency: The Role of Technology and Citizen Media in Promoting Transparency, Accountability, and Civic Participation

David Sasaki (ed.)

[no publisher] (2010), 75 pp.

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The Digital Journalist's Handbook

Mark S. Luckie

La Vergne, Tenn.: [no publisher] (2010), 252 pp.

"This unique how-to book provides simple explanations of complex technologies and provides examples of how journalists can incorporate them into their stories and reporting. The Handbook is composed of 12 chapters, each dedicated to a different tool in the digital journalist's toolbox. Chapters incl ... more

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The Industry of Books and Publishing in the Development of ACP Countries

Beatrice Lalinon Gbado

[no publisher] (2009), 18 pp.

"A paper presented to an international colloquium "Culture and Creativity as Vectors of Development" held in Brussels, April 2-3, 2009. The author provides an overview of the current state of book publishing in the ACP countries of francophone Africa, and their impact as an integral part of the cult ... more

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L’ édition en Côte d’Ivoire: étude du secteur scolaire soumis à appel d’offres

Stéphane Marill

[no publisher] (2008), 46 pp.

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Trends in Malaysian Book Publishing

Dato’ Ng Tieh Chuan

[no publisher] (2005), 13 pp.

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Livres et bibliothèques pour enfants: L’Afrique et la France, coopération pour l’accès au livre

Viviana Quiñones

[no publisher] (2004), 13 pp.

"Une communication présentée à la 70e Conférence générale de l'IFLA qui s'est tenue à Buenos Aires en août 2004, qui fait le point sur la collaboration internationale entre la France et les pays d'Afrique dans le domaine de l'édition de livres pour enfants et de l'accès aux livres par les ... more

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Les livres et la lecture des enfants en Afrique francophone et le travail de La Joie par les livres

Viviana Quiñones

[no publisher] (2004), 11 pp.

"Document présenté au 29e congrès mondial d'IBBY qui s'est tenu au Cape Town en septembre 2004. Décrit les livres pour enfants et la lecture en Afrique francophone, la coopération culturelle entre la France et les pays d'Afrique - en particulier dans le développement des bibliothèques publiqu ... more

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Book Publishing in Nigeria

Chukwuemeka Ike

[no publisher] (2004), 4 pp.

"A short but succinct four page overview of the book publishing industry in Nigeria, which has been in steady decline since the 1980s: "At one stage, prospects for the book industry in Nigeria appeared rosy. The Federal Government established paper and pulp making industries, and an elaborate plan w ... more

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Elektronische Medien in Kambodscha: Eine medienpolitische Analyse

Raimund Weiss

[no publisher] (2003), 31 pp.

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Cuando la montaña habla

Barbara Lindell, Johannes Jörgensen

Malmö; Oruro: [no publisher] (2000), 112 pp.

"El primero de mayo de 1959, dia del trabajador, nace una emisora. Lo que empezó como una radio católica enfrentada a la radio de los mineros, se transformó luego en una emisora que da voz a los pobres y oprimidos. Ha aprendido de la gente y se ha adaptado a ella. En varias ocasiones los militare ... more