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¿Cómo son las prácticas lectoras de la población peruana? Un análisis interdisciplinario de los resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Lectura
Lima: Ministerio de Cultura del Perú (2024), 304 pp.
"La Encuesta Nacional de Lectura 2022 (ENL 2022) representa, hasta la fecha, la más ambiciosa operación estadística nacional para conocer el comportamiento lector de la población peruana. El objetivo principal fue identificar y caracterizar las brechas en el acceso y la práctica de la lectura,
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"En el caso de la población rural, prácticamente 70 % percibe que no tiene suficiente información, en el caso de la población urbana este porcentaje es menor a 50 %. Confrontando esta información con los medios y la disponibilidad, la explicación más razonable es que no se trata necesariament
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"En el área rural, se ratifica la predominancia de la radio sobre los otros medios (59% escucha siempre o casi siempre), seguido muy de cerca de la televisión (56% mira televisión) y luego los medios digitales, el Facebook (41% se conecta) es más reconocido como un medio de información que el W
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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.
"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on
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Rural women's radio listening behavior and program preferences in SNNPRS, the case of Sidama and Gedeo Zones
Journal of Media and Communication Studies, volume 12, issue 4 (2020), pp. 39-45
"The objective of the study was to identify rural women's radio program preferences and listening behaviours. Survey was used to gather information from 200 rural women selected through multistage sampling from Sidama and Gedeo Zones. Descriptive statistic such as frequency and percentage were used
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The Business of Chin Media: News Audiences Challenges Survival
Deep Insights
New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2019), 90 pp.
"This report analyses the Chin media sector. It is based on research conducted by MDIF from late 2018 through December 2019, as well as a quantitative and qualitative survey conducted by Myanmar Survey Research (MSR) in May 2019. The report provides data on the Chin media operations themselves, as w
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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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Audiencia radial rural a nivel nacional y perfil de consumo
Lima: CPI (2017), 4 pp.
"Con el objetivo de incluir a toda la población del país en las audiencias radiales, el Grupo RPP encargó una investigación a nivel nacional rural que representa el 22% de la población, según cifras oficiales del INEI. De este modo, al juntar los resultados de la audiencia de esta investigaci
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Communication in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of Media and Mobile Audiences
London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.
"The survey indicates that radio remains the most widely accessed broadcast platform in Sierra Leone. In all, eight out of 10 (81%) Sierra Leoneans have access to radio, and 47% listen to it daily. Radio listenership is fractured, however, with no single station able to reach a national audience. Ar
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Audiencia radial nacional rural: 83% de la población rural escucha radio
Lima: CPI (2016), 3 pp.
"El 83,1% de las personas de 11 a más años a nivel nacional rural escuchan radio por lo menos una vez a la semana y lo hacen principalmente a través de emisoras locales de FM y AM, alcanzando estas emisoras al 69,6% de la población rural con 12 horas en promedio de escucha semanal, este mayor al
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Unboxing Television in Contemporary Indonesia
Jakarta: Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) (2015), xxiii, 210 pp.
"Having spent some time in the living rooms of 12 families across Greater Jakarta, West Java and East Nusa Tenggara, we found that audience has their own ways of consuming media and capacity to reflect on the content they are served. This capacity differs varyingly, fundamentally depending on three
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Digital Youth Cultures in Small Town and Rural Gujarat, India
New Media & Society, volume 16, issue 6 (2014), pp. 983-1001
"Youth in this study treat new media and technologies as one limited component of otherwise rich lives and social experiences. While new technologies promote individualistic mobility, Indian youth of small towns and rural places still live in collective social structures that shape their orientation
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"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and
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South Sudan National Audience Survey: A Nationally Representative Assessment on Radio Listening Habits with Key Findings in Five Booster Areas for Internews Stations
Juba; Washington, DC: Forcier Consulting; Internews (2013), viii, 185 pp.
"As expected, the general media environment in South Sudan is highly varied, with sharp distinctions between the capital city of Juba and the rest of the country, which is largely rural. A key difference here involves language use and understanding, with rural areas dominated by local/tribal languag
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Making Connections: Using Data on Ghanaians’ Media Use and Communication Habits as a Practical Tool in Development Work
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 108 pp.
"The data highlight statistically significant variations in information access, use and preferences among key demographic segments - notably, between rural and urban respondents, men and women, people with varying levels of education and those living in different regions of the country - all of whic
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The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India
Chicago: University of Chicago; NBER; Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies (2008), 41 pp.
"Cable and satellite television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world. These media sources expose viewers to new information about the outside world and other ways of life, which may a ect attitudes and behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television o
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Meios e audiências: A emergência dos estudos de recepção no Brasil
Porto Alegre: Sulina (2008), 304 pp.
"BBC listenership in Afghanistan remains strong and the station has retained a strong brand presence. BBC radio is among the most listened to stations in Afghanistan. Over half (57%) of adults had listened within the past week at the time of the survey in January 2008. 75% of the population claimed
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Television and Social Change in Rural India
London: Sage (2000), 247 pp.
