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Information at the Grassroots: Analyzing the Media Use and Communication Habits of Kenyans to Support Effective Development

Hannah Bowen

Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 125 pp.

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Making Connections: Using Data on Ghanaians’ Media Use and Communication Habits as a Practical Tool in Development Work

Hannah Bowen

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 ... more

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Researching Developmental Uses and Formats of Rural Radio: A Development Broadcasting Approach

Linje Manyozo

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 8, issue 2 (2010), pp. 141-160

"How should scholars approach the study of the developmental uses of rural radio? What is the theoretical framework within which to locate the study of rural radio formats employed as development communication? To answer these questions, this brief critique develops a theoretical matrix to be used a ... more

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Contemporary Issues in South Africa: A Toolkit for Journalists

Tanya Farber

Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2009), 60 pp.

"In today’s climate in the media industry, reporters are expected to cover a broad range of issues. They no longer have the luxury of concentrating on a small piece of a larger puzzle, and at times, they may feel as if they need a better understanding of the background information before moving fo ... more

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¿Desarrollo? Encuentros y desencuentros entre medios y ciudadanía

Lima: Calandria;Observatorios en Red (2009), 327 pp.

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Best Practices of Journalism in Asia

Eric Loo

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), xvi, 172 pp.

"The book’s narrative structure intentionally uses minimal theoretical academic abstractions. Instead, it adopts a pragmatic approach – journalistic to an extent – to speculate what works best for journalists in Asia given the political constraints and resource limitations that many are compel ... more

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Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millenium Development Goals

John V. Vilanilam

New Dehli: Sage (2009), xx, 272 pp.

"Development Communication in Practice: India and the Millennium Development Goals analyzes seven Indian newspapers for a period of seven months and evaluates the extent to which development issues are addressed in them. The findings reveal an under-representation of development issues in the media ... more

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Development Journalism

Xu Xiaoge

In: The Handbook of Journalism Studies

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen; Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 357-370

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Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2009), xx, 446 pp.

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Nuevos compromisos de la prensa con el desarrollo: Monitoreo latinoamericano

Rosa María Alfaro (coord.)

Lima: Calandria;Red Latinoamericana de Observatorio de Medios (2008), 50 pp.

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Responsabilidad de la prensa con el desarrollo: Hay tanto por hacer! Monitoreo de medios peruanos

Rosa María Alfaro Moreno (ed.)

Lima: Veeduría Ciudadana de la Comunicación Social (2008), 50 pp.

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Media and Development in Asia: Regional Perspectives

Indrajit Banerjee, Madanmohan Rao (eds.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2008), 348 pp.

"This book brings together some of the most outstanding and novel papers on media and development presented at the AMIC Annual Conferences in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2004. It features over a dozen contributions from around the region, providing a wealth of fresh case studies as well as breaking ne ... more

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Media and Development: Issues and Challenges in the Pacific Islands

Shailendra Singh, Biman Prasad (eds.)

Lautoka (FJ); Auckland: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies;Pacific Media Centre (2008), xii, 326 pp.

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El observador de medios de comunicación en América Latina: Prensa, ciudadanía y democracia en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela

Eduardo Zukernik (ed.)

Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2008), 192 pp.

"Los enfoques de agenda setting, de network society y de public sphere constituyen el marco teórico básico para el abordaje metodológico y posterior desarrollo de “El Observador de Medios de Comunicación en América Latina” que presentamos. El Observador analiza la agenda de los principales ... more

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Two Models for Pacific Islands Journalism Education

Steve Sharp, Evangelia Papoutsaki

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 82-101

"The intellectual undernourishment of journalism education and research is tied to wider problems in Pacific academic culture. On a macro level, Pacific media communities can apply their own social capital to the task of media development according to their own agendas, drawing on sound data and ana ... more

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State of Media Report: Governance and Development

Madang: Media Council of Papua New Guinea;Diwai Pacific (2007), 126 pp.

"The state of the media report consists of two parts: a media content analysis and a media and civil society organisation (CSO) data survey. The media content analysis deals with news, current affairs, and documentary content produced by a sample of Papua New Guinea (PNG) media organisations that us ... more

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Development Journalism: An Introduction

Dinesh C. Sharma

Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) (2007), 212 pp.

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Evaluation of the Development Gateway: Final Report

Aditya Jha, Vicky Seymour, Sean Sims

London: Development Studies Institute, School of Economics (2004), 46 pp.

"The Development Gateway is an Internet portal that seeks to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction through knowledge and resource sharing. Initially conceived and designed by the World Bank, it commenced operations as an independent not-for-profit organisation in July 2001. However, ... its launch and operations have been dogged by controversy as civil society organisations have objected to the Gateway’s links with the World Bank and its potential for disseminating the World Bank’s vision of development at the expense of more diverse and pluralistic views. In particular, criticism has centred on the Topics and Country Gateway sections of the web site, as being ill-conceived and biased, leading to the further marginalisation of southern knowledge, and the crowding out of other knowledge aggregators. This study evaluates the Topics and Country Gateway sections of the Development Gateway in light of the stated objectives, the initial criticisms and generally recognised principles for knowledge sharing. It combines an extensive review of documents and detailed analyses of the website to evaluate the governance of the Development Gateway, and the relevance and quality of the Topic and Country Gateway content. The key findings of the study corroborate the civil society criticisms in finding that the Development Gateway remains closely linked to the World Bank at both operational and strategic levels, that the information is predominantly from northern sources, that its operations are not transparent or accountable to civil society, and that it does not have any criteria or systems for measuring the impact of its services. More surprisingly, given the stature of the World Bank and the level of investment, there is no clear identification of who the beneficiaries are and how they may be benefiting. The content is not comprehensive and it has a strong bias towards technological topics at the expense of social and political topics. Also, it is poorly organised and is not cost-effective in comparison with other existing Internet portals. In fact the other development portals, rather than being crowded out, are thriving precisely because the performance of the Gateway is so poor. As an example, the global civil society portal OneWorld has substantially more content, twice as much usage, and eight times as many partnerships as the Development Gateway, all achieved for about a quarter of the spending. The Gateway has consumed more than $30 million of funding since its inception and is seeking another $40 million of public funding. This without having achieved many of the goals it set itself and with major question marks over its ability to deliver, as acknowledged, despite their limited scope, by the two evaluations of the Development Gateway undertaken or commissioned by the World Bank’s Operations Evaluation Department." (Executive summary, page 3) more

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Periodismo social: Para que nuestra información sea noticia

Andrea Vulcano

Asunción; Buenos Aires: Centro de Información y Recursos para el Desarrollo (CIRD);Poder Ciudadano;Fundación Konrad Adenauer (KAS), ed. paraguaya (2004), 151 pp.

"Aspiramos con esta iniciativa a que las organizaciones no gubernamentales puedan incorporar a sus proyectos herramientas de la comunicación y el periodismo, para que puedan convertir sus programas en actividades noticiables y a la información que generen, en fuente de los medios de comunicación. ... more

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Für eine Kultur der Differenzen: Friedens- und Dritte-Welt-Zeitschriften auf dem Prüfstand

Iserlohn: Evangelische Akademie Iserlohn (2004), 158 pp.

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