"La présente publication concerne les documents de travail qui ont été l'objet, en juin 1986, d'un séminaire pour correspondants régionaux et locaux, rélaisé à Bamako, capitale de la République du Mali. Nous espérons pouvoir, par cette publication, contribuer à l'explitation du thème "Ra
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dio Rurale et Développement Rural" et recommandons la lecture de ces textes aux participants des promotions antérieures du DWAZ ainsi qu'à un cerlce plus large d'intéressés." (Préface, page 5)
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"India has to reach to the level, where it can provide food, clothing, and shelter to each individual, within the shortest possible time. Thus, it has become necessary to gear up the developmental process in India, where almost 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas isolated from the urba
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n centres and have low rates of literacy," says Sinha in his introduction. Using the village of Bihar as a case study, he explores the role and relevance of the mass media, especially television, and face-to-face communication. His introduction contains a very brief history of television." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 406)
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"Focusing on issues of access to and participation in community media, this report reviews progress so far and analyzes the difficulties that underlie the transfer and adaptation of community communications media in developing countries. The first chapter contains introductory material on the subjec
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t of community media and development and describes a participative model for using media in community development situations. The second chapter discusses the practice of community communications by defining objectives, presenting background information on present projects, and describing criteria for selecting community media. The third chapter examines three community development communications projects in detail to show the development of methods that suit particular tasks and the choice of media that suit particular conditions, and the fourth chapter offers an appropriate methodology for using media in community development, with implications for future projects." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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"10 contributions, e.g. on literacy and rural communication. The "Bibliografia de Estudos Norte-Americanos sobre Comunicação no Brasil. Bibliografia Anotada" (pages 151-246) includes 235 North American publications on communication in Brazil." (commbox)
"The title of this book raises expectations that are hardly fulfilled. One wonders again and again which target group the author had in mind when writing his work: it seems too impractical for practitioners and too unsound for theorists. For example, many of the names and authors cited lack bibliogr
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aphical information, which is also missing from the summarised bibliography (e.g. Levin, Hruschka). Important works that would appeal to practitioners in particular, such as Ralph Milton's Broadcasting Handbook (cf. CS 2:1969,182), are completely absent, not to mention books on fundamental considerations such as the works of Paulo Freire. The use of the so-called mass media in the development process is not as simple and unproblematic as the author suggests in his introduction. Broadcasting is hardly the miracle cure that people would like to make it out to be, and especially in the case of the frequently cited German projects of this kind, some questions must be asked about the consideration of existing indigenous, cultural, social and communicative values, which must also be taken into account when introducing modern means of communication. For example, is the role of the "change agent" really so important or is two-way communication not much more decisive for the development process (page 39 ff)? Some questions need to be asked. One has the impression that the whole book is too "German", which is probably also due to the fact that some passages have obviously been translated from German into English. Perhaps some of the unevenness is also due to the fact that various radio stations were asked to contribute to the book (e.g. Deutsche Welle, Südfunk, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Some aid organisations would be happy if the ACPO (- Sutatenza) radio school in Colombia could finance itself "mostly from advertising" (Page 56). But why are there no bibliographical references here either, such as to Musto's work (Berlin 1968) or to publications on such experiments in other continents (e.g. Neurath for India)? Bibliographical references to the Indonesian model by Salmon Padmanagara (page 87) would be welcome, as they are to many others. Maletzke's clear contribution (from page 105) on the evaluation of projects is a pleasant surprise. Some would have liked this section to be more detailed and the entire book to have some of its clarity." (translation from a review by Franz Josef Eilers in: Communicatio Socialis, vol. 12, 1979, nr. 1, pages 83-84)
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