"Rural print media journalists in Africa tap into perceptions about their readers to produce newspapers. The evolving aesthetic perceptions of the rural print media in Ghana have in turn produced social domains of consumption and affiliation with the newspapers and print media. The style of Ewe-lang
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uage newspapers produced in Ghana has generated different newspaper-reader affiliations and discursive spheres. This article examines some of the stylistic features of Ewe newspapers, investigating the way in which rural print media consumers and producers use these to articulate perceptions of the language domain of Ghanaian rural newspapers and print media." (Abstract)
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"Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere is the first in-depth study of the ongoing newspaper revolution in the Hindi-speaking states of India. With improved literacy levels, communications and purchasing power, the circulation of Hindi newspapers has grown rapidly in small
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towns and rural areas. By focusing their content to serve a local readership, some multi-edition Hindi newspapers have risen to the top of the national readership charts. Against the backdrop of the relationship between press and society, author Sevanti Ninan describes the emergence of a local public sphere; reinvention of the public sphere by the new non-elite readership; the effect on politics, administration, and social activism; the consequences of making newspapers reader rather than editor-led; the democratization of the Hindi press with the advent of village-level citizen journalists; and the impact of caste and communalism on the Hindi press. Based on over 150 interviews with journalists, readers, publishers, politicians, administrators, and activists, as well as expert content analysis, this book tells the ongoing story of the press in the Hindi heartland." (Publisher description)
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"Describes the activities and publications of the innovative Community Publishing Process in Zimbabwe in order to train 7,000 village community workers, the majority of whom were women. Through a community based, participatory process of publishing, the project aims to enable marginalized groups to
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use their creative energies to build dynamic leadership, tackle poverty, take charge of their lives, and make the decisions to shape their future. Representatives of the village readership participated in creating the books and civic education manuals, contributed material orally, and tested and distributed it through local book launches. The project also initiated a series of children’s traditional stories and a book about children’s rights, produced with 500 children aged from three to seventeen. A local leadership programme for writers provides training in journalism and editing, and the publication of a monthly journal from a village publishing house equipped with a computer, duplicator and stapler. The author concludes by stating “as women radically questioning autocratic institutions and processes, we have been able to shape a tool that can be used by marginalized groups anywhere to claim their voice in the public life." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1731)
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"En Afrique subsaharienne, la presse écrite à près de deux siècles d'histoire. Longtemps freiné par la faiblesse de l'alphabétisation, son développement fut cependant rapide en Afrique anglophone où elle joua un rôle dans la décolonisation. À la fois cause et conséquence des aspirations
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au changement, la presse africaine est devenue en quelques années un acteur influent du mouvement démocratique et de l'avènement de nouveaux dirigeants dans plusieurs États. L'étude de l'implantation de la presse et l'analyse du nouveau lectorat, selon les diverses situations géopolitiques, posent la question du rôle de la presse dans la construction des opinions publiques africaines que l'on voit émerger en cette fin de xxe siècle." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"The Plan of Operation for Phase I of the Rural Press Project in Kenya was signed between the Government of Kenya and UNESCO in June 1979. This phase continued until 1983, to be succeeded by Phase II from 1984 to 1987. Phase III, the final phase of the project, lasted from 1987 until 1991 [...] Proj
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ect Activities: The project secured the equipment and materials needed, trained the required personnel and established 11 rural newspapers throughout the country. Conclusion: From the evaluations performed and other reports submitted to UNESCO, there is no doubt that rural newspapers are an appropriate information and communication strategy in supporting development processes of rural societies. The overwhelming interest and enthusiastic embrace of this project by the rural communities are testimony to the fact that such newspapers are ideal for information communication for rural development empowerment and furtherance of participatory democracy." (Executive summary)
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"This volume explores the strengths, weaknesses, and complex nature of participation in diverse settings through a collection of 20 essays that focus on the concept of participation in development and raise questions relating to power, control, empowerment, awareness-raising, and self-reliance. The
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editors assert that participation must be dialogic and transactional, and that development communicators have a role in facilitating the spread of new philosophies, concepts, and models, which facilitate participation at all stages of the development process. This volume is divided into sections on theories, methodologies, 'participatory decision-making and action' and 'participatory message making', and includes case studies." (Communication Initiative website Nov. 2007)
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"This book is an original and comprehensive study of the development, role and control of national newspapers in Zambia. It deals with the relationship between national newspapers on one hand and the state and people on the other. It traces the press in Zambia from its humble beginnings in 1906 to t
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he ambitious plans 1983 to launch the Sunday Drum." (Publisher description)
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"In this booklet, we describe in some detail the successful Liberian experiment, and suggest ways in which other countries may organize a similar project through their Information Ministry or other development agency. The third part of the booklet, is a simple "how-to-do-it guide for the editor/publ
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isher of a mimeo newspaper It is, in fact, an elementary manual for the journalist who has had no professional experience, and is in a form suitable for reprinting and wide distribution to the staffs of the rural papers. The mimeo newspaper is, admittedly, a rudimentary form of publishing, technically limited by the capacity of the equipment used. It is none the less significant for all that, and in passing, it should be noted that with skill and care, a professional looking paper can be produced. The important thing, however, is that this method of production enables a means of expression and establishes a small business enterprise, years before it would be economically possible with conventional printing plant. On the basis of the Liberian experience, it is estimated that a paper could be established with an initial outlay of as little as $100, and that it could provide a living for its owner/editor from the outset. This is a beginning from which a publisher and a community might aspire to progress until the time when a printed broadsheet can be produced by a professional staff on a modern printing plant." (Preface)
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"La création de journaux ruraux au Libéria a réussi — Le succès de cette initiative s'appuie sur deux faits: la régionalisation des informations et le caractère rudimentaire du matériel utilisé." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries.
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Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2367, topic code 110.45)
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"Synthèse de l'étude de D. Behrman parue dans Etudes et Documents d'Information n° 46 (Unesco) — Examen des problèmes de presse au Libéria." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 219, topic code 110.45)
"El autor relata con bastante detalle el exitoso experimento llevado a cabo en Liberia para la rápida creación de periódicos rurales - También indica cómo muchos otros países podrían llevar a cabo un programa similar - La última sección del estudio consiste en una guía práctica para el di
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rector/editor de un periódico multicopiado." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1265, topic code 110.45)
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"L'auteur relate, d'une façon assez détaillée, l'expérience heureuse qui a été faite au Libéria, visant la création et le développement rapides de journaux ruraux — Il indique aussi comment d'autres pays pourraient réaliser un programme analogue — La dernière phase de l'étude est con
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stituée par un guide pratique à l'intention du directeur/rédacteur en chef d'un journal multicopié." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1263, topic code 110.45)
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"Etude analytique du développement de la presse rurale libérienne — Le développement des feuilles d'informations stencilées. Extrait de l'Afrique dans le Monde, n° 9" (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1947,
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topic code 110.45)
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