"El autor de este libro era uno de los protagonistas de la radio y un pionero de la radionovela (p.e. se recuerda de la legendaria serie "El misterio de los ojos escarlata", que tuvo un enorme exito de audiencia) cuando surgió en los años veinte en Venezuela." (Catálogo Fundarte 1995)
"In fact this paperback is about narration and about text in whatever form: spoken, written or printed. Or even better, this book is about the importance of narrative art. It therefore invests all kinds of storytelling, not only the person-to-person oral tradition, but also the mediated forms of sto
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rytelling. Is taken for granted that the radio is giving an extra dimension to the spoken word, like books are giving an extra dimension to the printed word, or the cinema or television are connecting texts and visuals again, like woodcut printings have done in the past. Stories from the oral tradition found their way to the mass media like movies, radio and television. Therefore a wide variety of media will be discussed in this book without showing any preference for one medium or another. The focus of interest is more on storytelling then on de media used to tell stories. It is about the athletics of words and the flexible relatedness between the various media. All these media make use of characters to present stories. Therefore characters with stereotyped traits are present in every medium that makes use of narrative or dramatic elements like comic books, photo novels and soap operas. Mass media have been taking over the role of traditional storytelling. Nowadays, it seems as if instead of listening to an individual storyteller, the global community sits down and have stories told by their favourite radio plays and television series like situation comedies and soap series. Some social scientists strongly reject this change in media consumption. They regret the changing patterns in spending leisure time. They regret for example the supposed decline of reading habits which has been considered as an effect of changing media consumption. And they are not the only ones to regret this. On the one hand there are the educationalists worrying about the latest statistics on literacy rates. These figures certainly do not show any worldwide improvements in literacy and numeracy. And there are the publishers too, who regret the declining reading habits. On a global scale the selling of books and other printed matter is at a decline. With an expanding media market, people are spending their leisure time in a more varied way leaving them less time to read. However, despite this conclusion the educational system in whatever country cannot do without a structured transfer of knowledge. And it seems that the most effective medium within the educational system still is the written word, being presented to the people by printed materials. Learning children as well as adults to read and write is the main preoccupation of as many multilateral aid organisations as national governments." (Pages 10-11)
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"With Britain's first two national commercial radio stations - Virgin 1215 and Classic FM - already on the air, the 90s are set to bring unprecedented expansion to the national, regional and local radio station network - and yet more controversy over the role of the BBC. In this new edition of Under
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standing Radio, Andrew Crisell re-addresses the characteristics of this fascinating and paradoxical medium. He explores how radio processes such genres as news, drama and comedy in highly distinctive ways, and how the listener's use of the medium has important implications for audience studies. In addition, Andrew Crisell's revised historical account of radio brings the reader right up to date, and includes a brand new chapter on talk-and-music radio - the format adopted by so many of the new stations - in which he explains why the sound medium, even more than television, has played such a crucial role in the development of modern popular culture. This new edition of Understanding Radio will be essential reading both to students of the media, and to those with a practical involvement in programme production." (Publisher description)
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"Two literature competitions for African countries, held by Deutsche Welle and the Training Centre, provided the backbone for this anthology. In addition, the Radio Training Centre has carried out special training courses for radio drama production, both in Cologne and abroad, in which the African p
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articipants wrote and produced some of the plays from this anthology." (Foreword, page 7)
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"This book is addressed to those who wish or who have to write educational programmes for radio. Its aim is to point to ways and methods of writing appropriate material for radio. It reviews various radio formats: Non-dramatic ones like announcements, reports, commentary, talk, interviews, etc; and
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dramatised programmes: features and plays. This edition replaces previous ones ("Handbook for Scriptwriters of Adult Education Broadcasts", published by FES in 1969, 2 vol.) and is based on workshops for scriptwriters of adult education broadcasts conducted by the author in Tanzania and other countries for more than 20 years." (Publisher description)
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"Der Einsatz von Massenmedien für die Verbreitung von Neuerungen hat sich in den Entwicklungsländern vor allem wegen des Auftretens von verfremdenden Nebenwirkungen als sehr problematisch erwiesen. Im ersten Teil dieser Arbeit wird dagegen ein alternatives Kommunikationsmodell vorgestellt. Dieses
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folgt zum Teil den Methoden der «Pädagogik der Unterdrückten» von Paulo Freire, wobei kleine Gruppen durch Hörspiele zu eigener Kreativität angeregt werden, um ihre Probleme zu bewältigen. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit berichtet darüber, wie eine nach diesem neuen Modell verfasste Programmserie, die in Lateinamerika bereits großen Erfolg gehabt hat, in Indonesien neu inszeniert und eingesetzt wird." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"La obra constituye uno de los aportes más valiosos que se hayan escrito para orientar adecuadamente en trabajo idóneo de los radiodifusores, y la participación de los radioescuchas, en el proceso de la comunicación puesta al servicio de la educación, la cultura y el desarrollo de las naciones.
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" (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"I. La radio au carrefour des arts et des techniques - II. La radio et la parole - III. La radio et la société contemporaine - Pour un musée du son et de l'image." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2241, topic
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code 20)
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