"How and to what extent are women in grassroots communication creating avenues for democratic communication and fostering social change? How is grassroots communication consolidating women's views and perspectives on gender subordination and social transformation? Women in Grassroots Communication b
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rings together a stellar cast of contributors from across the globe–Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America–to answer these and other questions. First, they review the various frameworks for addressing the relationship between women, participation, and communication, looking at the ways women have been perceived. Next, the authors look at the social roles of women in their communities, their capabilities to communicate, and their informal networks at the local and community levels. The third section focuses on media production and the issues of media competency, identity, representation, evaluation, and group process. Finally, by looking at the connections between women's participatory practices and wider sociopolitical initiatives, the final chapters examine the issues of organization, leadership, and communication strategies." (Publisher description)
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"Médias et développement" est destiné à tous ceux qui désirent appréhender les réalités de la géographie de l'information, à échelle tant planétaire, que nationale ou régionale. Jacques Barrat insiste sur le fait que cette géographie est une géographie des inégalités Nord-Sud, Nord-
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Nord et Sud-Sud… Après avoir montré que, dans les zones de sur-développement économique, le processus de développement était allé de pair avec celui des médias, l'auteur s'interroge sur les raisons des retards qu'on peut constater dans les aires marquées par le sous-développement. Enfin, il constate que les médias ont échoué dans le rôle de catalyseur du développement, qui leur avait été imparti dans les années soixante-dix par les tenants d'un tiers-mondisme aujourd'hui de plus en plus dépassé et décrié." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien An
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g asks why we understand so little about its nature and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the television institutions. Ang draws on Foucault's theory of power/knowledge to scrutinize television's desperate search for the audience, and to identify differences and similarities in the approaches of American commercial television and European public service television to their audiences. She looks carefully at recent developments in the field of ratings research, in particular the controversial introduction of the `people meter' as an instrument for measuring the television audience. By defining the limits and limitations of these institutional procedures of knowledge production, Ien Ang opens new avenues for understanding television audiences. Her ethnographic perspective on the television audience gives new insights into our television culture, with the audience seen not as an object to be controlled, but as an active social subject, engaging with television in a variety of cultural and creative ways." (Publisher description)
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