"Gaus plädiert - ganz einfach und ganz konsequent - für soliden Journalismus: gründliche Recherche und eine eigene Meinung. Als Korrespondetin hat sie selbst aus Somalia und Ruanda berichtet und greift an vielen Stellen auf diese Erfahrungen zurück. Das trägt mit dazu bei, dass ihr ein ungewöh
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nlich ehrliches Buch (bis hin zur Selbstkritik und zum Eingeständnis von Ratlosigkeit) über eine eitle Branche gelungen ist. Mit professioneller Bestimmtheit mahnt Bettina Gaus eine kontinuierliche sachkundige Berichterstattung aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten an, 'die auch im Gedächtnis haftet'. Gelegentliches Trommelfeuer und anschließend langes Schweigen, wie in vielen Medien üblich, folge nur der Kurzatmigkeit der Politik." (Renate Wilke-Launer in "der überblick", 1/2005, Seite 95-96)
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"This book is the first one in English about the famous community radio stations operated in Bolivia by the miners’ trade unions. Since about 1950, there has been a network of more than twenty radios all locally funded and operated. This book focuses on the most heroic period of their existence du
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ring the twenty-five years from about 1960 to 1985. This unique experience of local media is described through the voices of Latin American communication researchers and political activists. The chapters are selected and translated by Alan O’Connor who published the first scholarly article in English on the Bolivian miners’ radios. This book also gives readers an introduction to the methods and concerns of Latin American communication researchers. This work includes overview written by Bolivian communication researchers who first brought the miners’ radios to the attention of researchers on participatory media. These pioneering articles struggle to fit the unruly miners’ radios into the concepts of debates about global communications. They stress what is unique about the Bolivian experience and the successes, problems and lack of resources of the radio stations. The book also includes moving testimonies by participants in the radio stations. An historic transcript from a live broadcast shows how the radios connect up during times of political crisis in an attempt to organize resistance to a military coup. With the decline of the Bolivian mining industry since 1985 many of the radio stations no longer exist. The book documents attempts to rescue at least some of the stations and continue their work into the present." (Publisher description)
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"The children’s participatory process is an exciting and key component of the Empowering Children & Media (ECM) project, which aims to improve the representation of children and children’s rights in the news media. The report focuses exclusively on the methodology used for the children’s parti
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cipatory workshops. The information in this report may be useful for organisations and individuals who plan to promote children’s participation in their research, policies and interventions. Children’s opinions and contributions are valuable and must be accessed on issues that affect them. This report illustrates both the necessity and the benefits of children’s participation." (Back cover)
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"Das Kinderfernsehen in Deutschland verzichtet in seinen Sendungen weitgehend auf Religion und religiöse Inhalte. David Biesinger beurteilt diesen Mangel aus der Perspektive der Zuschauer, also der Kinder, und klärt, welche Auswirkungen dies auf den Sozialisationsprozess und das religiöse Lernen
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hat. Er spricht sich deutlich für eine vermehrte Präsenz religiöser Inhalte im Kinderfernsehen aus und zeigt Entwicklungsperspektiven für das Kinderfernsehen auf. Selbst Theologe und Journalist, stößt Biesinger einen Dialog zwischen Religionspädagogik und Kinderfernsehen an, der bislang kaum geführt worden ist." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The Task Force research initiative has resulted in the most comprehensive study on cultural diversity and the media ever undertaken, anywhere, that will serve as a major source of information for future research. Interview subjects generally concluded that some advances have been made regarding the
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presence of cultural diversity on television in the past decade, but there is still a great deal of progress required. Many provided suggestions for improvement, such as the increased use of internships and the development of a database of actors, directors, producers and experts from Canada’s ethnocultural and Aboriginal communities. The Task Force initiated a round of consultations with interview subjects to discuss Recommended Best Practices and Industry Initiatives in April 2004. Focus groups provided a broad range of strong opinions and perspectives on the issue of cultural diversity and television. Several areas of concern were highlighted by focus group participants across the country: the persistence of stereotyping; too many instances of negative or inaccurate portrayal; underrepresentation of many groups; unbalanced or negative portrayal on newscasts; and a serious absence of Aboriginal representation on television. The benchmark content analysis substantiated many concerns raised within the focus groups, and provided a very rich assessment of exactly how cultural diversity is reflected and portrayed on television." (Executive summary)
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"Diese Untersuchung kommt zu dem Schluss, dass der Umfang der westlichen Förderung der Transformationsprozesse in der Ukraine seit 1991 nicht unerheblich war. Doch leiden sowohl die nichtstaatlichen als auch staatlichen Programme an konzeptionellen und organisatorischen Mängeln. Nachholbedarf best
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eht insbesondere bei der organisationenübergreifenden Dokumentation, Koordination und Evaluation der Implementierung verschiedener nationaler und internationaler Hilfsmaßnahmen. Bezüglich der Kooperation vieler in Kyiv vertretener westlicher Organisationen sind zwar eine ganze Reihe mehr oder minder etablierter Partnerschaften und Kommunikationskanäle – insbesondere zwischen einigen großen Förderinstitutionen, wie der Weltbank, der European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), den verschiedenen UNO-Programmen und der United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – auszumachen; letztere Agentur schätzte 2002 sogar ein, dass „die Koordination der Förderer in der Ukraine exzellent [ist]“.1 Die hiesige Untersuchung jedoch ergibt, dass das Potenzial an sinnvoller Zusammenarbeit zwischen themen- und zielverwandten, staatlichen und nichtstaatlichen, anglophonen und nichtanglophonen Programmen bei weitem nicht ausgeschöpft ist." (Einleitung, Seite 5)
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"El presente trabajo marca un hito importante en la comunicación para el desarrollo ya que es producto de un equipo de comunicadores indígenas guaraníes quienes han encontrado en la comunicación una manera para servir a su pueblo. Por primera vez los miembros de una organización indígena, anal
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izan y sistematizan su experiencia de uso de medios y mensajes de comunicación basada en la participación, en la valoración de formas propias de organización y de saberes locales, junto a una nueva capacidad técnica para promover procesos de comunicación desde y para las comunidades guaraníes. Este proceso ha sido acompañado por un proyecto de comunicación para el desarrollo de la FAO que trabajó en América Latina del 1993 al 1997. En Bolivia dicho proyecto se concentró en capacitar personal nacional y fortalecer iniciativas de participación y desarrollo promovidas por instituciones y por las mismas organizaciones campesinas e indígenas. El éxito de esta estrategia puede ser constatado en el caso de la Unidad de Comunicación Guaraní (UCG), ya que a seis años de haber finalizado el proyecto, la UCG sigue trabajando en comunicación para el desarrollo manteniendo el mismo enfoque y compromiso hacia las comunidades más pobres y marginadas." (Página vii)
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"Save the Children Sweden has had a Hotline website in place for more than four years, receiving more than 22,000 tips about child pornography on the Web. The importance of such a channel and the importance of international co-operation are spelled out in the following report. Save the Children Swed
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en believe that public hotlines should be run and managed by the police; in any case, the function itself has been proved invaluable. If the same conclusion is reached in other countries, it is important to see that the national police are aware of this and are supported in any way possible." (Preface)
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"This study, ‘Media Operations during SALW Control Interventions’ attempts to encapsulate best practices for dealing with mass media outlets when implementing SALW [Small arms and light weapons] control projects. It draws on a number of communication and media operation’s studies, but draws it
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s major lessons from case studies of communication during SALW control programmes conducted in South East Europe from 2001 to 2003. The first section of this report sets out the principles for effective media work during SALW control interventions, and offers useful tools for applying them. The case studies from which the principles are derived have been included in Section Two. They summarise the experiences of project staff that have worked with the media during the recent micro-disarmament interventions in the region." (Page 1)
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"Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen: Der erste Teil besteht aus einer theoretischen Einführung in die politische und gesellschaftliche Situation Kambodschas, einer Darstellung des Pressewesens und technischen Entwicklung des asiatischen Königreiches. Er soll dem besseren Verstän
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dnis des zweiten, des empirischen Teils dienen. Dieser besteht aus der Erarbeitung eines Konzepts einer lokalen Zeitung. Ziel des Konzepts ist es, kambodschanische Verleger und Journalisten dabei zu unterstützen, in eigener Verantwortung eine lokale Zeitung aufzubauen; es soll Ideen und Anregungen geben, wie unter der gegenwärtigen politischen und sozialen Lage eine lokale Zeitung bestehen kann." (Einleitung)
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"This study proposes four focus areas for support to the media in these provinces including: Strengthening the Media Environment; Developing Professional Skills and Resources; Facilitating Information Flows and Access; Supporting Community-based Communication." (Recommendations, page 50)
"Conceptually, there are three stages in the promotion of a right to information regime: pre-legislation stage; during drafting stage; and post-legislation stage. Civil society in India has played a role in all the three stages. Accordingly, this paper examines how civil society has 1. brought about
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a conceptual shift in the debate on right to information; 2. used public hearing as a mode of mobilizing people to demand transparency and accountability; 3. used several methods of social audit to promote transparency and accountability; 4. exerted pressure, through networking, on government for a legislation on right to information; 5. supplied drafts of possible legislation and flagged gaps in the legislation once it was passed; 6. used state-level legislation, created awareness about it, prepared people to use it and officials to implement it. This paper concentrates on the role of civil society in promoting the concept of social audit through four methods: public hearings, report cards, budget information, and social audit under «panchayati raj». Social audit is a way of measuring, understanding, reporting and ultimately improving an organization’s social and ethical performance." (Executive summary, page 3)
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