"There are considerable regional variations in media exposure across and within African countries. Take access to daily radio news bulletins, which is higher in Southern Africa (except Lesotho) than in West Africa: whereas 71 percent of South Africans listen to radio news daily, only 44 percent of N
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igerians and 41 percent of Ghanaians do so (see Figure 3). Moreover, while radio listening is widespread, other media are used mainly in urban areas: town dwellers are four times more likely than rural residents to read a daily newspaper (23 percent versus 6 percent) and five times more likely to watch television every day (44 versus 8 percent). As such, urban news consumers have a wider choice of news sources than their country cousins, who tend to rely mainly on government-controlled national radio broadcasts." (Page 3)
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"The SADC Protocol on Culture, Information and Sport is undoubtedly a very bold step by governments in the region to harmonise their laws and policies in ways that would promote media freedom and create enabling conditions for the free flow of information. However, some provisions of the protocol re
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nege on the same noble ideas the governments seek to advance. The protocol raises two major concerns, which are: the accreditation of journalists and the introduction of a code of ethics. Instead of leaving the journalism profession to regulate itself, the protocol hints at governments playing a hand in the regulation of media and journalists. Legislated regulation of the media has a very negative effect on media freedom. The region has already witnessed several attempts to have journalists licensed and registered which led ultimately to closure of newspapers and the arrest and criminalizing of journalists for working without a registration. Any attempt, therefore, to have the registration and code of ethics dictated or regulated by the government is an affront to media freedom. Journalists should be free to set up self-regulatory structures without interference from government. Accreditation should be done by journalists’ bodies and should be recognized by government structures." (Preface)
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"In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing volume of moral rules, netiq
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uettes and codes of conduct, but they are of little help in solving the moral dilemmas raised by the new technologies. In this book the author analyzes the inadeqacies of current global governance policies and structures that underpin them, and argues for standards which put justice, human security and freedom first." (Publisher description)
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"Die Arbeit untersucht auf der Basis zweier Forschungsaufenthalte in Pakistan (Oktober-Dezember 1995) und im Iran (April bis Juni 1996) Grundsatzfragen der Kommunikationsentwicklung in den beiden Ländern und erfasst insbesondere Existenz und Rolle zweier strukturierter Kommunikationsebenen - tradit
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ionelle Kommunikation und moderne Massenmedien. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungen im Iran lag in den Inhalten der modernen Massenmedien (Rundfunk, Fernsehen) aus Sicht der Medienproduzenten, während sich die Forschung in Pakistan auf die traditionellen und modernen Kommunikationssysteme aus Sicht der Rezipienten konzentrierte." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Communicating Democracy presents the first comprehensive comparative investigation of the role of the media in the move toward democracy in developing and post-communist countries. Recognizing the central role of an independent press in the formulation of stable democracies, Patrick H. O'Neil and a
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team of area and country specialists explore the particular cultural, economic, and political conditions that have shaped the media in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. The authors examine how the print and electronic media function in societies that have recently made the move toward democracy--whether successfully or not. They pay particular attention to the role of the media in political life prior to transition; the impact of an authoritarian legacy on media structures after the move toward democracy; the problems in developing an independent media; and issues involving content, objectivity, and bias." (Publisher description)
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"Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Arbeit Offener Kanäle in Deutschland. Es gibt Basisinformationen über die Organisation der Sender und informiert über bereits realisierte Projekte. Die Offenen Kanäle spielen demnach besonders in den Bereichen medienpädagogische Arbeit, politische Bildung un
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d soziale Integration eine wichtige Rolle in Deutschland." (commbox)
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"Diese Veröffentlichung umfasst einen Vergleich der Meinungs-, Presse- und Informationsfreiheit in 169 Staaten der Welt. Dem normativen Teil liegt eine systematische Dokumentation von Verfassungstexten und anderen Rechtsquellen zugrunde, dem empirischen eine Fallsammlung von Verstößen gegen die K
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ommunikationsfreiheiten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"La réaction nationale et internationale vis-à-vis d'un projet de loi sur la presse a obligé le gouvernement à y renoncer." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1466, topic code 110.31)
"Study of communist infiltration — Argentina and Peru — Progress in the campaign against the restrictions on the freedom of the press — The sad case of Cuba — Agitation in Venezuela — Misunderstandings between the United States and certain Latin American countries." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Ab
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delfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 345, topic code 172)
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