"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri
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bes steps to be taken in designing and implementing an evaluation. The third part, "evaluation tools", gives a practical insight to major evaluation methods like SWOT analysis, questionnaires (and their design), focus groups or case studies. The fourth and main part provides evaluation guidelines for training courses, newsletters, websites, small libraries and resource centres, online communities, rural radios, databases and selective dissemination of information services." (CAMECO Update 1-2011)
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"This is a book about radio and the relatively new subject of radio studies. In fact, it is the first book to have the words ‘radio studies’ in its title. Radio itself has been the subject of research and writing since it was invented at the beginning of the last century. Much of that published
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work concerns the technical dimension of radio, but there is also a significant body of work on, for example, radio history, on the nature of speech on radio, on radio drama and so on. This body of writing is fairly puny in comparison with the literature on film and television but it is important nonetheless. Turning to the slightly more introspective aspect of this book, the consideration of radio studies itself, the published literature is almost non-existent. Very few writers have turned their attention to the nature of this subdivision of media or communication studies and I hope that what follows will take a step in that direction [...] The concepts chosen here are derived from two sources. The first source is the business of producing radio itself; this includes the genres and styles of programming (the phone-in, news, comedy and so on) and other central ideas and practices of the radio industry (for example the radio format, the audience, radio journalism). These are terms which are used in the radio industry itself and so have a professional currency. The second source for my list comes from writing about radio from within the academic field of media studies, including radio studies. So, for example, the idea that radio is an ‘intimate’ medium is a recurrent theme in the radio studies literature, as is the ‘liveness’ of radio and the idea of the radio DJ’s ‘persona’. These are not terms, however, often used in the radio industry but belong to the critical discourse about the medium which tries to make sense of it from the outside. In addition there are a few concepts here which are not radio specific; the concept of the ‘imagined community’ was not developed with radio in mind but appears in a number of books on the subject. Other examples in this category are public service broadcasting, propaganda and development [...] (Introduction, page 1-2)
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"Ce livre est incontournable pour tout professionnel impliqué dans la production radiophonique, que ce soit dans une radio publique ou au sein d’une radio de proximité. Il présente les techniques opérationnelles pour produire différents formats de programmes : de la conduite d’interviews à
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l'écriture pour la radio, en passant par la présentation des informations, la gestion des débats radiophoniques, la diffusion de feuilletons et documentaires [...] Il est un bon outil pour compléter et perfectionner des compétences acquises sur le tas ou lors de sessions de formations continues. Adapté d’un best-seller anglais pour un public francophone, il offre en outre des références de centres ressources en Europe et en Afrique vers lesquels les journalistes radio pourront obtenir de plus amples informations." (Dos de couverture)
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"Programme Making for Radio offers trainee radio broadcasters and their instructors focused practical guidelines to the professional techniques applied to the making of radio shows, explaining how specific radio programmes are made and the conventions and techniques required to produce them. This bo
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ok describes how and why these methods are applied through the use of a behind-the-scenes glimpse at working practices and procedures used in the industry. It considers the constraints and incentives that limit or stimulate creativity and innovation within programme production. Programme Making for Radio examines the individual roles and responsibilities of the whole production team and the importance of team-working skills. Chapters focus on the specific requirements of specialist programmes and offer advice from a range of programme makers working in local and national broadcasting. There is a case study example that follows the progress of a feature programme from pitching the original idea, through assembling material to final transmission." (Publisher description)
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"This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio continues to provide distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, yet also enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. Ranging from radio
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among the primordial communities to digital broadcasting and the internet, these essays suggest that the benefits and gratifications which radio confers remain unique and irreplaceable in this multi-media age." (Publisher description)
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"Der folgende Text behandelt einige Aspekte der aktuellen Veränderung der Radiokulturen in der Republik Benin. Der Focus der Betrachtung liegt hierbei auf Gebieten, in denen das Radio das wichtigste Massenmedium darstellt. Gerade hier hat die Radiokultur durch die Einführung neuer, unabhängiger R
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adiostationen – meist als assoziative bzw. Gemeinderadios organisiert3 - in den letzten Jahren neue Impulse erfahren. Zunächst werde ich den institutionellen Kontext der Gründung neuer Radiostationen darstellen und anschließend einige Radiostationen vorstellen. Schließlich wird der Frage nachgegangen, inwiefern verschiedene Sendeformen zur Veränderung der Öffentlichkeit im lokalen wie nationalen Rahmen beitragen, und welche spezifischen Genre der Radioproduktion sich derzeit entwickeln. Als wichtigste Akteure in diesem Prozess werden Radiomoderatoren vorgestellt, die neue Formen lokaler medialer Öffentlichkeiten und Radiokultur im Alltag herstellen. Meine Vorgehensweise verläuft zwischen den zwei klassischen Perspektiven einer funktional-strukturellen Analyse (d.h. welche Formen von Öffentlichkeit werden beeinflusst, welche werden gar neu erzeugt; welche Akteure treten dabei in den Vordergrund, wie werden Genre verändert, welche Rolle nehmen sie ein) und einer an Zielgruppen als Teilöffentlichkeiten (Verständnis, Hörgewohnheiten, Reaktionen, Sprachprobleme) orientierten Sichtweise. Radiokultur soll hier verstanden werden als Gesamtheit der Formen bzw. Inhalte von Produktion und Rezeption von Radiosendungen in einem bestimmten öffentlichen Raum. Der Begriff schließt hier die Organisation und institutionelle Gestaltung dieses Mediums im soziokulturellen und politischen Kontext mit ein." (Einleitung)
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