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Building Structures and Skills for Fundraising

Elizabeth W. Wilson

Amsterdam; London: KIT Press, Royal Tropical Institute;Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG) (2001), 202 pp.

"Part one describes the necessary preparations for a fundraising campaign: the role of the leader, the board, volunteers and strategic alliances, and ways to fight fear of fundraising. Part two outlines the practical essentials of an effective comm ... more

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Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria

Wendy Griswold

Princeton, New Jers.: Princeton University Press (2000), 340 pp.

"This is an impressive and innovative study, and perhaps one of the most comprehensive sociological analyses of a literary system ever written. While the book is primarily devoted to an analysis and understanding of the novel in Nigeria, chapter 2: ... more

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Gender-Sensitive Editing

Monde Sifuniso et al. (eds.)

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), 108 pp.

"This excellent manual is intended as a guide for running training courses or workshops for groups of writers, illustrators, editors and others involved in producing popular reading material. Divided into six chapters, the manual takes the reader t ... more

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Film verstehen: Kunst, Technik, Sprache, Geschichte und Theorie des Films und der neuen Medien

James Monaco

Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, überarb. und erw. Neuausg. (2000), 699 pp.

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Rethinking the Media Audience: The New Agenda

Pertti Alasuutari (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (1999), 212 pp.

"The key idea of this book is to argue that a 'third generation' of reception studies and audience ethnography is presently taking shape and will establish itself in the near future. However, the division of the development of reception studies and ... more

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What is Community Radio? A Resource Guide

Lumko Mtimde, Marie-Hélène Bonin, Nkopane Maphiri, Kodjo Nyamaku

Johannesburg; Lusaka: AMARC Africa;Panos Southern Africa (1998), xi, 116 pp.

"This resource guide briefly outlines what it takes to set up a community radio station. Firstly, it gives an overview of the African community radio environment, followed by a definition of commu ... more

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Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News

Bob Franklin (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (1998), xxii, 311 pp.

"The local media - local newspapers and radio, regional television, cable television and local news on the internet - represents a diverse and rapidly-changing sector of the British media landscape. Bringing together media academics, local journali ... more

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Manage by the Moment: A Handbook for Radio Managers

Keith Jackson, Phil Charley

Penang (MY): Southbound (1997), xiv, 213 pp.

"This book has been written from the point of view of a manager working in a radio broadcasting environment. Such managers are busy. Permanently short of time. There are never enough hours in the ... more

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How to Get Published in South Africa: A Guide for Authors

Basil van Rooyen

Halfway House: Southern Book Publishers, 2nd ed. (1996), 254 pp.

"A very useful hands-on type of guide for authors, containing many helpful tips and a great deal of practical advice, and also examining the business of publishing from the publisher’s point of ... more

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Other Worlds, Other Lives: Children's Literature Experiences. Proceedings of the International Conference on Children's Literature, 4-6 April 1995

Myrna Machet, Sandra Olën, Thomas van der Walt (eds.)

Pretoria: UNISA Press (1995), 3 vols.

"A total of 59 papers are brought together in these three volumes, with articles on children’s literature in all parts of the world, including a large number on the topic of children’s literat ... more

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On Printed Matter and Beyond: Media, Orality and Literacy

Kees Epskamp

Den Haag: Centre for the Study of Education in Developing Countries (CESO) (1995), 136 pp.

"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 ... 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) more

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International Experiences in Third World Publishing Development with Particular Reference to World Bank Intervention

Anthony Read

In: Publishing and Development in the Third World

Philip G. Altbach (ed.)

London: Hans Zell Publishers (1992), pp. 307-324

"Examines the involvement of the World Bank and other aid agencies in funding textbook publishing in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The author notes that the fundamental role of books in education was not, however, widely recognized at first, and relatively few early education proje ... more

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Writing for New Readers: A Book on Follow-up Books

H. S. Bhola

Bonn: Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE), revised ed. (1992), 180 pp.

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Nigeria Books Sector Study: Summary Report

Anthony Read

Washington, DC; London: World Bank;Overseas Development Administration (ODA) (1990), 38 pp.

"A report on the state of the book sector commissioned by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education, funded by the World Bank and Overseas Development Administration, and carried out by the British Council and the Book Development Council." (Hans ... more

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Analysis of Research on Textbook Availability and Quality in Developing Countries

B. Paxman, C. Denning, A. Read

London: Book Development Council;World Bank (1989), 31 pp.

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Tanzania: Book Subsector Study, Textbook Section

Mello Itatiro, C. Kaligula, P. Medcalfe, Anthony Read

Washington, DC; London: World Bank;Overseas Development Administration (ODA) (1988), ?? pp.

"The final report of a study of textbook provision in Tanzania, which was part of a wider book sub-sector study financed by ODA and the World Bank. Includes ... more

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A Guide to Textbook Project Design and Preparation

Anthony Read

Washington, DC: World Bank, Education and Training Department. Operations Policy Staff (1986), 163 pp.

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The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam

Daniel C. Hallin

New York: Oxford University Press (1986), 285 pp.

"The 'Uncensored War' gives a richly detailed account of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam. Hallin draws on the complete body of the New York Times coverage from 1961 to 1965, ... more

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Roads to Reading

Ralph C. Staiger

Paris: UNESCO (1979), 141 pp.

"The present publication is an attempt to report on various practical methods adopted throughout the world to promote and develop the reading habit among those literate populations that read little or nothing at all. The countries surveyed represen ... more

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Asian Journalism: A Selected Bibliography of Sources on Journalism in China and Southeast Asia

Elliott S. Parker, Emelia M. Parker (comps.)

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow (1979), xii, 472 pp.

"This bibliography attempts to open an additional area of research to scholars interested in the years of Asian journalism prior to about 1960. The bibliography is eclectic and its' scope ambiguous. It is addressed to the researcher in journalism who has little background in the Asian area and littl ... more