mediadev library

Filter

449

Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guidance

Josh Woodard

USAID;FHI 360 (2012), xiv, 196 pp.

"Using low-Cost videos within your agricultural development project can be an effective way for increasing the scale of your activities by leveraging the expertise of local experts and farmers for a broader audience. Since the videos may be created ... more

External Link (13)

Who’s Running the Company? A Guide to Reporting on Corporate Governance

Washington, DC: International Finance Corporation (IFC);International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2012), 72 pp.

"This guide is designed for reporters and editors who already have some experience covering business and finance. The goal is to help journalists develop stories that examine how a company is governed, and spot events that may have serious conseque ... more

Download (1)

Cameroon

Enoh Tanjong

Dakar; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA);Open Society Foundations;Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2012), xi, 88 pp.

"The report on public broadcasting in Cameroon, observes that the country although has a strong track record of media liberalization since the dawn of the millennium, but despite its more than 80 radio and five national television stations challeng ... more

External Link (13)

Creating Killer Facts and Graphics

Oxfam (2012), 4 pp.

"‘Killer facts’ are those punchy, memorable, headline-grabbing statistics that make reports special. They cut through the technicalities to fire people up about changing the world. They are picked up and repeated endlessly by the media and politicians. They are known as ‘killer’ facts becaus ... more

Download (0)

Understanding and Evaluating Theories of Change

In: Evaluating Peacebuilding Activities in Settings of Conflict and Fragility: Improving Learning for Results

Paris: OECD (2012), pp. 80-86

"Aid work in relation to conflict and peace is often based on approaches, strategies and tactics that are rooted in theories of change (understandings about why particular inputs or activities are expected to achieve intended results [outputs, outcomes and impacts]) that are unstated or ill-defined. ... more

External Link (3)

Developing countries in the e-learning era

Christian Depover, François Orivel

Paris: UNESCO;International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (2012), 97 pp.

"In addition to reducing geographical isolation,distance education, thanks to its more favourable cost structure, allows the monitoring of social and economic remoteness.It may thus have much to offer for developing countries. Digital technologies not only bring remote populations closer, they also ... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (11)

What it Means to Work Toward "Excellence" in African Journalism Education

Guy Berger

In: Journalism Education, Training and Employment

Bob Franklin; Donica Mensing (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2011), pp. 33-47

"This chapter sets out the history, process, and experience of an attempt to identify potential centers of excellence in journalism education in Africa. The methodology drew from journalism education systems in the United States, the United Kingdom and a ... more

Download (0)

Names U Ma Puce: Multilingual Texting in Senegal

Kristin Vold Lexander

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2011), 16 pp.

"Multilingualism is an important aspect of African urban life, also of the lives of students in Dakar. While the students usually write monolingual texts, mainly in French, their text messages involve the use of African languages too, in particular ... more

Download (1)

From the Field: Co-Producing the Memory. Cinema Production Between Europe and the Middle East

Irit Neidhardt

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 1, issue 1 (2011), 13 pp.

"The media intervention programs and training initiatives for Arabs reflect hegemonies and dependencies. Taking into consideration the absence of a public cinema infrastructure in the Arab World and thus the lack of institutional representation or ... backing for film-makers leads one to question to what degree the director can control her/his story. Or in other words, to what extent the films, which are read as national works, can reflect debates or atmospheres in their country of origin at all? The decoding of films, not only from the Middle East, is in many cases national, as the case of Paradise Now showed. Critics’ reactions to Waltz with Bashir suggest that the reading of the film is connected to the actual political experience within the region versus political assumptions about it, a rather regional reading. An aspect entirely missing in the Western decoding process of films from the Middle East is the question who was involved in the encoding. The critics, who translate the film to the wider audience, focus on the films’ subjects or manipulations, rather than on the economic and institutional backing of the creation and thus interests behind it. After completing the film it is solely the director who has to defend the work as a statement from and about her/his country. Regardless of formal ownership and the involvement of co-producing states these films are marketed as documents from and about the country in which the story takes place. The majority of co-productions by directors from the Middle East, like the majority of films produced at all, get little attention. It is the films with international recognition, be it by box office numbers or debates that are remembered. One could easily assume that Paradise Now will become part of a Palestinian collective memory. Yet, without physical archives in the Arab countries, and Palestine not even being a state, how long will the co-produced movies be accessible as part of cultural heritage? In French and German archives the film rolls will be stored and made accessible, it is in Europe where Arabs will still have to look for their cultural memory in the distant future." (Conclusion, page 11-12) more

Download (0)

The "Fourth Estate" in Democracy Assistance: Practices and Challenges of German and International Media Development Cooperation. 6th Symposium Forum Media and Development

Christoph Dietz, Julia Steffenfauseweh, Angelika Mendes (eds.)

St. Augustin; Berlin; Aachen: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2011), 69 pp.

"The first part of this publication provides insight into the media development practices and policy frameworks of France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom while the second part deals with different issues and projects, such as the role of media for social transformation in Africa and coordina ... more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Ethical Issues in International Communication

Alexander G. Nikolaev (ed.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xii, 277 pp.

"A collection of essays from scholars around the globe examining the ethical issues and problems associated with some of the major areas within contemporary international communication: journalism, PR, marketing communication, and political rhetori ... more

External Link (7)

Covering Trauma: A Training Guide

Jina Moore

Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2011), 20 pp.

"All stories about an ordinary person who becomes the victim of abuse require extra sensitivity, because survivors of abuse – whether the abuse is physical, emotional or political – are usually survivors of a traumatic event. There are many kin ... more

External Link (10)

Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability

Steven Livingston

Washington, DC: National Defense University Press (2011), iii, 57 pp.

"Linked by mobile telephony and supported by geographical information systems, civil society networks now have unprecedented opportunities to develop security-monitoring programs, provide information needed for effective health care, create banking services, and provide farmers with market informati ... more

Download (2)

Monitoring Self-Effectiveness: A Manual to Strengthen Outcome and Impact Oriented Project Management

Eberhard Gohl, Bernward Causemann, Verena Brenner

Bonn: Association of German Development NGOs (VENRO) (2011), 86 pp.

Download (2)

Responsible Media Coverage of Elections: A Training Guide

Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2011), 26 pp.

The guide includes details about media synergy strategies in which journalists from different media organisations of a country collaborate and network with each other at different stages in the electoral process to ensure responsible and effective ... more

External Link (9)

Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists

Mark Lee Hunter

Paris: UNESCO (2011), 87 pp.

"This manual provides a guide to basic methods and techniques of investigative journalism, and it consciously fills a gap in the literature of the profession. The majority of investigative manuals ... more

Download (0)

Investigative Journalism Manual

Gwen Ansell et al.

Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR);WITS University;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 220 pp.

"These first chapters form the core of what is planned as a growing guide to investigative journalism over the next two years. To begin, we have assembled the basics: definitions of the field and some key techniques and resources. We will add to th ... more

Download (0)

Manual de jornalismo de investigação

Gwen Ansell et al.

Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR);WITS University;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 180 pp.

"On trouvera également une introduction qui replace le journalisme d’investigation dans le contexte de la tradition du journalisme professionnel en Afrique, une section consacrée à la manière d’utiliser les manuels dont le but est de fourni ... more

Download (2)

Impact Evaluation in Practice

Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, Christel M. J. Vermeersch

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xvi, 244 pp.

"This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. Although the book is geared principally toward development practitioners and policy makers, we trust that it will be a valuable resource ... more

Download (0)

Digital Publishing in Developing Countries
Top Insights

Octavio Kulesz

Paris: International Alliance of Independent Publishers (2011), 155 pp.

"Is it conceivable that there may be an autonomous evolution of digital publications in developing countries, entirely independent of the richest nations? What support policies could be implemented to promote the growth of this new industry and accompany traditional actors in the process of adapting ... more

Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners Key Guidance

Digital Publishing in Developing Countries Top Insights

Integrating Low-Cost Video Into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
Key Guidance

Digital Publishing in Developing Countries
Top Insights