"Programme d'enseignement de langue on une leçon hebdomadaire diffusée par la télévision servait de base à l'enseignement du français parlé dans quatorze classes élémentaires — Description de l'expérience, et commentaires." (Jean-Marie
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Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2131, topic code 410.321.13)
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"At the beginning of this study the author describes the book trade in various countries. He compares the book production statistics for 60 countries. Then he deals with the following subjects: the present trade barriers, the work done by Unesco in this field, copyright, linguistic problems, literac
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y skills, libraries and exchanges of books. Useful tables and annexes complete this study." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 177, topic code 19)
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"This work reviews all the television services already functioning or still in the planning stage in 45 non-self-governing countries and territories — A general chapter is devoted to a comparati
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ve study of the structure of television services — The part concerning each individual country gives detailed information about the organisation and financing of broadcasts, the technical equipment of the television stations, the nature of the programmes, the size and character of the audience, the production of equipment, the professional training of staff and colour television." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2257, topic code 40)
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"A follow-up, concerned only with newspapers, to the five-volume series 'Press, Film Radio' (1947-51). Consists of 13 graphs and tables, with detailed explanatory texts, and covers the majority of countries and territories throughout the world. Als
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o lists countries where no daily paper was published at that time." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 883)
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"In the present work, the various aspects of news supply are studied from different angles. Chapter I outlines the history of agencies and of the agreements between the world agencies. It also includes a chronological list of agencies of all countr
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ies, which shows the extent to which national agencies have sprung up since 1920. The legal system governing agency operation and the problem of the ownership of news are studied in Chapter II. Chapter III contains reports, as accurate as possible, on the various telegraphic agencies which gather and distribute news in all parts of the world. Chapters IV and V study the relationship between telecommunications and telegraphic news agencies. The development of telecommunications at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century decisively influenced the growth of news agencies; it is therefore necessary to trace the history of telecommunications, to mention the various international agreements governing them, and to refer to their international organization, in so far as these matters affected the news agencies. Chapter VI is devoted to an examination of the use made of news by broadcasting stations and their relations with news agencies. Lastly, Chapter VII studies the most important question of all-how the general public in each country gets its news." (Introduction, page 10)
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"The author describes the use of the epidiascope for showing letters, words and sounds on a screen — In his view it is the best method of educating adults in Africa, since it can be used in a da
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rkened room, which lends courage to timid students, and because it gives the teacher more opportunity for contact with his audience." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2272, topic code 521.2)
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"[...] the “comics” industry has never looked back. Not only do strip cartoons occupy an ever greater pkce in papers for adults, but a specialized press has developed for children, and today it is estimated that every American child reads, on a
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n average, between 10 and 12 comic books’ a week. In every countrg where the media of expression have come to play an important part in daily life, there has been a similar development in the press catering for children. The film and the radio also count children among their most faithful public. It is therefore not surprising that government authorities as well as educators in many countries have become concerned about the influence that press, film and radio can exert on growing minds. At its Fifth Session, in 1950, Unesco’s General Conference adopted a resolution authorizing the Director-General “to collect and disseminate information on the methods used or contemplated in various countries to protect children from the undesirable influence which may be exerted by the press, the radio and the film, and especially to improve children’s newspapers and literature”. For the purpose of this study we have chosen 12 countries that are characteristic of different civilizations-Belgium, France, the German Federal Republic, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Stales and Uruguay [...] It has not been practicable to examine the position of the children’s press in every country, nor has it been possible to study every paper existing in the countries which we have taken as examples. Only those about which we have adequate information arid which seem to us especially typical have been considered." (Preface)
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"The present study contains a certain number of articles on the production and use of visual aids, in particular films made by specialists whose experiences cover very different countries: Egypt, Morocco, West Africa, East Africa, the former Belgia
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n Congo, the Gold Coast, China, India, Malaysia, Papua and New Guinea, Venezuela, Jamaica, etc. — In the introduction the Secretariat of Unesco has attempted to establish a link between the problems and the controversies in order to assist the reader." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2409, topic code 520)
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"The long-term growth in the world demand for newsprint is assured. No one can foretell the rate of expansion or the demand levels likely to be established in ten or twenty years. If the estimates for newsprint consumption given in Chapter V for the medium term are accepted, world demand should at l
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east be 10 million tons by 1955. According to these estimates the regional distribution would be as follows:- North America, 5 millions tons; Europe 3 million tons; Latin America 600,000 tons; Asia 750,000 tons; Russia 300,000 tons; Oceania 250,000 tons; Africa and Near East 150,000 tons. A large speculative element attaches to these estimates, but insofar as they err they are likely to do so on the low side. In particular the conservative assumption made for North America may have to be modified. The significant point is that, on virtually any showing, the demand for newsprint in the medium term is certain to exceed both current world production at 8 million tons and existing world capacity estimated at 9 million tons a year. Full utilisation of idle newsprint capacity amounting to 1 million tons would probably end the present newsprint shortage. But it would be sanguine to expect that every ton of idle plant can, in fact, be used, or that 100 per cent capacity operations can be attained soon. The chances are that by the time production in the under-employed newsprint industries is raised to capacity, demand may also have risen. Although the world shortage of papermaking materials may be less serious than was at one time feared, local shortages are likely to persist, especially in regions where increasing demands for all classes of printing papers, generated by industrialisation, the spread of literacy and the growth in political consciousness, have stimulated the establishment of new pulp and paper industries." (Conclusion, page 110)
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