"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote
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visual culture. It explores the way in which parts of the world presents themselves within a contemporary space. This exhibition therefore aims at giving the younger generation an edge in the visualization and narration of their understanding of the past through various means of artistic expressions. The expectation is that, these students’ works, created and exhibited from a wide and divergent cultural experience would provide some sort of emotional templates and indicators for the understanding of other cultures." (Introduction, page 5)
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"Media campaigns can potentially reach a large audience at relatively low cost but, to our knowledge, no randomised controlled trials have assessed their effect on a health outcome in a low-income country. We aimed to assess the effect of a radio campaign addressing family behaviours on all-cause po
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st-neonatal under-5 child mortality in rural Burkina Faso [...] A comprehensive radio campaign had no detectable effect on child mortality. Substantial decreases in child mortality were observed in both groups over the intervention period, reducing our ability to detect an effect. This, nevertheless, represents the first randomised controlled trial to show that mass media alone can change healthseeking behaviours." (Summary)
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"The full impact of satellite communication will be realized only when it becomes feasible to spacecast directly into homes, facilitating inexpensive long-distance calls and enabling conferences to be held via telephone and closed-circuit television. Business travel will diminish. Space communicatio
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n, by increasing the flow of information and its speed of availability and by bypassing the editorial process, can produce a less informed, rather than a better informed, public opinion, and may create tension due to hasty decisions. There will be technical problems of frequency allocation, compatibility of standards, and control of programs and legal problems of copyright and protection against commercial exploitation. Major artistic and political events will be viewed world-wide, simultaneously, reducing parochialism and xenophobia. Communication satellites will aid education, especially in developing countries and facilitate interlibrary exchange of information. They should also create a mutual flow of information between the developed and the developing nations. Information from the latter should cover normal developments in the news, not just crisis situations. An appendix lists participants. This document is based upon papers submitted to the UNESCO meeting of experts on the use of space communication by the mass media (Paris, December 6-10, 1965)." (https://eric.ed.gov)
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"The cinema, radio and TV as educational media in modern civilisation - Paul HEIMAN — The useful contribution of research on the educational film - Charles F. HOBAN — Problems of a rational form of television - Henri DIEUZEIDE —
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Some psychological and educational problems raised by educational TV broadcasts - Michel TARDY — General survey of educational TV in the United Kingdom — The use of TV in education in the USSR - A.L. GUELMONT and D.I. POLTORAK — The laboratory - Mabel A.L. SCULTHORP — The teaching machine and the human being - John W. BLYTH." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 628, topic code 520)
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