"This collection of eighteen essays of uneven richness underserved by an overly thin two-page introduction brings together some of the best known names in Development Communication in an attempt to understand African aspirations, experiences, challenges and the place of communication in development.
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Coming at this stage in a debate that has generated much conventional and critical scholarship, one would have expected the editors to aim at much more than simply providing space for contributors to offer "a fillip and not necessarily a panacea for development" (Page x). The "desirable and useful" (Page x) approaches the book explores would certainly have served their purpose better, within a framework of the need to critically rethink conventional scholarly assumptions about communication and development, especially in relation to Africa [...] Nonetheless, a good number of the contributions competently discuss competing perspectives on development communication (e.g. Pye, Servaes, Jacobson), drawing attention to how practices on and in Africa have tended to impair or enhance the participatory and emancipatory potential of development communication. Some focus closely on communication technologies and their applications (e.g., de Beer, Melkote and Steeves, Eribo), advocating strategies and approaches informed by varying degrees of faith in the capacity of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to transform individuals and societies in the name of development. Most of the book makes a strong, even if not always substantiated or negotiated, case for the importance of "indigenous African cultures," if media and communication practices are to adequately serve and service African thirsts for development (Asante, Mazrui and Okigbo, Okigbo, Hachten, Stevenson, Amienyi, Akhahenda, Moemeka, Singhal et al., Okumu, Nganje and Blake). A conscious effort to engage similar debates in anthropology and cultural studies for example, could have yielded further insights." (https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10843)
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"This is a study both of measures taken by the South African government to control its mass media and of the efforts of its journalists and others to express their views and resist those restreints," (introduction). The authors examine the conflict
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between government and press in a social, economic, and political context derived from forces rooted deeply in history, showing the depth of hostility and describing in detail the various organizations used by government to influence opinion and to censor. One chapter is devoted to "The Afrikaans Press, Freedom within Commitment." The two authors draw upon different backgrounds - Hachten, a specialist on mass communications in Africa and Giffard, a South African journalist now at the University of Washington." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 165)
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"This book describes and analyzes the dramatically altered role of today's transnational news media in the technetronic age," says Hatchen, who probes how the current clashes and disputes over international communication between the West, the Socialist nations, and the Third World affect transnation
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al journalism and mass communication. Chapters include "Communication for an Interdependent World," "International News System," "Communication Satellites and New Technology," "Internationalizing the World's News Media," "Clashing Ideologies: Five Concepts of the Press, " "Western Perspective on World News," "Third World Views of News Flow," and "Moving Together or Further Apart?" Bibliography and Index. A new edition was published in 1987." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 166)
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"540 briefly annotated titles on different aspects of mass communication." (commbox)
"Examination of the news media - newspapers, radio, television, magazines - in contemporary Africa, focusing on them as institutions, and describing their establishment, their effectiveness, and their relations with the government. Emphasis is on news and public information rather than cultural and
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educational roles." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 164)
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"This edition of the review is entirely devoted to the press, radio and television overseas — Although the documents presented essentially concern East Africa and the references are almost entirely to English-speaking countries, the work as a who
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le constitutes a valuable contribution to knowledge about the press and communication media in Africa." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1786, topic code 070)
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"The communication media in the Ivory Coast (a former French colony) are dominated by the President in an authoritarian tradition — There is only one daily and the radio is still the main source of information for the majority of the people." (Je
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an-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 976, topic code 110.1, 110.32)
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"The strongly liberal elements of the government of Kenya mean that the regime combines the characteristics of a ‘democracy’ and a ‘dictatorship’. The case of Kenya is an interesting one a
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s regards the development of the communication media: Kenya has communication media but no public to use the media and to form a public opinion. The problems facing Kenya (poverty and illiteracy) make it impossible to study the actual situation regarding the freedom of the press at present." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 977, topic code 110.1, 110.32)
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"Beginning with this issue, the [Journalism] Quarterly is combining the U.S. and foreign bibliographies which heretofore have appeared seapartely. Since the annotations give a brief summary of each article, we believe that the combined form will se
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rve to make research studies from all over the world, in whatever language, accessible to a larger number of readers." (Page 119)
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