"This report investigates the impact media and ICTs can have on the lives of the poor, based on the experiences of nine donors and NGOs forming part of the "Building Communication Opportunities (BCO)" alliance. It suggests that radio will have the most influence on social and political change where
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it is widely accessible, trusted by listeners, and open to inclusive participation. ICTs can help make markets work for the poor, but the surrounding circumstances are highly influential in determining in how far they make a difference. Communication networks appear to be particularly effective in building communities of activists where they enable the pooling of resources and expertise and leverage wider influence on decision-makers. However, the report concludes that evidence of the impact of ICTs is still weak. More debate is needed about how ICTs are best deployed. This requires learning how people really use the tools, as well as a more effective assessment of past and current experiences." (CAMECO Update 1-2009)
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"This study explores perceptions of freedom of the press by those who practice it: journalists and media organizations. References to freedom of the press in codes of ethics worldwide were analyzed according to the respective characteristics of organizations and the political-economic status of each
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country considered. The findings show that the concern journalists express about their freedom is not necessarily related to with the level of freedom of the press prevailing in their respective countries. Moreover, the codes of developing countries primarily display concern about the most fundamental freedoms of all." (Abstract)
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"The heart of the book is a detailed, year-by-year account of the shortwave bands in each year from 1945 to 2008. It reviews what American listeners were hearing on the international and domestic shortwave bands, describes the arrivals and departures of stations, and recounts important events. The b
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ook describes the several categories of broadcasters - international, domestic, private, religious, clandestine and pirate. It explains the impact of relay stations, frequency management, and jamming. It also addresses the considerable changes in shortwave broadcasting since the end of the Cold War." (Publisher description)
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"Das Filmschaffen aus Lateinamerika, Afrika und Asien hat in den letzten Jahren viel von sich reden gemacht. Aus den Kontinenten des Südens und Ostens gelangten bei uns einige der innovativsten, persönlichsten und anregendsten Filme in die Kinos. Einen massgeblichen Anteil an ihrer Vermittlung hat
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trigon-film, eine Schweizer Institution, die sich seit 1988 um die sorgfältige Edition herausragender Werke kümmert. Im reich bebilderten Lese- und Schaubuch WELT IN SICHT betrachtet der Filmpublizist Walter Ruggle ausgewählte Perlen aus zwanzig Jahren trigon-film und lädt uns ein zu einer Reise durch die unterschiedlichsten Filmkulturen der Welt. Zu den betrachteten Filmen gehören: El viaje, Historias minimas, Whisky, Madeinusa, La vida es silbar, Daratt, TGV, Congo River, Yeelen, Les silences du palais, Bab’Aziz, Intervention divine, Yi Yi, Nobody Knows, Bodhi Dharma, Be With Me, Russian Ark, Grbavica oder Lagaan. Aufgelockert sind die Texte zu einzelnen Filmen mit aussagekräftigen Bildern, exquisiten Zitaten und vertiefenden Gesprächen mit Filmschaffenden wie Nacer Khemir (Tunesien), Fernando Solanas (Argentinien), Chen Kaige (China), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (Indien), Yasmila Zbanic (Bosnien und Herzegowina), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauretaninen), Imunga Ivanga (Gabun), Clara Law (Hongkong), Rithy Panh (Kambodscha) und Nikita Michalkow (Russland). Sie alle stehen für andere Dimensionen des Kinos und für Filme, die es in sich haben." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Im Fazit lassen sich zwei Befunde festhalten: Erstens erweist sich die Medienkonzentration weiterhin als zentrale Bewegungsenergie für die Internationalisierung der Massenmedien. Sie wird nicht nur im klassischen Medienbereich von Fernsehen, Radio und Printmedien vorangetrieben, sondern erfährt e
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ine Parallele auch in den neuen internetbasierten Netzwerken – jedenfalls in deren gewinnorientierten Sektoren. Die grenzüberschreitende Medienkonzentration findet ihre Grenzen in aller Regel erst dann, wenn sie im Destinationsland von Investitionen erneut gegen nationale Wettbewerbsregeln verstößt. Gleichzeitig führt die internationale Medienkonzentration zur Betonung der Kapitallogik in den Destinationsländern und zu einer Lockerung jener Rechenschaft, zu der Medienunternehmen der Gesellschaft und dem politisch-demokratischen Gefüge gegenüber verpflichtet sind, in dem sie tätig sind. Das Überschreiten von ethischen und journalistischen Grenzen in den Medien der Destinationsländer, die in den Medien der Herkunftsländer eines Konzerns verbindlich gelten, illustriert diesen Befund. Zweitens erfährt die regionale und nationale Sprachraumebene, die weiterhin das relevante Spielfeld für Massenmedien darstellt, durch die Internationalisierung einen Verlust an kommunikativer Autonomie. Müssen Entscheidungen nachvollzogen werden, die von Konzernzentralen in anderen Ländern und aus einem anderen politisch-demokratischen Normenkontext getroffen werden, so führt dies zu einem Verlust an Entscheidungsautonomie und zu entsprechenden Konsequenzen für die politische und gesellschaftliche Kommunikation." (Fazit, Seite 147)
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"In Debates in Peace Journalism, Jake Lynch traces the major controversies in this emerging field - philosophical, pedagogical and professional - and links his own contributions to them with important new material. The book is intended for those wishing to immerse themselves in the main conceptual c
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urrents of peace journalism, and to navigate their own path around some of its rocks and shoals." (Publisher description)
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"This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Internet on media and mediated content industries. It explores and discusses the changes this emergent communications platform is engendering for the media and content industries and the implications of those changes. Its contents are d
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rawn from the findings of a five-year EU sponsored research initiative, the 'Cost A20 Programme on the Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media'. Its authors include Europe's leading scholars in the field. The book's standpoint is simultaneously multi-lens, interdisciplinary, and cross-national. By approaching a common topic and single industry from a number of different theoretical and geographical standpoints it provides rich and comprehensive insights and thus equips scholars, policymakers, media practitioners, and social observers with a strong explanatory and interpretive overview of how the Internet has affected the media. The chapters look at the impact of the Internet on technology, platforms and innovation, content, users, and media organisations' strategies, structures and business models." (Publisher description)
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"Part I presents general categories for thinking about the intersection between religion and film, as well as an argument for an emerging line of theoretical inquiry. The chapters in Part II examine the use of film in teaching religious traditions, whether movies are seen from the critical perspecti
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ve of particular religious traditions or are used to teach the traditions themselves. Part III focuses on the use of film in the religious studies classroom, where religion or theories of religion are more generally addressed. Part IV considers the promise and challenge of using films to teach critical perspectives on fundamental human values, whether films are seen as vehicles for bringing stories into the classroom or as powerful indicators of a culture's core values." (Publisher description)
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"This paper aims to be 'an analytical tool designed to help stakeholders assess the state of the media and measure the impact of media development programmes' (page 7). It has been prepared to define indicators of media development in line with the priority areas of the International Programme for t
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he Development of Communications (IPDC). It suggests five major categories of indicators, and each category is broken down into a number of component issues and sources of verification. The five categories are: a system of regulation and control conductive to freedom of expression; plurality and diversity of media; media as a platform for democratic discourse; professional capacity building and supportive institutions; and infrastructural capacity." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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