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USAID/OTI Afghanistan Program: Final Evaluation

Social Impact Inc.

Washington, DC: USAID (2005), 91 pp.

"The purpose of the final evaluation was to provide the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) and the U.S. Agency for International Development with an assessment of the relevance, effectiveness, and lessons learned from OTI’s mega-program in Afghanistan. Since evaluations of the media program ha ... more

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Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change

Charles A. Riley

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (2005), xviii, 258 pp.

"In the past decade, the mass media discovered disability. Spurred by the box-office appeal of superstars such as the late Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, Stephen Hawking, and others, and given momentum by the success of Oscar-winning movies, popular television shows, best-selling books, and prof ... itable websites, major media corporations have reversed their earlier course of hiding disability, bringing it instead to center stage. Yet depictions of disability have remained largely unchanged since the 1920s. Focusing almost exclusively on the medical aspect of injury or illness, the disability profile in fact and fiction leads inevitably to an inspiring moment of “overcoming.” According to Riley, this cliché plays well with a general audience, but such narratives, driven by prejudice and pity, highlight the importance of “fixing” the disability and rendering the “sufferer” as normal as possible. These stories are deeply offensive to persons with disabilities. Equally important, misguided coverage has adverse effects on crucial aspects of public policy, such as employment, social services, and health care. Powerful and influential, the media is complicit in this distortion of disability issues that has proven to be a factor in the economic and social repression of one in five Americans. Newspapers and magazines continue to consign disability stories to the “back of the book” health or human-interest sections, using offensive language that has long been proscribed by activists. Filmmakers compound the problem by featuring angry misfits or poignant heroes of melodramas that pair love and redemption. Publishers churn out self-help titles and memoirs that milk the disability theme for pathos. As Riley points out, all branches of the media are guilty of the same crude distillation of the story to serve their own, usually fiscal, ends. Riley’s lively inside investigation illuminates the extent of the problem while pinpointing how writers, editors, directors, producers, filmmakers, advertisers and the executives who give their marching orders go wrong, or occasionally get it right. Through a close analysis of the technical means of representation, in conjunction with the commentary of leading voices in the disability community, Riley guides future coverage to a more fair and accurate way of putting the disability story on screen or paper. He argues that with the “discovery” by Madison Avenue that the disabled community is a major consumer niche, the economic rationale for more sophisticated coverage is at hand. It is time, says Riley, to cut through the accumulated stereotypes and find an adequate vocabulary that will finally represent the disability community in all its vibrant and fascinating diversity." (Publisher description) more

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Wer beherrscht die Medien? Die 50 größten Medienkonzerne der Welt: Jahrbuch 2005

Lutz Hachmeister, Günther Rager

München: Beck (2005), 348 pp.

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Le droit d'informer: Le rôle des médias dans le développement économique

Banque Mondiale

Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2005), 406 pp.

"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut ... more

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The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church

Shane Hipps

Grand Rapids: Zondervan (2005), 176 pp.

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Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change

Jim Downs (ed.)

New York; Abingdon: Routledge (2005), 191 pp.

"This volume grew out of the Why We Write conference held at Columbia University in the spring of 2003. The conference was the second part of a series of conferences organized by graduate students in the history department that explored issues related to history, social change, and the politics of w ... more

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Media Coverage and Foreign Assistance: The Effects of US Media Coverage on the Distribution of US Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Recipient Countries

John S. Kim

Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2005), 45 pp.

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Praxishandbuch Fernsehen: Wie TV-Sender arbeiten

Jörg Schütte, Eric Karstens

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2005), 439 pp.

"Die aktualisierte und überarbeitete Neuausgabe dieses 1999 erstmals erschienenen Standardwerks entschlüsselt das komplexe System hinter den Bildschirmen und stellt dabei den Zusammenhang zwischen den verschiedenen Arbeits- und Themenbereichen innerhalb eines Senders her. Das "Praxishandbuch Ferns ... more

Dangerous assignment

Sherry Ricchiardi

American Journalism Review, volume 27, issue 6 (2005), pp. 44-51

"Iraq has proven to be a particularly hazardous posting for journalists. More media workers have been killed there than during the two-decades-long war in Vietnam. And 15 have died at the hands of American forces." (Introduction)

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Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles

Robert A. Hackett, Yuezhi Zhao (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2005), 328 pp.

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Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas About Religion and Culture

Claire Hoertz Badaracco (ed.)

Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press (2005), xv, 317 pp.

"Each of the eleven chapters in Quoting God pairs an academic and a journalist. First, the scholar holds forth, followed by a "View from the News Desk." Together, they represent many and diverse voices. Badaracco's book shows the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture, recognizing ... more

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The Al Jazeera Phenomenon: Critical Perspectives on New Arab Media

Mohamed Zayani (ed.)

London: Pluto Press (2005), 233 pp.

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Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies

Kevin Howley

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005), xiii, 309 pp.

"This groundbreaking study of community media, first published in 2005, combines original research with comparative and theoretical analysis in an engaging and accessible style. Kevin Howley explores the different ways in which local communities come to make use of various technologies such as radio ... more

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Embedded journalists in the Iraq war: Are they at greater psychological risk?

Anthony Feinstein, Dawn Nicolson

Journal of Traumatic Stress, volume 18, issue 2 (2005), pp. 129-132

"The current war in Iraq saw an alliance between the media and the military, a process called embedded journalism. The aim of this study was to explore whether this process affected the journalists' vulnerability to psychological distress. Eighty-five of 100 journalists approached agreed to particip ... more

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"All Successful Democracies Need Freedom of Speech": American Efforts to Create a Vibrant Free Press in Iraq and Afghanistan

David Rohde

[Cambridge, Mass.]: Joan Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2005), 35 pp.

"This paper will examine American efforts to create a vibrant free press in Iraq and Afghanistan. A $200 million project in Iraq was the largest attempt ever by the United States, or any country, to help create independent media in another nation. Run by the Pentagon, it was a near total failure in ... more

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Shooting the Family: Transnational Media and Intercultural Values

Patricia Pisters, Wim Staat (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2005), 224 pp.

"In Shooting the Family, twelve authors investigate the transfigured role of the family in a transnational world in which intercultural values are negotiated through mass media like film and television, as well as through particularistic media like home movies and videos. "Shooting the Family" has a ... more

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Ethnic Minorities, Electronic Media, and the Public Sphere: A Comparative Study

Donald R. Browne

Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press (2005), 255 pp.

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The Media and Peace: From Vietnam to the "War on Terror"

Graham Spencer

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2005), 212 pp.

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"Unsere Opfer zählen nicht": Die Dritte Welt im Zweiten Weltkrieg

Birgit Morgenrath, Karl Rössel (eds.)

Berlin; Hamburg: Assoziation A;Rheinisches JournalistInnenbüro;Recherche International (2005), 444 pp.

"Im Oktober 1935 marschierten italienische Truppen in Äthiopien ein, um das afrikanische Land brutal zu unterwerfen; Ende 1937 begingen Soldaten des mit Deutschland verbündeten Japan ein Massaker im chinesischen Nanking. Diese imperialen Exzesse waren für viele Afrikaner und Asiaten mehr als nur ... more

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Media Anthropology

Eric W. Rothenbuhler, Mihai Coman (eds.)

Thousand Oaks: Sage (2005), 350 pp.

"Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide ... more