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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.

"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more

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The CNN Effect: The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention

Piers Robinson

London and New York: Routledge (2002), xi, 177 pp.

"The CNN Effect examines the relationship between the state and its media, and considers the role played by the news reporting in a series of 'humanitarian' interventions in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda. Piers Robinson challenges traditional views of media subservience and argues that sy ... more

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Radio & Public Deliberation

Brett Davidson

Dayton (OH): Kettering Foundation (2002), 40 pp.

"Brett Davidson makes a convincing case for radio being the most hospitable media environment for retaining the human characteristics of public deliberation. In South Africa, for example, radio reaches far more people in their own languages than other media do. Moreover, radio can broadcast live, � ... more

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Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power

Monroe E. Price

Cambridge: MIT Press (2002), 317 pp.

Preparing for Battle: American news organizations lag behind some of their European counterparts when it comes to providing survival training and drafting safety guidelines for war correspondents. A group of journalists is pushing to narrow the gap

Sherry Ricchiardi

American Journalism Review, volume 24, issue 6 (2002), pp. 39-43

"The notion of survival skills and safety guidelines has been slow to catch on with top media managers in the United States. In Europe, the BBC, ITN and Reuters mandate training for foreign correspondents. It has taken an era of international terrorism to spark a stronger push on the home front." (A ... more

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Media and Migration: Ethnicity and Transculturality in the Media Age

Nord-Süd Aktuell (Hamburg), volume 15, issue 4 (2002), pp. 563-767

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Communication strategies for smoking cessation: A review of the scientific literature on the subject

Christoph Kröger, Kathrin Heppekausen, Karin Ebenhoch

Cologne: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2002), 124 pp.

"The following questions will be examined: Which methods of communication (mass communication, Internet, personal communication) promise effective communication with smokers? Which messages (contents) promise effective communication with smokers? Which multipliers promise effective communication wit ... more

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Kommunikationsstrategien zur Raucherentwöhnung: Ein Überblick über die Wissenschaftliche Literatur zu diesem Thema

Christoph Kröger, Kathrin Heppekausen, Karin Ebenhoch

Köln: Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) (2002), 124 pp.

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La campaña global: Los nuevos gurúes del marketing político en acción

Fritz Plasser, Gunda Plasser

Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2002), 413 pp.

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Film: An International Bibliography

Malte Hagener, Michael Töteberg

Stuttgart: Metzler (2002), 479 pp.

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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)

Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.

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Public Information Campaigns & Opinion Research: A Handbook for the Student & Practitioner

Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Andrea Römmele (eds.)

London et al.: Sage (2002), xiv, 193 pp.

"This handbook draws on multidisciplinary insights and the experiences of academics and campaign practitioners to provide a comprehensive guide and introduction to planning, implementing and measuring public information and communication campaigns. It outlines the basic theoretical approaches and pr ... more

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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain

Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin (eds.)

Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.

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Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements

John D. H. Downing

Tamara V. Ford; Genève Gil; Laura Stein (contrib.)

London et al.: Sage, 2nd, compl. revised ed. (2002), 426 pp.

"This is an entirely new edition of the author’s 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should be ... more

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Fundamentals of Media Effects

Jennings Bryant, Susan Thompson

Boston, Mass.: McGraw-Hill (2002), xix, 395 pp.

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Community Theatre: Global Perspectives

Eugène Van Erven

London; New York: Routledge (2001), xiii, 269 pp.

"This is a book about an inter-continental community theatre project. It is an attempt to gain a better understanding of this increasingly popular cultural practice that operates on the cutting edge between performing arts and sociocultural intervention. The main emphasis in this book, and in the ac ... more

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Schlüsselwerke für die Kommunikationswissenschaft

Christina Holtz-Bacha, Arnulf Kutsch (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (2001), 480 pp.

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Ukraine Media Assessment and Program Recommendations

Dennis M. Chandler, Daniel De Luce, Elizabeth Tucker

Washington, DC: Management Systems International (MSI) (2001), iv, 56, 68 pp.

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Voices of Courage: A Collection of International Stories and Experiences

Angela Ann Zukowski, Frances Forde Plude (ed.)

Brussels: UNDA (2001), 287 pp.

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Lessons for the Media from Foreign Aid: Journalists in Newly Democratic Countries Must Chart Their Own Course

John Maxwell Hamilton

In: Reporting the Post-Communist Revolution

Robert Glies; Robert W. Snyder; Lisa De Lisle (eds.)

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers (2001), pp. 111-120

"Foreign aid has continually searched for true north and never found it. In the beginning, development experts concentrated on national economic growth, believing the benefits would trickle down to poor people. Free press systems benefit American journalists and their institutions directly. Because ... more

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