"Welches Bild konstruieren die drei ecuadorianischen Tageszeitungen El Universo, El Comercio und Hoy von der EU? Welches sind die häufigsten Themen in Zusammenhang mit der Europäischen Union und welche Aspekte der EU-Berichterstattung könnten noch verbessert werden? Die EU wird in Ecuador als Vor
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bild für eigene Staatengemeinschaften, andererseits als protektionistischer Verbund gesehen. Nach einem Überblick über die EU-Bilderforschung in Europa, die Einstellungsforschung und die Nachrichtenwerttheorie werden die großen überregionalen Tageszeitungen Ecuadors auf ihre Darstellung inhaltsanalytisch und mit Expertenbefragungen von Journalisten untersucht. Bislang die einzige deutsche Arbeit, die sich mit dem EU-Bild in Lateinamerika beschäftigt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"[...] This setting directly underscores the challenge Latin America confronts as the most unequal continent on earth. It also reinforces the regional news media’s critical role in monitoring government action and fostering debate on public policies aimed at guaranteeing and promoting the rights o
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f children. This publication is designed to assist the media on these two fronts. The pages below are based on a study conducted by the Brazilian News Agency for Children’s Rights (Agência de Notícias dos Direitos da Infância – ANDI) and the member agencies of the ANDI Latin America Network (Rede ANDI América Latina) of the news media’s coverage in 12 countries from 2005 to 2007. A total of 795,000 stories were reviewed covering a diversity of topics related to the rights and quality of life of the youngest age groups. The results point to progress, particularly in the number of published articles, a development that is both promising and reveals, in relation to the previous survey, a growing interest on the part of the media in issues connected to the social agenda. At the same time, the analysis indicates the need to foster a more pluralistic and contextualized approach through more indepth consideration of the phenomena affecting children and of the proposed solutions to the challenges confronting them." (Introduction)
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"This paper is the continuation of my previous PhD research, Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil, which was published by Lexington Books (March 2008), and is an investigation of the role of the mainstream media in Brazil and in Latin America in the re-democratization phase following the end
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of the dictatorship in the mid-80’s. Comparing Media Systems is a comparative research analysis which aims to be an initial examination of the state of the public media structures in Europe in contrast to the strengthening of the public media platform in emerging democracies like Brazil, and seeks to investigate how public communications can still have a role in enhancing cultural and educational levels as well as promoting wider social and political inclusion. It aims to assess the ways in which such an initiative can contribute to the fortification of spaces for debate and the further construction of a complex communication system that can attend to multiple and diverse publics in Latin America. In the context of decline of the PSB tradition in the UK due to digitalisation and market expansionism, this project focuses on the ways in which the public media - attached to a revised understanding of the role that the public sphere ideal can still have in the 21st century - can contribute to deepen media democratisation in the region. These nations have a weak public sector and are seeking to fortify multiple public spheres in order to expand citizens’ information rights, creating the means for cultural emancipation and providing less privileged groups access to quality information and debate." (Abstract)
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"Conocer los vínculos empresariales que unen al agronegocio con los medios de comunicación es fundamental para comprender la lógica de penetración y consolidación del modelo agroexportador en Paraguay. Éstos, por un lado, pueden deberse a intereses comunes propios del sector empresarial, que i
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ncluye a los medios de comunicación y, por otro lado, a la total fusión de empresas agrícolas y mediáticas que se da en algunos grupos empresariales. A continuación se describirán las relaciones entre los principales actores de estos sectores." (Página 87)
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"O trabalho visa apresentar e analisar a perspectiva da comunicação e da nova evangelização dentro da Igreja Católica, a partir do cenário da religião no Brasil e no mundo pós-moderno. O foco recai sobre a Renovação Carismática Católica e, mais especificamente, sobre a Comunidade Cançã
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o Nova e seu Sistema de Comunicação, de forma a mostrar o papel essencial da área comunicacional na Igreja e na Comunidade. O estudo se vale de documentos do Vaticano, declarações oficiais de membros da Igreja e, no caso da Canção Nova, principalmente de seu portal na Internet, ponto de conexão de todas as media da Comunidade." (Resumo)
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"Evaluation data gathered between 1975 and 2000 demonstrated that Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) had improved learning outcomes in conventional classrooms by between 10% and 20% when compared with control classrooms not using IRI. These programs often had relatively well-funded evaluation compo
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nents, often taught a single subject, and focused almost entirely on improving quality. This study focuses on the use of IRI in more taxing circumstances and the outcomes it achieved as well as children learning in conventional school settings. It looks at the use of radio to teach children who are not in school, who are affected by conflict, who are orphans, who live in countries where most social systems have broken down or never existed – the poorest, least supported and most remote learners to whom access to education has traditionally been denied. It also looks at IRI operating in systems of huge scale, such as the 20+ million learners in India. The projects documented in this study were largely carried out since 2000 (although reference is made to earlier projects also) and addressed early childhood education, mathematics and language instruction and teacher training. They were not research projects, and their circumstances challenged data collection and student testing. Nevertheless, the data demonstrate that these IRI programs have had a positive impact on learning outcomes and on the behavior of teachers. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) delivers daily 30-minute radio broadcasts that promote active learning and are designed to improve educational quality and teaching practices in schools and to deliver a complete basic education to learners not in school. This paper uses student assessment data collected on recent EDC IRI projects to determine the impact of IRI on student achievement and to highlight general patterns that emerged from the review. In all, 15 projects provided 37 records (grade-year combinations e.g. grade 1 in 2007) containing student learning data which served as the basis of this report." (Executive summary)
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"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving
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them. The role of radio, video and audio recordings to carry stories to larger audiences is explored. By raising expectations and challenging assumptions, use of these media can be catalysts that accelerate other processes of change." (Publisher description)
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"En 2008 las noticias relacionadas con la niñez y la adolescencia disminuyeron cerca de un 15% en relación al año anterior. El tema más tratado continuó siendo Educación en el marco de la extensa y polémica aprobación de la Ley General de Educación en el Parlamento nacional. El cambio más
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significativo respecto a 2007 fue la aparición de los asuntos de Violencia en el segundo lugar del ranking de los temas más tratados, y la pérdida de presencia en un 35% de los asuntos de Salud en el total de la cobertura, relegada en este período al tercer lugar. Un orden de interés que asemeja los periódicos uruguayos a la mayoría de los medios de la región monitoreados por las agencias de la Red ANDI América Latina, de los cuales se habían diferenciado con el destaque en el período anterior de los asuntos de la Sanidad Humana por sobre los de la Violencia. Se mantuvo la tendencia mostrada en 2007 acerca de la concentración de la atención de la prensa en pocos temas, ya que apenas siete asuntos acumulan alrededor del 80% de las notas publicadas." (Resumen ejecutivo, página 7)
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"Durante el siglo XIX se desarrollaron en Argentina distintos proyectos periodísticos. La prensa fue trinchera de opinión política, provisión de imágenes para una sociedad en transformación, representación de intereses particulares y de culturas regionales. En el año 2007 la Biblioteca Nacio
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nal realizó un concurso de becas de investigación, bajo el nombre "Mariano Moreno", para proyectos orientados al estudio de colecciones de publicaciones periódicas. De las investigaciones seleccionadas y realizadas se publican tres en este libro. Se trata de trabajos de investigación en el sentido más profundo de la palabra. Se reconoce en ellos la travesía por los periódicos y las revistas, se percibe el tono del que fuerza sus ojos en la atención de papeles antiguos, junto con la alegría del que reconoce un hallazgo inesperado en su objeto." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Os conglomerados de comunicação social no Brasil são o retrato acabado de um sistema territorialmente capilarizado e institucionalmente centralizado. A análise do panorama dos meios de comunicação no Brasil, baseada na plataforma digital do Projeto Donos da Mídia, revelou que a influência d
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ireta ou indireta das 54 redes de rádio e televisão controladas pelos por esses conglomerados atinge mais de 25% dos 9.477 veículos de comunicação identificados pelo projeto. Algumas destas organizações encabeçam um sistema marcado por cinco condicionantes: tripla concentração econômica (diagonal, vertical e horizontal), controle das redes de distribuição, penetração regional, presença histórica e relações políticas. Ao mesmo tempo, suas empresas atuam simultaneamente em quatro dimensões: econômica, política, histórica e simbólica. Quando reunidas, as duas características configuram um modelo a que se propõe chamar de Sistema Central de Mídia. Esta dissertação permitiu a identificação de dez conglomerados que ocupam tal posição. Eles controlam, direta ou indiretamente, 12 redes de televisão, 9 de rádio e 1.310 veículos de comunicação, 14% da base identificada pela pesquisa. Conhecer a forma de organização que permite às empresas de mídia conquistar e manter posições no mercado nacional parece interessar especialmente no momento em que a convergência tecnológica vem reduzindo as distâncias entre os agentes da área das comunicações do Brasil e do exterior." (Resumo)
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"Esta guía realizada en conjunto por Periodismo Social, Poder Ciudadano, Asociación por los Derechos Civiles, se propone como una herramienta indispensable para los profesionales que deben enfrentarse diariamente con políticos y funcionarios públicos en los distintos momentos de la vida democrá
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tica: campaña – gestión- rendición de cuentas. Se trata de una herramienta de consulta gratuita en la que se acercan instrumentos claves como fuentes y pautas para el mejoramiento de la cobertura de temas vitales y cotidianos pero poco o superficialmente tratados. En muchas ocasiones los periodistas suelen ser manipulados por parte de los gobernantes y terminan siendo funcionales a las necesidades y objetivos de promoción de los mismos en lugar de cumplir con su papel de informar con precisión a la opinión pública. Por lo tanto, este cuadernillo tiene como objetivo de máxima fortalecer la institucionalidad democrática al intentar transparentar los actos de gobierno por medio de las armas del periodismo tradicional: investigación, seriedad y cumplir con el mandato del derecho a la información pública." (Introducción, página 7)
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