"Les médias sont certes une des vitrines d'accès à la formation citoyenne puisque l'information devrait fournir la matière première permettant aux citoyens d'exercer en démocratie leur rôle de manière éclairée. Il ne suffit pas seulement de pratiquer les médias mais il faut aussi, surtout
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, et d'abord les connaître. C'est à cette double exigence que tente de répondre le présent manuel. Pour ce faire, le manuel est subdivisé en trois sections dont les deux premières offrent suffisamment de matière permettant d'accéder à une large connaissance des médias et d'inciter à une réflexion critique quant à la portée des moyens d'information et de communication dans un processus de démocratisation. L'effort de théorisation et de conceptualisation que susciteront chez l'élève les deux premières sections de ce manuel précède une troisième section consacrée à l'acquisition de savoir-faire permettant une initiation à chacune des étapes de réalisation d'un journal. L'accent mis dans ce cas-ci sur la presse en général et le journal en particulier pourrait éventuellement servir de repère pour de futures expériences d'apprentissage dans d'autres domaines médiatiques, comme par exemple la radio, la télévision ou l'Internet. Le lien est ainsi trouvé entre la connaissance générale des médias et la pratique concrète d'appropriation du média qu'est le journal. Le souci de cette articulation logique entre ces connaissances théoriques et pratiques permet ainsi de faciliter la réalisation de l'objectif global du projet, étant entendu que la formation d'un esprit critique est un préalable à l'exercice rationnel et efficace de la citoyenneté et qui plus est d'une plus grande démocratisation de l'espace médiatique. Mais avant de revenir en détails sur les objectifs généraux et spécifiques de chacune des fiches contenues dans ce manuel, il nous paraît important de jeter un regard sur le contexte, mondial d'abord, et sénégalais ensuite, de l'évolution de l'espace médiatique, afin d'y trouver des éléments d'argumentation en faveur de l'idée du projet d'introduction de l'éducation des médias dans le cadre scolaire." (Introduction générale, page 13)
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"Hasty decodes the styles and uncovers the strategies that characterize Ghana's major printed news media, focusing on the differences between news generated by the state and news that comes from private sources. Not only are the angles radically different, but so are ways of gathering the news, assi
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gning beats, using sources, and writing articles. For all its differences in presentation, however, Hasty shows that the news in Ghana projects a unified voice that is the result of a contentious and multifarious process that joins Ghanaians in global, national, and local debates. An important engagement with the production of news and news media, this book also explores questions about the relationship of popular culture to state politics, the expression of civic culture, and the role of the media in constituting national and cultural identities." (Publisher description)
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"Only a handful of the estimated 150 FM radio stations in Mali could properly be called ‘community’ stations, with administrative structures to ensure representative listener participation in decision-making. However, due to regulations and scarce funding sources, virtually all stations depend o
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n their audiences for direct financial support in return for mediated listener-to-listener communications. This article, based on over a year and a half of fieldwork in the southern Malian city of Koutiala, outlines the system of social and technical interdependence that links stations and their listeners in Mali. FM radio depends fundamentally on systems of transportation, and, to a lesser degree, other communication technologies like telephones. Social interdependence is emphasized in the speech of announcers, through an insistence on Islam as a common religion and fictive joking relationships. Referencing the operational structures of the stations in the city, including one community station, I show that a socio-technical system has developed in which local FM blurs standard understandings of ‘community’ media." (Abstract)
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"This article addresses the interface of video-films and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. This interface, it is argued, needs to be examined from a position that transcends the confines of film studies and religious studies and leaves behind a secularist perspective on the relationship
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between religion and film. On the basis of detailed ethnographic research, it is shown that, far from standing apart from the realm of religious beliefs, video-films call upon audiovisual technologies so as to remediate Pentecostal views of the invisible world around which Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity evolves. Video-films invoke a “techno-religious realism” that addresses spectators in such a way that they authorize video representations as authentic. Transcending facile oppositions of technology and belief, media and authenticity, and entertainment and religion, video-films are shown to achieve immediacy and authenticity not at the expense of, but thanks to, media technologies and practices of remediation." (Abstract)
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"This collection of essays was published to honour Chief Aigboje Higo on his 70th birthday. Higo, by many considered to be the doyen of Nigerian book publishing, was a founding father and two-time president of the Nigerian Publishers Association, and for many years Managing Director and later Chairm
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an of Heinemann Educational Publishers (Nigeria) plc. The 15 contributions that are brought together in this Festschrift include essays by many prominent members of the African book professions, including Bodunde Bankole, Henry Chakava, Ayo Odeniyi, the late Victor Nwankwo, as well as Keith Sambrook, a former director of Heinemann's in the UK, whose chapter recounts the story of his visit to Nigeria in 1964 when he and the late Alan Hill (then Chair of Heinemann's) met up with Aig Higo and asked him to join HEB and take charge of their business in Nigeria and West Africa. There are also papers on the economics of publishing, training for book industry personnel, and Bodunde Bankole presents an interesting account of the history and development of the Nigerian Publishers Association and its collaboration with international book trade organizations to provide more visibility for Nigerian book publishing output. A flawed index apart, this is a valuable source of information on the development of publishing and the book trade in Nigeria, and also provides useful overviews of publishing practise in the country." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 755)
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"Cette étude dresse l’état des lieux des actions de formation menées depuis 15 ans en Côte d’Ivoire et fait le bilan des résultats. L’auteur en détaille les contenus pédagogiques, les dispositifs et les critères de sélection des journalistes et médias bénéficiaires des séminaires
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de formation. Au terme de l’analyse, il adresse des recommandations pour une mise en oeuvre plus efficace et mieux ciblée des actions de formation en faveur des journalistes en Côte d’Ivoire." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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