"This book is a contribution to efforts to improve governance systems around the world, particularly in developing countries. It offers a range of innovative approaches and techniques for dealing with the most important nontechnical challenges that prevent many of those efforts from being successful
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or sustainable. By so doing, the book sets out the groundwork for governance reform initiatives. Its overarching argument is that the development community is not lacking the tools needed for technical solutions to governance challenges. The toolbox is overflowing; best practice manuals in various areas of interest tumble out of seminars and workshops. However, difficulties arise when attempts are made to apply what are often excellent technical solutions under real-world conditions. Human beings, acting either alone or in groups small and large, are not as amenable as are pure numbers. And they cannot be put aside. In other words, in the real world, reforms will not succeed, and they will certainly not be sustained, without the correct alignment of citizens, stakeholders, and voice." (Introduction, page 1)
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"Examining the communications media and its relationship to political change in Southeast Asia, this study endeavours to provide both a regional comparative analysis and an interpretation of the mass communication media in the wake of 9/11." (Publisher description)
"Seit Beginn der demokratischen Transformation 1993 begann ein Liberalisierungskurs des kambodschanischen Mediensystems. Viele neue Medienunternehmen entstanden. Trotz dieser positiven Entwicklung, lassen sich zahlreiche Defizite feststellen. Die Medien sind im Besitz der Regierung, die Inhalte werd
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en kontrolliert und die Journalisten sind nicht ausreichend qualifiziert. Diese Defizite werden die nächsten Jahre aufhören. Ein großer Schritt in Richtung demokratisches System ist nicht zu erwarten. Einleitend zeigt dieser Artikel die Struktur des Medien Systems von Kambodscha. Er ist Grundlage für die nächsten Artikel. Die nächsten Artikel analysieren, in welcher Hinsicht die Massenmedien den Khmer-Rouge-Prozess unterstützen. 15 Studenten beantworteten diese Frage aus unterschiedlicher Sicht. So kommen die politischen Akteure, die Medienunternehmen und die Rezipienten in den Fokus. Die Studenten werden zeigen, ob Massenmedien zur Akzeptanz des Khmer-Rouge-Prozesses beitragen. Rouge-Prozesses beitragen." (Zusammenfassung)
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"This book explores people's everyday experience of the media in Asian countries in confrontation with huge social change and transition and the need to understand this phenomenon as it intersects with the media. It argues for the centrality of the media to Asian transformations in the era of global
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ization. The profusion of the media today, with new imaginations, new choices and contradictions, generates a critical condition for reflexivity engaging everyday people to have a resource for the learning of self, culture and society in a new light. Media culture is creating new connections, new desires and threats, and the identities of people are being reworked at individual, national, regional and global levels. Within historically specific social conditions and contexts of the everyday, the chapters seek to provide a diversity of experiences and understandings of the place of the media in different Asian locations. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia." (Publisher description)
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"The media has a crucial role to play in any HIV and AIDS program and is a central actor in disseminating accurate information as well as shaping community attitudes towards those most affected. Over the past two years, the media has played an active role in “destigmatizing” the virus and helpin
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g to reduce discrimination against those affected. To prevent a resurgence in HIV infection, the media’s partnership with government ministries and agencies now needs to be strengthened. We must ensure that recent lessons are not forgotten, especially among the hundreds of thousands of young people entering the workforce each year." (Foreword)
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"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese
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arch, Communication and Evangelization, and Social Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia. The 230-page volume also gives some analyses on the communication dimension of the Asian Synod (1998) and the related document "Ecclesia in Asia." The new edition also contains articles on Communication Theology, Communication Spirituality and reports on two special OSC initiatives on the academic level: the Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication based at St. John's University (Bangkok), and the Program on Pastoral/ Social Communication at the Graduate School and Theological Faculty of the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (Manila)." (Publisher description)
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"Internews Network, a U.S.-based organization that for more than two decades has trained journalists around the world, in 2002 received funding from the United States Agency for International Development to launch a project in Africa to help media improve their coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cal
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led “Local Voices,” the project expanded to Ethiopia in 2005 and India in 2006. In 2004, Internews Europe started a similar project in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia, “Turnaround Time,” with funds from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. That project evolved to do trainings in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. This report evaluates Local Voices and Turnaround Time and aims to help strengthen the continuing training programs [...] Both projects had a similar, overarching goal: To increase the quality and quantity of HIV/AIDS coverage, improving the environment for prevention, treatment and care. Although we have no way of assessing whether the projects had an impact on a societal level, over 1000 journalists went through carefully designed workshops, subsequently printing or broadcasting more than 5600 HIV/AIDS-related stories that Internews mentors often helped produce. Journalists clearly benefited from the trainings at each site, and many praised the program for fundamentally altering how they approach their jobs." (Executive summary)
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"While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and nation building. This book explores, for the first time, this relationship by means of a paradigmatic case of successful nation building
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: Malaysia. Based on extended fieldwork and historical research, the author follows the diffusion, adoption, and social uses of media among the Iban of Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo and demonstrates the wide-ranging process of nation building that has accompanied the Iban adoption of radio, clocks, print media, and television. In less than four decades, Iban longhouses ('villages under one roof') have become media organizations shaped by the official ideology of Malaysia, a country hastily formed in 1963 by conjoining four disparate territories." (Publisher description)
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"Mit den ersten freien Wahlen im Jahr 1993 trat Kambodscha nach Jahren der Unterdrückung und des Krieges ein schwieriges Erbe an. Mitte der 90er Jahre vollzogen sich gleichzeitig drei Prozesse: die Friedenskonsolidierung, die Industrialisierung und die Demokratisierung. Welche Rolle Massenmedien be
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i diesen Entwicklungen einnehmen, ob sie diese hemmen oder beflügeln, ob Medien in ihrer Arbeit behindert oder ihnen freien Lauf gelassen wird, dies zeigt die vorliegende Analyse anhand des kambodschanischen Beispiels. Kambodscha entpuppt sich hierbei als komplexer Sonderfall, der aufgrund der zeitlich parallel ablaufenden Prozesse aufschlussreiche Ergebnisse erwarten lässt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a
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variety of venues and media around the world. Readers will learn, for example, of oral history based efforts to reclaim community memory in post-apartheid Cape Town, South Africa; of the role of personal testimony in changing public understanding of Japanese American history in the American West; of oral history's value in mapping heritage sites important to Australia's Aboriginal population; and of the way an oral history project with homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio became a tool for popular education. Taken together, these original essays link the well established practice of oral history to the burgeoning field of memory studies." (Publisher description)
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