"Soul Buddyz, an initiative of the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (IHDC), in partnership with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), is a multi-media intervention targeting children aged 8 to 14 in South Africa. The intervention is focused on the promotion o
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f children’s wellbeing through the provision of health information and skills to lead healthy lives, especially those which relate to HIV and AIDS and sexuality. Components of the intervention include a television drama, Soul Buddyz Television; a radio intervention, Soul Buddyz Radio consisting of drama, and interactive talk between children and adults; and a Lifeskills Booklet for Grade 7. In addition, there is a face-to-face intervention Soul Buddyz Clubs, implemented in primary schools in collaboration with the Department of Education. A reality television programme, Buddyz on the Move which showcases Soul Buddyz Club activities. Complementary materials and messaging for parents and care-givers of children are also part of the intervention. This report presents an independent evaluation of Soul Buddyz conducted in 2006. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 1500 children aged 8-15 across the country, in a nationally representative sample [...] Some 82% of children in the 8-15 age group reported having watched Soul Buddyz TV. Some 63% reported having watched Buddyz on the Move. Soul Buddyz radio achieved lower reach with 32% of children in the 8-15 year age group reporting having listened to the programme on radio, although this is still substantial, given that fewer children listen to radio. Around 45% of children have heard of Soul Buddyz Clubs, while 6% of children reported ever being members. The Grade 7 Lifeskills Booklet, designed to be a user-friendly information and activity resource for Grade 7 learners in South Africa, was reportedly used by close 50% of children in the target age group. Soul Buddyz appears to appeal to both boys and girls with no significant differences in reach. Reach of Soul Buddyz is good in both rural and urban areas, but higher among urban children." (Executive summary)
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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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"In South Africa, the professional status of editors remains largely undefined. In certain industries, such as the publishing industry, editing is regarded as a professional activity, requiring well-defined, high-level skills linked to particular qualifications and experience. In other sectors, edit
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ing is regarded as an activity that can be done by anyone with an aptitude for languages. At present, editors in South Africa do not need to obtain any form of professional accreditation in order to practice legally. The South African Translators' Institute (SATI) does offer the option of accreditation in editing, but this is in no way enforceable. This article addresses issues surrounding the professionalization of editing in South Africa. In particular, it reports on an attitudinal survey done among editors, which aimed to gauge editors' perceptions and feelings about matters relating to skills, training, professionalization and accreditation. The article also considers the professionalization and accreditation processes for editors in Australia and Canada, and makes some suggestions for possible approaches to the professionalzsation of the editing professions in South Africa." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2558)
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"Welche Faktoren für die Produktion eines afrikanischen Films in Namibia nötig sind, wird in der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit analysiert. Gegenstand ist die Darstellung der Filmwirtschaft Namibias mit all ihren Aspekten, Vor- und Nachteilen. Sehr konkret wird die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre und des
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Status Quos beleuchtet. Dazu gehört zum Beispiel die Ausbildungssituation für Filmschaffende, die Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten für namibische Filmprojekte und die reale Chance einer publikumswirksamen Auswertung des fertigen Films. Neben diesen nationalen Fragen wird das internationale und deutsche Interesse beleuchtet. "Deutschland und Hollywood treffen sich in Namibia", warum ist das so? Abschließend werden in der Arbeit einige Zukunftsprognosen skizziert." (Zusammenfassung)
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"Stealing Empire poses the question, "What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?" Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments abou
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t copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licenses, and develops a politically incisive analysis of counterdiscourses produced by South African hip-hop artists. From empire stealing through their commodification of countercultures to the stealing empire activities of file-sharers, culture jammers and hip-hop activists, this book tells the story of people defining themselves as active, creative agents in a consumerist society." (Publisher description)
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"The experience of citizen involvement in public policy advocacy around the world has shown that the status quo tends to prevail unless political will to implement change is strengthened by active citizen participation. A “Global Information Society Watch” is needed to make governments and inter
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national organisations accountable. This publication, the first in a series of reports covering the state of the information society on an annual basis, focuses on the theme of participation. The report has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of ICT policy at the local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; and strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. It discusses the WSIS process and a range of international institutions, regulatory agencies and monitoring instruments from the perspective of civil society and stakeholders in the global South. Alongside this discussion, we present a series of country reports which examine issues of access and participation within a variety of national contexts." (Introduction)
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"The symposium Measuring Change. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation in Media Development focused on the utilisation aspect of evaluation1: The adding of “Planning” to “Monitoring and Evaluation” in the subtitle indicates that emphasis was laid on learning from monitoring and evaluation experie
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nces, to facilitate the improvement of existing projects and programmes at all levels, from planning to implementation and follow-up." (Executive Summary)
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"This handbook is intended to be a desk reference for small, independent and community media organisations, equipping journalists with the following tools: enable small independent and community media to counter growing media censorship in South Africa, and to ensure that these media are aware of th
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eir rights and how to protect and enforce them; provide user-friendly information about the current state of the law of defamation, and to provide checklists to see whether particular reports are defamatory; provide useful information about what to do if particular reports do attract threats or legal action; ensure that a working knowledge of media freedom issues is also built up at paralegal and advice office level, so that legal capacity is built to support grassroots media; inform such media about the other laws in existence that affect their ability to report; ensure that journalists are appraised of their rights around source protection, so that they are not pressurized to reveal confidential sources; appraise these media of the complexity of the questions around the use of journalists as witnesses; encourage these media to become freedom of expression advocates, and to appraise them of the avenues available to lobby on specific freedom of expression issues." (Summary)
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"HEARTLINES is an innovative programme developed by The Mass Media Project in South Africa. The intervention’s purpose is to address South Africa’s social issues, such as HIV and AIDS, crime, violence and the breakdown of family and social structures. HEARTLINES is unique in its approach in that
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it addresses these issues through values – the primary aim of the intervention is to promote reflection on people’s value systems and how these values are lived out in daily life. Over 85% of South Africans adhere to religious beliefs which have clear moral ideals and principles. One explicit strategy of HEARTLINES is to build on this already established authority of religious and spiritual beliefs. Using the authority of FBOs and religious faith, the Mass Media Project aims to promote values, to encourage people to live out their values more fully, and provide tools for this purpose. This evaluation is focused on the first stage of the HEARTLINES intervention. This included two main initiatives, namely, the national broadcast of 8 HEARTLINES films or dramas, with supporting print and below-the-line media components and secondly, the start of social mobilisation of faith-based organisations, where FBOs were provided with relevant tools to teach values and encouraged to undertake discussion-based activities. This first stage of HEARTLINES was evaluated using scientifically rigorous evaluation methods. During the 8 weeks of broadcast, an estimated 26% of the adult population, or 7.3 million adults watched one or more of the HEARTLINES films on television." (Executive summary)
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"Visual anthropology has proved to offer fruitful methods of research and representation to applied projects of social intervention. Through a series of case studies based on applied visual anthropological work in a range of contexts (health and medicine, tourism and heritage, social development, co
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nflict and disaster relief, community filmmaking and empowerment, and industry) this volume examines both the range contexts in which applied visual anthropology is engaged, and the methodological and theoretical issues it raises." (Publisher description)
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"In order to get a clear picture of the dynamics impacting on the present and future advance of the Namibian media environment - MISA Namibia has with the assistance of Martin Buch Larsen embarked on a comprehensive research to gather information on media ownership and legislation in The Republic of
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Namibia from 1990 to 2007." (Page 2)
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