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Deep Impact: An Investigation of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Teacher Education in the Global South

Jenny Leach

Atef Ahmed; Shumi Makalima; Tom Power (contrib.)

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 158 pp.

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SADC Media Law: A Handbook for Media Practitioners. A Comparative Overview of the Laws and Practice in Lesotho, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Vol. 3
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Justine White, Daddy Bujitu

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2005), ix, 149 pp.

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Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World's Poor

Stephen Sposato, W. M. Smith

Lanham; Oxford: United Press of America (UPA) (2005), xxvii, 243 pp.

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Getting the Message Across: The Mass Media and the Response to AIDS

Geneva: Joint United Nation Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (2005), 56 pp.

"The three case studies in this report are examples of what can be achieved when the media are used creatively towards positive outcomes. They offer lessons from experience that will be of value to people everywhere who are interested in harnessing the power of the mass media to help in the response ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation;HSRC Press;James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Changing the Fourth Estate: Essays on South African Journalism

Adrian Hadland (ed.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2005), 247 pp.

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Ethnic Minorities, Electronic Media, and the Public Sphere: A Comparative Study

Donald R. Browne

Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press (2005), 255 pp.

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Assessing community change: Development of a ‘bare foot’ impact assessment methodology

Birgitte Jallov

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2005), pp. 21-34

"Impact assessment is one of a variety of monitoring tools available to ensure that a community radio effectively works towards set objectives and aspirations. In Mozambique a ‘bare-foot’ impact assessment methodology has been designed, tested, revised and implemented with eight community-owned ... more

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Communicating HIV and AIDS, What Works? A Report on the Impact Evaluation of Soul City's Fourth Series

Susan Goldstein, Shereen Usdin, Esca Scheepers, Garth Japhet

Journal of Health Communication, volume 10, issue 5 (2005), pp. 465-483

"This article describes the evaluation of the HIV/AIDS communication aspect of the multi media Soul City health promotion intervention in South Africa. The intervention consists of a television and radio drama and print material. The evaluation was multifaceted with a before and after national surve ... more

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Pressefreiheit und Pluralismus in Sambia

Andrea Czepek

Münster: Lit (2005), 234 pp.

"Die großen Hoffnungen, die Anfang der 1990er Jahre in den Demokratisierungsprozess im südlichen Afrika gesetzt wurden, haben sich überwiegend nicht erfüllt. In einer Demokratie soll Journalismus Öffentlichkeit herstellen und zur Meinungsbildung beitragen. Eine Voraussetzung dafür ist Pressefr ... more

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Writing for the Media in Southern Africa
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François Nel

Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 3rd ed. (2005), 404 pp.

"This book takes students through the journalistic process step-by-step: what news is, how publications are organized, the role of the journalist, ways to get the most from interviews, a style and grammar guide, and easy-to-follow advice on how to put together basic news stories. This third edition ... more

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Get Your Book Published in 30 (relatively) Easy Steps: A Hands-On-Guide for South African Authors

Basil van Rooyen

Johannesburg: Penguin Books South Africa (2005), 386 pp.

"A revised and updated edition of the popular How to Get Published in South Africa (1996), dealing with all the steps involved in finding the right publisher and breaking into print. The focus is on non-fiction, although there is much practical advice here for writers of all genres." (Hans M. Zell, ... more

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Media Wise: Children Make a Difference. The Children's Participatory Process

Bharti Daya, Bronwyn Vreenegoor, Gemma Harries, William Bird, Glynis Clacherty

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Project (2004), 38 pp.

"The children’s participatory process is an exciting and key component of the Empowering Children & Media (ECM) project, which aims to improve the representation of children and children’s rights in the news media. The report focuses exclusively on the methodology used for the children’s parti ... more

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Southern African Media Directory 2004/2005

Eric Libongani (comp.)

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2004), 233 pp.

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Children: Dying to Make the News. Empowering Children and Media

Parklands: Media Monitoring Project;Save the Children;UNICEF (2004), 85 pp.

"This report presents the results and findings of the Empowering Children & Media project, in which the MMP monitored the representation of children in the news media over a three-month period in 2003. It also aims to form part of a larger project to improve the representation of children in the med ... more