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Radio & Public Deliberation

Brett Davidson

Dayton (OH): Kettering Foundation (2002), 40 pp.

"Brett Davidson makes a convincing case for radio being the most hospitable media environment for retaining the human characteristics of public deliberation. In South Africa, for example, radio reaches far more people in their own languages than other media do. Moreover, radio can broadcast live, � ... more

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Media Ethics in the South African Context: An Introduction and Overview

Lucas M. Oosthuizen

Lansdowne: Juta (2002), 204 pp.

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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.

"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more

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Global Corruption Report 2003. Special Focus: Access to Information

Transparency International (2002), 326 pp.

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Media Advocacy Toolkit: Course Workbook

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2002), 80 pp.

"This course is designed to help you to sharpen your media advocacy skills. It is made up of two 2-day workshops. During the first workshop, you will explore the meaning of advocacy. You will also consider the importance of finding and including women’s voices in the media you produce. On Day 2 yo ... more

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Evaluation of the Radio Soap Opera Produced by the Centre for Common Ground

Luanda: National Institute for Statistics (Angola) (2002), 21 pp.

"As part of its strategy to build the capacity of Angolans in conflict prevention and resolution, the Centre for Common Ground in Angola (CCG) contracted the services of a team of experts, most of who were officers from Instituto Nacional de Estatística (National Institute of Statistics) to carry o ... more

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Beitrag der Medien zur Krisenprävention und Konfliktbearbeitung: Eine Analyse der internationalen Diskussion und Implementierungsmöglichkeiten mit Empfehlungen für die Technische Zusammenarbeit

Jörg Becker

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2002), 71 pp.

"Kurze Darstellung und "lessons learned" von 7 Fallbeispielen, v.a. Radiosendern. Der Autor stellt u.a. fest: "Medienprojekte werden von westlichen NGOs erst dann gestartet, wenn ein gewaltsamer Konflikt vorbei ist. Medienprojekte mit ausgesprochenem Präventionscharakter sind nahezu unbekannt, auch ... more

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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain

Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin (eds.)

Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.

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Children, Young People and Media Globalisation: Yearbook 2002

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2002), 262 pp.

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The Media Development and Diversity Agency: Position Paper

Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2002), 64 pp.

"Government has taken the bold step of setting up an independent agency that will address some of the problems of media development and diversity in South Africa. It is important to stress that the proposed Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) will not interfere in the content of any newspa ... more

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Indigenous Publishing in Botswana: The Current Situation and the Way Forward

Samuel Ghile Bahta, Stephen M. Mutula

Information Development (East Grinstead), volume 18, issue 4 (2002), pp. 231-236

"Writing in local languages has a big role in eliminating illiteracy and creating a reading and writing culture, especially at early ages in one's life. The government of Botswana has an obligation to motivate local language publications by creating a conducive environment for this to happen. The Pu ... more

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Menschenrechte in Zimbabwe: Kirche und staatliche Missachtung von Recht und Gesetz

Oskar Wermter

Aachen: Missio, Internationales Katholisches Missionswerk, Fachstelle Menschenrechte (2002), 72 pp.

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Changing Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa. Indaba 2001. Harare, Zimbabwe 4-5 August, 2001

Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (2002), 310 pp.

"The theme of the 2001 Indaba at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was devoted to “Changing People’s Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa”, and this volume brings together 34 of the papers that were presented, together with a record of some of the discussions that took place followi ... more

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Community-Radio Case Studies

UNESCO;Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2002), 58 pp.

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Financial Sustainability Model for Community Radio Stations in Southern Africa

Dick Maganga, Zwide Mbulawa (eds.)

Gaborone: Southern Africa Institute for Media Entrepreneurship Development (SAIMED) (2002), 22 pp.

"This model is based on a research of six Namibian Community Radio Stations. It argues that a newly established - or even an existing - community radio station can achieve financial sustainability by implementing seven elements: 1. Environmental Scanning, 2. Strategic Planning, 3. Partnership Establ ... more

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Community Publishing as a Process of Change

Kathy Bond-Stewart

In: Courage and Consequence: Women Publishing in Africa

Mary Jay; Susan Kelly (eds.)

Oxford: African Books Collective (2002), pp. 61-69

"Describes the activities and publications of the innovative Community Publishing Process in Zimbabwe in order to train 7,000 village community workers, the majority of whom were women. Through a community based, participatory process of publishing, the project aims to enable marginalized groups to ... more

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Arquivos: Paradoxos e desafios frente à organização e acesso à informação

Rafael Simone Nharreluga, Leonor Celeste Silva

Promédia (2002), 154 pp.

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The Press in Transition: A Comparative Study of Nicaragua, South Africa, Jordan and Russia

Adam Jones

Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2002), 524 pp.

"The press in transition" chronicles and evaluates the experiences of six press institutions in four markedly different media systems. The book adopts a comparative framing to explore press functioning worldwide, and to draw preliminary conclusions about the press in transition. At the heart of the ... more

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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)

Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.

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Institutional Review of Educational Radio Dramas
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Mary Myers

Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2002), 134 pp.

"Taking 14 radio serial dramas from around the world shows that many aspects of the way they are organised are not replicable: what works in one context would just not work in another. This is because of the very nature of pro-social media projects: they depend so much on the personal contacts of th ... more

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