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African Video Film Today

Foluke Ogunleye (ed.)
Manzini (SZ): Academic Publisher (2003), xiii, 162 pp.
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Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives

Patrick D. Murphy, Marwan M. Kraidy (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2003), xiii, 313 pp.
"Global Media Studies explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline. Emphasizing the connection of globalization to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, an ... more
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Wh@t's Next? The Future of the Information Society: A Youth Perspective

Maike Sippel, Jakob Schoof (eds.)
Stuttgart: YOIS (2003), 272 pp.
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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
Deep Insights

Roger Stringer (ed.)
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), ix, 273 pp.
"A valuable information resource that provides a country-by-country analysis of the “book chain” in 18 English-speaking Africa countries, together with an annotated directory of the major players that make up the book chain within those countries. Four introductory essays provide overviews of bo ... more
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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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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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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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Global Corruption Report 2003. Special Focus: Access to Information

Transparency International (2002), 326 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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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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Community-Radio Case Studies

UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2002), 58 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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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2002/2003

Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 26th ed. (2002), 1056 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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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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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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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)
Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.
"This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco, drugs, AIDS, family planning, heart disease, childhood disease, highway safety--prepared by the au ... 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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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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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