"El libro reúne las experiencias de diez destacadas rádios populares u organizaciones de capacitación, mostrando los cambios metodológicos y del contenido en el transcurso de los últimos 30 años y señalando las posibilidades y los límites de educación por radio. Se trata de Radio Santa Mar
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a de la República Dominicana (desde 1963), de ICER de Costa Rica (desde 1973), de Radio San Gabriel (desde 1955) y PARI (desde 1988) de Bolivia, de ERPE (desde 1962), Radio Latacunga (desde 1981) e IRFEYAL (desde 1974) de Ecuador, de Radio Cutivalú de Perú (desde 1985), Radio Fe y Alegría de Venezuela (desde 1975) y de PEBA de El Salvador (desde 1986). Aparte de estas experiencias concretas el libro documenta las reflexiones y pautas que fueron frutos de un seminario llevado a cabo el año pasado por ALER y La Red Latinoamericana de Información y Documentación de Educación (REDUC)." (CAMECO Media Forum 2-1994)
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"In December 1991, upon the initiative of the London-based World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) in collaboration with Isis International in Manila and the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) based in New York, the concept of the Women Empowering Communication global conferenc
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e was crystallized. Now, over two years later, and after several planning meetings and preparatory work, the global conference. Women Empowering Communication in Thailand is a reality. Isis International, in addition to its principal role as a co-organizer, wanted to make a tangible contribution to the conference. Thus we bring to you this issue of Women in Action, a collection of articles on women's experiences in community media from the regions of Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific. The conference participants constitute representatives of women's networks, alternative media, grassroots groups, the academe and other disciplines. It seems only fitting that we share with them how individual women and women's groups have creatively expressed themselves in various media forms in the community setting. In fact, we have featured some of the participating groups in the conference such as Video SEWA, Sistren Theatre Collective, and Cine Mujer. These women have set inspiring examples of how we can utilize varying media expressions not only to attain, self-empowerment but also to improve the portrayal of women in media. They have shown us the similarities in the lives and struggles of women all over the globe, despite cultural and geographical boundaries. What is even more encouraging is that these women's voices come from the community. They have successfully explored in very creative ways the use of low cost media such as song, dance, street theater, drawings, posters, puppetry and flipcharts. There are many other women's groups who have done some very good work in community media such ; as FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour), a feminist radio program in Costa Rica and the East Sepik Documentation Project in the Pacific. We also acknowledge the value of traditional forms of expression such as arpilleras and tapestries, woven stories on cloth by women in Chile, Peru and the Philippines and the khanga, a piece of cloth used as a communication tool by women in Africa.. What we have presented here is but a microviewing of women's experiences in community -media. In bringing this to the Women Empowering Communication conference, we join in the gathering of women i communicators who will enrich us with the breadth and depth of their experiences in media." (Editorial)
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"El resultado de esa investigación arrojó varias luces sobre las tareas a emprenderse. El campo de los noticieros era prioritario, pero también la creación y la ficción reclaman su puesto en la capacitación. La tecnología es de punta, pero se manifiesta cierta desconfianza o timidez en cuanto
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a los contenidos. Se busca y se pretende responder a las necesidades culturales de nuestros pueblos, pero no se siente seguridad en lo que se hace. Esta investigación nos muestra que aún queda mucho camino que recorrer. Pero, para confrontar los resultados de esa investigación, que mejor que dialogar c·on los responsables de los programas de informativos de América Latina, que mejor que escuchar directamente sus opiniones, a fin de validar esos resultados o acaso modificarlos. Precisamente por eso se llevó a cabo la convocatoria a este encuentro, donde cada uno de los presentes representa la experiencia de enfrentar diariamente las ideas con la realidad. Estamos seguros que las ideas expuestas por los participantes en el seminario de directores de informativos de televisión, cuyas exposiciones y participación en los diferentes foros, contribuirán a un mayor y mejor comprensión del fenómeno de la comunicación por televisión en América Latina." (Introducción, página 12)
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"Médias et développement" est destiné à tous ceux qui désirent appréhender les réalités de la géographie de l'information, à échelle tant planétaire, que nationale ou régionale. Jacques Barrat insiste sur le fait que cette géographie est une géographie des inégalités Nord-Sud, Nord-
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Nord et Sud-Sud… Après avoir montré que, dans les zones de sur-développement économique, le processus de développement était allé de pair avec celui des médias, l'auteur s'interroge sur les raisons des retards qu'on peut constater dans les aires marquées par le sous-développement. Enfin, il constate que les médias ont échoué dans le rôle de catalyseur du développement, qui leur avait été imparti dans les années soixante-dix par les tenants d'un tiers-mondisme aujourd'hui de plus en plus dépassé et décrié." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Quantifies the extent of Canadian assistance that has been given to support and encourage book supply in the Third World, and reviews the experiences of three different approaches in order to focus on the lessons that have been learned." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Afr
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ica, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1384)
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"This is an international survey of all types of literature on mass communication of the Caribben region presenting 3,695 citations. The book is organized by regions, divided by the nations' ties to a metropolitan power. Countries such as Dominican Republic and Haiti with longer histories of indepen
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dence are listed separately. (The vast reservoirs of data on Cuban mass communication necessitated a separate volume.) Topically, the chapters are divided into possible categories of general studies, advertising, broadcasting, development communication, film, freedom of the press, history of media, journalism education and training, news agencies, popular culture, print media, and telecommunications. Because of the recency of Caribbean mass communication as a field of study, the emphasis in this book is the period from the 1970s to the present. Many works of historical significance, however, are also cited, including nineteenth and early twentieth century works. Overall, the bibliography is representative in covering all genres of publications – books, periodicals, dissertations, theses, and conference papers. Although the bibliography consists mainly of English-language publications, hundreds of citations appear from other languages. The work is complete with a general subject index and author index." (Publisher website)
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"Realizing the immense power of the electronic media, FES started to initiate and support the development of national broadcasting systems and regional exchange networks some 20 years ago. In cooperation with Eurovision, the mother of all television exchange systems, FES helped to establish Asiavisi
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on, Arabvision and Afrovision, thus linking the continents via a global network. In 1987, the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) also asked for assistance. As usual, the Lost Paradise between North and South America had not been high on the agenda. And there was not much hope that these tiny rocks in the Caribbean Sea, scattered over an area the size of Western Europe from the North Cape to Gibraltar, could ever be linked via regional television and included in the global exchange. Still we tried, and we succeeded. This is the story of a very special effort in development aid: "Television in Paradise". (Prologue)
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