"From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U’wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of
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communication and community: creating new communities online, confronting global corporations, or even challenging their own native traditions. Featuring case studies ranging from the Artic to the Australian outback, this book addresses important recurrent themes, such as the relationship between identity and place, community, traditional cultures and the nature of the ‘indigenous’." (Publisher description)
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"'Informing Citizens: opportunities for media and communications in the Pacific' reports on the findings of a situation analysis and needs assessment (SANA) of the capacity of the media, government and civil society to produce information on good governance in 14 Pacific Island Forum countries. The
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report consists of 17 chapters in the following order: a regional overview chapter, a legislative overview chapter, a chapter on the findings of a news content analysis in the 14 countries, and 14 country chapters organised in alphabetical order, commencing with the Cook Islands. Chapter One, the Regional Overview, details the methodology for SANA, the principles which informed the research, and how the data was complied. The chapter contains an analysis of the major themes and issues that emerged in the 14 country chapters, divided into four sections: legislative environment, media sector, government sector, and civil society sector. It concludes with a list of regional strategies based on the research findings recommended by a SANA Reference Group of key stakeholders. Chapter Two, Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Media, analyses the constitutional guarantees for freedom of expression, freedom of the media and the right to information in the Pacific Island countries surveyed. It also analyses the degree to which public service broadcasting and media legislation guarantees separation from government in some of the countries surveyed. Section 1, Legislative Environment, in the country chapters provides further detail on the media regulatory environment in each country and complements Chapter Two. Chapter Three, Pacific News Content Analysis, summarises the findings of the news content analysis conducted in the countries surveyed. Its focus is the coverage of news on governance issues. Appendix F contains the breakdown of the regional findings and the findings for each country in alphabetical order. Chapters Four to Seventeen consist of country chapters. Each country chapter summarises the research findings for that country under the four main headings, Legislative Environment, Media Sector, Government Sector, and Civil Society Sector." (Page ix)
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"Small Islands Voice focuses on small island developing states and islands with other affiliations in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific regions. This initiative, started in 2002, aims to combine new information and communication technologies with print, radio, television and other media, in or
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der to promote the effective participation of the general public in sustainable island development and in the 2004 review of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Programme of Action and its follow-up. Six islands played an active role in Small Islands Voice in 2002: St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, San Andres Archipelago in the Caribbean; Seychelles in the Indian Ocean; Cook Islands and Palau in the Pacific. Activities in the islands include opinion surveys, meetings and workshops, debates, radio talk shows, interactive displays, and newsletters. Inter-regional activities include two internet-based discussion fora, one for the general public and one for youth, inter-regional conference calls, and an inter-regional workshop held in Palau in November 2002. The internet is being used to link the regions together. An internet-based forum was developed to connect the general public in the three regions in a discussion on key issues in the environment-development arena. This internet-based forum links up with local newspapers so the debate can reach a wider audience; and the potential exists to further extend the reach of this forum using community radio and television. A similar forum focusing on secondary school students is proving successful and has potential as a distance learning tool. Limited and costly internet access in small islands is a serious constraint to such initiatives; however, the islands involved are developing innovative ways of overcoming these constraints, such as negotiating special rates with internet service providers and at internet cafes." (Executive summary)
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"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
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d the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop with and through the media. Through ethnographic case studies from Brazil, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey and the United States, the contributors address such questions as: what links media consumption to a lived global culture; what role cultural tradition plays globally in confronting transnational power; how global elements of mediated messages acquire class; and regional and local characteristics." (Publisher description)
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"A UNESCO project designed to study "methods of establishing community newspapers in remote islands of the Pacific in conjunction with other community media, notably radio." An overview of the region gives background, the status and problems of broadcasting and print media, and recommandations, foll
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owed by similar overviews of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Western Somoa, and Tonga. These are accompanied by maps and tables of facts and figures." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 849)
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"The compilers point out that little attention has been paid to mass communication in most Pacific islands, and their research proves them correct. There is one citation each for Easter Island and Midway Island. Hawaii has almost 2,000. This Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East
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and West bibliography contains citations to 3,332 books, periodicals, articles, documents, and pamphlets, and covers the years 1854-1975, with some entries from 1976. Topics include the press, newspapers, freedom of the press, broadcasting, news agencies, organizations, radio broadcasting, cinema, and television in the Pacific Islands. Entries are arranged alphabetically by more than 20 island groupings and broken down into specific subject areas, rumbered, and arranged chronologically within those subjects. Richstad also produced The Pacific Islands Press: A Directory (East-West Communication Institute, 1973)." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 99)
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"Media for instruction can be characterized as big (expensive) or little (inexpensive), but research evidence suggests that whether a student learns more from one medium than another depends at least as much on how the medium is used as on what medium is used. Thus, this report discusses not only ex
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ample programs and their results, but also considerations involved in choices among the different possible media. One conclusion which is reached, however, is that the inexpensive media have often been neglected because of the glamor of the expensive media." (https://files.eric.ed.gov)
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"The State of Hawaii introduced television two years ago, that is in 1966 — The author reports on the Hawaiian television experiment — The progress made is encouraging for the future — The work undertaken by the University of Hawaii and the Department of Education — Educational TV in Hawaii
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has nothing in common with that of the other neighbouring countries on account of the particular nature of the population. The author is director of educational television for the Department of Education of the State of Hawaii and associate director of the Hawaii Educational Television Network." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2495, topic code 410.1, 410.330)
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"Le présent rapport expose dans leurs grandes lignes les progrès de la radiodiffusion éducative dans 31 pays, 42 organismes de radiodiffusion d'Asie et de la région du Pacifique — Les pays en voie de développement de cette région (et d'autres d'ailleurs) considèrent que le citoyen instruit
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est à proprement dit la clef du progrès économique, social et politique — La radiodiffusion, instrument qui contribue à la réalisation de cet objectif — Principales réalisations de la radio et de la télévision éducatives depuis 1964 (au Japon, Corée du Sud, Laos, Vietnam du Sud, Thaïlande, Malaisie, Singapour, Inde, Pakistan, Iran, Liban, Syrie, Arabie Séoudite, Indonésie, Chine nationaliste, Jordanie, Israël, Australie, Nouvelle Zélande, Philippines, Samoa occidental, Fidji) — Des représentants de quelques pays ont pris la parole — A la fin de l'article, un tableau où sont donnés des renseignements sur les postes récepteurs de radio et de télévision dans les écoles de 16 pays." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1537, topic code 210.330, 410.330)
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