"Connecting with communities is a map for journalists wishing to expand their coverage, add depth to their news perspective, and begin to write the kind of stories that could help transform communities into self-determining ones. The sourcebook also presents some pretty good arguments, through six c
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ases, why public journalism deserves to be undertaken and how it has been helping journalists reconnect with their communities." (Back cover)
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"This book looks at the political economy of communication and information, media in development and social change, media theory and practice, international communication technology and communication values and ethics." (Publisher description)
"This reader is envisioned as a resource for policy-makers and project planners, providing an overview of Environmental Communication as a management tool for initiatives geared towards environmental sustainability. The authors hope that their articles will convincingly show why and how Environmenta
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l Communication should become an integral component of policies and projects, and thereby help ensure that adequate human and financial resources are allocated to this end. The idea for this book was born at an international workshop on "Communicating the Environment" organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Bonn, Germany in late 1996." (Preface, page 5)
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"The Philippines has been on the news for five long months now due to a noisy, media savvy group of kidnappers that had abducted foreign hostages in April. During that period, we witnessed the spokesperson of the Abu Sayyafjo in the league of world leaders and experts in gaining precious airtime on
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CNN live. Local reporters as well were free to visit the kidnappers' lair by foot and air their interviews with them day after day. This would have been unthinkable in Malaysia or Singapore or even maybe Indonesia. However, the Philippine military later imposed a news blackout on its operations on Jolo Island where the kidnappers had encamped. Journalists who had been allowed to deliver soundbites on kidnappers were now banned from delivering the civilians'stories about the devastation of their province by the military. How exactly should media act in such a tough situation? What judgments should it make that would serve public interest and adhere to the fundamentals of a functioning democracy? This paper seeks to answer these questions." (Abstract)
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"A great deal has now been written about the patterns of media exploitation as they contribute to a vortex of destruction. Less has been elaborated about the efforts of international governmental organisations ("IGOs") and non-governmental organisations ("NGOs") to intervene so as to maintain a more
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stable and peaceful world order either in anticipation of conflict, during the conflict or in the ordeal following the conflict. This paper focuses, as a background for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Geneva Conference, in May 2000, on post-conflict patterns that emerge, primarily drawing from four case studies—Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Cambodia." (Introduction)
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"Die Arbeit untersucht auf der Basis zweier Forschungsaufenthalte in Pakistan (Oktober-Dezember 1995) und im Iran (April bis Juni 1996) Grundsatzfragen der Kommunikationsentwicklung in den beiden Ländern und erfasst insbesondere Existenz und Rolle zweier strukturierter Kommunikationsebenen - tradit
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ionelle Kommunikation und moderne Massenmedien. Der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungen im Iran lag in den Inhalten der modernen Massenmedien (Rundfunk, Fernsehen) aus Sicht der Medienproduzenten, während sich die Forschung in Pakistan auf die traditionellen und modernen Kommunikationssysteme aus Sicht der Rezipienten konzentrierte." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This report provides a comprehensive overview of the role and position of the media in Tajikistan. The contributors explain that the weakness of the media there is due to many different reasons and linked to the general political, social and economic circumstances in the country. The report explain
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s how the consequences of the civil war, the loss of competent journalists, the high costs of production, the self-censorship pressure exerted on journalists and editors by politicians not used to relatively free press have all helped inhibit the development of the media in the country." (Digital Library, ETh Zürich Center for Security Studies)
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