"In passing and implementing the Access to Information Act 2002, Jamaica has established a new and more open form of governance and accomplished what many other countries are still attempting. The Act, which provides citizens an enforceable right to official documents held by public authorities, is
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key to enhancing democracy, ensuring citizens’ participation, and building greater trust in Government decision making. Access to public documents can assist citizens in exercising their other fundamental socioeconomic rights, such as the right to housing, appropriate health care, and a clean and healthy environment, and it can serve to make government more efficient and effective. Passing an access to information law is, relatively speaking, easy in comparison to the practise of implementation, which can be challenging for any country. Successful implementation of an open information regime requires a commitment of resources (human, financial, and time), preparation of public bodies, development of procedures, change in culture and behaviours, and expertise. It is clear that the Jamaican Government and its public authorities, who entered into effect in phases with the final large group beginning in July 2005, have made great progress in the implementation of the Act including training of civil servants in the law and best practices. Many of the efforts in Jamaica serve as a model for other jurisdictions. However, as with any new regime there is the potential for constructive reform and advancement." (Introduction)
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"This report will describe changes in the TV industry in Russia between 2002 and 2005.1 According to the request of the European Audiovisual Observatory, in conformity with its statute, this report describes the organisation and market evolutions of the Russian television system and does not have th
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e objective of assessing the quality of the Russian news system or the quality of media pluralism in the Russian Federation. In a system where the role of political power is still important in structuring the market, it is however difficult to completely avoid any reference to political elements in the description of the development of this system." (Introduction)
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"Both culture and media play important roles in the development of democratic governance, the promotion of a democratic culture and the strengthening of civil society. Culture and media can play crosscutting roles in Sida’s work, in addition to direct contributions in the areas of culture and medi
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a. A culturally sensitive approach founded on an integrated poverty analysis is desirable in all development cooperation interventions. Culture and media interventions can also contribute to the promotion of participation, dialogue and communication in interventions in other development cooperation areas. The purpose of the policy is threefold: to establish how supporting culture and media can contribute to the attainment of the goal of Swedish international development cooperation; to provide guidance for such interventions; and be the basis for increased collaboration with other areas of intervention within Swedish development cooperation (for example health, education and infrastructure)." (Introduction, page 4-5)
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This volume gathers contributions presented during the 8th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held in Caen (France) in October 2005. The conference reader contains a wide range of contributions from industrialised, transitional and developing countries.
"An introduction and a reference guide to the main legal issues facing journalists, this book presumes no prior legal knowledge but covers all the relevant areas including defamation, privacy contempt of court, freedom of expression, and intellectual property." (Publisher description)
"This paper has shown that media assistance donors to Central Europe misplaced their emphasis on the trainign of journalistic craft skills as a principal means of introducing what they rather uncritically called 'democratic journalism' to post-Communist societies. There are many narrative choices in
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telling stories, even news stories, and there are few convincing reasons to beleive that mainstream western news conventions are the most likely to contribute to democratic political culture." (Conclusion)
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"Der Band ist eine systematische und grundlegende Einführung in die Medieninhaltsforschung in Deutschland. Der erste Teil beschäftigt sich mit der quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse als Methode und gibt dem Leser Kriterien an die Hand, die ihm die Beurteilung der Qualität und die Interpretation von inh
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altsanalytischen Befunden erleichtern sollen. Der zweite Teil stellt die wichtigsten Ergebnisse inhaltsanalytischer Studien in den Bereichen aktuelle Berichterstattung (z.B. Politikdarstellung, Gewaltanteil, Darstellung von Risiken), unterhaltende Medieninhalte sowie Werbung zusammen. Ziel des Lehrbuchs ist ein systematischer Überblick über die Medieninhalte in Deutschland." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Spielt das Radio für die zeitgenössische Literatur eine Rolle? Antworten auf diese Frage geben 21 bekannte deutschsprachige Schriftsteller, die sich von den Ätherwellen inspirieren ließen. Sie erzählen von ihren Erfahrungen mit dem Radio; sie reflektieren, rühmen, glossieren oder poetisieren
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es. Entstanden ist eine einzigartige Sammlung literarisch-essayistischer Texte zur Radiokultur und zugleich eine Fülle von Geschichten, wie sie nur das Radio schreibt: John von Düffel zum Beispiel weiß von Stimmen, die man anfassen kann, für Ulrike Draesner ist das Radio lange der fünfte Küchenbewohner gewesen, Wilhelm Genazino interessiert sich für die Marotten der Moderatoren, Feridun Zaimoglu erzählt von der Vorliebe seines »russenfressenden« Großvaters für Militärsender, und Wolf Wondratschek erklärt uns, dass es das Radio deshalb gibt, weil es Mitleid mit den Schlaflosen hat. Diese und andere »Dichter am Äther« waren zwischen 2001 und 2004 in der WDR 3-Kultursendung Mosaik zu hören; ihre Beiträge liegen hier erstmals gesammelt als Buch vor." (Klappentext)
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