"Communicating Democracy presents the first comprehensive comparative investigation of the role of the media in the move toward democracy in developing and post-communist countries. Recognizing the central role of an independent press in the formulation of stable democracies, Patrick H. O'Neil and a
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team of area and country specialists explore the particular cultural, economic, and political conditions that have shaped the media in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. The authors examine how the print and electronic media function in societies that have recently made the move toward democracy--whether successfully or not. They pay particular attention to the role of the media in political life prior to transition; the impact of an authoritarian legacy on media structures after the move toward democracy; the problems in developing an independent media; and issues involving content, objectivity, and bias." (Publisher description)
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"This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video ne
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ws and financial news; analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval; and critically examines the impact of deregulation and globalization on the news agency business. Contributors consider how leading players like Reuters and Associated Press help to define the nature of both the Global and the Local as well as focusing on the network of relations between international and national agencies." (Publisher description)
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"S'il y a eu moins de journalistes tués dans l'ensemble du monde en 1997 - vingt-six journalistes sont morts dans l'exercice de leur fonction -, les autres formes de violations de la liberté de la presse ne se sont pas atténuées. Il y avait, au 1er janvier 1998, environ 90 journalistes emprisonn
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és pour leurs activités professionnelles. Les agressions, interpellations, arrestations, condamnations d'éditeurs et de journalistes, les saisies et la censure de publications sont demeurées à peu près les mêmes que les années précédentes. Le planisphère de la liberté n'a pas non plus changé d'apparence. Sur les 185 Etats qui siègent aux Nations Unies, la situation demeure mauvaise dans quatre-vingt pays, et extrêmement mauvaise dans au moins trente autres. Il n'y a pas de surprise : la carte de la liberté de la presse coïncide avec celle de la démocratie et du respect des droits de l'homme. Si l'on s'était fait des illusions, on ne les a plus : l'implosion de l'empire soviétique et l'effondrement du modèle communiste au début des années 90 n'ont pas signifié la fin du totalitarisme. La bête a la vie dure. Le rapport de Reporters sans frontières analyse la situation de 140 pays de tous les continents." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"This article explores how women's community radio can contribute to a feminist public sphere and serve as a tool for women's empowerment through the media. Compared to film, TV and newspapers, radio is a relatively under researched and under valued area of the media. An extension of this situation
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is the paucity of theoretical and empirical studies regarding women and radio. The purpose of this article is to contribute to a theory of women's radio and its relation to practice. Employing feminist readings of Habermas' theory of the public sphere, it is possible to develop a concept of a women's or feminist public sphere in relation to women's community radio. This article discusses whether and how this is emerging through the opportunities that women have in terms of access, training and development in community radio. With empirical data from women's radio stations and projects in different parts of Europe, radio as a potential feminist public sphere is explored, and a foundation laid for a further grounding of an understanding of how alternative media can be a tool for women's empowerment." (Abstract)
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"Through accounts and analysis of specific projects across four continents, the authors show how communication has been used to mobilize societies, to facilitate democratic participation, and to help people acquire new knowledge and skills. The book focuses on community radio and video, and health c
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ommunication, with major sections on projects in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. Colin Fraser was one of the founders of the FAO communication section. Sonia Restrepo-Estrada has worked for a long time as a communication specialist for UNICEF in matters of health, nutrition and women's and children's rights." (InteRadio 1/98; Media Development 2/99)
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"Radio journalists have witnessed much of the history of the twentieth century. From early documentary recordings, to the ground-breaking war reporting of Ed Murrow and Richard Dimbleby, to the sophisticated commentaries of Alistair Cooke and reporters such as Fergal Keane, International Radio Journ
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alism explores the way radio has covered the most important stories this century and the way in which it continues to document events in Britan, America, Europe and many other countries around the world. International Radio Journalism is both a theoretical textbook and a practical guide for students of radio journalism, reporters, editors and producers. The book details training and professional standards in writing, presentation, technology, editorial ethics and media law in America, Britain, Australia and other English speaking countries and examines the major public sector broadcast networks such as the BBC, CBC, NPR and ABC as well as the work of commercial and small public radio stations. Timothy Crook investigates the way in which news reporting has been influenced by governments and media conglomerates and identifies an undercurrent of racial and sexual discrimination throughout the history of radio news." (Publisher description)
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