"Uzbekistan faces severe ecological problems including the rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, desertification, residues of biochemical weapons, and environmentally related respiratory disease. Even so, the country’s print and broadcast media do little in-depth or analytical reporting on environmental iss
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ues, nor are journalists trained to cover such topics. In Spring 2002, a U.S. Fulbright lecturer at the Uzbek State World Languages University and his Uzbek colleague developed the first envirojournalism course at any university in Uzbekistan. The pilot course faced administrative and operational obstacles. It was also hindered by students’ inadequate scientific backgrounds and their limited access to information and resources." (Abstract)
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"This book, containing 17 chapters from health communication scholars both in the U.S. and abroad, is expressly concerned with media-related aspects of AIDS. Whether that media is print, electronic, and/or visual, they lie at the heart of understanding the messages we have, or perhaps have not, rece
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ived about AIDS. This book addresses the invaluable role of communication in terms of HIV/AIDS pandemic." (Publisher description)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"Presents case studies from 12 countries and lists 69 organisations working with media as conflict prevention and/or peacebuilding tool." (commbox)
"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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"Uzbekistan is the most populous and economically significant of the five Central Asian republics of the former USSR. Although authoritarian, its government appears to recognize the need to train journalists in Western journalistic theory and practice. The observations and experiences of the authors
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, as recent Fulbright-sponsored journalism scholars in Central Asia, are combined with limited sources on mass media in the region, to discuss the most effective journalism education under current conditions in Central Asia." (Abstract)
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"La 'guerre préventive' contre l'Irak, dans le sillage des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, est sans conteste l'un des faits les plus médiatisés de l'histoire de l'humanité. Jamais les préparatifs d'une guerre n'ont été aussi abondamment décrits et jamais son déroulement n'a été ainsi tran
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smis en direct par le truchement de cohortes de journalistes. Partout, les médias se sont ingéniés à relater dans ses moindres rebondissements le faux suspense diplomatique d'avant le 20 mars 2003, à spéculer longuement sur la probabilité et la date de déclenchement de l'intervention, à mobiliser une armada d'experts capables de disserter avec aplomb sur les armes de destruction massives irakiennes et les bunkers de Saddam tout en n'en sachant rien ou presque [...] C'est pourquoi cette guerre offre un matériau inédit pour une analyse critique du comportement des médias dominants. Les contestations de rue que la perspective puis le déclenchement de la guerre ont provoquées, les doutes et le déficit de légitimité entourant l'aventure états-unienne, le malaise des régimes arabes craignant une extension de l'ingérence des Etats-Unis dans leurs propres territoires, les critiques émanant de certains gouvernements européens ont placé le champ médiatique face à un conflit qui résiste fortement à la simplification. A travers six contributions, où les auteurs décrivent en fait six guerres différentes vues de six postes d'observation distincts (les Etats-Unis, la France, Israël, la Turquie, l'Irak lui-même et la chaîne panarabe Al Jazira), le livre explore les modes de restitution des mots et des images de la guerre. Il tente de resituer les médias dans le cadre des enjeux de pouvoir nationaux. Il explicite leur rôle dans la mobilisation du consentement ou de l'opposition à la guerre." (https://www.actes-sud.fr)
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