"This report was commissioned by the Community Media Association (CMA) to suggest criteria for the establishment of a community radio sector in the United Kingdom. The report compares the legal and regulatory frameworks for community radio in Australia, Canada, France, Holland, Ireland and South Afr
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ica. It contains recommendations as to the optimal legislative and regulatory model for the development of community radio - including licensing and economic models – for the UK. The report includes a comparison across the six countries of the following factors: definitions of community radio in law and regulation; licensing systems for community radio services; frequency allocations and associated technical constraints; economic bases of the community radio sector and rules on funding sources; the sector in the context of the wider media landscape; social characteristics – programming, audiences, staff and supporters." (Introduction)
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"This is a book about an inter-continental community theatre project. It is an attempt to gain a better understanding of this increasingly popular cultural practice that operates on the cutting edge between performing arts and sociocultural intervention. The main emphasis in this book, and in the ac
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companying video, has been placed on the diverse mechanics and inspirations of community theatre as an artistic process that always evolves under very particular local sociocultural conditions. Through written word and moving image, this package thus documents, contextualizes, and theorizes the methods that were used to create six community performances in distinct locations around the world in the course of 1997. Both in the video and in the book I have opted to tell these six tales as relatively independent narratives. I recommend watching the appropriate video segments before reading each book chapter, which provides the background about (community) theatre in each particular region, the facilitators, the organizations they work in, the evolution of their method, and a more technically oriented case study of the distinctive approach they used to create one specific community theatre performance in 1997." (Introduction, page 1)
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"The E&E strategy finds its justification in signals from health communication theory and practice. There is an urgent call for the development of methods to reach less well educated target groups and for the adoption of a greater consumer orientation. In the design of health communication programme
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s, more attention must be paid to affect as well as cognition. Entertainment television seems to be able to serve these needs because it: (i) is based on popular culture, (2) is more people oriented (human interest) than object oriented; (3) encourages talcing with family, friends and neighbours about the previous day's television events, as in parochial networks; and (4) is a main source of inspiration and information. Health communication professionals, however, are illequipped to tap this potential. In their relatively television-illiterate and bureaucratic working culture they resemble turtles, who on the one hand are solid and trustworthy, but on the other hand do not quickly assimilate new and challenging developments. The call for innovation in their health communication methods and professional standards is forcing them to change. In these circumstances, collaboration with television professionals in the application of the E&E strategy may act as a catalyst. Television professionals are used to exposure and expect a service-oriented attitude from the external experts with who m they work. They act like peacocks, displaying their feathers in order both to be admired and to exert power and thus stay in charge of the production process." (Discussion and recommendations, page 203)
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"The 6th meeting of the African Media Partners Network, which followed on from the meetings held in Paris (1995), Brussels (1996), Bellagio, Copenhagen (1997) and Johannesburg (1998), was organised by the network's technical secretariat in collaboration with the Dutch non-profit association CAF/SCO.
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the meeting in Amsterdam, from 6 to 9 Decem-ber 1999. Gertie Hesseling, Director of the Centre for African Studies and representing CAF/SCO, chaired the opening session. Apart from the various presentations of activities by new members and by Dutch partners, the meeting focussed on three main working themes: issues of professional organisation and structure; law and ethics; the use of new information and communication technologies (NICT), training and pro-duction. Work took place in plenary sessions following a programme designed to allow flexibility and debate. The object of the present report is to provide a faithful (but not exhaustive) record of thepresentations and the debates to which the meeting gave rise. The programme and the list of delegates are provided in annex." (Page 1)
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El libro examina los modelos y las políticas de descentralisación que han sustentado el desarrollo de la 'televisión de proximidad' en cada uno de los países de la UE. El analysis esta centrado en el marco legal, la estructura y la financición, las estrategias de programación y el uso de lengu
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as minoritarias de las televisiones de ambito regional, local y urbano.
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"Enthält die Beiträge einer Konferenz zum Thema Bildungsfernsehen, die das Internationale Zentralinstitut für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (München) 1996 veranstaltete. Am Beispiel erfolgreicher Bildungsprogramme und anhand von Studien wird untersucht, warum Bildungsprogramme von Zuschauern
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genutzt bzw. nicht genutzt werden. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass der Erfolg einer Sendung von der medienadäquaten Umsetzung des Materials und dem persönlichen Interesse des Zuschauers abhängen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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