"Reporteros populares (people's reporters) have emerged in a number of Latin Amer ican countries as a fruitful means of incorporating grass-roots participation into media devel opment practices. Scholars have documented and described a number of people's reporters projects, yet few have explained ho
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w participation is constructed and enacted in any theoret ically systematic way. This article reviews the limited work on people's reporters from Latin America, proposes a theoretical template for systematically analyzing participatory practice, and applies the template to data collected in the Bolivian highlands in 1993. Data for this study were collected using ethnographic field methods over a five-week period at Radio Pío XII in Bolivia. Recommendations are included for development practitioners interested in incorporating participatory aspects into their media projects." (Abstract)
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"Prepared by a group of experts within the CROP network, this book was a state-of-the-art report on poverty and poverty research in different regions in 1996. As such, it was unique and the first volume ever to cover poverty studies worldwide, and to present the rich variety of concepts, hypotheses
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and data used in different disciplines in different cultural settings. The book contains a great number of ideas and reflections on poverty manifestations, poverty research and poverty strategies, of great value for researchers and policy-makers alike. As such, it is a baseline for ongoing and future research, and a major contribution to setting up the agenda for poverty research in the new millennium." (https://www.crop.org/Publications)
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"Participatory Impact Monitoring is a concept for guiding self-help projects in development co-operation. The actors involved carry out the monitoring themselves. Because PIM assumes that these actors are autonomous, it has several strands or "strings" - the monitoring systems of the self-help group
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s and the organisations are separate. The strings are periodically compared: the actors reflect on their observations and assessments, adapt their planning accordingly and deepen their dialogue with one another." (Gate 4/98)
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"Describes the many obstacles involved with literacy promotion in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America. The authors of the 10 articles in this collection share their knowledge and experience of literacy promotion in the developing world, including the challenges faced by those w
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ho publish, print, and distribute reading materials with limited support and resources. The articles also offer suggestions and possible solutions for increasing the developing world's access to quality indigenous reading materials. Among papers included are: “Reading in Developing Countries: Problems and Issues” (Vincent Greaney); “Developing Local Publishing Capacity for Children's Literature” (Tony Read); “Promoting Children's Book Publishing in Anglophone Africa” (Scott Walter); and “Donated Book Programs: An Interim Measure” (Rosamaria Durand and Suzanne M. Deehy)." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2174)
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"El autor de este libro era uno de los protagonistas de la radio y un pionero de la radionovela (p.e. se recuerda de la legendaria serie "El misterio de los ojos escarlata", que tuvo un enorme exito de audiencia) cuando surgió en los años veinte en Venezuela." (Catálogo Fundarte 1995)
"Diferentes estudios de caso basados en las experiencias de la Comisión de Ética del Círculo de Periodistas de Bogotá (CPB)." (commbox)