"This report examines all of the shortcomings of this South American giant’s media landscape. It is based on fact-finding visits to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia in November 2012. The media topography of the country that is hosting the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics has barely changed
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in the three decades since the end of the 1964-85 military dictatorship. As well as the ten or so major companies that dominate the national media and are mainly based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil has many regional media that are weakened by their subordination to the centres of power in the country’s individual states. The editorial independence of both print and broadcast media is above all undermined by their heavy financial reliance on advertising by state governments and agencies." (Publisher description)
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"El kit se conforma de varios recursos para facilitar la tarea de los y las radialistas, tanto para la producción periodística previa a cada programa, como para el desarrollo del programa en sí. Se contempla como un eje de fundamental importancia la participación de la audiencia, y en ese sentid
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o, se incorpora varias sugerencias para lograr dicho objetivo. Los temas desarrollados en este kit, son de gran relevancia para la discusión con la ciudadanía en el marco del proceso electoral, tales como: proceso electoral abril 2013; democracia; política y participación política; participación política de las mujeres en Paraguay; políticas públicas; derechos humanos: los derechos económicos, sociales, culturales y ambientales (DESC); el derecho a la comunicación; la tierra en Paraguay. La estructura de cada tema se compone básicamente de un breve desarrollo teórico, una guía para el uso antes y durante los programas radiales, los microprogramas sobre cada tema, y un apartado en donde se explica en qué consiste cada una de las técnicas y formatos sugeridos para promover la participación de la audiencia, invitados e invitadas al programa. La información utilizada en el breve desarrollo teórico de los temas es una recopilación y posterior selección de publicaciones de diferentes organizaciones y autores, principalmente de la organización Decidamos, Campaña por la Expresión Ciudadana. En el apartado de fuentes y bibliografía de este kit se menciona detalladamente. Es importante mencionar que este Kit conto con el valioso aporte de validación en una jornada taller con las y los representantes de las 16 radios comunitarias involucradas, generando sugerencias, nuevos aportes y recomendaciones que garantizan una mayor adecuación del material, al uso de las y los radialistas desde su realidad comunitaria y práctica radiofónica." (Presentación del material, página 9)
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"The article analyses the turnaround in guidelines occurring in public policies for culture in Brazil. This is placed in the context of the transition from the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the Dilma Rousseff administration, including the end of the cycle of shared leadership between M
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inisters Gilberto Gil (2003-8) and Juca Ferreira (2008-10) and the beginning of Ana de Hollanda's administration of the Ministry of Culture. The analysis starts with evaluation of the inaugural speeches of Ministers Gil and Ana de Hollanda as moments for the enunciation of their differing strategic perspectives. It focuses on the consequences of their contrasting views in three spheres: (1) creative economy; (2) copyright; (3) the Alive Culture program. The article concludes that, in a continuing government program, Brazil is undergoing a reversal of cultural policy with large-scale implications." (Abstract)
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"John Sinclair and Joseph D. Straubhaar provide a comprehensive account of television production, distribution and reception in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin American countries, showing how Mexican and Brazilian programmes have dominated in the region, and placing regional output in the con
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text of the global television industry." (Publisher description)
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"Drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to development - which shifts the focus from economic growth to a more holistic, freedom-based idea of human development - Dorothea Kleine examines the relationship between ICTs, choice, and development. Kleine proposes a conceptual framework, the Choi
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ce Framework, that can be used to analyze the role of technologies in development processes. She applies the Choice Framework to a case study of microentrepreneurs in a rural community in Chile. Kleine combines ethnographic research at the local level with interviews with national policy makers, to contrast the high ambitions of Chile's pioneering ICT policies with the country's complex social and economic realities. She examines three key policies of Chile's groundbreaking Agenda Digital: public access, digital literacy, and an online procurement system. The policy lesson we can learn from Chile's experience, Kleine concludes, is the necessity of measuring ICT policies against a people-centered understanding of development that has individual and collective choice at its heart." (Publisher description)
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"This article considers research approaches often associated with media and journalism studies as complementary assessment strategies to inform decisions associated with evaluating foreign aid. In order to do so, the case of British foreign aid towards Colombia in the context of the War on Drugs is
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examined as a case study. The authors explore the relationship between aid giving and the receipt of aid by focusing on how the media can be used as a peacebuilding indicator. There is a dearth of academic inquiry into these issues. This article attempts to flesh out some future lines of scholarly enquiry using the UK–Colombia case study example. It uses research interviews with state officials, multilateral organizations and NGO representatives as well as a review of press coverage in Colombia over a two-year period. The article argues that media could potentially be used as an important indicator of peacebuilding success and failure in the context of aid giving and receipt but that to achieve that there are specific pre-conditions and issues to be addressed by the different parties." (Abtrtact)
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"Brasilien hat mehr als einen Berlusconi: Zehn Familien kontrollieren die Medienlandschaft. Politische und wirtschaftliche Interessen sind eng miteinander verzahnt. Alle Versuche, das zu ändern, sind bislang gescheitert." (Einleitung)
"In diesem Band wird sowohl das Gefangenenbüchereiwesen in Deutschland als auch international vorgestellt. Neben der Geschichte der Gefangenenbüchereien werden die Gesetzesgrundlagen und unterschiedliche Bibliotheksangebote für Menschen in Haft erstmalig in einem Band zusammengefasst." (Verlagsbe
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