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From the Bogside to Namibia: The Place of Community Broadcasting in Post-Conflict Cultural Reconstruction

Paul Moore

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 6, issue 1 (2009), pp. 45-58

"This article has evolved from the author's continuing relationship, as a broadcaster and trainer, with two so-Called community radio stations. One is a community station according to accepted definitions of the global community radio movement, and the other is an example of community radio in a pub ... more

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Video in Development
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Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), 60 pp.

"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more

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Running Radio Selam: Constraints Facing an Ethiopian Peace Radio Project

Tarjei Kidd Olsen

Oslo: University of Oslo, Master Thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies (2009), 143 pp.

"I have primarily looked at how Radio Selam, an Ethiopian peace radio programme run by the local Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), might have been constrained by four spheres of influence. The spheres I looked at encapsulated certain organizational, individual, economic and politica ... more

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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.

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Exploring the Role of Civil Society in the Formulation and Adoption of Access to Information Laws: The Cases of Bulgaria, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Andrew Puddephatt

Washington, DC: World Bank;World Bank Institute (2009), vii, 45 pp.

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Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
Inspiring Practice

Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Giacamo Rambaldi (eds.)

London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.

"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci ... more

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There Will be Ink: A Study of Journalism Training and the Extractive Industries in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda

Ben Colmery, Adriana Diaz, Emily Gann, Rebekah Heacock, Jonathan Hulland, Eamon Kircher-Allen

New York: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, International Media and Communications Program (2009), 114 pp.

"This report is intended to serve as a guide for organizations considering establishing journalist-training programs in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda. The report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities in the journalism profession in these three countries. Generalizations across countri ... more

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Self-Regulation of the Media in the SADC Region: Experiences with Media Councils in Southern Africa

Hendrik Bussiek

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 8, 9 pp.

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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
Inspiring Practice

Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.

"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more

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Tuned in to Student Success: Assessing the Impact of Interactive Radio Instruction for the Hardest-To-Reach

Jennifer Ho, Hetal Thurkal

Washington, DC: Education Development Center, Inc. (2009), iv, 64 pp.

"Evaluation data gathered between 1975 and 2000 demonstrated that Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) had improved learning outcomes in conventional classrooms by between 10% and 20% when compared with control classrooms not using IRI. These programs often had relatively well-funded evaluation compo ... more

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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 74 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Moçambique 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 56 pp., 64 pp.

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ICTs for Democracy: Information and Communication Technologies for the Enhancement of Democracy - with a Focus on Empowerment

Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2009), 89 pp.

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Radio Kwizera: Empowerment in a Fragile Region

Damas Missanga

In: Media on the Move: Migrants and Minorities and the Media. 4th Symposium Forum Medien Und Entwicklung (FoME)

Christoph Dietz; Petra Stammen (eds.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2009), pp. 18-24

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Beyond Broadcasting: The Future of State-Owned Broadcasters in Southern Africa

Guy Berger

Fackson Banda; Jane Duncan; Rashweat Mukundu; Zenaida Machado (contrib.)

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 65 pp.

"Digital communications technology does many new things. Its spread means that it is no longer a case of a tiny minority of professionals and politicians having a monopoly on mass communication. Implicit in the observations of this report, is the recognition that - amongst other things - digitisatio ... n also disrupts old boundaries between inter-personal and mass communication. What used to be the subject of, or product of, communication between a few individuals, can increasingly be put into the public sphere. Much of this content remains personal in quality, despite it being public in availability. But there is also much that is of public interest. In some ways, this therefore threatens those institutions supposed to be specialising in public interest information. In other ways, it can help them not only reinforce this mission, but to also take a step towards expanding their role into becoming wider public interest content and commun-ications agencies. They can, in short, be the motive force that pulls personal conversations into focussing on journalism that is of common public interest. That image of leading the transformation of mass communication is, however, just one of the scenarios outlined in this report. The others point to lesser roles, even including extinction. It should be noted that scenarios are not predictions of the future, but attempts to highlight a range of possible options. They help guide action in one or other direction. The complication is that digitisation and all that comes with it can deal a surprise to even the best-considered scenario possibilities. Who would have thought that a search engine company (Google) could become such an effective player in the advertising arena? Or that newspaper newsrooms would start hiring video-capable staffers, or that some cell-phone companies would move into distributing content? Could anyone have guessed that a company like Twitter could attract and burn millions of dollars of investment without even a proper business plan about how it intends to make money? The digital revolution, if it is to succeed, needs to have top quality cadres in the newsrooms. In the face of these kinds of developments, it is tempting to throw up one’s hands and take a come-what-may approach. That’s preferable to the illusion of controlling and managing the process. At the same time, between these two extremes of paralysis and over-planning, there is a broad direction that can be identified and pursued. We may not know exactly where we are going, but - as this Report seeks to do - we can look at where we are and what’s immediately ahead. More fundamentally, however, there’s worth in remembering from whence we come. In other words, while looking at the present and near-present, and keeping an eye on what future scenarios we can imagine, we can hold onto our values. In the context of public broadcasting, these values are - in a nutshell - to focus mass communications on deepening democracy and development. These public interest values remain all the more valid in a time when the historical informational “service” model is being expanded to also function as a public interest communicational mode. Keeping these ideals aloft helps state-owned broadcasters steer a course between delivering government-interest and commercial-interest content. They help to define the meaning of universal access in the face of financial pressures and socio-economic divides. They empower people to see the big picture and to bring concerted action to bear on it. In sum, they help us reinvent “public service broadcasting” in a fashion appropriate to its contemporary possibilities. Roll on digitisation in Southern Africa - and the transformation of at least some state-owned broadcasters to become leaders in this process." ("Summing up", page 53-54) more

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Mapping the Void: A State-By-State Media Assessment Report on South Sudan and Selected Northern States

John Gacie, Richard Mogga, Mac Maika

Consortium on Promoting Freedom of Expression and Civil Society Involvment in Developing Media Legislation in Sudan (2009), 83 pp.

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Youth Engaging with the World: Media Communication and Social Change

Thomas Tufte, Florencia Enghel (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2009), 341 pp.

"The Yearbook 2009 focuses on youth as a generation of actors and citizens who are increasingly exposed to and making use of media/ICT for entertainment and informational purposes, for social networking and mobilization, and for knowledge sharing. At the core of this creativity and these innovative ... more

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Sowing the Seeds: A Study of Media Coverage of Agriculture and Women in the Agricultural Sector in Three African Countries: Mali, Uganda and Zambia

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2009), 27 pp.

This report documents the scant attention that agriculture and women agriculturalists have received from news media.

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Journalismuswelten: Ein Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen in 17 Ländern

Thomas Hanitzsch, Josef Seethaler

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 57, issue 4 (2009), pp. 464-483

"Der vorliegende Aufsatz berichtet erste deskriptive Befunde aus einer multinationalen Studie zum Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen. Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden insgesamt 1700 Journalisten in 17 Ländern zu ihren professionellen Orientierungen befragt. Im Vordergrund standen Fragen nach dem Verst ... more

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Contemporary Issues in South Africa: A Toolkit for Journalists

Tanya Farber

Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2009), 60 pp.

"In today’s climate in the media industry, reporters are expected to cover a broad range of issues. They no longer have the luxury of concentrating on a small piece of a larger puzzle, and at times, they may feel as if they need a better understanding of the background information before moving fo ... more

Video in Development Key Guidance

Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development Inspiring Practice

Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding Inspiring Practice

Video in Development
Key Guidance

Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
Inspiring Practice

Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
Inspiring Practice