"Examining the communications media and its relationship to political change in Southeast Asia, this study endeavours to provide both a regional comparative analysis and an interpretation of the mass communication media in the wake of 9/11." (Publisher description)
"Seit Beginn der demokratischen Transformation 1993 begann ein Liberalisierungskurs des kambodschanischen Mediensystems. Viele neue Medienunternehmen entstanden. Trotz dieser positiven Entwicklung, lassen sich zahlreiche Defizite feststellen. Die Medien sind im Besitz der Regierung, die Inhalte werd
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en kontrolliert und die Journalisten sind nicht ausreichend qualifiziert. Diese Defizite werden die nächsten Jahre aufhören. Ein großer Schritt in Richtung demokratisches System ist nicht zu erwarten. Einleitend zeigt dieser Artikel die Struktur des Medien Systems von Kambodscha. Er ist Grundlage für die nächsten Artikel. Die nächsten Artikel analysieren, in welcher Hinsicht die Massenmedien den Khmer-Rouge-Prozess unterstützen. 15 Studenten beantworteten diese Frage aus unterschiedlicher Sicht. So kommen die politischen Akteure, die Medienunternehmen und die Rezipienten in den Fokus. Die Studenten werden zeigen, ob Massenmedien zur Akzeptanz des Khmer-Rouge-Prozesses beitragen. Rouge-Prozesses beitragen." (Zusammenfassung)
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"The Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy provides a comprehensive overview of public diplomacy and national image and perception management, from the efforts to foster pro-West sentiment during the Cold War to the post-9/11 campaign to "win the hearts and minds" of the Muslim world. Editors Nancy
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Snow and Philip Taylor present materials on public diplomacy trends in public opinion and cultural diplomacy as well as topical policy issues. The latest research in public relations, credibility, soft power, advertising, and marketing is included and institutional processes and players are identified and analyzed. While the field is dominated by American and British research and developments, the book also includes international research and comparative perspectives from other countries." (Publisher description)
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"The media has a crucial role to play in any HIV and AIDS program and is a central actor in disseminating accurate information as well as shaping community attitudes towards those most affected. Over the past two years, the media has played an active role in “destigmatizing” the virus and helpin
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g to reduce discrimination against those affected. To prevent a resurgence in HIV infection, the media’s partnership with government ministries and agencies now needs to be strengthened. We must ensure that recent lessons are not forgotten, especially among the hundreds of thousands of young people entering the workforce each year." (Foreword)
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"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese
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arch, Communication and Evangelization, and Social Communication in Religious Traditions of Asia. The 230-page volume also gives some analyses on the communication dimension of the Asian Synod (1998) and the related document "Ecclesia in Asia." The new edition also contains articles on Communication Theology, Communication Spirituality and reports on two special OSC initiatives on the academic level: the Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication based at St. John's University (Bangkok), and the Program on Pastoral/ Social Communication at the Graduate School and Theological Faculty of the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (Manila)." (Publisher description)
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"Internews Network, a U.S.-based organization that for more than two decades has trained journalists around the world, in 2002 received funding from the United States Agency for International Development to launch a project in Africa to help media improve their coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Cal
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led “Local Voices,” the project expanded to Ethiopia in 2005 and India in 2006. In 2004, Internews Europe started a similar project in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia, “Turnaround Time,” with funds from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. That project evolved to do trainings in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. This report evaluates Local Voices and Turnaround Time and aims to help strengthen the continuing training programs [...] Both projects had a similar, overarching goal: To increase the quality and quantity of HIV/AIDS coverage, improving the environment for prevention, treatment and care. Although we have no way of assessing whether the projects had an impact on a societal level, over 1000 journalists went through carefully designed workshops, subsequently printing or broadcasting more than 5600 HIV/AIDS-related stories that Internews mentors often helped produce. Journalists clearly benefited from the trainings at each site, and many praised the program for fundamentally altering how they approach their jobs." (Executive summary)
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"Mit den ersten freien Wahlen im Jahr 1993 trat Kambodscha nach Jahren der Unterdrückung und des Krieges ein schwieriges Erbe an. Mitte der 90er Jahre vollzogen sich gleichzeitig drei Prozesse: die Friedenskonsolidierung, die Industrialisierung und die Demokratisierung. Welche Rolle Massenmedien be
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i diesen Entwicklungen einnehmen, ob sie diese hemmen oder beflügeln, ob Medien in ihrer Arbeit behindert oder ihnen freien Lauf gelassen wird, dies zeigt die vorliegende Analyse anhand des kambodschanischen Beispiels. Kambodscha entpuppt sich hierbei als komplexer Sonderfall, der aufgrund der zeitlich parallel ablaufenden Prozesse aufschlussreiche Ergebnisse erwarten lässt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By r
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epresenting themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention. Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume's sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country's brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume's closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term "digital age" and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international." (Back cover)
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