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La mondialisation des médias contre la censure: Tiers monde et audiovisuel sans frontières
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Tristan Mattelart (ed.)

Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2002), 307 pp.

"La mondialisation des médias est souvent perçue comme une menace pour la souveraineté ou l'identité nationale des pays du Tiers Monde. Elle est en revanche rarement envisagée sous l'angle de ses effets potentiellement subversifs dans ceux de ces pays où le pouvoir, soucieux de son monopole po ... more

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Regional Media in Conflict: Case Studies in Local War Reporting

Alan Davis (ed.)

London: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2001), 128 pp.

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Women, Media and Violence: A WACC Women's Programme Production

London: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2001), 34 pp.

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InfoDev: Facilitating Communications in Response to HIV/AIDS in South-East-Asia

Geneva: UNAIDS (2001), 49 pp.

"Harnessed to its full potential, basic e-mail and Internet facilities can serve as a powerful tool in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In South-East Asia, UNAIDS has coordinated an infoDev project, a global grant programme funded and managed by the World Bank to promote innovative projects on the use of ... more

Illustrating Asia: Comics, Humor Magazines and Picture Books

John A. Lent (ed.)

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2001), ix, 249 pp.

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Advocacy for Social Justice: A Global Action and Reflection Guide

David Cohen, Rosa de la Vega, Gabrielle Watson

Oxford: Oxfam;Kumarian Press (2001), 346 pp.

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Community Theatre: Global Perspectives

Eugène Van Erven

London; New York: Routledge (2001), xiii, 269 pp.

"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 ... more

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New Role for the Press in Indonesia: A Study of the Newly Established Magazine Pantau

Ingela Rutberg

Malmö: Malmö University, Communication for Development, Thesis (2001), 50 pp.

"In Indonesia press freedom is still just a few years old. When president Suharto fell in May 1998 the democratisation process begun. Hundreds of new newspapers and magazines were established, but many of them had difficulties to survive for economic reasons. The well-established daily newspapers an ... more

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Financial Considerations in Scientific Publishing in Developing Countries: The Case for the People’s Republic of China

Steven K. Luk

Proceedings of the Second ICSU-UNESCO International Conference on Electronic Publishing in Science, held in association with CODATA, IFLA and ICSTI at UNESCO House, Paris 20–23 February 2001 (2001), 4 pp.

"In this paper, I will try to briefly summarize the present state of electronic publishing of science in the People’s Republic of China, and to explore how Chinese scientific publishers seem to be more successful in resolving the very same issues that confront their Western counterparts." (Introdu ... more

Voices of Courage: A Collection of International Stories and Experiences

Angela Ann Zukowski, Frances Forde Plude (ed.)

Brussels: UNDA (2001), 287 pp.

Child Abuse on the Internet: Ending the Silence

Carlos A. Arnaldo (ed.)

Paris; New York: UNESCO;Berghahn (2001), 220 pp.

"Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children through misuse of the media and the internet are complex yet closely related issues. Not only do they necessitate complex solutions, they also demand a social response from all sectors of society. This volume records the response of these various s ... more

Educommunication: Around the World in 50 Stories

Brussels: UNDA (2001), 102 pp.

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Urheberrecht an der Taiwan-Strasse

Agnes S. Schick-Chen

Hamburg: Institut für Asienkunde (2001), 231 pp.

Connecting with Communities: A Sourcebook on Public Journalism

Alecks P. Pabico, Yasmin D. Arquiza, Ma. Diosa Labiste

Evelio B. Javier Foundation;Ford Foundation (2001), x, 57 pp.

"Connecting with communities is a map for journalists wishing to expand their coverage, add depth to their news perspective, and begin to write the kind of stories that could help transform communities into self-determining ones. The sourcebook also presents some pretty good arguments, through six c ... more

Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diaspora

Stuart Cunningham, John Sinclair (eds.)

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2001), 244 pp.

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