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Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
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Helen Darbishire, Thomas Carson

New York: Open Society Institute (2006), 188 pp.

"This report records and analyzes the results of a study in which partners of the Justice Initiative in 14 countries filed a total of 1,926 requests for information. In each country, seven different requesters twice submitted up to 70 questions to 18 public institutions. Requesters included NGOs, jo ... more

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IFJ Research Findings on Reporting HIV/AIDS in Six Countries in Africa and Asia

Chansok Lay, Arul Selvan, Tunde Aremu et al.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 81 pp.

"Media monitoring found a low incidence of HIV/AIDS stories across most media in the six countries. Researchers variously described the incidence of HIV stories during the media monitoring as “small” (Cambodia and the Philippines), “miniscule” (South Africa), and “infrequent” (India). In ... more

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Media in Situations of Conflict: Roles, Challenges and Responsibility

Adolf E. Mbaine (ed.)

Kampala: Fountain (2006), xi, 155 pp.

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Filmheft Fokus Afrika: Zulu Love Letter

Reinhard Kleber

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2006), 22 pp.

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Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa
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Adrian Hadland, Mike Aldridge, Joshua Ogada

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2006), 211 pp.

"This book, compiled by South African experts in community broadcasting with the assistance of many key figures in the sector, traces the two-decade campaign for local-level television in South Africa. It highlights the development of policy, reviews existing international models and spells out the ... more

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Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies

Katrin Voltmer (ed.)

London: Routledge (2006), 262 pp.

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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film ... more

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From the Margins to Mainstream: African ICT Reporting Comes of Ages

Guy Berger

Grahamstown: Highway Africa (2006), 110 pp.

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Public Service Broadcasting in the Age of Globalization

Indrajit Banerjee, Kalinga Seneviratne

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2006), 348 pp.

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A Rough Guide to Small-Scale and Self-Publishing

Colleen Higgs (ed.)

Cape Town: Centre for the Book (2005), 78 pp.

"This guide is one in a series of excellent resources published by the Community Publishing Project of the Centre of the Book in Cape Town. The project provides funding and technical support for small publishers, individual writers, and writers’ groups in South Africa and helps them to develop pub ... more

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Société numérique et développement en Afrique: Usages politiques et publiques

Jean-Jacques Gabas (ed.)

Paris: Karthala;GEMDEV (2005), 379 pp.

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation;HSRC Press;James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Achieving Social Change on Gender-Based Violence: A Report on the Impact Evaluation of Soul City's Fourth Series

Shereen Usdin, Escra Scheepers, Susan Goldstein, Garth Japhet

Social Science & Medicine, volume 61, issue 11 (2005), pp. 2434-2445

"The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication—a South African multi-media health promotion project—together with the National Network on Violence Against Women, formulated an intervention to address domestic violence. Recognising that behavioural change interventions aimed so ... more

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Telecentres, Access and Development: Experience and Lessons from Uganda and South Africa

Sarah Parkinson

Burton-on-Dunsmore; Ottawa; Kampala: ITDG Publishing;International Development Research Centre (IDRC);Fountain Publishers (2005), xxiii, 148 pp.

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A Resource Kit for Journalists: Children's Media Mentoring Project

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Project (2005), 39 pp.

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A Developing Connection: Bridging the Policy Gap Between the Information Society and Sustainable Development

Terry Willard, Maja Andjelkovic (eds.)

Winnipeg, Manitoba: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (2005), 210 pp.

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Media and Democracy: The KAF Democracy Report 2005

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) (ed.)

Bonn: Bouvier (2005), 323 pp.

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Reporting AIDS: An Analysis of Media Environments in Southern Africa

London: Panos (2005), 59 pp.

"This report shares the findings of five studies of media coverage of HIV/AIDS, carried out in Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe by the Panos London AIDS Programme, with the support of Johns Hopkins University. The studies aimed to explore some of the issues and tensions involved ... more

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So This is Democracy? Report on the State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2004

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2005), 203 pp.

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Soul Buddyz Club: Evaluation Report 2005

Parktown: Soul City, Institute for Health and Development Communication (2005), 39 pp.

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Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa Key Guidance

Transparency and Silence: A Survey of Access to Information Laws and Practices in Fourteen Countries
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Re-Visioning Television: Policy, Strategy and Models for the Sustainable Development of Community Television in South Africa
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