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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
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Leif Packalén, Sharad Sharma

Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.

"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s ... more

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Information for All Programme (IFAP): Report 2006/2007

Paris: UNESCO (2007), 91 pp.

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Media Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities for the Professional Development of Journalists. Working Group Report

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 19 pp.

"This report represents input from twenty-three practitioners who have observed, planned, and implemented media education programs of the U.S. and other Western governments, as well as those of private funders. The group discussed broad lessons learned and specific recommendations for policymakers, ... more

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Production Costs of Audiovisual Works in Developing Countries

Emmanuel Cocq (coord.)

Paris: UNESCO (2007), 110 pp.

"This study aims at facilitating cost determination and levels of support for local content production in developing countries. It is based on the collection of detailed production costs for feature films for theatrical or television release, television fictions and works of animation, documentaries ... more

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Making Poverty the Story: Time to Involve the Media in Poverty Reduction

Angela Wood, Jon Barnes

London: Panos London (2007), 64 pp.

"According to this report the media in low-income countries is too often left aside as a serious player in the fight against poverty. ‘It’s time that those active in poverty reduction realise the media is a public good and in a prime position to monitor whether poverty reduction is taking place. ... more

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University Journalism Education: A Global Challenge

Ellen Hume

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 35 pp.

"This report explores the current state of university-based journalism education and describes avenues for engaging those international media developers by highlighting three strategies: • Universities are important for entry-level journalism training. International media developers should conside ... more

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Media Law Assistance: Establishing an Enabling Environment for Free and Independent Media to Flourish

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 23 pp.

"The working group considered how international media development programs—particularly those that are U.S.-supported—have succeeded or failed, discussed best practices, and made recommendations. Journalist Ann McFeatters served as the rapporteur for the meeting. The discussion focused on severa ... more

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Publishing American Values: The Franklin Book Programs as Cold War Cultural Diplomacy

Louise S. Robbins

Library Trends, volume 55, issue 3 (2007), pp. 638-650

"In 1951 librarians from the American Library Association's International Relations Committee and publishers from the American Book Publishers Council Foreign Trade Committee met at the Library of Congress to discuss how to meet the "need for books in developing countries." The nonprofit Franklin Bo ... more

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De-Colonising Journalism Curricula: A Research & “development” Perspective

Evangelia Papoutsaki

Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2007), pp. 79-87

"This paper argues that there is a need to decolonise journalism curricula and practices from the prevailing Western models. Putting journalism curricula in the wider context of higher education in developing and non-Western countries is an important step towards this direction. The paper looks at j ... more

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Toward Economic Sustainability of the Media in Developing Countries

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 27 pp.

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Media and Communications in the Third World

Zahid Hussain, Vanita Ray (eds.)

New Dehli: Kanishka (2007), xix, 249 pp.

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The Copy/South Dossier: Issues in the Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Copyright in the Global South

Alan Story, Colin Darch, Deborah Halbert

Canterbury: University of Kent Law School, Copy/South Research Group (2006), 207 pp.

"This unique dossier was assembled by the activist Copy South Research Group, a loosely-affiliated group of researchers based in a number of countries across the South and the North who seek to research the inner workings of the global copyright system and its effects on the Global South. The dossie ... more

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HIV/AIDS Media Guide: IFJ Media Guide and Research Report on the Media's Reporting of HIV/AIDS
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Ruth Pollard, Emma Walters

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2006), 27 pp.

"The guide is divided into three parts: the basics, the media and more about HIV. It provides answers to frequently asked questions about HIV and AIDS, treatments and diagnoses. Other sections cover the history of the virus, transmission, treatments, opportunistic infections and a chronological acco ... more

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The Open Access (open Journal Systems) Paradigm and the Production of Scholarly Journals in Developing Countries

Samuel Kwaku Smith Esseh

Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University, Master Thesis (2006), viii, 76 pp.

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Annual Review

London: Book Aid International (2006), 15 pp.

"Annual report of the major UK book charity Book Aid International (BAI), which provides an overview of its work each year, supporting libraries and literate environments in the countries of the South. During the course of 2006 it sent over half a million high-quality books and journal to developing ... more

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Caught in the Web or Lost in the Textbook? Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media

Éric Bruillard, Bente Aamotsbakken, Susanne V. Knudsen, Mike Horsley (eds.)

International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) (2006), 485 pp.

This volume gathers contributions presented during the 8th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held in Caen (France) in October 2005. The conference reader contains a wide range of contributions from industrialised, transitional and developing countries.

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The Literature of the Book: Publishing Development

Ian Montagnes

Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community, volume 15, issue 2 (2005), pp. 92-94

"A short, critically annotated listing of significant literature in two categories: (i) books that examine the environment of publishing in developing countries, and (ii) books and training manuals that have been written specifically to assist publishers in those countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishin ... more

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Incommunicado Reader

Geert Lovink, Soenk Zehle (eds.)

Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2005), 192 pp.

"Aiming to bring some of the network-cultural forms of collaboration into ICT debates dominated by standard policy and research procedure, the Incommunicado project does not offer a univocal master-narrative of what’s wrong with the world of ICT, or of how it should be. Members of the Incommunicad ... more

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