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Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology

Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisani Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana, Shanade Bianca Barnabas (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiii, 381 pp.

"This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and c ... more

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Traditional Media and Development Communication

K. Madhusudan (ed.)

New Dehli: Kanishka (2006), viii, 131 pp.

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Rethinking Indigenous Media: Rituals, ‘talking’ Drums and Orality as Forms of Public Communication in Uganda

Aaron Mushengyezi

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2003), pp. 107-117

"The current discourse on globalization has many far-reaching implications not only for African economics and politics, but also for the vital question of how we communicate in a ‘global village’. African governments and their development partners often tend to extrapolate communication models f ... more

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Communication, Education and Development: Exploring an African Cultural Setting

Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 2nd ed. (1997), 145 pp.

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On Printed Matter and Beyond: Media, Orality and Literacy

Kees Epskamp

Den Haag: Centre for the Study of Education in Developing Countries (CESO) (1995), 136 pp.

"In fact this paperback is about narration and about text in whatever form: spoken, written or printed. Or even better, this book is about the importance of narrative art. It therefore invests all kinds of storytelling, not only the person-to-person oral tradition, but also the mediated forms of sto ... rytelling. Is taken for granted that the radio is giving an extra dimension to the spoken word, like books are giving an extra dimension to the printed word, or the cinema or television are connecting texts and visuals again, like woodcut printings have done in the past. Stories from the oral tradition found their way to the mass media like movies, radio and television. Therefore a wide variety of media will be discussed in this book without showing any preference for one medium or another. The focus of interest is more on storytelling then on de media used to tell stories. It is about the athletics of words and the flexible relatedness between the various media. All these media make use of characters to present stories. Therefore characters with stereotyped traits are present in every medium that makes use of narrative or dramatic elements like comic books, photo novels and soap operas. Mass media have been taking over the role of traditional storytelling. Nowadays, it seems as if instead of listening to an individual storyteller, the global community sits down and have stories told by their favourite radio plays and television series like situation comedies and soap series. Some social scientists strongly reject this change in media consumption. They regret the changing patterns in spending leisure time. They regret for example the supposed decline of reading habits which has been considered as an effect of changing media consumption. And they are not the only ones to regret this. On the one hand there are the educationalists worrying about the latest statistics on literacy rates. These figures certainly do not show any worldwide improvements in literacy and numeracy. And there are the publishers too, who regret the declining reading habits. On a global scale the selling of books and other printed matter is at a decline. With an expanding media market, people are spending their leisure time in a more varied way leaving them less time to read. However, despite this conclusion the educational system in whatever country cannot do without a structured transfer of knowledge. And it seems that the most effective medium within the educational system still is the written word, being presented to the people by printed materials. Learning children as well as adults to read and write is the main preoccupation of as many multilateral aid organisations as national governments." (Pages 10-11) more

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Folk Media and Development Communication: Myths and Realities. A Report on Experiences in People's Communication in Mexico, India and the Philippines

Neville Jayaweera

Manila; Delhi: Asian Social Institute; Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) (1991), 92 pp.

"This book records and interprets, in a narrative form, how groups of villagers and fisherfolk in Manila (Philippines), in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu (India) and in the states of Tlaxacala, Oaxaca and Michoacan and in a suburb of Mexico City (all in Mexico) tried to bring about social change through ... more

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Philippine Folk Media in Development Communication

Victor T. Valbuena

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1986), vi, 128 pp.

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Traditional Forms of Communication and the Mass Media in India

Madhu Malik

UNESCO (1983), 101 pp.

"The purpose of the present study is to focus precisely on the relationship between folk and mass media, on actual experiments that have been conducted in India to receive an integration of the two, on problems that were encountered in the process of integration." The author lists documentary films ... more

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Music for Life's Sake: Education Through Music in Industrially Developing Societies. Priorities and Policies

S. Moore

The Hague: CESO (1983), 41 pp.

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Folk Media and Mass Media in Population Communication

Paris: UNESCO (1982), 59 pp.

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Tradition for Development: Indigenous Structures and Folk Media in Non-Formal Education

Ross Kidd, Nat Colletta (eds.)

Berlin: German Foundation for International Development (DSE); International Council for Adult Education (1980), 639 pp.

"Case studies and seminar reports are provided that "were presented at an international seminar to examine field experiences in using a culture-based approach to nonformal education. Part 1, containing an introductory paper and nine case studies, 'focuses on indigenous institutions and processes in ... more