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Community Performance: An Introduction

Petra Kuppers
London; New York: Routledge (2007), xii, 238 pp.
"Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups, this book includes: international case studies and first-person stories by practitioners and participants; sample exercises, both practical and reflective; study questions; excerpts of illustrative material from theorists ... more
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Mapping Declarations and Statements on Communication for Development

London: Panos London (2007), 50 pp.
Extracted and summarised texts from selected international declarations and statements on the role of media and communication in democratisation and development, from the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) to the 10th UN Inter-agency round table on communication for development.
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Improving Health Through Effective Ommunication

Jackie Davies, Mel Barnes
London; Reading, UK: Healthlink Worldwide; Gamos (2007), 31 pp.
"This paper outlines and provides evidence for the effects of five key approaches to health information and communication in relation to the health-related MDGs; according to the different stakeholders involved, i.e. Health policy makers, health researchers, health care providers, patients and citiz ... more
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Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: A Summary Report Based on 53 Country Surveys
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Glen Farrell, Shafika Isaaks
Washington, DC: World Bank (2007), xi, 58 pp.
"This project seeks to gather together in a single resource the most relevant and useful information on ICT in education activities in Africa. Key questions: How are ICTs currently being used in the education sector in Africa, and what are the strategies and policies related to this use? What are th ... more
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Evaluating Mass Media Health Communication: The Use of Evaluation Data to Improve Theory

Joel Lehmann
Freiburg (CH): Universität Freiburg (2007), 127 pp.
"This paper discussed the possibility to improve public communication campaign theory, by making use of data obtained through mass media health communication campaign evaluations. The idea of an ‘engineering’ approach to campaign design, where theory and scientific findings are systematically us ... more
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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
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Nalaka Gunawardene, Frederick Noronha (eds.)
Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok; Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.
"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res ... more
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The Last Laugh: Humour in Community Activism

Marty Branagan
Community Development Journal, volume 42, issue 4 (2007), pp. 470-481
"This paper uses Australian case studies to demonstrate the use of humour in social justice and eco-pax 1 movements. Drawing from the literature and from personal experience in activist street-theatre over more than twenty years, the author discusses the rationale and motivations behind humorous act ... more
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Violência e pobreza no cinema brasileiro recente: Reflexões sobre a idéia de espetáculo

Esther Hamburger
Novos Estudos, issue 78 (2007), pp. 113-128
"O artigo analisa obras recentes de ficção ou documentário que acentuaram a presença visual de cidadãos pobres, negros, moradores de favelas e bairros de periferia no cinema e na televisão brasileiros. Ao trazer esse universo à atenção pública, esses filmes intensificaram e estimularam uma ... more
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Inclusion Through Media

Tony Dowmunt, Mark Dunford, Nicole van Hemert (eds.)
London: Goldsmiths, University of London (2007), 287 pp.
"The 'Inclusion Through Media' partnership has involved many imaginative and productive collaborations between creative media professionals and young and excluded people in cities and regions of the UK and Europe. Using media as a means of working with, and empowering marginalised people in their co ... more
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Sin comunicación no hay desarrollo: Comunicación ¿para quién y para qué desarrollo?

Jimena Lynch Cisneros (ed.)
Lima: Calandria (2007), 194 pp.
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Media for All: Subtitling for the Deaf, Audio Description, and Sign Language

Jorge Díaz Cintas, Pilar Orero, Aline Remael (eds.)
Amsterdam: Rodopi (2007), 255 pp.
"This book, a first in its kind, offers a survey of the present state of affairs in media accessibility research and practice. It focuses on professional practices which are relative newcomers within the field of audiovisual translation and media studies, namely, audio description for the blind and ... more
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Participative Web and User-Created Content: Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Graham Vickery
Paris: OECD (2007), 124 pp.
"Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in worldwid ... more
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Development Journalism: An Introduction

Dinesh C. Sharma
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) (2007), 212 pp.
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Preventive Journalism and Coverage of Risk Situations: A Media Professional's Guide to Avian Influenza

Brasilia: ANDI (2007), 51 pp.
"This publication is intended to serve as a guide to journalists in different media segments on preventive, risk, and crisis communication. Although the focus is on a potential future influenza pandemic in Latin America arising from avian flu, the pages that follow set forth concepts and tools to as ... more
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A Mine of Information? Improving Communication Around the Rio Tinto Ilmenite in Madagascar

Rod Harbinson
London: Panos (2007), 20 pp.
"The Rio Tinto ilmenite mine in the Fort Dauphin area of southern Madagascar is the first of a number of mining projects planned for Madagascar with the support of the World Bank. The effects of this mine are widespread, not only on the people and economy of the region but also on its unique environ ... more
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Initiating and Managing Schoolnets

Ellie Meleisea (ed.)
Bangkok: UNESCO (2007), 70 pp.
"This volume provides an overall summary of the lessons learned during the implementation of the UNESCO SchoolNet project, “Strengthening the Use of ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in the ASEAN Context”, which was funded by Japanese Funds-in-Trust (JFIT) and the ASEAN Foundation. The UNESCO SchoolN ... more
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Étude sur les besoins en formation des formateurs à la radio rurale
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Wageningen: Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale (CTA) (2007), 132 pp.
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Report of the West African Media Workshop: Effective Coverage of the Third ECOWAS Ministerial Conference on Biotechnology

USAID (2007), 26 pp.
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Knowledge Sharing for Rural Development: Challenges, Experiences and Methods

Sally Burch (coord.)
Quito: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (alai) (2007), 73 pp.
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Talking About a Revolution: Climate Change and the Media

Mike Shanahan
London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2007), 4 pp.