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Rural women's radio listening behavior and program preferences in SNNPRS, the case of Sidama and Gedeo Zones
Journal of Media and Communication Studies, volume 12, issue 4 (2020), pp. 39-45
"The objective of the study was to identify rural women's radio program preferences and listening behaviours. Survey was used to gather information from 200 rural women selected through multistage sampling from Sidama and Gedeo Zones. Descriptive statistic such as frequency and percentage were used
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From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 6: 2424 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser
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Memoria anual 2019
Sucre: ACLO (2020), 88 pp.
"Las acciones descritas corresponden al primer año del PEI 2019 - 2021, que pone énfasis en cambios en la vida de las personas con quienes hemos desarrollado diferentes acciones alineadas a los cinco desafíos. Al inicio se describe el contexto en el que se han desarrollado las acciones. Luego se
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The Role of Community Radios in Information Dissemination to Rural Women in South Africa
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58
"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w
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Wörterbuch Land- und Rohstoffkonflikte
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2019), 323 pp.
"Globale Transformationsprozesse wie steigende Rohstoff- und Nahrungsmittelpreise, die Finanzkrise und der Klimawandel haben seit Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu tiefgreifenden Veränderungen in der Landnutzung und den Landbesitzverhältnissen beigetragen. Konflikte um Land und Rohstoffe stehen seit
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‘I didn’t read many books’: Chinese rural women’s reception of ‘born-digital’ social media and community engagement
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2019), pp. 343-365
"Currently, research on older Chinese rural women’s reading activities through social media is scarce. This paper, based on a 2015 ethnographic study in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha, responds to this disparity. It highlights some of the reading choices and sources shared by a group o
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Das neue digitale Landleben: Smart und innovativ statt abgehängt und analog
Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau-Verlag (2019), 182 pp.
"Was hilft gegen die Landflucht? Digitale Strategien können ländliche Räume vitalisieren. Die Autorin begibt sich auf einen Landspaziergang durch zukünftige digitale Welten: Glasfaser, Offene Daten und Sensoren im Internet der Dinge tauchen ebenso auf wie smarte Mobilität, Roboter in der Gesund
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The Business of Chin Media: News Audiences Challenges Survival
Deep Insights
New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2019), 90 pp.
"This report analyses the Chin media sector. It is based on research conducted by MDIF from late 2018 through December 2019, as well as a quantitative and qualitative survey conducted by Myanmar Survey Research (MSR) in May 2019. The report provides data on the Chin media operations themselves, as w
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Radio, Conflict and Land Grabbing in Sierra Leone: Communicating Rights and Preventing Violence Through Drama
Media, War & Conflict, volume 12, issue 4 (2019), pp. 373-391
"With a focus on entertainment education, this article sheds light on the effects of radio drama in addressing conflict over land governance. The discussion is built around the broadcast of Bush Wahala radio series during the recent land acquisition process that has taken place in Sierra Leone. Thro
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Acceso a internet y ruralidad: El caso de Macharetí en Bolivia
La Paz: Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS) (2019), 81 pp.
"Que se haya establecido en primer lugar el uso de la aplicación WhatsApp nos muestra la importancia de las redes en la comunicación personal, afectiva, familiar, en el trabajo, la economía y la organización de las personas. El Facebook denota la importancia e las redes abiertas, sin embargo, ta
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Community Radio in Rural Development in Northeastern Ghana: Experiences of Radio Gaakii in the Saboba District
International Research Journal of Social Sciences, volume 7, issue 5 (2018), pp. 1-12
"This research paper draws on the theory of development communication to explore the relationship between community radio broadcast and community development in Northern Ghana. It traces the history of development communication practice in Ghana and its application in Ghana's rural development effor
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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the
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O “Programa do Galinho” na Rádio Educadora do Maranhão
Radiofonias: Revista de Estudos em Mídia Sonora, volume 12, issue 3 (2018), pp. 148-162
"A intenção deste artigo é refletir sobre a resistência das práticas comunitárias, com forte presença da oralidade primária e secundária (ONG, 1998; ZUMTHOR, 1993), no âmbito das relações entre pessoas dos meios rural e urbano em contato com a radiodifusão. O corpus é o “Programa do
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Sistematización: Prácticas Educomunicativas. Programa de Educación Rural (PER)
Bogotá: Grupo Comunicarte (2018), 70 pp.
Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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Thoughts on a Critical Theory of Rural Communication
Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 27 pp.
"[The author] underscores how important an analytical category the rural is: rather than a dismissed backwater of a normative urban, the rural emerges here as a vibrant space, a pregnant category, a pressing concern. The elements of a critical theory of the rural presented here underscore how comple
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Makutano Junction: A Village Soap Opera for Kenyan TV. An Interview with Producer and Mediae.org Director and Co-Founder David Campbell
Architecture and Culture, volume 5, issue 1 (2017), pp. 99-113
"Makutano Junction is an ‘edutainment’ soap opera made for local TV stations in Kenya and other East African countries. The show is about a fictional peri-urban village and the people who live in it. The program is made in Kenya, but was devised and is produced by Mediae, a UK based company that
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Community Radio for Change
Bhubaneswar (IN): ActionAid; Young India (2017), 85 pp.
"ActionAid’s efforts of bring together communities radio stations from different states across the country in the recent National Consultation on Community Radio held at Bhubaneswar was quite useful to discuss the best practices of community radio stations, the challenges they face and the way for
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Audiencia radial rural a nivel nacional y perfil de consumo
Lima: CPI (2017), 4 pp.
"Con el objetivo de incluir a toda la población del país en las audiencias radiales, el Grupo RPP encargó una investigación a nivel nacional rural que representa el 22% de la población, según cifras oficiales del INEI. De este modo, al juntar los resultados de la audiencia de esta investigaci
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