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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from the One Laptop Per Child Program

Julián P. Cristia, Pablo Ibarrarán, Santiago Cueto, Ana Santiago, Eugenio Severin
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2012), 40 pp.
"Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of implementat ... more
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Measuring Community Radio Audiences

Lawrie Hallett
In: Radio Evolution: Conference Proceedings
Madalena Oliveira, Pedro Portela, Luís António Santos (eds.)
Braga: University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (2012), pp. 377-386
"This paper will use the example of the approach taken by UK Community Radio station, 'Future Radio' to obtain both quantitative data primarily through street surveys and qualitative data through on-line questionnaires, exploring why the station felt such research to be both necessary and beneficial ... more
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Memory and Political Change

Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt (eds.)
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." ( ... more
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Interactive Radio for Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners
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Josh Woodard
USAID; FHI 360 (2012), xiii, 195 pp.
"This toolkit is designed to help USAID projects and other implementing organizations use interactive radio to augment the traditional agricultural extension services they are providing. In addition, it aims to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of what is needed to create compe ... more
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Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media House Policy. Book 2: Practical Resources

Sarah Macharia, Pamela Morinière (eds.)
World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 66 pp.
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Reaching the Community Through Community Radio: Readjusting to the New Realities. A Case Study Investigating the Changing Nature of Community Access and Participation in Three Community Radio Stations in Three Countries New Zealand, Nepal and Sri Lanka

Ahmed Zaki Nafiz
Canterbury: University of Canterbury, Doctoral Thesis (2012), xii, 331 pp.
"In this case study, I have studied three community radio stations- RS in Nepal, KCR in Sri Lanka and SCR in New Zealand- investigating how the radio management policies are positively or negatively, affecting community access and participation. The study shows that in their effort to stay economica ... more
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Gender Pay Gap in Journalism: Wage Indicator Global Report 2012

Amsterdam; Brussels; Bratislava: Wage Indicator Foundation; International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) (2012), 18 pp.
"The main purpose of the first Wage Indicator Global Wage Report – Gender Pay Gap in Journalism is to compare international and gender wage differentials for the journalist workforce. In addition to wages comparison, other important areas of journalists’ employment are studied, namely: (a) emplo ... more
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Minority Voices Project: Final Evaluation

Teresa Hanley
Minority Rights Group (2012), vii, 46 pp.
"Minority Voices began in January 2009 and ran for three years. It implemented the vast majority of its planned activities and produced the planned outputs. These include the development of an online hub or newsroom, 11 training workshops, production of reports and briefing materials on minority and ... more
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Does Gender Determine Journalists’ Professional Views? A Reassessment Based on Cross-National Evidence

Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch
European Journal of Communication, volume 27, issue 3 (2012), pp. 257-277
"Research into journalism and gender to date has found somewhat contradictory evidence as to the ways in which women and men practice journalism. Some scholars claim that women have inherently different concepts and practices of journalism and that this has led to a feminization of journalism, other ... more
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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative

Brilliant Mhlanga
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226
"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish ... more
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Feminist Media: Participatory Spaces, Networks and Cultural Citizenship

Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2012), 291 pp.
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Reading Habits in Armenia: Results of a Survey on Readership Carried Out in December 2012

Ruzan Tonoyan
[no publisher] (2012), 60 pp.
"About 39 percent started to read regularly at elementary school age, and 44 percent at primary and high school age. As compared to the last five years, 37 percent of respondents stopped reading completely, 43 percent read less, 6 percent read as much as they read before, and only 14 percent said th ... more
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Attribute Agenda Setting, Priming and the Media’s Influence on How to Think About a Controversial Issue

Sei-Hill Kim, Miejeong Han, Doo-Hun Choi, Jeong-Nam Kim
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 1 (2012), pp. 43-59
"Using a controversial issue in South Korea, a government plan to relocate the administrative capital, this study examines attribute agenda setting. Linking survey data to an analysis of news coverage, more specifically, the article explores how television news has influenced the way the public eval ... more
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Media Use in Indonesia: Findings from the 2012 International Audience Research Project

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 41 slides
"Conclusions: Television remains the most important medium by far, both in terms of overall reach and as a news source. Internet access - heavily driven by mobile take-up - has reached critical mass, especially among key demographics. This phenomenon is national in nature and not just confined to mo ... more
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Something to be Glad About? Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media

Musa Oswald Rikhotso, Sandra Roberts
Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa; Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2012), viii, 46 pp.
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Nigeria Media Use 2012

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 2 pp.
"The Nigerian media market is dominated by radio and television, though mobile and Internet technologies are increasing in importance. Almost 9 in 10 Nigerians (87.4%) say they listened to radio in the past week, and nearly three-quarters (72.5%) say they watched TV. Though incidence of radio use is ... more
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Crónica migrante 2011

Bogotá: Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) (2012), 57 pp.
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Home of Hope: Voicings, Whiteness, and the Technological Gaze

Yahui Zhang, Radhika Gajjala, Sean Watkins
Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 36, issue 3 (2012), pp. 202-221
"This article is an attempt to explore the issues of online representations of orphans in China and India in the intersection of power, voice, and placement. Textual and visual representations of orphans at www.homeofhopeindia.org and www.homeofhope.org are analyzed using the theoretical frameworks ... more
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Cine

Santiago de Chile: Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (2012), 14 pp.
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Exile Media, Global News Flows and Democratization: The Role of Democratic Voice of Burma's 2010 Elections

Julianne Pidduck
Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 5 (2012), pp. 537-554
"This article explores the links between transnational media flows and social and political change in authoritarian regimes through a conjunctural study of Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a Burmese exile media organization. Drawing on observation and interviews conducted at DVB's Oslo studio during ... more