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Las audiencias de programación religiosa radial en el cono este de Lima - Perú

José María Rojo García

Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Comunicación y Lenguaje, Magister Thesis (2005), 217 pp.

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Comunicação e cultura das minorias

Raquel Paiva, Alexandre Barbalho (eds.)

São Paulo: Paulus (2005), 219 pp.

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Keeping an Eye on the Campaign: Monitoring Media Coverage of the 16 Days of Activism: No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign

Gemma Harries, William Bird

Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, issue 66 (2005), pp. 90-96

"This focus analyses strengths and weaknesses of the media coverage of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign. The authors explain the current media representation of gender-based violence and the changes that need to be made to ensure that gender-based violence issues are covered more substantially and r ... more

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Women in Theatre for Development in Cameroon: Participation, Contributions and Limitations

Emelda Ngufor Samba

Bayreuth: Thielmann & Breitinger (2005), 245 pp.

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere

Sonia Livingstone (ed.)

Bristol: intellect (2005), 244 pp.

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Best Practices in Trauma Reporting: Ideas and Insights from Award-Winning Newspaper Articles
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Kevin Kawamoto

New York: Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (2005), 26 pp.

"The goal of this best practices guide is not to provide a template for trauma reporting, although the specific examples should be useful for journalists working on similar stories or faced with similar ethical dilemmas related to trauma reporting. The goal is to help journalists produce professiona ... more

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Media and Ethnic Minorities

Valerie Alia, Simone Bull

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2005), 204 pp.

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Women's Access to Radio in Mali: Women Survey Analysis Report

Devtech Systems; Women in Development (WID); USAID (2005), 64 pp.

"Nearly one woman in ten does not listen to radio at all. However, the results of the survey indicate that over half (51.4%) of women does not listen at all, or seldom listens to radio. This situation is not due to the competition from television, but rather to the fact that the majority of women do ... more

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Médias à l’école: Manuel de l’enseignant. Guide d’encadrement

Ndiaga Loum, Mamadou Ndao, Michel Senecal

Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2005), 165 pp.

"Les médias sont certes une des vitrines d'accès à la formation citoyenne puisque l'information devrait fournir la matière première permettant aux citoyens d'exercer en démocratie leur rôle de manière éclairée. Il ne suffit pas seulement de pratiquer les médias mais il faut aussi, surtout ... , et d'abord les connaître. C'est à cette double exigence que tente de répondre le présent manuel. Pour ce faire, le manuel est subdivisé en trois sections dont les deux premières offrent suffisamment de matière permettant d'accéder à une large connaissance des médias et d'inciter à une réflexion critique quant à la portée des moyens d'information et de communication dans un processus de démocratisation. L'effort de théorisation et de conceptualisation que susciteront chez l'élève les deux premières sections de ce manuel précède une troisième section consacrée à l'acquisition de savoir-faire permettant une initiation à chacune des étapes de réalisation d'un journal. L'accent mis dans ce cas-ci sur la presse en général et le journal en particulier pourrait éventuellement servir de repère pour de futures expériences d'apprentissage dans d'autres domaines médiatiques, comme par exemple la radio, la télévision ou l'Internet. Le lien est ainsi trouvé entre la connaissance générale des médias et la pratique concrète d'appropriation du média qu'est le journal. Le souci de cette articulation logique entre ces connaissances théoriques et pratiques permet ainsi de faciliter la réalisation de l'objectif global du projet, étant entendu que la formation d'un esprit critique est un préalable à l'exercice rationnel et efficace de la citoyenneté et qui plus est d'une plus grande démocratisation de l'espace médiatique. Mais avant de revenir en détails sur les objectifs généraux et spécifiques de chacune des fiches contenues dans ce manuel, il nous paraît important de jeter un regard sur le contexte, mondial d'abord, et sénégalais ensuite, de l'évolution de l'espace médiatique, afin d'y trouver des éléments d'argumentation en faveur de l'idée du projet d'introduction de l'éducation des médias dans le cadre scolaire." (Introduction générale, page 13) more

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Los estilos de vida en el Perú: Cómo somos y pensamos los peruanos del siglo XXI

Rolando Arellano Cueva

Lima: Arellano Marketing (2005), 209 pp.

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The Role of Turkish Local Radio in the Construction of a Youth Community

Ece Algan

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 3, issue 2 (2005), pp. 75-92

"This study investigates the role of Turkish commercial local radio in the construction of a youth community in the city of Sanliurfa, which is located in the poor rural south-eastern region near the Syrian border. Through in-depth interviews with radio listeners and analysis of their interactions v ... more

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La violencia contra los niños en el ciberespacio

Deborah Muir

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2005), 97 pp.

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Puppetry in Education and Therapy: Unlocking Doors to the Mind and Heart

Matthew Bernier, Judith O'Hare (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse (2005), xvi,, 212 pp.

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Targeting International Audiences: Current and Future Approaches to International Broadcasting Research

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)

Bonn: Conference of International Boradcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) (2005), 202 pp.

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Journalists talk about media violence against children: A succint and clear study

Patricia Orozco, Dominga Tercero

Managua: Save the Children; CENIDH (2005), 8 pp.

"An increase in the information related to children and adolescents provided by the media has been observed in Nicaragua in the past five years. But when children and adolescents occupy a predominant place in the media it is because they appear linked to acts of physical, psychological or sexual vio ... more