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Towards an African Journalism Model: A Critical Historical Perspective

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 491-510
"Much of the scholarly literature regarding theories of journalism practice is premised on the tenets of the western model of liberal democracy. To the extent that this model is held to be universal, it hinders the analytical theorization of journalistic precepts that have evolved locally in most co ... more
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Report of First Pan African Conference on Curriculum, Literacy and Book Sector Development: Rebuilding Education in Africa. Conference of African Ministers of Education (Comedaf IV). Steering Committee Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 24th–25th September, 2009

Science and Technology African Union. Department of Human Resources
Addis Ababa: African Union (2009), 12 pp.
"Within the framework of the Second Decade for Africa 2006-2015, the First Pan African Conference on Curriculum, Literacy and Book Sector Development: Rebuilding Education in Africa, was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from the 24th to 27th March 2009. The objectives of the conference were to critic ... more
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Naher Osten

Bernhard Chiari, Dieter H. Kollmer (eds.)
Paderborn et al.: Schöningh, 2nd ed. (2009), 312 pp.
"Renommierte Autoren schreiben über Geschichte und Politik, Kulturen und Traditionen der Krisenregion Libanon – Israel – Palästina. Hier befindet sich heiliges Land dreier Weltreligionen, genauso aber der Brennpunkt vieler lang andauernder Konflikte. Das Buch bietet eine ungeschönte Analyse d ... more
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Performance Audit Handbook: Routes to Effective Evaluation

Tom Ling, Lidia Villalba van Dijk (eds.)
RAND Europe (2009), xi, 208 pp.
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Twelve Years of Measuring Linguistic Diversity in the Internet: Balance and Perspectives

Daniel Pimienta, Daniel Prado, Alvaro Blanco
Paris: UNESCO (2009), v, 56 pp.
"FUNREDES and Union Latine have designed an original research method to measure linguistic diversity in cyberspace. The aim was to use search engines and a sample of word-concepts to measure the proportionate presence of these concepts in their various linguistic equivalences (in Latin languages, En ... more
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Media Studies. Volume 3: Media Content and Media Audiences

Pieter J. Fourie (ed.)
Cape Town: Juta (2009), xxvi, 646 pp.
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Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru

Jeffrey Middents
Hanover, NH; London: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England (2009), viii, 276 pp.
"Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French journal Cahiers du cinéma, Hablemos de cine began with a group of young critics interested in claiming the ... more
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Usbekistan

Bernhard Chiari, Magnus Pahl (eds.)
Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2009), 312 pp.
"Usbekistan ist schon seit 2001 der »Flugzeugträger« für den Nachschub des ISAF-Einsatzes und damit auch der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. Das Land an der sagenumwobenen Seidenstraße hat eine Schlüsselrolle in Zentralasien, nicht nur für den aktuellen deutschen Einsatz oder seiner Rohstoffe wege ... more
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Entertainment-Education Through Digital Games

Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal
In: Serious games: Mechanisms and effects
Ute RItterfield, Michael Cody, Peter Verderer (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2009), pp. 271-292
"In summary, the present chapter analyzed the role of digital games in the growing practice of entertainment-education. We argued that serious games should not be automatically labeled as E-E digital games just because they include some social content. Connections were drawn between the social inter ... more
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Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas

Alberto Chong, Eliana La Ferrara
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2009), 17 pp.
"This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980 and ... more
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The Industry of Books and Publishing in the Development of ACP Countries

Beatrice Lalinon Gbado
[no publisher] (2009), 18 pp.
"A paper presented to an international colloquium "Culture and Creativity as Vectors of Development" held in Brussels, April 2-3, 2009. The author provides an overview of the current state of book publishing in the ACP countries of francophone Africa, and their impact as an integral part of the cult ... more
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Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

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Promoting gender equality through textbooks: A methodological guide

Carole Brugeilles, Sylvie Cromer
Paris: UNESCO (2009), 99 pp.
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Kleine Geschichte Afrikas

Winfried Speitkamp
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2009), 516 pp.
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Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World

Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart
New York: Cambridge University Press (2009), xv, 429 pp.
"We have argued throughout this book that the various versions of the cultural convergence thesis are deeply flawed, whether one has in mind the ‘media imperialism’ argument that was fashionable during the 1970s, the ‘Coca-colonization’ claim that was popular during the 1990s, or contemporar ... more
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Funder Collaboratives: Why and How Funders Work Together

Cynthia Gibson, Anne Mackinnon
GrantCraft (2009), 29 pp.
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Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Strategies in Latin American Empirical Research on Television Audiences 1992-2007

José-Carlos Lozano, Lorena Frankenberg
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 2 (2009), pp. 149-176
"This article reports the findings of a review and methodological critique of 96 Latin American empirical studies on television reception published between 1992 and 2007 in the most important journals of the region. The analysis compares the studies according to their theoretical approach, the resea ... more
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Movie-mientos II: Der lateinamerikanische Film in Zeiten globaler Umbrüche

Bettina Bremme
Stuttgart: Schmetterling-Verlag (2009), 152 pp.
"Seit Erscheinen des Buches «Movie-mientos. Der lateinamerikanische Film: Streiflichter von unterwegs» im Jahre 2000 hat sich viel getan in der lateinamerikanischen Filmszene: Parallel zur Wirtschaftskrise, die Länder wie Argentinien durchmachten, erlebte das dortige Kino trotz finanzieller Engp ... more
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Liberia: Land der Freien - Last der Freien

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2009), 297 pp.
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Creating Knowledge for Action: The Case for Participatory Communication in Research

Laura Cornish, Alison Dunn
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 665-677
"This article makes a case for using participatory communication in research. It introduces participatory communication as a citizen-led approach to both creating and expressing knowledge; within research this means that researchers are not simply responsible for generating information and communica ... more