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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World
New York: Routledge (2010), ix, 251 pp.
"This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across t
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Getting it Together: Strengthening Transparency, Accountability, Participation and Non-Discrimination with Communication Methods
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 39 pp.
"This Guidance Note suggests concrete ways to enable the people in a country to influence the work of government and public agencies - and in that way ensure democratic development results. While both the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action point to the need for better use of communica
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Civil Society and National Media in Tunisia
Paris: Panos Paris (2010), 5 pp.
Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran
London; New York: Tauris (2010), xiii, 211 pp.
"The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. Iran has an estimated 700,000 bloggers, and new media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were thought to have played a key role in spreadin
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Youth Civic Participation in Cambodia: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Media
Phnom Penh: UNDP Cambodia (2010), 263 pp.
Evidence, Messages, Change! An Introductory Guide to Successful Advocacy
New York; London: Open Society Institute; Open Society Foundation (2010), 24 pp.
"This guide outlines important, basic steps to ensure that your advocacy is as effective as possible. It draws on learning within the Open Society Foundations’ network, especially the experiences of our advocacy colleagues, as well as resources from other organizations. Understanding of and engage
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Guidelines on lobby and advocacy
Utrecht: ICCO (2010), 52 pp.
Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)
USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.
"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization (NGO) speci
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Comunicación y construcción de ciudadanía: Aportes para el desarrollo
Madrid: Libros de la Catarata; Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación (IUDC-UCM) (2009), 157 pp.
"Esta obra parte de la idea de que sin comunicación no es posible el desarrollo, pues ésta compromete de manera participativa a todos los sectores que conforman nuestras sociedades. A pesar de la existencia de innumerables medios masivos, locales y globales, y de nuevas tecnologías de la informac
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Measuring Change and Results in Voice and Accountability Work
London; Glasgow: Department for International Development (DFID) (2009), v, 72 pp.
"This Working Paper from DFID’s Evaluation Department offers a menu of Voice & Accountability (V&A) indicators, and suggests steps for building monitoring and evaluation frameworks for V&A interventions. It provides a check list of management issues, and some ideas for data collection. It does not
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Irradiar ciudadanías: Construcciones ciudadanas y esferas públicas
Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2009), 15 pp.
Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci
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Protest in Ägypten: Wie Al-Jazeera und andere Medien die Kifaya-Bewegung möglich machten
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 147 pp.
"kifaya! – „Es reicht!“ Lautstark protestieren Menschen auf Kairos Straßen gegen Präsident Mubarak und seine Regierung. Sie fordern demokratischen Wandel. Arabische Fernsehsender und neue Zeitungen in Ägypten berichten ausführlich über die Kifaya-Bewegung. Sie ist klein, aber nicht zu üb
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Winning the Web: Stories of Grassroots Campaigning for Access to Knowledge in the Networked Digital Age
Open Society Institute (2009), 49 pp.
"This report has looked at six successful intellectual property (IP) reform campaigns from around the world, and examined the strategies, messages and goals of the campaigners who fought them. Although each example has its own lessons to share, broad trends have emerged. Several of the most striking
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Transforming Public Space: A Local Radio's Work in a Poor Urban Community
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 621-629
"Among processes towards democratisation, it has been asserted that alternative radio has a central role in the citizen making of the poor. However, it is important to analyse in detail what possibilities an alternative or citizens' radio has to strengthen ideas of citizenship and transform the publ
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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
New York: Columbia University Press (2009), xv, 302 pp.
A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media
Washington, DC: MobileActive.org; Pact (2008), 28 pp.
"Mobile phones are portable, they are personal, and they as the most pervasive tool for communication between people today. They are intuitively and inherently social, expressive devices. Professional journalists, everyday citizens, and organized groups are capitalizing on the power of mobile techno
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Why Democracy? Facilitator's Guide
Cape Town: Steps (2008), iii, 64 pp.
