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Women and the Media in Asia: The Precarious Self
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiii, 258 pp.
"At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life." (Publisher de
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Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and the Role of Women in the Arab Uprisings
Houston, Tex.: Rice University, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (2012), 44 pp.
"This is the first scholarly analysis of how young women used social media and cyberactivism to help shape the “Arab Spring” and its aftermath. It argues that women's engagement with social media has coincided with a shift in the political landscape of the Middle East, and it is unlikely that th
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Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media-House Policy. Book 1: Conceptual Issues
Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 59 pp.
"This learning resource kit aims to provide an answer to the current gender gap in news content and lack of existing self-regulatory mechanisms to confront gender bias. It is organised in two books that may be read independently of each other. Book 1 discusses conceptual issues pertaining to gender,
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Empowering Women Through ICT
Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions; Stockholm University (2012), 72 pp.
"This publication covers five different projects carried out in six different locations. There were two projects in Bolivia, one focusing on empowering female indigenous leaders and the other provided female victims of domestic violence with a safe virtual environment where they could receive suppor
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Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media-House Policy. Book 2: Practical Resources
Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 66 pp.
"This learning resource kit aims to provide an answer to the current gender gap in news content and lack of existing self-regulatory mechanisms to confront gender bias. It is organised in two books that may be read independently of each other. Book 2 will be of interest to media practitioners – jo
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Community Radio and Gender: Towards an Inclusive Public Sphere
Brisbane: Paper presented at the India Media Symposium: Public Spheres, the Media & Social Change in India (2012), 20 pp.
"Gender is a significant dimension in community radio (CR) initiatives that are seeking to deploy communication technologies for social change in general and empowerment of women in particular. CR not only provides an opportunity for women’s access to information, but, more significantly, also all
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Real World: Empowering Representations of Women through Film
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 110-116
"This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium and Creative England, t
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A Handbook on Gender Equality Best Practices in European Journalists’ Unions
Brussels: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 39 pp.
"This handbook is based on a survey, completed through extensive communications with journalist trade union officials responsible for gender issues, throughout the affiliated unions of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) (a section of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Sadly
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Grassroots International Community Radio and Public Service Media: The Case of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour)
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), pp. 38-49
Does Gender Determine Journalists’ Professional Views? A Reassessment Based on Cross-National Evidence
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
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Communiquer le genre pour le développement rural: Intégrer le genre dans la communication pour le développement
Bruxelles: FAO Dimitra (2011), 76 pp.
"L’atteinte des objectifs de sécurité alimentaire, de nutrition et d’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes passe par l’application d’approches de développement visant à donner aux communautés rurales l’occasion de participer et de prendre en main leur futur. Parmi les nombreuses ap
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Training of Trainers' Companion Workbook on Gender and Security for the Media and Civil Society in Nepal
Kathmandu; London: IHRICON; Saferworld (2011), 94 pp.
"This companion workbook is designed for use in tandem with the Saferworld/IHRICON Training of trainers’ manual on gender and security for the media and civil society in Nepal. It contains tools, hand-outs, briefing information sheets, selected reading materials for exercises, daily learning diari
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Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil
London: Anthem Press (2011), xxv, 156 pp.
"Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochisti
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The Image of Women in African Media
African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 389-536
Hacia la construcción de un periodismo no sexista
México, DF: Comunicación e Información de la Mujer AC (CIMAC); UNESCO, 2nd ed. (2011), 197 pp.
"Sabemos que un buen ejercicio periodístico requiere de un alto contenido ético y no es un trabajo que se realice en solitario. De ahí que nuestro éxito profesional dependa, siempre, de tomar en cuenta a las demás personas. El tipo de trabajo que establezcamos con las y los demás definirá el
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Community Radio, Gender & ICTs in West Africa: How Women Are Engaging with Community Radio Through Mobile Phone Technologies
Washington, DC; Brussels: Search for Common Ground (2011), 38 pp.
"Women on the air are usually viewed through a traditional model - in the context of their relationship to their husbands or children – and not as individual beings with a broad range of interests and needs. As a result, radio does not currently meet the needs of women, and women do not participat
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Maori and Aboriginal Women in the Public Eye: Representing Difference, 1950-2000
Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) E Press (2011), 257 pp.
"From 1950, increasing numbers of Aboriginal and Maori women became nationally or internationally renowned. Few reached the heights of international fame accorded Evonne Goolagong or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and few remained household names for any length of time. But their growing numbers and visibilit
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