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Youth Voice: Cambodia Communication Assistance Project. Impact Assessment Briefing
ABC International Development (2015), 11 pp.
"Youth Voice was launched in July 2012 by the Battambang Provincial Department of Information (PDI) in Cambodia, as a weekly youth-oriented program. It provides information that aims to give young people the confidence and understanding to participate in governance processes. The program delivers in
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Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
Deep Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 48 pp.
"The report explores how discussion programmes – where a diverse audience, representing the whole of society, is engaged in fair and balanced debate – can stimulate both private/interpersonal discussion and public discussion in either a community setting or one hosted by local government. It the
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Talkback Programming: Cambodia Communication Assistance Project. Impact Research Briefing
ABC International Development (2015), 14 pp.
"The Cambodia Communication Assistance Project (CCAP) is a media development initiative (2012-2014) funded by Australia’s aid program. The project is implemented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s International Development (ABCID) unit, in collaboration with four Cambodian Provincial D
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Interactive Radio! Toolkit for Stations
Key Guides
"This toolkit combines the knowledge and experience of Internews with insights from research conducted by the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights and partners in the Politics and Interactive Media (PiMA) research project. Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA),
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Patronage, Politics and Performance: Radio Call-In Programmes and the Myth of Accountability
Third World Quarterly, volume 36, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1510-1526
"Assumptions about the role of call-in programmes as open spaces for pubic engagement and accountability often fail to account for the influence of existing power structures and multiple publics engaging in these programmes for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the history of call-in programmes rev
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What Was the Role of the Debate Programme Sema Kenya in the 2013 Kenyan Election?
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 62 pp.
"This paper seeks to identify the extent to which the national TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks), part of BBC Media Action’s governance work in Kenya, supported accountability, peace and inclusion at the time of the 2013 Kenya election. It shows the specific value placed on Sema Ken
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BBC Media Action’s Governance Research: Emerging Evidence and Learning
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 57 pp.
"The paper synthesises findings from quantitative and qualitative data from across African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries. The second section draws on baseline data from Bangladesh, Burma, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories and Sierra Leone to explore the media and governance contex
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The Power of Talk: Media and Accountability in Three African Countries
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.
"This policy briefing offers an empirical contribution to evolving thinking on governance within the international development landscape. Using the example of media, we argue that interventions designed to foster demand-based accountability may not be as successful in some fragile settings as more d
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How Do Political Debate Programmes Influence Political Participation? A Case Study from Nepal
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 56 pp.
"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw
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Factual Debate and Discussion Programmes and Their Influence on Political Participation, Political Knowledge and Political Efficacy
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 40 pp.
"The review found that there is evidence that exposure to dialogic formats can have an impact on political participation. It is clear, however, that the relationship between exposure to programming and manifest forms of participation cannot be studied in isolation to other important outcomes such as
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Village Voices for Development: A Study in the Use of Radio to Promote Human Rights and Enable Citizens to Act on Their Rights to Information and Freedom of Speech in Southern Madagascar
Tolagnaro (RM); London: Andry-Lalana-Tohana (ALT); Andrew Lees Trust (2013), 62 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to share the key findings of the VVD radio project in Southern Madagascar after six months of broadcasts in 2012, in particular to document the design and evolution of the pilot project; feedback the outcomes to participating stakeholders; inform the donor community ab
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Getting it Right: A Journalists’ Guide to Conducting Community Radio Debate
Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2012), viii, 39 pp.
"Panos is working with 20 radio stations across Uganda to give voice to the voiceless through facilitating debate. It isagainst this background that Panos Eastern Africa (PEA) has developed this Guide to help our partner radio stations and journalists improve the quality of their debate and hope it
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Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2011), 150 pp.
"Conducted in 2009 by a group of five Masters in New Media (humanities) students from the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Geert Lovink the research examines both the role and implementation of ICTs in Uganda, covering a wide range of subcultures and projects, including internet cafe
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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda
Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.
"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to
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Media Talk: Conversation Analysis and the Study of Broadcasting
Maidenhead; New York: Open University Press (2010), xii, 185 pp.
"Media Talk" provides an accessible introduction to the analysis of the spoken word by examining linguistic and discursive aspects of broadcast media. Beginning with the observation that talk is central to all genres of radio and television, Ian Hutchby examines the forms of speech used by broadcast
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From Mouthpiece to Public Service: Donor Support to Radio Broadcasters in New Democracies
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 491-503
"State-run broadcasting organisations in the South are usually ill-prepared for their public-service role in new democracies. They are often poorly funded compared to their new, commercial rivals and often still bound by the same ‘rules of the game’ that governed them prior to the democratic era
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Radio Talkshows for Peacebuilding: A Guide
Key Guides
Brussels: Search for Common Ground, 2nd ed. (2006), 35 pp.
"This guidebook examines the interrelationship of media and conflicts and was conducted for broadcasters, especially presenters, who work in regions where there are violent conflicts. It aims to give examples and tools for talkshows which contribute to peace, and is structured in three greater parts
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Talk-shows radio pour construire la paix: Un guide
Key Guides
Bruxelles: Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa, 2nd ed. (2006), 36 pp.
"Ce guide s’adresse principalement à toute personne qui participe à la réalisation d’un talk-show radiophonique dans une région ou un pays connaissant un conflit. Il se concentre principalement sur les conflits violents entre individus, groupes ou pays, ou qui sont susceptibles de le devenir
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