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Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.
"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five
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Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle
Bristol: intellect (2011), 405 pp.
"Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, developme
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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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Agricultural Radio That Works
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 8 pp.
"Participatory Radio Campaigns (PRCs) were developed by Farm Radio International as a way to help farmers learn about, evaluate, and introduce new agricultural practices that they are interested in trying. With training and facilitation support from Farm Radio International, selected radio stations
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Interrogating Audiences: Theoretical Horizons of Participation
CM: Èasopis za Upravljanje Komuniciranjem = Communication Management Quarterly, volume 6, issue 21 (2011), pp. 7-219
Comparative Study of Church and Non-Church Run Radio Stations in Zambia: A Case Study of Radio Explorers and Radio Maria in Eastern Province
Lusaka: University of Zambia, Master of Mass Communication Thesis (2010), xi, 125 pp.
"This is a comparative case study of the church-run, Radio Maria and non church-run, Radio Explorers in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The work compares and contrasts the (1) content and management of the stations, (2) the process of selection of programmes and content development, and (3) accessib
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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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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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Formative Target Audience Research: A Case Study of Five Community Radio Stations in South Africa
Deep Insights
Grahamstown: Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (2009), x, 127 pp.
"This report aims to 'assist radio stations to understand formative target audience research and enable them to conduct such research'. The report is primarily based on the experiences with Focus Group Discussions (FGD's) of five South African community radio stations. The publication contains an in
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Guidelines for Broadcasters on Promoting User-Generated Content and Media and Information Literacy
London; Paris: Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA); UNESCO (2009), 58 pp.
"In 2008, the CBA and UNESCO published the results of a survey of 72 Commonwealth broadcasters which looked at the nature of user-generated content (UGC). It considered what use they make of UGC and their involvement in promoting media and information literacy (MIL). The survey identified a lack of
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Entertainment-Education and Audience Responses: The Case of Menta-Menged Radio Serial Drama in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, Master Thesis (2008), vi, 89 pp.
"This study attempts to explore entertainment-education (E-E) radio drama audience responses/reactions, their motivating factors in writing letters to the drama and the relationship between audience responses and over all program goals of the drama, Menta Menged (Crossroads), in Ethiopia. Because en
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Community Radio in Nepal: A Case Study of Radio Madanpokhara
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Scripps College, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 353 pp.
"This study is about Community Radio Madanpokhara (CRM) in Palpa district in Western Nepal. Initiated and managed by the local residents, CRM has been on the air on frequency modulation (FM) band serving 800,000 potential listeners in the region since 2000. Triangulating in-depth interviews, observa
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Radio Progress - 'Our Voice': The Benefit Community Radio Can Bring for the Development of its Audience in the Ghanaian Upper West Region
Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam, International Development Studies (IDS), Master Thesis (2007), x, 109 pp.
"Some recommendations can be made to Radio Progress and its community. The station seems to provide the Upper West people with what they needed – a voice to make themselves heard and to communicate with each other. Since the research showed that most limitations are due to the restraints in financ
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Radio Elshinta: No Music, Just News and Stories as the People See it
Media Asia, volume 34, issue 2 (2007), pp. 96-104
"Long before the descriptor “citizen journalism” became a topic of research interest in academia, Indonesia’s Radio Elshinta (www.elshinta.com) in Jakarta had already opened its airwaves for listeners, most with no formal journalism training, to call in their stories. This paper contextualises
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Qualität im Radio: Determinanten der Qualitätsdiskussion im öffentlich-rechtlichen Hörfunk in Deutschland
St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag (2006), 315 pp.
"Öffentlich-rechtliche und kommerzielle Radiosender in Deutschland stehen in einem harten Wettbewerb um die Akzeptanz des Publikums. Beim öffentlich-rechtlichen Radio geht es auch um seine gesellschaftliche und politische Legitimation. Da die ARD-Radioprogramme ihre Marktanteile nicht mit immer h
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Public Service Broadcasting: A Best Practices Sourcebook
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2005), 140 pp.
"The purpose of this reference publication is to provide meaningful and ready-to-use information to media professionals, decision makers, students, and the general public on the core PSB concepts related to legal, regulatory, financial, and other major issues as recognized by the international profe
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