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"This report has eight core sections. In the first three sections we outline the overall purpose of the study, the methodological approach and the overarching insights that emerged from the study. This is followed by a section on key citizen information needs and sources. The fifth section discusses
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Selective Believability: A Perspective on Africans’ Interactions with Global Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 219-236
"This article attempts to highlight a new perspective on African audiences’ engagement with global media and point to new postulates in audience research. It briefly reviews key reception theories, ranging from the effects tradition to active audience paradigm and encoding-decoding model. It then
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Encuesta de opinión: Pobreza, participación y medios
Santiago de Chile: Programa Comunicación y Pobreza (2013), 67 pp.
"Con excepción del consumo de radio y televisión abierta -que es bastante transversal-, los resultados dan cuenta de una “dieta medial” altamente diferenciada entre los individuos en situación de pobreza y el resto de la población. Esta diferencia se ve especialmente reflejada en el consumo
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Role of Farm-Radio Agricultural Programmes in Disseminating Agricultural Technology to Rural Famers for Agricultural Development in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension Economics & Sociology, volume 2, issue 1 (2013), pp. 54-68
"The finding of the research reveals that majorities (90%) of the farmers were males, within their active productive ages (31-42 years) and 50% of them had attained Islamic education. Most of the farmers obtained agricultural information through radio agricultural programmes (97.8%) out of which maj
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"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and
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South Sudan National Audience Survey: A Nationally Representative Assessment on Radio Listening Habits with Key Findings in Five Booster Areas for Internews Stations
Juba; Washington, DC: Forcier Consulting; Internews (2013), viii, 185 pp.
"As expected, the general media environment in South Sudan is highly varied, with sharp distinctions between the capital city of Juba and the rest of the country, which is largely rural. A key difference here involves language use and understanding, with rural areas dominated by local/tribal languag
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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Zemio Region
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 10 pp.
"Between June 30th and July 10th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults, representative of the adult population of the town of Zemio and its surroundings, over 1,000 km east of the capital Bangui in the prefecture of Haut Mbomou, near the bo
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Addressing Mistrust Between Humanitarians and Local Media: Baseline Assessment for “Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in CAR”
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.
"Internews' project to integrate local media and ICTs into humanitarian response in CAR takes place in a context of distrust between journalists and humanitarians. According to this report, humanitarians view the media as lacking credibility, depth, independence and fairness, and as monetizing news
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"En promedio, la confianza en los medios es evidente en la región. Sin embargo, muchos ciudadanos siguen distantes. Para explicar los distintos niveles de confianza, este trabajo se concentra en un conjunto de indicadores de conciencia sobre la política. Es interesante notar que existen diferencia
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A Story a Day...: The Media as a Preventive Tool in Public Health. A Legacy Assessment of Internews' Health Journalism Program in Kenya and its Impact on the Media, the Public Health Sector and the Audience
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 69 pp.
"Guided by two overarching questions – do people want or need health news, and are they satisfied with the health news available to them – Internews used a mixed methods approach, conducting surveys, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, as well as mining years of project data and rep
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Lokaler Fernsehjournalismus: Wachhund oder netter Nachbar? Rezeptionsbefunde zu Zuschauererwartungen und Qualitätskriterien
In: Theorie praktisch? Anwendungsoptionen und gesellschaftliche Relevanz der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung
Konstanz: UVK (2012), pp. 127-146
Finding a Way: How Iranians Reach for News and Information. The Iran Media Program’s 2011-2012 Report on Media Consumption in Iran
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2012), 46 pp.
"We find that among both the general population and the technologically savvy youth, television – and especially the state-controlled broadcaster – was among the most often used news sources (with the Internet being the most important news outlet for the youth). This finding is surprising given
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The Role of the Internet in Shaping the Political Process in Egypt
International Journal of E-politics (IJEP), volume 3, issue 2 (2012), 21 pp.
"There has been a growing debate about the extent to which the Internet influenced the Arab World’s recent revolutions described as the “Arab Spring”. This belief that the Internet had a contribution is supported by several events and evidences that occurred prior to these revolutions and prov
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Tabloid TV in Zambia: A Reception Study of Lusaka Viewers of Muvi TV News
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 277-293
"The tabloid news genre has been chastized for depoliticizing its public by causing cynicism about the democratic process and lowering the standards of rational public discourse. Counter-arguments point to the alternative public sphere offered by popular media such as ‘tabloid TV’ which is the f
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Patterns of News Media Consumption Among Young People in Libya
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 173-191
"The purpose of the study was to investigate patterns of major local and non-local news suppliers operating across a range of media – broadcast and print – and relationships between Libyan undergraduate students’ consumption of different news media platforms. A survey was administered to a sam
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Reading Habits in Armenia: Results of a Survey on Readership Carried Out in December 2012
[no publisher] (2012), 60 pp.
"About 39 percent started to read regularly at elementary school age, and 44 percent at primary and high school age. As compared to the last five years, 37 percent of respondents stopped reading completely, 43 percent read less, 6 percent read as much as they read before, and only 14 percent said th
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Mediated Public Diplomacy: Satellite TV News in the Arab World and Perception Effects
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 8 (2012), pp. 728-749
"Using Entman’s work on mediated public diplomacy, the authors conducted an Arabic-language online survey of news consumers on Arab websites, including one US-funded media outlet. They examined factors leading to gaps in exposure and perceptions of credibility for three Arab news outlets. Specific
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What’s it For? Expectations of Internet Value and Usefulness in Central Asia
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 69-84
"Research on Internet usage in developing regions typically focuses on user demographics or challenges to usage. However, few studies explore the needs and desires of users in developing regions—that is, what users want from the Internet—and even fewer connect those needs with the skills require
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