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A Rough Guide to Small-Scale and Self-Publishing

Colleen Higgs (ed.)

Cape Town: Centre for the Book (2005), 78 pp.

"This guide is one in a series of excellent resources published by the Community Publishing Project of the Centre of the Book in Cape Town. The project provides funding and technical support for small publishers, individual writers, and writers’ groups in South Africa and helps them to develop pub ... more

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Tsha Tsha: Key Findings of the Evaluation of Episodes 1-26

Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) (2005), 62 pp.

"Tsha Tsha is an entertainment-education television drama series focusing on young people and dealing with love, sexuality and relationships in a world affected by HIV/AIDS. Audience research utilised by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) showed that episodes 1-13 achieved an audience ... more

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Pressefreiheit und Pluralismus in Sambia

Andrea Czepek

Münster: Lit (2005), 234 pp.

"Die großen Hoffnungen, die Anfang der 1990er Jahre in den Demokratisierungsprozess im südlichen Afrika gesetzt wurden, haben sich überwiegend nicht erfüllt. In einer Demokratie soll Journalismus Öffentlichkeit herstellen und zur Meinungsbildung beitragen. Eine Voraussetzung dafür ist Pressefr ... more

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Société numérique et développement en Afrique: Usages politiques et publiques

Jean-Jacques Gabas (ed.)

Paris: Karthala; GEMDEV (2005), 379 pp.

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Best Practices of ICT4D Projects in Zambia

Glory Mushinge (ed.)

Media and ICT's Network for Development (MIND) (2005), 88 pp.

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Keeping an Eye on the Campaign: Monitoring Media Coverage of the 16 Days of Activism: No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign

Gemma Harries, William Bird

Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, issue 66 (2005), pp. 90-96

"This focus analyses strengths and weaknesses of the media coverage of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign. The authors explain the current media representation of gender-based violence and the changes that need to be made to ensure that gender-based violence issues are covered more substantially and r ... more

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Targeting International Audiences: Current and Future Approaches to International Broadcasting Research

Oliver Zöllner (ed.)

Bonn: Conference of International Boradcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) (2005), 202 pp.

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Writing for the Media in Southern Africa
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François Nel

Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 3rd ed. (2005), 404 pp.

"This book takes students through the journalistic process step-by-step: what news is, how publications are organized, the role of the journalist, ways to get the most from interviews, a style and grammar guide, and easy-to-follow advice on how to put together basic news stories. This third edition ... more

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Community Television for the Poor: A Scoping Study. Final Technical Report

S. Batchelor, N. Scott, G. Eastwick

Reading; London: Gamos; Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 90 pp.

"The research was informed by desk research, two technical reviews and a stakeholder consultation in four countries – Honduras, South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana. It proved very timely as it contributed significantly to ongoing consultations in South Africa and Tanzania. In South Africa ICASA annou ... more

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Assessing community change: Development of a ‘bare foot’ impact assessment methodology

Birgitte Jallov

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2005), pp. 21-34

"Impact assessment is one of a variety of monitoring tools available to ensure that a community radio effectively works towards set objectives and aspirations. In Mozambique a ‘bare-foot’ impact assessment methodology has been designed, tested, revised and implemented with eight community-owned ... more

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A Developing Connection: Bridging the Policy Gap Between the Information Society and Sustainable Development

Terry Willard, Maja Andjelkovic (eds.)

Winnipeg, Manitoba: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (2005), 210 pp.

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Kommunikation

DED-Brief, issue 3 (2005), pp. 4-53

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Le droit d'informer: Le rôle des médias dans le développement économique

Banque Mondiale

Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2005), 406 pp.

"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut ... more

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Sewero! Christian Drama and the Drama of Christianity in Africa: On the Genesis and Genius of Chinyanja Radio Plays in Malawi, with Special Reference to Transworld Radio and African Traditional Religion

Ernst Wendland

Zomba (MW): Kachere Series (2005), 294 pp.

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A Resource Kit for Journalists: Children's Media Mentoring Project

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Project (2005), 39 pp.

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PICC Position Paper to the Draft Framework for the National Book Policy

Bellville: Print Industries Cluster Council (PICC) (2005), 66 pp.

"In many countries, dedicated plans and policies have been implemented to increase and develop the book publishing sector. In these interventions, books have been recognised as unique products deserving different and exceptional interventions. The salient issues pertaining to book development includ ... more