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Reader Development and Reading Promotion: Recent Experiences from Seven Countries in Africa

Diana Rosenberg (ed.)
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2003), 86 pp.
"The result of a workshop held during the Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Librarians (SCESAL) held in Johannesburg in April 2002, this volume reviews current reader development activities by public libraries in different regions of Africa. It includes accounts and case st ... more
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What Works in Youth Media: Case Studies from Around the World

Sheila Kinkade, Christy Macy
Baltimore: International Youth Foundation (2003), 82 pp.
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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
Deep Insights

Roger Stringer (ed.)
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), ix, 273 pp.
"A valuable information resource that provides a country-by-country analysis of the “book chain” in 18 English-speaking Africa countries, together with an annotated directory of the major players that make up the book chain within those countries. Four introductory essays provide overviews of bo ... more
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Community Publishing as a Process of Change

Kathy Bond-Stewart
In: Courage and Consequence: Women Publishing in Africa
Mary Jay, Susan Kelly (eds.)
Oxford: African Books Collective (2002), pp. 61-69
"Describes the activities and publications of the innovative Community Publishing Process in Zimbabwe in order to train 7,000 village community workers, the majority of whom were women. Through a community based, participatory process of publishing, the project aims to enable marginalized groups to ... more
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Radio & Public Deliberation

Brett Davidson
Dayton (OH): Kettering Foundation (2002), 40 pp.
"Brett Davidson makes a convincing case for radio being the most hospitable media environment for retaining the human characteristics of public deliberation. In South Africa, for example, radio reaches far more people in their own languages than other media do. Moreover, radio can broadcast live, ... more
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The Press in Transition: A Comparative Study of Nicaragua, South Africa, Jordan and Russia

Adam Jones
Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2002), 524 pp.
"The press in transition" chronicles and evaluates the experiences of six press institutions in four markedly different media systems. The book adopts a comparative framing to explore press functioning worldwide, and to draw preliminary conclusions about the press in transition. At the heart of the ... more
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Children, Young People and Media Globalisation: Yearbook 2002

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2002), 262 pp.
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Menschenrechte in Zimbabwe: Kirche und staatliche Missachtung von Recht und Gesetz

Oskar Wermter
Aachen: Missio, Internationales Katholisches Missionswerk, Fachstelle Menschenrechte (2002), 72 pp.
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Global Corruption Report 2003. Special Focus: Access to Information

Transparency International (2002), 326 pp.
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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain

Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin (eds.)
Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.
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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2002/2003

Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 26th ed. (2002), 1056 pp.
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Community-Radio Case Studies

UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2002), 58 pp.
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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
Deep Insights

Washington, DC: World Bank (2002), ix, 322 pp.
"Clearly as important providers of information, the media are more likely to promote better economic performance when they are more likely to satisfy three conditions: the media are independent, provide good-quality information, and have a broad reach. That is, when they reduce the natural asymmetry ... more
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Media Advocacy Toolkit: Course Workbook

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2002), 80 pp.
"This course is designed to help you to sharpen your media advocacy skills. It is made up of two 2-day workshops. During the first workshop, you will explore the meaning of advocacy. You will also consider the importance of finding and including women’s voices in the media you produce. On Day 2 yo ... more
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Arquivos: Paradoxos e desafios frente à organização e acesso à informação

Rafael Simone Nharreluga, Leonor Celeste Silva
Promédia (2002), 154 pp.
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Media Ethics in the South African Context: An Introduction and Overview

Lucas M. Oosthuizen
Lansdowne: Juta (2002), 204 pp.
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Indigenous Publishing in Botswana: The Current Situation and the Way Forward

Samuel Ghile Bahta, Stephen M. Mutula
Information Development (East Grinstead), volume 18, issue 4 (2002), pp. 231-236
"Writing in local languages has a big role in eliminating illiteracy and creating a reading and writing culture, especially at early ages in one's life. The government of Botswana has an obligation to motivate local language publications by creating a conducive environment for this to happen. The Pu ... more
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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)
Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.
"This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco, drugs, AIDS, family planning, heart disease, childhood disease, highway safety--prepared by the au ... more
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Shaping the Future: The Soul Buddyz Experience

Johannesburg: Soul City (2002), 18 pp.
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Changing Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa. Indaba 2001. Harare, Zimbabwe 4-5 August, 2001

Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (2002), 310 pp.
"The theme of the 2001 Indaba at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was devoted to “Changing People’s Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa”, and this volume brings together 34 of the papers that were presented, together with a record of some of the discussions that took place followi ... more