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Communication pour l’empowerment à Madagascar: Une évaluation des besoins en communication et média au niveau de la communauté

Xavier Leus
Oslo; South Orange, NJ: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; Communication for Social Change Consortium (CFSC) (2008), 60 pp. + annexes
"Les conclusions démontrent clairement que la radio est le média le plus choisi et à plus grand potentiel à Madagascar: 71 pour cent des gens interviewés comptent sur l'information par la radio (11% ont mentionné la télévision, 10% ont indiqué la place du marché et 8% ont mentionné la pre ... more
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Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion

Adam Haupt
Cape Town: HSRC Press (2008), xxiv, 264 pp.
"Stealing Empire poses the question, "What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?" Using the work of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt as a point of entry, Adam Haupt delves into varied terrain to locate answers in this ground-breaking inquiry. He explores arguments abou ... more
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M-Libraries: Libraries on the Move to Provide Virtual Access

Gill Needham, Mohamed Ally (eds.)
London: Facet Publishing (2008), lvii, 287 pp.
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Joint Evaluation of Citizens' Voice & Accountability: Synthesis Report

Alina Rocha Menocal, Bhavna Sharma
London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2008), xxi, 109 pp.
"Citizens’ Voice and Accountability (CV&A) work has emerged as a priority in the international development agenda from the 1990s onwards. In their CV&A work, donors recognise the importance of context: it shapes relation to that context. However, context awareness has not proven sufficient to enab ... more
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Regional Awareness and Communication Strategy for the SADC Water Sector

Southern African Development Community (SADC) (ed.)
Southern African Development Community (SADC) (2008), 54 pp.
"This Awareness and Communication Strategy fulfils the call for establishing sector specific (Water Sector) strategies and crafting, packaging and dissemination of messages and themes which should be based on but not limited to SADC’s priority intervention areas. It is basically expanding the SADC ... more
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The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture

Kirsten Drotner, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)
London et al.: Sage (2008), xxi, 537 pp.
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Self-Publishing of Academic Textbooks in South Africa: Fact or Fiction?

Rhodé Odendaal, Francis Galloway
Mousaion, volume 26, issue 1 (2008), pp. 71-89
"Aims to explore the nature and the reasons behind the self-publishing of academic textbooks in the higher education environment of South Africa. Through the collection of secondary data the authors describe the academic publishing landscape in relation to current trends in higher education in South ... more
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Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in Mobile Use by NGOs

Sheila Kinkade, Katrin Verclas
Washington, DC; Berkshire: United Nations Foundation; Vodaphone Group Foundation (2008), 59 pp.
"In this second publication in our Access to Communications Publication Series, the authors examine real-life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. The compelling stories por ... more
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A Look at Radio Works in Liberia: The Listeners’ Perceptions. Use, Habits, Expectations and Assessments from Radio Listeners in Liberia

Sharon Lopata, Christoph Spurk, Malcolm W. Joseph, Prutus Sackie
Winterthur; Monrovia: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM); Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) (2008), 27 pp.
"This research project in Liberia has tried to do first steps to understand in detail the quality of media, especially radio, in Liberia and what the audience is thinking of and expecting from the media. Being the first of its kind in Liberia after the end of the civil war it has investigated a) the ... more
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Global Journalism Research: Theories, Methods, Findings, Future

Martin Löffelholz, David Weaver (eds.)
Oxford: Blackwell (2008), 304 pp.
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Radio and Development in Africa: A Concept Paper

Mary Myers
Wardour: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2008), 58 pp.
"Radio seems to have proven itself as a developmental tool, particularly with the rise of community and local radios, which have facilitated a far more participatory and horizontal type of communication than was possible with the older, centralised broadcasting model of the 1960s and 70s. There seem ... more