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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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Evaluation of the Radio Soap Opera Produced by the Centre for Common Ground

Luanda: National Institute for Statistics (Angola) (2002), 21 pp.
"As part of its strategy to build the capacity of Angolans in conflict prevention and resolution, the Centre for Common Ground in Angola (CCG) contracted the services of a team of experts, most of who were officers from Instituto Nacional de Estatística (National Institute of Statistics) to carry o ... more
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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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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
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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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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
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Institutional Review of Educational Radio Dramas
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Mary Myers
Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2002), 134 pp.
"Taking 14 radio serial dramas from around the world shows that many aspects of the way they are organised are not replicable: what works in one context would just not work in another. This is because of the very nature of pro-social media projects: they depend so much on the personal contacts of th ... more
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Telecentros comunitarios: Análisis de experiencias en países en desarrollo

Moisés López Colomer
[Madrid]: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (2002), 319 pp.
"A lo largo de este documento, se describirá el panorama mundial de los telecentros en los países del Sur, su evolución y su desarrollo. Esta revisión del “estado del arte” se hará tanto por regiones geográficas, analizando las experiencias que se están llevando a cabo en América, Asia y ... more
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The Media Development and Diversity Agency: Position Paper

Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2002), 64 pp.
"Government has taken the bold step of setting up an independent agency that will address some of the problems of media development and diversity in South Africa. It is important to stress that the proposed Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) will not interfere in the content of any newspa ... more
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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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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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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
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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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Global Corruption Report 2003. Special Focus: Access to Information

Transparency International (2002), 326 pp.
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African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History

Luise White, Stephan Miescher, David William Cohen (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2002), vi, 322 pp.
"Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history. In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources ar ... more
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Shaping the Future: The Soul Buddyz Experience

Johannesburg: Soul City (2002), 18 pp.
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Medien und Informationstechnologie in der Arabischen Welt: Literatur seit 1995

Gerda Hansen
Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2002), 105 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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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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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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Educational Publishing in African Languages, with a Focus on Swahili in Kenya

Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Emily Bosire-Ogechi
Nordic Journal of African Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2002), pp. 167-184
"This paper argues the case for more educational publications in Swahili as a good medium educational and national development. It acknowledges that education is not only a capital investment in the development of human resources but it also immensely contributes to the development of a nation. Howe ... more
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Licensing & Accreditation: The Threat to Media Freedom in the SADC Region. Analysis & Commentary on the SADC Protocol on Culture, Information and Sport, 2001

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2001), 84 pp.
"The SADC Protocol on Culture, Information and Sport is undoubtedly a very bold step by governments in the region to harmonise their laws and policies in ways that would promote media freedom and create enabling conditions for the free flow of information. However, some provisions of the protocol re ... more