[eccr] Media & Development - DB Click - May 3 2005

>Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:11:53 -0700
>Subject: Media & Development - DB Click - May 3 2005
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>DB Click: Media
>May 2005
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>For people seeking to address development issues and opportunities
>through Media activities and strategies.
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>DB CLICK: Media updates you on recent Media and Development
>initiatives and opportunities including programme activities, awards,
>training, evaluation and research results, networks, books, other
>materials, planning ideas, change theories and other information
>recently placed on The Communication Initiative web site.
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>DB CLICK: Media complements The Drum Beat through a specific focus on
>Media and development.
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>http://www.comminit.com/journalists/
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>1.      Washirika: Raising Awareness without Mass Media
>Published in PLA Notes, this 4-page paper examines a strategy
>developed by the UK-based international non-government organisation
>(NGO) Living Earth Foundation (LEF) to empower local people to take
>an active role in addressing environmental issues. LEF has worked to
>create an alternative to use of the mass media, with its tendency to
>enable only top-down, one-way communication "from 'the authority' to
>'the community'". The strategy explored in this paper is based on the
>observation that "Passive learners cannot interrogate the mass media
>and so the effect of these media is usually limited to raising
>awareness"...
>http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-999.html
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>2.      Reporting Africa - May 9-20 2005 - Mbabane, Swaziland
>Organised by the Southern African Media Training Trust (NSJ), the aim
>of this two-week training course is to help participants develop a
>critical awareness of media representation and the sociology of news
>production. It will also aim to enlighten participants on the
>positive developments taking place in Africa and how to report on
>NEPAD, the African Union, and HIV/AIDS...
>http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2005-events/events-3521.html
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>3.     Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism
>Administered by J-Lab and funded by the Knight Foundation, these
>global awards are intended to reward journalism that uses new
>information ideas and technologies in innovative ways to involve
>people very actively in critical public issues by showing as well as
>telling, by providing access to news and information that stirs their
>imagination and invites participation. Deadline: June 9 2005...
>http://www.comminit.com/awards2005/awards2005/awards-1055.html
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>4.     International Consortium of Media, Communication and Cultural Studies
>A group of international universities working to facilitate
>productive links between university studies and the media
>professions...
>http://www.comminit.com/links/linksacademic/links-1535.html
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>5.      Secrecy News
>This email publication of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
>Project on Government Secrecy aims to provide informal coverage of
>new developments in secrecy, security and intelligence policies, as
>well as links to new resources on the FAS website...
>http://www.comminit.com/e-zines/emagazines/enews-431.html
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>6.      Native Multimedia - England
>This community media organisation uses video to communicate about
>development issues impacting ethnic and minority communities living
>in London, England. The group is actively promoting increased use of
>video production as a communication tool to address misunderstanding,
>discrimination, and prejudice and to highlight positive examples of
>community-based development efforts...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2005/experiences-3085.html
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>7.      Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Prizes
>ABU Prizes, established in 1964 by the first ABU General Assembly,
>are international contests for radio and television programmes. The
>purpose of the contests is to promote the production of radio and
>television programmes of a high standard, to raise educational and
>cultural levels and to strengthen international understanding among
>the peoples of ABU member countries and regions. Deadline: July 15
>2005...
>http://www.comminit.com/awards2005/awards2005/awards-1143.html
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>8.      Master Session on Media and Advocacy - Apr 12 2005 - Uganda
>The German Foundation for World Population (DSW) organised this
>one-day workshop on media and advocacy at DSW's SRH Training Centre
>near Kampala, Uganda. The event sought to have participants
>understand the importance of media work for their organisations; know
>the elements and tools of media work; realise the advantages media
>work offers in order to enhance visibility; and understand the
>interrelationship between media and advocacy...
>http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2005-events/events-3679.html
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>9.      Maneno Mengi - Tanzania
>This non-governmental organisation (NGO) aims to offer opportunities
>for expression to people in Tanzania whose voices have not
>traditionally been heard. The organisation combines participatory
>learning with media technology to facilitate participatory production
>of videos, radio shows, and websites for development planning,
>negotiation, and policy dialogue...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2005/experiences-3078.html
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>10.     Watching the Media
>This literacy toolkit addresses issues of discrimination. The toolkit
>has various sections covering different but related topics:
>Representation and Identity, Media Literacy, and Stereotyping and
>Representations of Arabs and Muslims. Each section provides key
>notions, background information, activity schemes, and suggestions
>for group readers...
>http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2213.html
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>11.     Women's Educational Media (WEM)
>This non-profit film production company was established in 1978 to
>create and distribute documentaries on social and economic justice
>issues in the United States...
>http://www.comminit.com/links/linksmedia/links-1648.html
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>PULSE Poll
>http://www.comminit.com/pulse.html
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>Rather than getting back into the trenches of the 1990ies, the
>challenge today - in times of a strong treatment agenda -  is to
>reassess our communication science, models and practice when putting
>HIV/AIDS prevention on the agenda.
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>[For context, please see http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_297.html]
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>Do you agree or disagree?
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>VOTE and COMMENT - http://www.comminit.com/pulse.html
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>12.     Respect for All Project - United States
>A programme of Women's Educational Media (WEM), the Respect For All
>(RFA) Project encompasses a series of documentary films, printed
>curriculum guides, and professional diversity training. This
>3-pronged approach is designed to create safe, hate-free schools and
>communities throughout the United States by providing tools to foster
>open discussion about all kinds of diversity, including differences
>in race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and ability...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2005/experiences-3075.html
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>13.     Media Framing of Movement Protest: The Case of American Indian Protest
>This short article is a media analysis of one major network's
>coverage of the American Indian protests during the late 1960s and
>early 1970s that eventually culminated in the standoff at Wounded
>Knee in 1973 following the shooting deaths of two FBI agents. This
>protest is identified as a part of a social movement and the author
>looks specifically at the coverage afforded to the American Indian
>Movement (AIM), a social movement organisation (SMO)...
>http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-1142.html
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>14.     International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated
>Film - Oct 3-9 2005 - Leipzig, Germany
>This annual festival for documentary and animated films is promoted
>and supported by Leipzig City Council, which has commissioned the
>limited company Leipziger DOK-Filmwochen GmbH with the organisation,
>preparation and execution of the Festival...
>http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2005-events/events-3672.html
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>15.     From Protest to Agenda Building: Description Bias in Media
>Coverage of Protest Events in Washington, D.C.
>This study examines how social movement protest activity influences
>media framing of issues by analysing the mass media coverage of
>protest activity in Washington, D.C. in 1982 and 1991. The aim of the
>researchers is to determine whether the news media frames issues in a
>manner that is consistent with protest group aims, and what factors
>surrounding the protest and its coverage affect these frames...
>http://www.comminit.com/evaluations/eval2005/evaluations-66.html
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>16.     Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Why Shortwave Broadcasters
>Should Be Doing More to Fight BPL
>This commentary piece reports that shortwave radio was a vital
>communication tool in Sri Lanka in the first 48 hours after the
>December 26 2004 tsunami struck...
>http://www.comminit.com/trends/ctrends2005/trends-227.html
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>17.     Journalists' Union for Science and Technology Advancement in
>Africa (JUSTA) - Africa
>JUSTA is a private, voluntary, non-governmental, non-partisan, and
>non-profit organisation working in the fields of natural sciences,
>technology, environment, health, women's affairs and sustainable
>development nationally and internationally. The main function of the
>organisation is to promote public awareness of science and
>technology, environmental problems, and sustainable development...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds122004/experiences-2850.html
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>18.     Eliav-Sartawi Awards for Middle Eastern Journalism 2005
>Sponsored by the Zel Lurie Journalism Fund, Search for Common Ground
>requested submissions for this annual competition to recognise and
>encourage journalism that contributes to a better understanding among
>people and to maintaining political dialogue in the Middle East.
>Deadline was April 30 2005...
>http://www.comminit.com/awards2005/awards2005/awards-1109.html
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>19.     Impact Data - Mass Media Vasectomy Promotion Campaign - Brazil
>This is an impact evaluation of a 15-month mass media vasectomy
>promotion campaign in three major Brazilian cities: São Paulo,
>Fortaleza, and Salvador. The campaign consisted of a combination of
>prime-time television and radio spots, magazine ads, flyer
>distribution and an electronic billboard along with other public
>relations activities...
>http://www.comminit.com/evaluations/id2005/impactdata-11.html
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>20.     Building a News-Coverage Agenda for Social Movements in Latin America
>A large group of representatives from communication organisations met
>at the World Social Forum in January 2005 to discuss what they
>perceive as critical issues for media to cover in Latin American and
>the Caribbean for the year. The group also sought to review possible
>areas for collaboration in news coverage as well. Meetings related to
>communication rights were mentioned by participants as well as
>meetings related to the World Summit on the Information Society
>(WSIS)...
>http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-1073.html
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>21.     Can We Remain Indifferent?
>Published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the
>video "Can We Remain Indifferent?" on achieving the Millennium
>Development Goals is an advocacy tool to use with partners and
>stakeholders, including donors, civil society organisations and the
>media. This short film calls on every individual to do his or her
>part to help those living in poverty, who constitute nearly half of
>the world's 6.3 billion people...
>http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2110.html
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>22.     Hey, Hey, What Do You Say... Let's Make a PSA and What do You
>Say... PSA Part One
>This set of lesson plans is offered by the Maine Public Broadcasting
>Service to help students learn how to make public service
>announcements (PSAs). It is designed for grade levels 6-8 and 9-12
>and can be downloaded for free. It is Part 2 of a two-part series.
>The 12-page lesson plan lasts for 80 minutes and seeks to have
>students conceive, plan, and produce their own PSAs for television in
>the form of brief desktop movies...
>http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2175.html
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>23.     Post-Tsunami Information on the Air in Indonesia
>This article announces that the Internews Emergency Radio Programme
>Peuneugah Aceh, "News from Aceh," went on air March 7 2005.
>Transmitted through First Voice International (FVI) Satellite Network
>Services, this daily broadcast is transmitted widely and to
>Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps throughout Aceh as well. The
>article describes the BBC World Service as reporting that the
>hundreds of thousands of displaced people have food, water and
>shelter, but "they are desperate for information"...
>http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-1119.html
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>24.     Mass Media Vasectomy Promotion Campaign - Brazil
>This campaign, implemented between 1989 and 1990, consisted of a
>combination of prime-time television and radio spots, magazine ads,
>flyer distribution and an electronic billboard along with other
>public relations (PR) activities in three major Brazilian cities: São
>Paulo, Fortaleza, and Salvador. The campaign was conducted in four
>distinct phases: pre-campaign PR, television spot broadcasting
>(May-June 1989), rebroadcast (Sept. 1989), and a follow-up
>mini-campaign (early 1990)...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2005/experiences-3009.html
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>25.     Local and Community Television in the United Kingdom: A New Beginning?
>This article examines the issues surrounding the ability of Local and
>Community Television (LCTV) to complement, and challenge, Public
>Service Broadcasting (PSB) values in the United Kingdom. It also
>looks at "media literacy" and the role of community media in relation
>to enhancing citizenship. Hewson asks, "Can Local and Community
>Television be revitalized within a digital environment?"...
>http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-1120.html
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>26.     SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe 2005
>Organised by the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), the
>2,000 Euro award will be given to a journalist, editor, media
>executive or person educating journalists in South Eastern Europe
>(SEEMO region), thus using the media to promote a climate of better
>understanding among people in the region and to work towards ending
>minority problems, ethnic divisions, racism, xenophobia, etc.
>Deadline was May 1 2005...
>http://www.comminit.com/awards2005/awards2005/awards-1110.html
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>27.     ABU Weekly News Digest
>This weekly summary of news, events and publications from
>Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) members offers broadcasting
>news items from around the Asia-Pacific region...
>http://www.comminit.com/e-zines/emagazines/enews-430.html
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>28.     Ethics Consultation with Javier Darío Restrepo: Journalism
>for Peace - Latin America
>This is a personalised consulting service (in Spanish) focused on
>themes of journalistic ethics and a "culture of peace", conducted by
>the Colombian expert Javier Darío Restrepo. It is implemented by the
>Fundación Nuevo Periodismo (FNPI) and supported by UNESCO. The main
>objectives include: identifying the problems and issues within and of
>professional news media values and the "culture of peace" of
>journalists in Latin America, providing a freely accessed space of
>reflection focused on these values and their application in the
>consolidation of a "culture of peace," and organising a consultation
>database on these values...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2005/experiences-3045.html
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>29.     NewsMarket
>This online broadcast news distribution service enables journalists
>worldwide to find, preview, organise, obtain, and contribute free
>video and other multimedia content...
>http://www.comminit.com/links/linksmedia/links-1626.html
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>30.     How to Do Community Radio: A Primer for Community Radio Operators
>This publication aims to address social issues at a community level,
>such as poverty and social exclusion, empower marginalised rural
>groups and catalyse democratic processes and development efforts.
>Tambuli (Tinig ng Aming Munting Bayan Upang Umunlad Ang Maliliit or
>the Voice of the Community) in the Philippines was among the first
>independent community radios set up with help from UNESCO...
>http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2143.html
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>31.     International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
>An international umbrella organisation consisting of researchers,
>practitioners, and policy makers working in the field of media and
>communication research...
>http://www.comminit.com/links/linksngos/links-1619.html
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>32.     Know Your Audience: A Practical Guide to Media Research
>Written by Dennis List, founder of Audience Dialogue, this book is
>intended primarily for media people in developing countries, and
>small communications-related organisations in the developed world.
>All chapters of the book are available on the website. Most chapters
>are late drafts of the 2002 edition of the book, with a few
>corrections and updates...
>http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2125.html
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>33.     Shaking Our Foundations: Media and the Asian Tsunami
>This 10-page report describes the work undertaken by international
>and local organisations as they seek to rebuild media in the
>aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami. The report also details how
>coverage of reconstruction has taken place and offers suggestions for
>how the media can play a "watchdog" role in monitoring these efforts.
>According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the
>media's role has now shifted to "ensure transparent and
>corruption-free aid while local governments struggle to distribute
>it"...
>http://www.comminit.com/materials/ma2005/materials-2131.html
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>34.     Progressive Media Project - United States
>Founded in 1993, the Progressive Media Project is a non-profit
>initiative to solicit, edit, and distribute commentary ("op-ed")
>pieces to daily newspapers in the United States on a range of
>domestic issues, as well as on issues of foreign policy, peace, and
>international cooperation. Training in communications strategies and
>media outreach is offered to support broad public participation in
>this media process...
>http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds2005/experiences-3022.html
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