[eccr] WACC Newsletter - new issue of Media and Gender Monitor

>A full new issue of MEDIA & GENDER MONITOR is now online on the WACC 
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>This issue focuses on the Global Media Monitoring Project - GMMP 2005 - 
>and features contributions from GMMP participants worldwide. GMMP was born 
>out of the WACC 1994 international Bangkok conference on "Women Empowering 
>Communication". Following the first GMMP, organised by MediaWatch, Canada 
>in 1995, the WACC Women's Programme co-ordinated a second GMMP in 2000. 
>Since then, from the grassroots to policy-making circles, GMMP has become 
>a tool for change. With an even larger number of organisations and 
>countries participating, an extensively revised quantitative and 
>qualitative analysis, its own website 
>(<http://www.globalmediamonitoring.org/>http://www.globalmediamonitoring.org), 
>and national and regional as well as a global reports, GMMP 2005 is set to 
>be an even more exciting and ambitious global project than ever 
>before.GMMP 2005 is supported by the Open Society Institute, United 
>Methodist Church, USA and FinChurchAid, Finland.
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>SEE THE FULL INDEX OF THIS ISSUE HERE:
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>PROMOTING GENDER EQUITY IN NEWS MEDIA: GMMP 2005
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>On 16th February 2005, women and men in 102 countries monitored the day's 
>news on TV, radio and in newspapers as part of the third ever Global Media 
>Monitoring Project (GMMP). GMMP 2005 is a grassroots media monitoring, 
>research and advocacy project which aims to promote the fair and balanced 
>representation of women and men in news media worldwide.
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>CHANGING THE RULE THAT MALE POLITICIANS AND FEMALE NUDITY SELL THE NEWS 
>Aleksandar Zivanovic, Journalist, Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Banja Luka
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>With a lot of enthusiasm, nine activists from the non-profit organisations 
>United Women and Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Banja Luka prepared a plan of 
>action and all the necessary materials, although we already knew what the 
>results would be. It was really exciting to be a part of a mass movement 
>that is working to achieve the same goal globally. Learning the new 
>methodology for media monitoring and the examples from GMMP 5 years ago 
>was also very interesting. Having read the media analysis by the local 
>government from 2002 and reminded by the media monitoring Helsinki 
>Citizens' Assembly Banja Luka conducted in 2004, we knew the 
>representation of women and men in the media would reflect the reality of 
>public and particularly political life.
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>WHY MEDIA MONITORING MATTERS
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>Lindiwe Sola
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>Mass media has an enormous power to shape gender realities for it is one 
>of the principal sources of our knowledge and experience of the world. As 
>the South African Media and Gender Institute has said, "The media is well 
>placed to influence our opinions, beliefs, attitudes and standards, as 
>well as our notion of self, so that our idea of who we are as female and 
>male is influenced by value-laden media messages." These messages are 
>often from select viewpoints and experiences and do not necessarily offer 
>a 'window on the world' but rather express the priorities and values of 
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>DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS FOR MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY Dr Glory Dharmaraj, 
>United Methodist Women's Division
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>In the United States, volunteers from the United Methodist Women and 
>Catholic Communications did the monitoring. We sent out more than 600 
>monitoring forms to volunteers. The initial response from the volunteers 
>was one of excitement and the thought that they were engaged in a social 
>justice issue which is specific, measurable, and at the same time 
>achievable added to the excitement.
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>OPENING EYES IN JAMAICA
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>Hilary Nicholson, WMW, Jamaica.
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>Interestingly, just as we approached the Global Media Monitoring Day, 
>Women's Media Watch (WMW) and other NGOs in Jamaica have been gathering at 
>roundtables with the local media. What were we discussing? How to balance 
>profitability and social responsibility in news coverage. Therefore, we 
>were curious to see how the news would be presented on February 16th  - 
>would we see the usual sensationalism, with crime and violence being the 
>focus of the news? Or would there be a fresh approach, a shift towards 
>some positive changes?
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>A GREAT EFFORT BY A SMALL TEAM IN EGYPT
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>Wimco Ester, MediaHouse, Egypt
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>We felt a bit jealous after reading a lot of reports coming in during and 
>straight after the International Day of Monitoring for GMMP 2005. In some 
>countries big groups were almost making a party out of this day. And what 
>about us? We were just a handful of people. Was that a sign of lack of 
>enthusiasm in Egypt? Not at all! We just applied late and had no time to 
>translate material and recruit a lot of people. But the small team made a 
>great effort.
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>SPARKING DEBATE IN SOUTH AFRICA
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>Aniela Gella and  Jackie Lagus, SAMGI, South Africa.
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>With each day drawing closer to the 16th February, our team at SAMGI (the 
>Southern African Media and Gender Institute) became increasingly excited 
>at the prospect of being involved with the 2005 Global Media Monitoring 
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><http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16/sparking_debate_in_south_africa>http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16/sparking_debate_in_south_africa
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>Memorable experience in India
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>Ashish Sen, VOICES, India
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>On a personal level, the GMMP experience has been both exciting and nerve- 
>wrecking on several fronts. Mainly, because this was the first time that 
>VOICES was coordinating a monitoring exercise on a scale that increasingly 
>appeared to be daunting.
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>LOOKING FOR STEREOTYPES IN FIJI
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>Violet Savu, Fiji Media Watch.
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>Two weeks prior to the actual international day of monitoring, members of 
>Fiji Media Watch (FMW) and interested individuals and participants from 
>other NGOs met for a practice run of the monitoring. The group found the 
>exercise interesting knowing too that more than 100 other countries would 
>be participating in this global initiative.
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>MONITORING FROM THE OTHER SIDE
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>Teresita Z. Hermano, Communication Foundation for Asia
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>Five years ago, I monitored the progress of GMMP 2000 from the WACC 
>Women's Programme desk in London. On February 16th, 2005, I monitored the 
>news "in the field" -- along with more than 60 Communication Arts students 
>and 10 teachers at Miriam College, an all-women school in Quezon City, 
>Philippines. Miriam College is doing all the coding work while the 
>Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) is coordinating the follow-up work 
>and qualitative analysis for GMMP 2005 in the Philippines.
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>WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE DATA ANALYST FOR GMMP 2005?
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>William Bird, Director of the Media Monitoring Project
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>Being asked to be the data analyst for GMMP 2005 is a bit like being asked 
>to fly the latest Airbus, it is both intimidating and a great honour, but 
>a lot more exciting.  The GMMP is a spectacular achievement.  On one level 
>it raises international concerns about gender issues and the media, on 
>another, it highlights civil society's interest and growing activism 
>around gender issues in the media issues.  Delightfully for the Media 
>Monitoring Project (MMP), the GMMP is indicative of a growing trend in the 
>use of media monitoring as a tool to bring about and track changes in the 
>media.
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><http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16/what_does_it_mean_to_be_the_data_analyst_for_gmmp_2005>http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16/what_does_it_mean_to_be_the_data_analyst_for_gmmp_2005
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>UN MOTIVO PARA CONVERGER DESDE LA DIVERSIDAD Patricia Galicia, WACC 
>Guatemala/ Red mujeres al aire
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>"Estoy aquí por sentirme conectada con tantas mujeres de muchos países. 
>Por sentirme parte de algo trascendente." Con estas palabras Ana Silvia 
>Monzón, socióloga y productora radial, expresa el valor que tuvo para unas 
>16 personas en Guatemala participar en el tercer monitoreo mundial de la 
>mujer en los medios -GMMP-.
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><http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16/un_motivo_para_converger_desde_la_diversidad>http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16/un_motivo_para_converger_desde_la_diversidad
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>SEE THE FULL INDEX OF THIS ISSUE HERE:
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><http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16>http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_and_gender_monitor/issue_16
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>PLEASE ALSO SEE THE GMMP WEBSITE HERE:
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