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The African Communication Research journal has devoted its recent issue (4)2 mainly to “The State of Media Freedom in Africa”, with case studies covering Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Malawi.
The World Bank has released an electronic Sourcebook (e-Sourcebook) on “ICT in Agriculture”. This e-Sourcebook provides practitioners within and outside of the World Bank Group with lessons learned, guiding principles, and hundreds of examples and case studies on applying information and communication technologies in poor agriculture.
This collection may be downloaded chapterwise, in full, or viewed online: here. The full pdf version is 15.2 MB and includes links for easy navigation.
The 10-minute film features interviews with journalists and filmmakers. Contributors discuss how the media tend to focus on issues of war and disaster, rather than giving a true picture of life in developing countries. They discuss some of the challenges faced by the British media as they explain global poverty to the public, including the pressure of ratings, tight timescales and newsroom staffing cuts. Watch above or on YouTube here.
A number of job offers just arrived in our mailbox. These vacancies require communication skills and Spanish fluency. Deadlines are very soon:
HIV/AIDS Specialist, P-4, Panama City, Panama
Comunicación – UNICEF TACRO – Panama
Webmaster – UNICEF TACRO – Panama
Manager Alianzas – UNICEF TACRO – Panama
[ 27 January 2012; 13:00 to 16:00. ] Rikke Frank Jørgensen defends her PhD thesis:
“Framing the net – how discourse shapes law and culture”
This is a study of the internet as a topic for policy making, and as a tool for social change. The defence takes place on Friday 27 January, at 13-16 hrs in room 42-2.37. There will be a reception following [...]
[ 21 January 2012; 13:15 to 17:30. ] Main speakers at the seminar are Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University and Ørecomm co-director) and Winston Mano (Director of Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK). The seminar will be held at Malmö University, room U 302 (Ubåtshallen). Participation is open and free, but for logistical reasons you must register below. The programme:
The Forum for International Cooperation [Fagligt Internationalt Center, FIC] seeks a part-time student for a variety of communication tasks, in Danish and English. See full announcement here. Deadline: 1 February 2012.
Forum for International Cooperation (FIC) is a Danish non-profit organisation (NGO). The main objective of FIC is to strengthen people’s social, economic and democratic rights and [...]
[ 27 January 2012; 10:00 to 12:00. ] The lectures will be held 10-12 am, Friday 27 January 2012
at Roskilde University, room 43.3.29.
Cees Hamelink:
Communication and the Escalation of Evil
The lecture is based on Cees Hamelink’s recent book Media and Conflict. The world faces explosive conflicts about the distribution and scarcity of resources, about ethnicity and religion, and about the risks of urban [...]