New book: Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa

by Admin 21 August 2010

Herman Wasserman has edited this new book to appear in September. From the promo text:
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of ‘democracy’ and ‘development’. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of [...]

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IJoC: Special Section on Engaged Research

by Admin 19 August 2010
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The International Journal of Communication, in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), has just published a collection of essays featuring contributions from invited participants to the IJoC/SSRC Forum on “Making Communication Research Matter.”
These four essays explore how and why engaged research should be conducted, with each one taking a unique approach and focusing [...]

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CfP:
Children’s and Young People’s Media in Africa

by Admin 19 August 2010

This international conference is organised by the Africa Media Centre, Arab Media Centre, Media Policy Group, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, UK, 11-12 March 2011.
It is widely believed that the mass media have taken over the role of storytelling, something which traditionally was performed by grandmothers and grandfathers in most [...]

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Europe meets Latin America,
Berlin, 12-17 September 2010

by Admin 18 August 2010

The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) announces a seminar being organized by the EMLA (Europe meets Latin America) Forum, with the theme “Emphasising Commonalities or Differences: New Perspectives on European-Latin American Relations”.
The EMLA weeklong seminar will run 12–17 September and will consist of lectures, panel discussions, seminars, as well as cultural and social activities. In [...]

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CfP: Northern Lights

by Admin 17 August 2010

The 2012 volume of Northern Lights: Re-thinking Film and Media Production: Creativity, Convergence and Participation will focus on the renewed interest in film and media production. In recent years there has been a shift across a broad field of media and cultural studies from primarily devoting attention to the finished product, oeuvre or reception to [...]

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Online: African Communication Review

by Admin 17 August 2010

The electronic publication of the African Communication Review is sponsored by the UNESCO Chair in Communication, currently held by Ruth E Teer-Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal. The journal is published by St Augustine’s University, Tanzania. General editor: Bernardin Mfumbusa, Coordinating Editor: Robert A.White.
Six issues of the journal are now available for download (pdf). Browsing [...]

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Freire online

by Admin 17 August 2010

The Instituto Paulo Freire in São Paulo offers a number of courses. One of these is organised as a distance course using a number of techniques, e.g. texts, videos, forum discussions, video chats etc. on the Moodle platform. This course “A atualidade de Paulo Freire: vida, obra e legado” [The relevance of Paulo Preire: life, [...]

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Participatory communication for development

by Admin 17 August 2010

The above headline is the translated title of a magazine style blog in Spanish “Comunicación participativa para el desarollo“. It is published by Centro Interdisciplinario de Comunicación Social (CICS) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
This rich source is now included in our links list.

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Performing the World 2010

by Admin 31 July 2010

The conference “Can Performance Change the World?” takes place 30 September to 3 October 2010 in New York. Performing artists, community organizers, theatre workers, educators, scholars, youth workers, students, social workers, psychotherapists, psychologists, medical doctors, health workers, and business executives are coming from 31 countries to discuss/perform that question and their responses to it. Among the [...]

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New publications at CAMECO library

by Admin 31 July 2010

You are invited to consult the list of new publications (pdf) on communications in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East acquired by the CAMECO library.
The 250 titles cover the media situation in more than 150 countries worldwide (see the country index at the back of the document). Over 50% of the [...]

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