Journals, Books & Links

Action bulletin, April 2002: Full and Fair Media Coverage of Israel/Palestine: WACC conference statement.

“Megaphones and Muffled Voices – What is Full and Fair Media Coverage of Israel/Palestine Issues?” Report from WACC’s conference this week in New York
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/megaphone.html

Regional News: shorts from Brazil, USA, China, India, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Canada, Middle East, Russia, Zimbabwe, France and South Africa
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/news.html

The media after September 11th, two perspectives: from USA and South Africa
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/sep11.html

Refugees Rights to Communication and Information, Report from the WACC conference in Lusaka, Zambia
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/refugees.html

Gaza Strip, news from Jackie Lubeck of Theatre Day Productions, Gaza
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/gaza.html

Bethlehem, news from Rev Dr Mitri Raheb, International Centre Bethlehem
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/bethlehem.html

Trust In trouble – Bill Norris on Presswise
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/presswise.html

Contents page:
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/243/contents.html

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New Issue of Action: Issue 248, November 2002

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/contents.html

Refugees Right to Communicate, Asian Conference

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/refugees.html

Caribbean Regional Conference, Embert Charles

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/caribe.html

A journey through Palestine, Rev John Butler

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/butler.html

Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/cris.html

Community Radio Potential in Afghanistan, Bruce Girard and Jo van der Spek

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/afghanistan.html

Branding New and Improved Wars, Norman Solomon

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/solomon.html

Pathways Beyond Critical Media Education, Anna Turley

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/pathways.html

Reflection: the Leper, Rolando Perez

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/reflection.html

Book Review: Mountain Voices

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/voices.html

News from the Regions, including HIV/AIDS reporting

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/248/news.html

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WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and oppression.

La Asociacion Mundial de Comunicacion Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en ingles) apoya la democratizacion de la comunicacion, la comunicacion para la dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicacion en situaciones de censura y opresion.

(NOTA: los acentos y otros signos ortograficos se han omitido intencionadamente para evitar posibles problemas de lectura).

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Action bulletin, July 2002: Community TV in Fiji; Robert McChesney; Moral Software
Issue 245

“Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay”: Community TV in Fiji resists licencing charges
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/ctv.html

Robert McChesney: Dark Trends in World Media
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/mcchesney.html

Richard Stallman: Free Software is a Moral Imperative for Christians
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/stallman.html

Reflection, by Piet Halma: Sentipensante
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/sentipensante.html

Larry Hannan: The Role of Christian Communicators in the Pacific
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/larry.html

Regional Reports: Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Caribbean, Pacific, North America, Latin America
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/regions.html

News: Musimbi Kanyoro is new President; Ezekiel Makunike is new Honorary Life Member; World Summit on the Information Society; World Summit on Sustainable Development; Links
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/news.html

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WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and oppression.

La Asociacion Mundial de Comunicacion Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en ingles) apoya la democratizacion de la comunicacion, la comunicacion para la dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicacion en situaciones de censura y opresion.

(NOTA: los acentos y otros signos ortograficos se han omitido intencionadamente para evitar posibles problemas de lectura).

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Action bulletin, October 2002:
Right to Communicate Auctioned in Guatemala

Contents page:
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/contents.html

Right to Communicate is trampled and auctioned in Guatemala, Carlos
Andrade
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/guatemala.html

No To US-demanded Crack-down on Free Media, Ali Abunimah
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/ali.html

After September 11: TV News and Transnational Audiences, Anna Turley
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/turley.html

September 11: a few minutes that shook the world: An Analysis of Press Coverage in the Arab World and Central Africa
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/panos.html

Spinning media gears for a far-away war, Norman Solomon
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/solomon.html

News from around the world Media and Religion Chair endowed;
HIV/AIDS training; James Brew dies; New head at Puskat; Schafer
congratulated;
Women launch India’s first community radio;
Know-how and hardware for the media sector; Estela Carlotto attack;
Links
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/news.html

Reflection: Jesus is big on interruptions… Paul Jeffrey
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/reflection.html

Taking Sides: “Do not be afraid” – Act for peace, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/takingsides.html

Book Review: Media Wars,
News At A Time of Terror: dissecting media coverage after 9/11, by Danny
Shechter.
Media, Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa, Edited by Keyan
Tomaselli and Hopeton Dunn
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/247/books.html

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New translation on the WACC site:
Que signifie la pleine et juste couverture mediatique des problemes
Israelo-palestiniens? Marda Dunsky
Many thanks to Ndigde Beyem Ngakoutou, Chad, for doing the translation.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/dunskyfr.html
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WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and oppression.

La Asociacion Mundial de Comunicacion Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en ingles) apoya la democratizacion de la comunicacion, la comunicacion para la dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicacion en situaciones de censura y opresion.

(NOTA: los acentos y otros signos ortograficos se han omitido intencionadamente para evitar posibles problemas de lectura).

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Action bulletin, September 2002: Communicating development; War and Forgetfulness

Communicating Development, ELDIS
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/eldis.html

“Earth Radio” broadcasts from Johannesburg Earth Summit
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/earthradio.html

The death of journalist Imad Abu Zahra in Jenin
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/abuzahra.html

Sesame St HIV
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/sesamehiv.html

War and Forgetfulness, A Bloody Media Game, Norman Solomon
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/solomon.html

Internet News Boost to Malaysian Political Reforms
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/malaysia.html

‘For you bring some strange things to our ears’
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/reflection.html

Book Reviews: Journeys of Faith: Church-based responses to HIV and AIDS in three southern African countries; Making the News: a Guide for Nonprofits and Activists; The Best Democracy Money can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/reviews.html

Other recent publications from WACC:

Accion 245, No podemos pagar, no pagaremos (version en Espanol)
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/accion/245/contenido.html

Media Development: Reporting the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/contents.html

Media and Gender Monitor 10: Targetting Men for Change
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/contents.html

Churches Speak Out Against War in Iraq.

An Arab Christian’s View of a War on Iraq, Rev. Dr. Andrea Z. Stephanous.

The Unseen Gulf War, Peter Turnley.

Blair is a Coward, John Pilger

Copyright Insurgency, Pradip Thomas.

News, including: ‘A short history of God, the WSF and Resistance’.

Reflection: Kristine Greenaway.

Have a Nice Day, the semantics of occupation, Jerry Levin Christian Peacemakers Team.

Reflection: Viliame Falekaono.

Mixed Messages, Norman Solomon.

Democratic Redefinition, an open source encyclopedia: Wikipedia.

Author: Naiker, Santha
Date: 2002

Book Launch: Media Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa: New Approaches to Political Economy

I would like to welcome all staff and students from our partner institutions and other guests to this exciting and valuable initiative. I am positioned within the University of Natal’s, International office and I am responsible for facilitating working relationships with SADC countries and the African continent at large. I am representing Dr Roshen Kishun, our Director, who was unable to be with us tonight.

At the outset I would like to outline the vision statements of NU International office, University of Natal, which states that we:

Will strive to deepen its connections and roots within Africa, and

Will further initiate and act as a conduit for co-operation with other international tertiary institutions

We are actively working within an international context, which is evident in the significant international student enrolment of 1535 in 2001 and, approximately 260 links internationally. The breakdown of last year’s enrolment was 970 students from SADC, 227 students from Africa at large and 338 students from the rest of the world.

Internationalisation forms one aspect of the complex and contentious concept of globalisation. This University acknowledges the positive results of internationalization and its many dimensions such as student mobility, interaction and exchange at seminars and conferences, and curriculum influences. Positive results can be found in the form of joint publications, seminars, research projects, etc. which have added value to intellectual debates and writings at UN and are relevant at a larger context than South Africa by extending world-wide. Such exposure enables University of Natal academic staff to make a real impact around the world and more specifically at a regional level by contributing to the larger international research agendas and theorization.

The University of Natal, NU International office also recognizes the impact it has as an education institution that can contribute positively to economic and social changes in Africa. The University has an envisaged aim of developing closer working relationships and providing vital education opportunities to students and staff from Africa, and thus, facilitates South-to-South linkages. With this in mind, a project, namely: Student recruitment and staff development and training initiative in the African Continent is currently underway comprising key marketing, recruitment and fundraising activities. Such initiatives are recognised by larger funding bodies such as the United Nations, Ford Foundation and Carnagie Corporation, who are increasingly assigning importance to sustainable development and its long-term benefits such as the promotion of democracy. Graduates from Africa will serve as a vital network throughout the continent, which will naturally proliferate over a period of time and open up possibilities of partnerships, sharing of resources and joint mutually beneficial research projects.

This initiative is in keeping with the SADC Human Resources Development Sector’s 1997 Protocol on Education and Training, which formalises the regional co-operation in education training initiatives, in areas such as equitable participation of member states and optimal resource utilization.

The need to foster linkages and pool resources with countries in the African continent is also recognised as a national priority, evident in the pledge made by the South African government, as one of the African leaders, in the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). The vision of NEPAD is to set an agenda that brings about a renewal of the African continent. Specific to the education sector, the aim is to revitalize and extend the provision of education and training, and promote networks with higher education institutions and, build human capacity that will contribute to the development of Africa.

More specifically this event is an attribute to these goals. This celebration has a three-fold objective:

1)Firstly, it is to celebrate the formal linkage entered into by the Graduate Programme in Cultural and Media Studies (CMS) and the Caribbean Institute for Media and Communication (CARIMAC), Kingston, Jamaica. The similarity of approaches evidenced in the research and teaching of these two centres makes them natural partners, despite the African historical diasporic relationship and the extreme distances that separate them. Note forgetting, it was also pointed out to me that both South Africa and the West Indies are great cricketing nations!

We are delighted to welcome the book’s co-author, Prof Hopeton Dunn, and four CARIMAC MA students to Natal, Edwin Thomas, Fae Ellington, Sheena Johnson and Ann Witter.

Secondly, one of the first concrete outcomes of the CMS-CARIMAC linkage, is the book being launched tonight, MEDIA, DEMOCRACY AND RENEWAL IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, available at this event from Adams Bookshop.But more, this book is also the first of a new series being edited by Keyan Tomaselli and some of his CRITICAL ARTS colleagues, on “Critical Studies on African Media and Culture”. The book breaks new ground as it integrates studies of structure with analyses of culture, identity and articulation. Local responses to globalisation provide finely textual, empirically based, studies of incorporation and resistance.

The second book in the series, MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE, is already on its way to Durban.Reprints from an earlier Anthropos series, “Studies on the South African Media” and new titles will appear regularly. The Tomaselli and Dunn anthology, sponsored by the National Research Foundation, the World Association for Christian Communication in London, and Telkom, represents the work of members of the Southern African and South- South Working Group in Media, Culture and Communication, coordinated from CMS, established at their April 2000 meeting.

3) Thirdly, the current Seminar on “Convergence: Technological, Cultural and Social Impacts”, is a continuation of a series of Seminars held in Harare and Durban, starting in 1993, around which the current network of South African and international scholars has united. The importance of the ongoing project is indicated by the significant international academic participation and funding, including from the University of Oslo’s Department of Media and Communication, attracted by this network.

Here, we thank Prof Helge Ronning and Kristin Orgeret, for their generosity in helping to make the 2002 Seminar possible. The contribution of the National Research Foundation’s International Science Liaison Office is again acknowledged in the funding of this 2002 Seminar, and in facilitating the continued work of the Working Group.

The University of Natal International Office is delighted to have been invited to co-host this launch, along with Adams Books, and we trust that the deliberations during this week will actualize yet further initiatives in international research collaboration, especially involving the wider SADC region and our Caribbean partners. Our Office offers ongoing support to CMS and the University as a whole in assisting to develop and implement such international linkages. And indeed, CMS has been a leader in this regard.

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Mass Media and Democratisation in Asia and Eastern Europe, Media and Afghanistan, Cyprus television, Congo invasion
Empowering women and men through participatory media structures
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/sparks.html
Colin Sparks

Issues for media theory in Russia’s transistion from dictatorship
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/downing.html
John D.H. Downing

A global blancing act: New structures in the Russian media
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/vartanova.html
Elena Vartanova

The role of media in China’s democratisation
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/hong.html
Junhao Hong

Democratisation and restructuring the media industry in South Korea
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/yoon.html
Sunny Yoon

Media and political society in Eastern Europe
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/gross.html
Peter Gross

Democratisation and the mass media in post-communist Hungary
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/gulyas.html
Ágnes Gulyás

Media, democracy and globalisation: a comparative perspective
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/chan.html
Joseph Man Chan

On the screen…
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/
on_the_screen.html

In the event…
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/
in_the_event.html

In memoriam T.K. Thomas (1925-2001)
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/tk_obituary.html

World Opinion opposed the attack on Afghanistan
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/miller.html
David Miller

Post-Taliban Afghanistan: a short route to chaos
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/wall.html
James M. Wall

Cyprus television and global postmodernity
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/roussou_
richards.html
Nayia Roussou and Michael Richards

Media coverage fo the Congo invasion: In the footsteps of Western interests?
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/media_dev/md2002-1/lokongo.html
Antoine Roger Lokongo

WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and oppression.

La Asociación Mundial de Comunicación Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en ingles) apoya la democratisación de comunicaciones, la comunicación para la dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicación en situaciones de censura y opresión.

l’Association Mondiale pour la Communication Chrétienne encourage la démocratisation de la communication, de la communication pour la dignité humaine et le droit de communiquer dans des situations de censure et d’opression.

Issue 1 of Media Development: Impunity and the media

The Red Sea catch: A Palestinian perspective, Mitri Raheb
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/raheb_red_sea.html

Impunity in journalism, Jake Lynch
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/lynch_impunity.html

‘Are we still of any use?’ – Impunity, the media and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Edwin H. Robertson
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/robertson.html

Neither too much, not too little justice: Amnesty in the South African context, Charles Villa-Vicencio
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/vv_amnesty.html

Communication may not build peace but it can certainly contribute to war, Cees J. Hamelink
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/hamelink_war.html

A life worth living: Digna Ochoa y Placido (1963-2001), Philip Lee
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/lee_ochoa.html

Breaking the silence on the war in Algeria – the fight for truth and reconciliation, Andre Jacques
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/jacques_algeria.html
French version:
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/jacques_french.html

La guerre d’Algerie: 40 ans apres, est-ce encore trop tot?, Djilali Hadjadj
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/hadjadj_algerie.html

Los medios y la transicion democratica en Centroamerica, Edgar Gutierrez
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/gutierrez.html

Verdad e impunidad, Hector Schmucler
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/schmucler.html

and other articles, see the contents page:
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-2/contents.html

WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and oppression.

La Asociacion Mundial de Comunicacion Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en ingles) apoya la democratizacion de la comunicacion, la comunicacion para la dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicacion en situaciones de censura y opresion.

(NOTA: los acentos y otros signos ortograficos se han omitido intencionadamente para evitar posibles problemas de lectura).

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New issue of Media Development: Reporting the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/contents.html

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International media coverage and changing societies:The view from Canada. Haroon Siddiqui
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/siddiqui.html

What consitutes full and fair media coverage of Israeli-Palestinianissues? Marda Dunsky
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/dunsky.html

US media turn a blind eye to the Israeli occupation. Sarah Eltanawi
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/eltantawi.html

Sharon’s cunning plan. James M. Wall
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/wall.html

Style-sheet on the Paestinian-Israeli conflict. J. Martin Bailey
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/bailey.html

Theological and ethical issues in virtual communication.
Isabelle Graessle
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/graessle.html

Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinema’s poet. Gabor Karsai
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/karsai.html

In defence of journalism as a public trust. Statement
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/salzburg.html

Other recent issues of regular WACC publications:

Action 245
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/245/contents.html

Media and Gender Monitor issue 10
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/contents.html

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Edited by Keyan Tomaselli and Hopeton Dunn (2002)
ISBN 1588681513, US Price $26.00. Pages 310

Media, Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa

A new book series, Critical Studies on African Media and Culture, edited by Keyan Tomaselli, will see the publication the books listed in the attachment during 2002

Media, Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa: New Approaches to Political Economy
Keyan Tomaselli and Hopeton Dunn (eds). (Just published, 2001)

This anthology is the first to provide critical perspectives on media structures, ownership, new regulatory regimes, and the way both nations and local communities within them have engaged with globalisation via localised responses in Southern Africa. Studies discuss privatisation, black empowerment, liberalisation, traditional communication, democracy and media freedom, the Kalahari San, identity and new media,. The countries discussed are South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, and with regard to diasporic issues in the Caribbean. This book is a companion to the already published Media Development (2001/2) issue which contains further studies of media and globalisation in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

SERIES EDITORS
Other editors of the Series include: Hopeton Dunn, Francis Nyamnjoh, Helge Ronning, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, and Abebe Zegeye. These books are the first to appear from the work of the Southern African and South-South Working Group on Media, Culture and Communication, based in the Graduate Programme in Cultural and Media Studies, University of Natal, Durban. The publisher has an African-oriented subsidiary, iAcademicBooks, which is handling the book series.

New Issue of Media and Gender Monitor
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/contents.html

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Networking for Peace
After two decades of war, Sri Lanka is moving towards a political solution to the ethnic conflict that has caused deep scars and trauma among its people. The women, who have long suffered from the consequences of war, are now moving to help re-establish communication between communities and start the process of reconciliation.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/networkingforpeace.html

Country Reports on Women and Media
Reports on the gender and media situation from the five countries of Cambodia, Malaysia, Japan, Pakistan and Nepal given by members of the steering committee of the Asian Network for Women in Communication at their recent consultation meeting in Bangkok.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/networkingforpeace.html

Meet the New President of WACC
A Kenyan national, Dr Kanyoro has attained international standing in the areas of development, feminist thought and ecumenism. She was the first women consultant with the United Bible Societies in Kenya. Prior to her current appointment as General Secretary of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), Dr Kanyoro was Executive Secretary for Women in Church and Society at the Lutheran World Federation for nearly 10 years.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/musimbi.html

Gender and the Digital Divide
With information and communication technologies (ICTs) evolving at breakneck speed as the industrial society that marked the 20th century rapidly gives way to the information society of the 21st century, the bridging of the ‘digital divide’ is now high on the global development agenda. One of the key elements of the concern over the digital divide is the recognition that women within developing countries are in the deepest part of this divide, further removed from the information age
than the men whose poverty they share.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/digitaldivide.html

Indian Women in Journalism
Recognising the severe lack of information on the rapidly growing number of Indian women working as journalists in different media and languages across the country, VOICES, in association with the Network to Empower Women in Journalism, Bangalore, has recently conducted a country-wide survey on the profile and experiences of women journalists in India.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/indianwomen.html

The Know How Conference: A Safari into the Cross-Cultural World of Women’s Knowledge Exchange
‘We believe that by bringing all the parties to one venue, remarkable relationships between research, activism and information flow will be utilized, a lasting partnership established, and a design of learning and sharing will act as our strong future bridge.’From 21st – 27th July of this year, the ‘Know How’ conference organised by ISIS-WICCE (Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange) and assisted by the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement (IIAV) in Amsterdam and Isis International-Manila was held in Kampala, Uganda. The Conference, aimed to bridge the gap and radically affect the relationships between research, activism, information and communications.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/knowhow.html

Creating Spaces for Women Communicators
Every year on 8th March, women around the world gather together to celebrate their achievements and to look ahead to the challenges still facing the women’s movement. International Women’s Day was marked in Guatemala this year by the creation of the Network of Women on Air at a meeting of women communicators who work in community media in the interior of Guatemala.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/cedepca.html

Media at the Crossroads
Supinya Klangnarong, who has spent the last six years campaigning for the reform and democratisation of the state-managed media in Thailand, discusses her WACC sponsored MA in Communication Policy thesis which analyses the opportunities and challenges of the new broadcasting reform in Thailand.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/supinya.html

Pioneering ‘Edutainment’
Music plays an integral part in Arab cultural identity and in recent years, songs and music videos in Arabic have developed into a large part of the Egyptian entertainment industry. Recognising these cultural trends, many non-governmental organisations in Egypt have begun to use songs, TV spots and drama as part of their efforts to promote educational messages. Like many of these NGOs, TCI sees popular media as one of the most powerful means to address development and educational issues in the region, but it is their particular slant on this approach that distinguishes them from the rest.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/edutainment.html

Gender and Media News
A Call for Healing not Hatred, Reconciliation not Revenge. First Women’s Radio Station Launched in Africa. Ban on vagina Monologues in Kuala Lumpur UNESCO Launches Network for Women in Media in Afghanistan. Network of Networks Established in Cuba.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/news.html

New issue of Media Development: The Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society, CRIS.

Is the “information society” a useful concept for civil society?
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/infosociety.html

Why should intellectual property rights matter to civil society?
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/ipr.html

What is the special significance of community media to civil society?
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/comm-media.html

Media ownership: Big deal?
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/media-ownership.html

The corporate sector and information control
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/info-control.html

Communication Rights in the Information Society: The CRIS campaign: Whose information society?
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/infosociety.html

Highlights of the CRIS campaign
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/cris.html

The CRIS Campaign: Mobilizations and blind spots
Sasha Costanza-Chock
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/costanza.html

Moral challenges in the information society
Cees J. Hamelink
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/hamelink.html

The information society: A case for setting up an international tribunal
Antonio Pasquali
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/pasquali.html

Gender issues, the digital divide and the WSIS
Anna Turley
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/turley.html

Working for gender and equality in the world information society
UNIFEM
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/unifem.html

A personal account of WSIS PrepCom 1
Sean O Siochru
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/prepcom.html

Statement on PrepCom
Bruce Girard
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/statement.html

WSIS and CRIS resources
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/resources.html

Refugees’ right to information and communication in the Australia and Pacific region
Nic Maclellan
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/maclellan.html

Information rights of refugees in Southern Africa
Michael S. Gallagher, S.J.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/contents.html

The Film Council, the British Film Institute and media education
Len Masterman
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/masterman.html

Y de nuevo las mismas preguntas: Como se articulan democracia y comunicacion en el siglo XXI?
Fernando Reyes Matta
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-4/reyes-matta.html

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WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and oppression.

La Asociacion Mundial de Comunicacion Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en ingles) apoya la democratizacion de la comunicacion, la comunicacion para la dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicacion en situaciones de censura y opresion.

(NOTA: los acentos y otros signos ortograficos se han omitido intencionadamente para evitar posibles problemas de lectura).

Action
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/246/contents.html

Media Development
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md2002-3/contents.html

Media and Gender Monitor
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/11/contents.html

Contents of March 2002 issue of Action (No 242)
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/contents.html

Iraqi Media: a look at what is being transmitted from inside and outside Iraq
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/iraqi.html

Regional News: censorship in Nepal; WACC student journalist detained in Congo; Pastor Bertoldo Weber dies in Brazil; Dr Christopher Kolad, former WACC president in Nigeria; the Office of Strategic Influence in USA; the Digital Opportunity Channel in the UK; Media silence on Palestine; Digital divide in South Africa
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/news.html

WACC scholars from Myanmar and Zimbabwe present theses at Oxford
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/lwin.html

Madagascar – the will for change, from WACC member Théodore Randriamanantena
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/madagascar.html

Culture Jamming with Adbusters and others
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/jammers.html

Reviews: Alternet’s 9/11; Artpad resources for theatre and participatory development; and how to write, design and produce Radio Serial Drama for Social Development from Johns Hopkins University
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/reviews.html

Palestine: Dr Mitri Raheb on surviving bombing by Israels F16s and news of a forthcoming meeting in Bethlehem on Intercultural Media.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/bethlehem.html

On with the new: goodbye to Murri Selle from the European Regional Association of WACC
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/europe.html

This month, instead of Internet links, we present: Luddite Links!
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/action/242/luddite.html

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