Message-ID: <199605141620.MAA01121@outpost.ietc.ca> Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 12:20:08 -0400 From: "Georges Lessard's Mass Media Arts, Training, Creation, Subject: A book - COMMUNICATIONS AND DEMOCRACY: Ensuring Plurality To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
====== Apologies for cross postings =======COMMUNICATIONS AND DEMOCRACY: Ensuring Plurality
Edited by Brij Tankha
The new communication technologies are rapidly changing the context in which audiovisual communication takes place. They present great challenges and opportunities to people working for democratic communication.
Maintaining and widening the public communication space that has been gained so far will require media activists and progressive communicators to seize the initiative.
In 1994 Videazimut (an international coalition for democratic communication) and CENDIT (Centre for the Development of Instructional Technology) brought together people from around the globe for a symposium in New Delhi on "New Communication Technologies and the Democratisation of Audiovisual Communication".
Edited by, Brij Tankha, the chairperson of CENDIT, the book contains contributions from 19 researchers and practitioners who participated in the symposium.
Themes include - defining the right to communicate, - using the new communication technologies, and - past experiences and future directions from the point of view of indigenous broadcasters, women's media groups, and people in the so-called developing world, among others.
Contributors: - Sharad Aggarwal and Satyajit Sarkar, Delhi based video makers and trainers; - Alain Ambrosi past president of Videazimut; - Arvind Chittewale of Abhivyakti Media for Development in India; - Choi Won Suk of Labor News Production in Korea; _ Ambiga Devy of Video Farm in Malaysia; - Howard Frederick, US based researcher; - Sabina Gadhioke, founder of the Indian feminist filmmakers collective Mediastorm; - Enrico Giardino, electrical engineer and founder of the Italian Forum for Communication Rights; - Anura Goonasekera, head of research at the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre in Singapore; - Chris Lee, former CEO of the National Indigenous Media Association of Australia; - Maeda Miho of the Pacific Asia Resources Center in Japan; - David Nostbakken of WETV, the Global Access Television Service based in Canada; - Manjunath Pendakur, head of the Program in Communication and Development at Northwestern University in the United States; - Kalyan Raman of the Indian Space Research Organization; - Luiz Fernando Santoro, television producer and professor at the University of Sao Paulo; - Anna Leah Sarabia of the Women's Media Circle in the Philippines; - Masaki Toshiyuki and Nakamuru Minoru of the People's Media Network in Japan; - Michel Senecal, Professor of Communication at the University of Quebec; and - Bernard Woods, Britain based consultant in community utility programs and former Senior Communication Specialist for the World Bank.
Published by Southbound in Malaysia. ISBN 983-9054-13-9. Price US$ 25 (includes shipping and handling), 213 pages, 1995. Available from Videazimut at the address below.
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