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Communication and Cultural Identity in Asia. Cultural identity, internationalization, and regional diversity ; Japanese popular culture and East Asian modernities ; The state of civil society in Singapore ; The media and asylum seekers in Australia ; Images of the ‘other’ in India ; Globalisation and tradition: Paradoxes in Philippine television and culture ; Media versus globalisation and localisation ; The politics of compassion: Journalism, class formation, and social change in China ; ¿Cómo construir ciudadanía responsable desde los medios? ; Think local, teach global: National identity and media education ; Religious programming in secular media ; The Windhoek Charter on Broadcasting in Africa

Media Scenarios in Southern Africa. Privatisation of the media and national survival in Lesotho ; Globalisation and its possible effects on independent media in South Africa ; Free for all? The case of Zimbabwe’s media ; The politics of press freedom and the national economy in Swaziland ; The Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust: An experiment that failed ; Plurality and power relations in Zambian broadcasting ; Reform and, outreach: Analysing Southern African media ; Service providers and liability for digital defamation: Finding the right balance ; Cartooning and democratization world-wide ; Cartoon journalism in Africa puts political power into perspective

Communicating Cyberspace and Virtual Reality. L’internet, outil de développement : Une nouvelle donnée pour l’éducation en Afrique noire ; He lies like a rug: Digitising memory ; Plain speaking in a world of suspect communication technologies ; Is the Internet a form of electronic apartheid? ; ‘Nurslings of immortality’: Being human or being digital? ; América Latina entra a la carrera ciberespacial ; The agony and the ecstasy of media work in the USA - Bernard R. Bonnot: "The media environment in the USA today is one in which a company that didn’t exist 20 years ago can swallow up Time Warner. That’s part of the agony, the uncertainty of a dynamic situation. Even the most prosperous and powerful of media enterprises worries about being taken over whole by some yahoo or other and about their executives migrating to some e-commerce start-up. But there are compensations, as the following article suggests. "

Communicating Reconciliation in Today's World. Education for peace: The UN and new ideas for the ‘information age.’ ; Seeing (beyond) the frame ; Beijing Declaration on the Rights of People with Disabilities in the New Century ; A ‘Cruel Radiance’: Reconciliation in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies ; Communicating reconciliation: The churches’ responsibilities in an increasingly secular society ; Sanctions: the children of Iraq are still dying ; Giving back the bike: Reconciliation’s promise ; A cultural foundation for communicating reconciliation in Africa ; Hablar de comunicación en tiempos de confrontación en el Perú ; Theological understandings of reconciliation ; Screening ambiguity: From conflict to the common good ; De l’influence de la télévision : Un point de vue africain ; Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society;

Women and Media, The Need for Policy. Media vs. society in Lebanon: Schizophrenia in an age of globalisation ; Looking beyond the ‘body count’ in the Caribbean ; Developing gender sensitive communications policies ; Don’t abandon safeguards in the name of freedom of expression! ; Globalisation of the media and its implications for women’s expression ; Changing images: a long road ; Lost on the information superhighway? Del Nevo: "How have gender issues in communication altered since two landmark conferences in Bangkok 1994 and Beijing 1995? The following article reviews the current situation, concluding that a global transformation of culture and the policies of the communications industry are required. This can only be done through the development of gender sensitive communications policies that are democratically pout into practice."

Impunity and the Media. Cultural politics: choosing between the global market and democracy ; Herbert I. Schiller ( 9 9-2000): Radical scholar, teacher, activist ; Restoring the rights of children ; Democracy requires science journalism ; Media, racism and monitoring ; Playing the race card in South Africa ; More Colour in the Media ; Everyday racism and the importance of a cultural paradigm ; Migrants, racism and the media – a perspective from Australia ; Arkan: A villain glamorised by the media ; Beyond contesting racism: Imagining the polyethnic media environment ; Audience segmentation: Is it racism or just good business? ; The potential role of the mass media in deconstructing racism

Communication and the Globalisation of Poverty. Current discourse on new technologies in development communication ; First Impressions: The angelic taxi driver ; The tortuous road to reconciliation ; Death and dying in ‘For Better or For Worse’ ; Redemption and film: Cinema as a contemporary site of religious activity ; Village Phone: An information revolution for rural Bangladesh ; La Iglesia, la pobreza y la economía global ; From French revolution to information revolution ; Coupons make the world go around ; Christian faith and the globalization of poverty ; Conceptualising the fourth world: Four approaches to poverty and communication ; Irish print media coverage of the998 Sudanese crisis: The case of The Irish Times

Language and the Right to Communicate. Web wars and inter-faith futures in India ; War in Bosnia, Moving Images ; Selective protection: Guarding language in South Africa ; Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights ; First public hearing on languages and human rights ; From our mothers’ arms ; What fate awaits the world’s languages? ; Rehabilitating language ; Languages and the right to communicate ; Tok Pisin and Tok Ples as languages of identification in Papua New Guinea. Despite promising beginnings, there is still a long way to go in the realisation of the right to communicate. The following article argues that ‘Global civic organizations that represent public interest issues need to mobilize themselves and form alliances with other interested parties for active intervention in the fora of world communication governance.’ This is the fundamental challenge on the communications agenda of the 21st century.

Changing Perspectives in Europe Today. Film fathers: From the demonic to the angelic ; Against the common good: The commodification of Latin American society ; Tackling the final and optimal crisis of the century ; Implementing children’s right to freedom of expression in sub-Saharan Africa ; Child rights and the media: Guidelines for journalists ; Call for a safer world ; Using the principle of publicity to create public service media ; Turn-of-the-century challenges facing the mass media in Bulgaria ; Democratisation of the media in the Republic of Karelia ; Trends in the development of the Estonian media market in the990s ; Dilemmas facing Hungary in securing genuine democratisation of communication ; Broadcasting in Macedonia: Between the State and the Market ; East Europe’s cinema industries since989 ; Mass media and the transition in Romania ; Media education in Slovenia