Can Movies Be a Moral Compass?
Peter Malone. Published jointly by WACC and St Pauls. Paperback. 173 pages.

Description: Every year some 12,000 million people worldwide go to the movies. In 2004 the top five films were Shrek 2, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Spiderman 2, The Passion of the Christ, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban. Can Movies Be A Moral Compass? examines the values that people respond to in popular cinema. In particular it explores the kinds of moral guidance that such films offer.The author discusses many popular films of recent decades, focusing on science, morality, heroes, angels, and priests.

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A New World is Possible, Ten Good Reasons to... Educate for Peace, Practice Tolerance, Promote Interfaith Dialogue, Be in Solidarity, Promote Human Rights
Marcelo Rezende Guimaraes. Published by Sinodal, 2005. Paperback. 93 pages.

Description: Finding reasons to educate for peace, promoting tolerance that does not just mean putting up with another person, following a path of inter-religious ad intercultural dialogue, developing solidarity as a principle of coexistence and defending human rights as the basis of civilization is the only ay of making a new world possible. Knowing that peace and violence are cultural constructs created by people is good news, because it means we have the power to change cultures and to educate ourselves for a more loving and just way of living together. Behind the expertise with which the author tackles the complexity of this book's themes lies a great love of humanity and the people that make up our world. More details from Philip Lee

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Communication in Movement (Abbreviated version of the Spanish publication: "Comunicación en Movimiento") Osvaldo León, Sally Burch, Eduardo Tamayo G. Published by ALAI, 2005. Paperback. 163 pages.

"Communication in Movement", a new publication of ALAI (Agencia Latinoamericana de Información), examines the complex relations between social movements and communication. In the last decade, Latin America has seen the emergence of social and citizen movements dedicated to building alternatives to the neoliberal order. One of the central goals they have set is to appropriate and democratize communication.This work explores that process, scrutinizing the experiences of the organizations involved in outstanding social and citizen coordinating bodies and networks of the continent.

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Who Owns the Media? Global Trends and Local Resistance
Edited by Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain, published by Zed Books, 2004. Paperback.

Description: "The US model of media control and policy making is being rapidly exported across the world. Some countries are attempting to preserve their own cultural production, and there are moves to try to keep culture out of the control of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many books on the political economy of communications have either focused on general tendencies internationally, or have focused on the links between markets and media freedom in specific countries and regions. The uniqueness of this book lies in its focus on both local and international forces. While critiquing international capital, it also acknowledges the bargains that are struck between the local operators and transnationals. The contributors demonstrate the misfit between media ownership and public accountability and look ahead for ways to enable citizens around the world become effective participants in media policy making."

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Virtual Christianity, Potential and Challenge for the Churches
Jean-Nicolas Bazin and Jerome Cottin. Published by Risk books, 2004. Paperback. 123 pages.

Description: How is the emerging Internet culture affecting Christian churches? How can churches influence the formation of the "virtual" world? Should we expect to find a new form of Christian faith evolving on the web, or simply to encounter a fresh means of experiencing Christian traditions? To what extent must churches resist tendencies present in the new media? Using both theoretical and practical approaches, the authors look at interactions between the churches and the Internet. They examine new information and communication technologies, and the philosophies -- secular and religious -- that accompany them; suggest ways in which Christian communities can realise the Internet's potential for supporting and strengthening the church's witness; and give examples of how websites may assist in the rediscovery of the gospel and inspire worship based in Christianity's unique vision of God's relationship to humanity.

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Many Voices, One Vision: the right to Communicate in Practice
Edited by Philip Lee. Published by Southbound, Penang, and WACC, 2004. Paperback. 166 pages.

What does the right to communicate mean to millions of people marginalised by the political and economic self-interests of the North? How is concentration of media ownership threatening political activism and cultural diversity? What needs to be done to tackle the causes of the digital divide? How can the right to communicate guarantee equal access and participation in democratic decision-making? Why is it important to place safeguards on who owns and generates information and knowledge? These are some of the questions addressed by this book, which promotes a vision of "a new, more just and more efficient world information and communication order".

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Gender Setting: New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy
Margaret Gallagher. Published by Zed Books, 2001. Paperback. 216 pages.

Description: What is the scope for independent citizen action in media and cultural policy formation? How can audiences effectively voice critiques of media content? In a market-centred and consumer-oriented media world, what is the potential for monitoring, lobbying and advocacy? This book argues that there is a role for local action to defend and promote diversity in the content, images, symbols and values that people use in making sense of their lives. It focuses on media portrayals of gender - whose critique has been fundamental to the modern international women's movement. Now, research and activism have been brought together in the form of gender media monitoring - systematic data collection aimed at policy critique and practical change. The book brings together research findings and monitoring experiences from both North and South to demonstrate how women's groups have developed effective media monitoring models.

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Comunicación y Fe: Desafios para un milenio globalizado
Edited by Philip Lee. Published by WACC, 2001. Hardback. 160 páginas.

Este libro tiene el propósito de explorar los cambios que la globalización y la secularización del find del siglo veinte traien para américa Latina. Sus autores intentan abordar los desafíos a los cuales la sociedad civil - y las comunidades de fe - tienen qe responder en la primera d´´ada del nuevo siglo y, en particular, en el contexto latinoamericano. Uno de los problemas cruciales que se plantearán durante esta d´´ada será el de preservar la diversidad frente a la uniformidad cultural que ya nos invade en numerosos ámbitos: diversidad de identidad, diversidad de cultura, y diversidad de fe. En este contexto , se preguntaron a los autores una serie de preguntas claves.

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Communication and Reconciliation: Challenges Facing the 21st Century
Edited by Philip Lee, 2001. Paperback. 97 pages.

Reconciliation - the heart-felt restoration of person to person, people to people, and all to God - is as central to the Christian message as it is sorely needed in today's world. The call to reconciliation involves a call to communicate with candour, persistence and sensitivity. The eight essays in this book explore these various angles of communication in the search for reconciliation. The stories come from all over the globe: India, where Hindus and Christians urgently need to embrace a "culture of dialogue", and where words alone have not been enough for reconciliation between untouchables and upper castes; Argentina, where the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo paid the cost to communicate truly about the military dictatorship and the missing persons; Estonia, where understanding the role of one's mother tongue has been essential to promoting communication between Estonians and Russophones; Canada, where sensitivity is critical for reconciliation between First Nations peoples and the churches. Again and again a picture of communication with a human face emerges - one that genuinely cares for the "other" as one's neighbour.

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Requiem: "Here's another fine Mass you've gotten me into"
Philip Lee . Published by WACC, 2001. Hardback. 80 pages.

The evolution of the Requiem Mass from Brahms (1868) to Preisner (1998) in the context of a gradual transition from the traditional to the popular, from the religious to the secular, in the general context of political, social and cultural developments in Europe and the USA.

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Many Voices, One Vision: the right to Communicate in Practice
Pradip N. Thomas. Published by WACC, 2001. Paperback. 142 pages.

From the Foreword: Refugees rank among the world's most vulnerable people. Our image of a refugee, is more often than not, shaped by what we see, hear and read in the world's media. The images or harassed people, barely surviving, in and around the conflict zones in our world, or seeking asylum in not too friendly countries are, quite often, the only information that ordinary people have of refugees, These images of elicit a mixture of pity and sympathy and often reinforce deeply held prejudices and stereotypes of nations and people who seem to be perpetually at war with each other, leaving behind a trail of displaced peoples at unimaginable human costs. And yet, beyond these images, there are many stories and a palimpsest of stories behind each refugee.

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The Right to Communicate: a duty to participate
IDOC internazionale, 1999. Paperback journal, 99-1-2. 80 pages.

IDOC's 30 years for the Right to Communicate: During the last few months of the second millennium, IDOC got a still clearer insight into the long way civilisation has yet to go before the Right to Communicate will be universally respected. IDOC hosted a stage of journalists from surrounding countries: Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Tunis. The stage happened to coincide with the beginning of the war against Serbia. The journalist from Media Center, Belgrade, had to leave in the middle of the stage in order to reach his family before the bombing started. He managed to reach Budapest and from there get a car from friends, cross the border and arrive in Belgrade about 15 minutes before the first missiles exploded in town.

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Media Representation and Indigenous Peoples
Anne Pattel-Gray. Published by WACC, 1998. Booklet. 38 pages.

Communications and media representation is an area of major concern for Indigenous Peoples around the world today. Indigenous Peoples from many parts of the globe face a constant barrage of negative media images about themselves. they are portrayed as savages, heathens, drunks, lazy, no-hopers, and worse. Stereotypes and falsehoods are promoted in our schools, churches and other social institutions and systems: everything from the myth of Christopher Columbus "discovering" the Americas and James Cook "discovering" Australia, to the pseudo-sciences and theories of phrenology and Social Darwinism. Seldom shown are the positive images of Indigenous role models: Indigenous educators, community workers, students and so on. Even less seldom are seen the images of Indigenous "success stories": Indigenous doctors, lawyers, scientists, Senators, Chief Executive Officers, millionaires and others.

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The Globalization of Communications: Some Religious Implications
Chris Arthur. Published by the World Council of Churches, 1998. Paperback booklet. 70 pages.

No matter how one understands the process of "globalization", it is evident that it has been accelerated by rapid developments in communication technology. Computers and satellites make possible instantaneous financial transactions and dissemination of information, revolutionizing the world economy. The global mass media, their vast economic power concentrated in ever fewer hands, profoundly touch the lives and cultures of people everywhere. Behind the political and economic issues raised by the globalization of communication lie important ethical and religious questions. Here is a lucid introduction to five such concerns demanding serious theological reflection and discussion among Christians and churches.

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Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, Junio 1997.
Publicado por la Universidad de Colima, 1997, México. Revista de 178 páginas.

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Global Communication: Is There a Place for Human Dignity
Dafne Sabanes Plou. Published by World Council of Churches, 1996. Paperback booklet. 74 pages.

The Communication media are being transformed by the development of new technologies and the creation of giant cultural and entertainment conglomerates whose influence reaches to every corner of the world. Concern about what this concentration of power implies for human freedom and dignity has been heightened by recent mergers and the rapid development of multi-media communication. Yet this ongoing communications revolution can also offer new ways for churches to carry out their mission in a creative and liberating way. This book draws on the stories of struggle and hope and the experience-tested insights shared during the 1995 global congress of the World Association for Christian Communication to set in sharp relief the issues, challenges and opportunities facing Christian communicators and all those concerned about Christian communication today.

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Transmission: Towards a Post-Television Culture
Edited by Peter d'Agostino and David Taffler. Published by Sage Publications, 1995. Paperback. 300 pages.

Today, information is exchanged across an expanding spectrum, from divergent sources, in a multiplicity of applications. This new theory of transmission extends its vision beyond the boundaries of television to the still shifting territories of interactive media. The chapters in Transmission investigate the impact of all media - including the emerging technologies - on the social, cultural, economic, and political climate in the context of aesthetic values, and issues of gender, race and class. This ground-breaking work also examines the array of forces moving the contemporary video landscape forward, comparing the past with the present - as well as the future - as it looks at the impact of video on commercial television, the relationship of media to the social causes it (mis)represents, and the effects of new communication tools on participating constituents.

An important volume for any scholar or student in the areas of media studies, mass communication, cultural studies or popular culture.

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Women Empowering Communication
Edited by Margaret Gallagher and Lilia Quindoza-Santiago. Published by WACC, 1994. Paperback. 211 pages.

Hollywood chose to mark 1993 as The Year of the Woman. Whether a cynical public relations gesture of simply a bad joke, the 'celebration' is very well timed. In her book Backlash Susan Faludi calls 1987 a 'red letter year' in Hollywood for the backlash against women's independence. But it was in 1993 that Hollywood brought Boxing Helena to the Screen. This is a film in which the male 'hero' tries to control a woman by amputating her arms and legs, and ranks as one of the most awful examples of cinematic misogyny yet to be released to the general public. Touted as an exploration of the current confusion in female-male relationships, it fits well within the genre of backlash films which in Faludi's view are 'larded with male anger over females demands and male anxiety about women's progress'

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Religion and the Media: an Introductory Reader
Chris Arthur. Published by University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1993. Paperback. 302 pages.

Description: This book provides a number of essays on various topics relating to the media. These essays provide interesting theological input into media issues. For those studying the relationship between theology and media, this text-book is indispensable.

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Few Voices, Many Worlds: Towards a Media Reform Movement
Edited by Michael Traber and Kaarle Nordenstreng. Published by WACC, 1992. Paperback. 79 pages.

"As communication is so central to all social, economic and political activity at community, national and international levels, I would paraphrase H.G. Wells and say human history becomes more and more a race between communication and catastrophe. Full use of communication in all its varied strands is vital to ensure that humanity has more than a history...that our children are assured a future". Thus wrote Seán MacBride in the Foreword of Many Voices, One world, the Unesco sponsored report which called for a New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). This source book, appearing more than two decades after the MacBride Report, takes stock of the current situation in international communication.

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Super Media: A Cultural Studies Approach
Michael R. Real. Published by Sage Publications, 1989. Paperback. 283 pages.

"Super Media is the smartest and most accessible volume available that introduces the fundamental theoretical and methodological positions and practices in cultural studies. It challenges the reader to think through the very issues that cultural studies research and theorizing promotes, Real's touch as an author has produced a very readable text. Super Media helps signal the relevance of cultural studies for communication studies in America."

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Communicating Peace: Entertaining Angels Unawares
Edited by Philip Lee. Published by WACC, 2008. Paperback. 269 pages.

"Communication is similar to the nervous system of the human body. It is maintained by a multitude o signals originating from all parts of the body. If the nervous system or the immune system breaks down, the well being of the entire body is in jeopardy. Similarly, no modern democracy can exist, let alone flourish, without a certain level of information and participation. It is thus the very body politic that depends on the right to communicate.' Michael Traber

Communiction rights and the ever more urgent need to construct a culture of peace are central to a vision of a world in which universal human values displace the accumulated weight of history's tyrannies. Contributions by Clifford G Christians, Philip Lee, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Francis B Nyamnjoh, Liv Sovik, Slavko Splichal, Pradip N Thomas, and Robert A White complement reprinted essays by the late Fr Michel Traber.

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