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| |  | Can Movies Be a Moral Compass?
Peter Malone. Published jointly by WACC and St Pauls. Paperback. 173 pages.
Description: Millions of people worldwide go to the movies every year. Written by an Australian priest who has been reviewing films since 1968 and is a former world president of SIGNIS, this book asks ‘What are the values people respond to in films? What kind of moral guidance do films offer? Can Movies be a Moral Compass? explores popular films of recent decades, focusing on science, morality, heroes, angels, and priests. Our price: $12 including packing and postage. |
|  | Who Owns the Media? Global Trends and Local Resistance
Edited by Pradip Thomas and Zaharom Nain, published by Zed Books, 2004. Paperback. Description: "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." Our price: $22.50 including packing and postage. This book is also offered here on Amazon. |
|  | 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; and suggest ways in which Christian communities can realise the Internet's potential for supporting and strengthening the church's witness. Our price: $12 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | 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". Our price: $15 including packing and postage. |
|  | Communicating in the Information Society
Bruce Girard and Seán Ó Síochrú. Published by UNRISD, 2003. Paperback, 223 pages.
On the occasion of the first World Summit on the Information Society (WISIS), which was also the first UN-sponsored world summit to specifically seek the formal participation of civil society, UNRISD decided to emphasize the importance of societal perspectives on information society debates. It invited Bruce Girard and Seán Ó Siochrú of Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS), to select and edit a collection of essays on what they saw as core issues. The contribution in this book cast a spotlight into dark, often neglected, corners of the "information society" as articulated in the World Summit on the Information Society. Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon and is available here on the UNRISD site to download in pdf format. |
|  | Communication and Mission: In the Labyrinth of Globalisation
Carlos Valle. Published by WACC, 2002. Paperback. 132 pages.
The spread of the free market economic system, a fruit of the growing concertation of the West's power and global hegemony, has had a direct impact on the development of democracy and on the nature of communications. In today's societies the mass media have gradually become the fount of information and the creators of values. This 'new world' creates paradoxical situations. The influence of the media increases, but ownership is in ever fewer hands. In every sphere of life, the power of global corporations grows, but the state's power decreases. Media resources multiply, but they end up benefiting mainly those who already have more.
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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. Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | Communication and Reconciliation: Challenges Facing the 21st Century
Edited by Philip Lee, 2001. Paperback. 97 pages.
Reconciliation involves a call to communicate with candour, persistence and sensitivity. The eight essays in this book explore 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. Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | Requiem: "Here's another fine Mass you've gotten me into"
Philip Lee . Published by WACC, 2001. Hardback. 80 pages.
A critical survey of 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 North America. Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | Many Voices, One Vision: the right to Communicate in Practice
Pradip N. Thomas. Published by WACC, 2001. Paperback. 142 pages.
Description: 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 of 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. These images 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 cost. Yet, beyond these images, there are many stories and a palimpsest of stories behind each refugee. Our price: $10 including packing and postage. |
|  | The Right to Communicate: A duty to participate
IDOC internazionale, 1999. Paperback journal, 99-1-2. 80 pages.
The International Documentation and Communication Centre (IDOC) was one of the first proponents of open access to information and knowledge. It published the quarterly journal idoc internazionale offering materials on key topics on communication, democratization, human migration, women, environment, and the dialogue of religions. This special issue from 1999 celebrated its 30th anniversary with a widew-ranging focus on the right to communicate. Our price: $5 including packing and postage. |
|  | 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. 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. Our price: $5 including packing and postage. |
|  | Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas, Junio 1997.
Publicado por la Universidad de Colima, 1997, México. Revista de 178 páginas. Our price: $10 including packing and postage. |
|  | Global Communication: Is There a Place for Human Dignity
Dafne Sabanes Plou. Published by World Council of Churches, 1996. Paperback booklet. 74 pages.
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 to set in sharp relief the issues, challenges and opportunities facing Christian communicators and all those concerned about Christian communication today. Our price: $5 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | 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. Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | Women Empowering Communication
Edited by Margaret Gallagher and Lilia Quindoza-Santiago. Published by WACC, 1994. Paperback. 211 pages.
This book presents a synoptic but nonetheless reasonably comprehensive overview of developments in the field opf women and communication within the various regions, from approximately 1985 to 1994. It illustrates some of the contemporary issues of those years and some of the main lines of activity. Above all, it illustrates 'how partial and insufficient are women's options to empower communication today.' Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
|  | 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. Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also offered here on Amazon. |
|  | 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, took stock of the then current situation in international communication. Our price: $10 including packing and postage. |
|  | 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." Our price: $15 including packing and postage. This book is also listed here on Amazon. |
| | Communicating Peace: Entertaining Angels Unawares
Edited by Philip Lee. Published by WACC, 2008. Paperback. 269 pages.
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 Michael Traber. Our price: $20 including packing and postage. | | |
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