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Publication Announcement:

COMMUNICATIONS AND DEMOCRACY: Ensuring Plurality

Edited by Brij Tankha

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.

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 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.

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