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Radio : a post nine-eleven strategy for reaching the world's poor / Stephen Sposato, Wm. A. Smith ; with an introduction by Muhiuddin Haider.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : University Press of America, c2005Description: xxvii, 243 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0761832548 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2344
LOC classification:
  • PN1991.6 .S76 2005
Contents:
Preface / Wm. A. Smith -- Introduction / Muhiuddin Haider -- 1. Voice out - village in - the radio ushers in dramatic change : a brief history of the radio and its use in development -- 2. Family values - health and family planning radio in West Africa -- 3. "Grace dies in barn fire" - agricultural extension via the radio -- 4. Tanzania's fireside chat - the story of radio's role in nation building -- 5. Ama mas - breast-fed by radio -- 6. The VOA - Voice of America : welcome to our world on VOA ... kick-off ceremony for national immunization days, Rogo, Nigeria -- 7. Female infanticide, bride burning, Sutee - the paper thin sari in flames -- 8. Afghanistan - a missed opportunity? -- 9. Women and war - 49 stations broadcast around the world on Women's Day -- 10. Medicine by radio? - the story of how 40,000 African women learned to prevent diarrheal dehydration on the radio : "happy baby lottery" -- 11. So the world turns - the insidious march of HIV-AIDS -- 12. Radio advertisements - the radio nag : Honduran radio advertisement spots -- 13. "Soul buddyz" - radio consoles children in South Africa -- 14. Miners' radio - broadcasting in front of the muzzle of a gun -- 15. Talking back to the radio - African children learning English : radio language program Kenya -- 16. Today's radio - changes in technology enhance radio's power : digital, solar, wind-up, interactive, satellite, community-based and other aspects of today's radio communications.
Review: "In a post 9/11 world where a few ruthless men and women can use modern technology to create powerful webs of conspiracy, the public voice of radio is needed more than ever. Computers trap us in the blue glow of their virtual reality. Cell phones connect us, but what do we have to say to each other and especially to the poor that will impact their lives? Radio attempts to answer this question." "Learn along with millions of British the fate of Grace who dies in an accidental barn fire as the BBC tries to teach post-war UK farmers to avoid the same fate. Live the trials of families in India faced with the pressure of traditional customs, trying to deal with the challenges of a modern world. These lessons of radio's potency are being submerged in the clutter of new techno gadgets, gimmicks, and gizmos. Co-authors Stephen Sposato and Wm. Smith bring these little known stories to life and revive our faith in radio as a truly modern tool of social change."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Wm. A. Smith -- Introduction / Muhiuddin Haider -- 1. Voice out - village in - the radio ushers in dramatic change : a brief history of the radio and its use in development -- 2. Family values - health and family planning radio in West Africa -- 3. "Grace dies in barn fire" - agricultural extension via the radio -- 4. Tanzania's fireside chat - the story of radio's role in nation building -- 5. Ama mas - breast-fed by radio -- 6. The VOA - Voice of America : welcome to our world on VOA ... kick-off ceremony for national immunization days, Rogo, Nigeria -- 7. Female infanticide, bride burning, Sutee - the paper thin sari in flames -- 8. Afghanistan - a missed opportunity? -- 9. Women and war - 49 stations broadcast around the world on Women's Day -- 10. Medicine by radio? - the story of how 40,000 African women learned to prevent diarrheal dehydration on the radio : "happy baby lottery" -- 11. So the world turns - the insidious march of HIV-AIDS -- 12. Radio advertisements - the radio nag : Honduran radio advertisement spots -- 13. "Soul buddyz" - radio consoles children in South Africa -- 14. Miners' radio - broadcasting in front of the muzzle of a gun -- 15. Talking back to the radio - African children learning English : radio language program Kenya -- 16. Today's radio - changes in technology enhance radio's power : digital, solar, wind-up, interactive, satellite, community-based and other aspects of today's radio communications.

"In a post 9/11 world where a few ruthless men and women can use modern technology to create powerful webs of conspiracy, the public voice of radio is needed more than ever. Computers trap us in the blue glow of their virtual reality. Cell phones connect us, but what do we have to say to each other and especially to the poor that will impact their lives? Radio attempts to answer this question." "Learn along with millions of British the fate of Grace who dies in an accidental barn fire as the BBC tries to teach post-war UK farmers to avoid the same fate. Live the trials of families in India faced with the pressure of traditional customs, trying to deal with the challenges of a modern world. These lessons of radio's potency are being submerged in the clutter of new techno gadgets, gimmicks, and gizmos. Co-authors Stephen Sposato and Wm. Smith bring these little known stories to life and revive our faith in radio as a truly modern tool of social change."--BOOK JACKET.

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