TY  - BOOK
TI  - The Talking picture|h[electronic resource]: impact of mass media in Kenya, Mali, South Africa, and Uganda
AV  - PN1997 .T35  2004
PY  - 2009///], c2004
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Films Media Group, 
KW  - Art and society
KW  - Art
KW  - Culture
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Mass media and culture
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Educational films
N1  - Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Jan. 17, 2009; Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware; Anti-Apartheid Newspaper (4:59) -- Changes in Journalism (3:37) -- South African Victims (5:48) -- African Oral Tradition (1:54) -- African Women's Empowerment (5:30) --Radio: Social Mobilization (2:33) -- Tour Guide in Uganda (3:18) -- Africa and the Internet (1:56) -- Mali: Street Children (4:40) -- Africa: Exploitation of Twins (4:31) -Africa: Child Beggars (2:46) -- Africa: Culture and Abuse (3:27); 11 & up
N2  - As Africa continues to modernize, the influence of the media in daily life is growing ever larger. This program examines the importance of the press, radio, the Internet, and TV via segments involving the Sowetan, a widely circulated South African newspaper that has its roots in the anti-apartheid struggle; KKC Kagadi, a rural community radio station in Uganda; Kenya-based Africa Online, an Internet service provider with a pan-African reach; and ORTM, the national broadcaster of Malian television. In the process, the program addresses racism, women's issues, grassroots entrepreneurship, access to online information,and the exploitation of street children-particularly twins
ER  -