FW: [ENAWA] Women and Media for Social Change

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From: members of the European WomenAction 2000 team, who work on the
European WomenAction 2000 [mailto:EWA2000 at NIC.SURFNET.NL]On Behalf Of Nicole
Nepton
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:07 PM
To: EWA2000 at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject: [ENAWA] Women and Media for Social Change


Bonjour!

Last week, WomenAction launched Women and Media for Social Change :
Communication and Initiatives Worldwide, in English, Spanish and French.
It's a book and a web site : http://www.womenaction.org/women_media/ The
book will be available in August at Éditions du remue-ménage :
http://netfemmes.cdeacf.ca/remuemenage/
(info at editions-remuemenage.qc.ca).

"Advances in technology over the past two decades have brought information
to the most isolated regions. Media convergence allows the dissemination of
the same news in various forms (print, radio, television, Internet). But
the gross of the information that is disseminated across the planet is
commercial and standardized, designed to maximize investor's profits and
insensitive to social justice and equity. Women across the world, concerned
with the impact of media on their lives, insisted in 1995 that the United
Nations make media a critical area of concern.

This book gives an overview of the progress made in the media landscape in
the six years that followed the United Nations Conference on Women in
Beijing in 1995 and highlights the obstacles encountered by women in each
world region. Faced with media that makes so little place for them, women
have developed strategies to produce information that is balanced and
representative, to claim their place and to present new voices and new
images: a newspaper in Haiti, multimedia books for rural African women, a
feminist press agency in Mexico, community radio in East Timor, interactive
television in France, journalist networks in the Middle East, an Internet
network for peace in Macedonia. This book is a journey through the world of
women's accomplishments in the field of media, accomplishments that point
the way to making information accessible."

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Transmitted by
Nicole Nepton
mailto:nnepton at videotron.ca

Cybersolidaires : http://pages.infinit.net/ffranco
Répertoire Internet des femmes canadiennes :
http://womenspace.ca/repertoire/
Désobéissantes : http://www.studioxx.org/desobeissantes