Pathways to Critical Media Education and Beyond (2003)

List of Web Resources on Statements/Charters/ Declarations on the Media and Communications • Valencia Statement on Globalisation and Cultural Diversity http://www.audiovisualforum.net/manifest/index.htm • A Declaration Of Media Independence http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/declaration.shtml • CPBF Manifesto: Shaping the Democratic Vision http://www.cpbf.demon.co.uk/manifesto.htm • The Willow Declaration http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/willow.shtml • A Call for a Communications Bill of Rights http://www.media-alliance.org/mediafile/20-1/kidd.html • Statements On Children And Media http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/md/md1999-1/ statements_children.html • Community Media Affirmed as Tool for Development http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/042.html • The Bordeaux And Munich Declarations http://www.esiemth.gr/ESH_EN/declarat.htm • Bangladesh Declaration on Community Radio Broadcasting and AMARC World Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal 2002 http://www.arwacc.org/2002_archive/0075.html 285

List of Web Resources on Statements/Charters/ Declarations on the Media and Communications • The Kathmandu Declaration 2003 http://kathmandu.amarc.org/article/articleview/73/1/9/ You can download the above list from ACN’s resources page at: http:// www.acn-online.org/resources.htm 286

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ACN While the mass media has certainly Pathways to CRiTiCAl MEDiA EDuCATiON and BEyOND benefited us, it has largely contributed to the creation of an unhealthy, undemocratic Edited by M. Nadarajah and unsustainable world. it therefore needs attention and intervention from all of us - children, young adults, parents, women, workers, religious groups, indigenous and minority communities, the disabled, media professionals and advocates of democratic media. This is the way to the establishment of a people-oriented democratic media. it is these pathways that are fleshed out in this volume. Pathways to critical Media Education and Beyond offers: • Eleven case studies on media education and reforms from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan. • A critical review of issues concerning the mass media, media education and reforms. • Trends, overviews and frameworks in media education and reform. • Examples of tested media education methodologies. • Alternatives to mainstream mass media. • Approaches to ‘mainstreaming’ alternative media. • Practical initiatives (The Manila Initiative) for the democratisation of the media. • Web resources on the media and communications. • Case studies of spirituality-in-action. ASiAN COMMuNiCATiON NETwORk (ACN) ACN is a ‘dialoguing community-in-action’, comprising members of all faiths and disciplines, formed to address the communication needs of Asians and their communities. Its intervention strategy is primarily targeted at equipping individuals and their communities with up-to-date knowledge and well-developed and tested methodologies. This is to empower them to actively intervene and insert their ‘collective voice’ in critical historic processes and achieve spiritual and societal development, steered by the value- based principles of sustainability. ACN is based at St. John’s University, Bangkok, Thailand.