"Der als Revolution in Orange bezeichnete Widerstand Ende 2004 bot auch die Chance für eine einschneidende Veränderung der staatlichen Strukturen in der Ukraine. Eine Entwicklung hin zu einer demokratischen Gesellschaftsordnung, die mit konsolidierten Demokratien Ostmitteleuropas vergleichbar wär
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e, erscheint möglich. Eine herausragende Rolle bei einem solchen Transformationsprozess spielen die Massenmedien. Ihre Unabhängigkeit stärkt die Bestrebungen nach mehr Demokratie. Doch trotz der Lösung von der Vorherrschaft Russlands ist es der Ukraine bislang nicht gelungen, unabhängige Massenmedien zu etablieren. Systematischen Lenkungsversuche beherrschen nach wie vor die Medienpolitik. Die Massenmedien und der Grad der Pressefreiheit stehen im Mittelpunkt der Fallstudie. Ausgehend von den politischen Ereignissen im Jahr 2004 untersucht die Autorin die Entwicklung der Pressefreiheit vor und nach der Revolution. Sie prüft die Berichterstattung in vier ukrainischen Zeitungen und vergleicht bzw. ergänzt die Ergebnisse mit Aussagen von ukrainischen Journalisten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Today, the media empires of Time Warner, Disney, News Corp., Bertelsmann, CBS, NBC, and Viacom span large portions of the globe and exert considerable economic, political, and cultural power. This article presents a macro-level portrait of the networked forms of organization, production, and distri
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bution in which the world's largest multi-national media organizations operate. First, it provides a detailed accounting of the internal structures of and the partnerships between these transnational media conglomerates. Second, it examines the production and distribution arrangements and the financial partnerships between conglomerates and regional and local media organizations. Third, it examines the role of open-ended network connections (i.e., links to parallel business, political and creative networks) in shaping this global network of media organizations." (Abstract)
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"This study confirms the findings in our previous study (Jacobsson, et al., 2006) that more media competition does not always lead to increases in the level of media quality, captured by the IREX measure of professional journalism, thus challenging the dominant argument in the literature. The data s
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uggest that high levels of media competition can at best produce a very limited increase in professional journalism while, at worst, as in Africa, the opposite relationship prevails. Looking at the full population, there is some, but weak evidence of a curvilinear relationship indicating that more media competition can be a good thing up to a point." (Conclusions)
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"Im Fazit lassen sich zwei Befunde festhalten: Erstens erweist sich die Medienkonzentration weiterhin als zentrale Bewegungsenergie für die Internationalisierung der Massenmedien. Sie wird nicht nur im klassischen Medienbereich von Fernsehen, Radio und Printmedien vorangetrieben, sondern erfährt e
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ine Parallele auch in den neuen internetbasierten Netzwerken – jedenfalls in deren gewinnorientierten Sektoren. Die grenzüberschreitende Medienkonzentration findet ihre Grenzen in aller Regel erst dann, wenn sie im Destinationsland von Investitionen erneut gegen nationale Wettbewerbsregeln verstößt. Gleichzeitig führt die internationale Medienkonzentration zur Betonung der Kapitallogik in den Destinationsländern und zu einer Lockerung jener Rechenschaft, zu der Medienunternehmen der Gesellschaft und dem politisch-demokratischen Gefüge gegenüber verpflichtet sind, in dem sie tätig sind. Das Überschreiten von ethischen und journalistischen Grenzen in den Medien der Destinationsländer, die in den Medien der Herkunftsländer eines Konzerns verbindlich gelten, illustriert diesen Befund. Zweitens erfährt die regionale und nationale Sprachraumebene, die weiterhin das relevante Spielfeld für Massenmedien darstellt, durch die Internationalisierung einen Verlust an kommunikativer Autonomie. Müssen Entscheidungen nachvollzogen werden, die von Konzernzentralen in anderen Ländern und aus einem anderen politisch-demokratischen Normenkontext getroffen werden, so führt dies zu einem Verlust an Entscheidungsautonomie und zu entsprechenden Konsequenzen für die politische und gesellschaftliche Kommunikation." (Fazit, Seite 147)
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"This study aims at facilitating cost determination and levels of support for local content production in developing countries. It is based on the collection of detailed production costs for feature films for theatrical or television release, television fictions and works of animation, documentaries
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, television magazine programmes and entertainment shows. The data collected relate to the entire production chain, including pre-production, production, post-production, royalties, duplication, dubbing, subtitling, distribution and promotional costs. The 10 countries covered are: Mexico, Colombia, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Egypt, Jordan, India, Cambodia and Latvia. This is a useful tool to independent filmmakers, producers, commissioners, broadcasters, donors and development institutions involved in audiovisual work." (CAMECO Update 1-2008)
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"In order to get a clear picture of the dynamics impacting on the present and future advance of the Namibian media environment - MISA Namibia has with the assistance of Martin Buch Larsen embarked on a comprehensive research to gather information on media ownership and legislation in The Republic of
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Namibia from 1990 to 2007." (Page 2)
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"Enterprise development interventions that utilize the mass media can be seen to be impacting on three different areas of the operating environment of small businesses. First, mass media can bring about behavioural change in the business operation by influencing public and individual attitudes and b
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ehaviour through interventions applying for instance social marketing techniques. Second, it can provide enhanced services and information about MSE input and output markets by providing information on the services and products available to small businesses, acting as a feedback mechanism to service and input providers, and playing an important role in opening up new markets and improving existing markets for the services and products that small businesses sell. Third, mass media can act as an agent to improve the policy and regulatory environments for small businesses." (Abstract)
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"I have been privileged to compile this anthology of essays, stories and testimonies of Africa’s top media executives who, through their actions and visionary leadership, are re-shaping and strengthening Africa’s fledgling media companies and institutions. Their touching real-life stories are an
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inspiration to all who work and desire to see Africa succeed and to have its voice heard above the din of the new digital age. A financially robust African media that is also independent and pluralistic will serve to give meaning to and strengthen the continent’s nascent democracy and contribute to the lifting of its people out of grinding under-development, poverty and related ills. These media leaders, in sharing their stories with the rest of Africa and the world, show that the real test of what works and does not work in managing and leading a successful media firm too often lies in the field and at times does not necessarily follow orthodoxy." (Editor's note)
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"This book offers a methodology for the classification and comparison of broadcasting systems, both for positive and normative analyses. It is based on the assumption that the revenue structures of broadcasters determine the incentives for the broadcasters' staffs, and that these incentives in tur
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n determine the broadcasters' program outputs (content, journalistic and artistic style, target audiences etc.) and its private and public effects." (Publisher description)
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