"Medios para la Paz (MPP), con el apoyo técnico de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) y el apoyo financiero de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) realizó, en el 2004, ocho talleres para 250 periodistas sobre el cubrimiento informativo d
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e la problemática del desplazamiento forzado interno. Tema al que no se le presta la debida atención en los medios de comunicación y que no suele relacionarse con los procesos de negociación o la solución de los conflictos. Sin embargo, millones de colombianos han padecido las consecuencias concretas del conflicto con la pérdida de sus familiares, sus bienes y del derecho fundamental a permanecer en un sitio o a movilizarse libremente por el paÃs. De los talleres surge el Manual para un Cubrimiento periodÃstico responsable del desplazamiento forzado interno que presentamos y que busca responder a las necesidades y vacÃos profesionales expresados por los colegas participantes." (Presentación, página 7)
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"Since independence in 1991, the Central Asian republics to varying degrees have given lip service to democratization and the recognition of free press and political rights. However, the reality has been dramatically different under all five authoritarian regimes. That reality includes limits or ban
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s on opposition parties, as well as elections that are neither fair nor free. Most mass media entities remain state-owned or tightly controlled, and there is pervasive censorship, self-censorship, harassment, and intimidation of individual journalists and their media organizations. One result is inadequate, shallow reporting about political, press, and speech rights and controversies. Western-based Web news sites provide alternative venues for some. Central Asian journalists to independently cover such issues. This study analyzes the coverage of political, press, and speech rights news on three such sites: Eurasianet, IRIN News, and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. It examines the topics covered, the degree to which these stories use unnamed and named sources, and the proportion of journalists writing under pseudonyms. It concludes that even journalists reporting on these issues for Western-based media operate under tight constraints, including the risk of official retaliation." (Abstract)
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"This article looks at the Australian press cover of Papua New Guinea. It argues that the coverage is negative and inadequate and contributes to the country‘s negative image in Australia. No previous study has been carried out on this topic in this context. The research was based on a content anal
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ysis of randomly selected articles from the Australian Press over a period of three months in 2004 and a survey of four groups (foreign correspondents to PNG, journalists from the PNG mainstream media, PNG government media information services and political analysts). This study is based on the argument of Western media's negative coverage of developing countries and involves some of the old arguments that have been debated between the developed and the developing world." (Abstract)
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"This article analyzes the framing of Norwegian media coverage of the war against terror in Afghanistan with special emphasis of the coverage of the Norwegian military presence in Afghanistan. Two main issues are discussed: 1. How was the start of the war covered in the media in October 2001? 2. In
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what context was the Norwegian military presence covered? The two newspapers analyzed are Aftenposten and VG. The choice of these two newspapers was made to include Norway’s largest and potentially most influential morning paper (Aftenposten) and its largest tabloid, as well as largest newspaper (VG). Quantitative as well as qualitative methods are used to analyze the coverage. Both Aftenposten’s and VG’s coverage on the first day of the war in Afghanistan are dominated by pro-US framing and the use of Western sources. The pro-US framing is more obvious in Aftenposten than in VG." (Abstract)
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"The information revolution is transforming the world, especially the industrialised world. But what are its implications for the implementation of an African renaissance? Based on a Foucaultian analytical framework this book argues that the Internet has become a major Western instrument of dominati
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on in Africa. By extending the reach of Western hegemonic discourses, the Internet adds another dimension to Western discursive power. However, by allowing for the active participation in the process of naming the world, the Internet also affords unprecedented means of transcending dependency." (Publisher description)
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"This special volume is devoted to a selection of papers from the many that were presented at the ‘Reporting Zimbabwe: Before and After 2000 Conference’ held on 25th February 2005 at London’s Stanhope Centre, as part of the Africa Media Series organized by the University of Westminster’s Com
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munication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). The appetite for Zimbabwean news is demonstrated by, for example, evidence presented at the conference which showed that of 48 documentaries shown on BBC from November 2000 to January 2004, Zimbabwe received the second most attention, with 7 documentaries. Zimbabwe came after the Israel/Palestine conflict which was covered by 16 documentaries. Zimbabwe came to dominate headlines in various UK and global media. Zimbabwe had become such major global news story at the start of the new millennium, 1999- 2005. The idea was to critically evaluate and investigate the ways in which local and global mass media were depicting the events in troubled Zimbabwe, a former British colony that obtained independence in 1980. Attended by over 100 delegates from different countries and continents, the conference succeeded in bringing together critical interdisciplinary analyses of the role of the mass media in the ongoing democratic and social- justice struggles in today’s Zimbabwe. The various papers presented at the conference, and those in this volume, dealt with diverse themes ranging from the rise of patriotic journalism in Zimbabwe and media freedom struggles to the definition, character and representation of the ‘land issue’, and more broadly the ‘Zimbabwe crisis’ in African and international media. The participants included British and Zimbabwean politicians, government officials, students, journalists, academics, activists, civic groups and members of the Britain- Zimbabwe Society (BZS)." (Editorial abstract)
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"In this volume, experts discuss the content, audiences, and cultural and legal aspects of their respective countries, all of which are major TV markets. The country-specific chapters draw on the individual insights, expertise, and currency of 10 resident authors. Contributions represent every hemis
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phere of the globe, offering detailed examinations of media entertainment in United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Japan, China, Brazil, and Mexico. The two concluding chapters provide cross-national case studies that look at familiar TV experiences - The Olympics and the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" show - in global and novel ways." (Publisher description)
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"There is practically no globalization without media and communications. Yet this relationship is so obvious it is often overlooked. Rantanen challenges conventional ways of thinking about globalization and shows it cannot be understood without studying the role of the media. This book offers a clea
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r and accessible overview of globalization and the pivotal role of the media; an introduction to the concepts and theories of globalization; empirical data on the production and consumption of media; a methodology for relating individual, local experiences to the global picture." (Publisher description)
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"Gaus plädiert - ganz einfach und ganz konsequent - für soliden Journalismus: gründliche Recherche und eine eigene Meinung. Als Korrespondetin hat sie selbst aus Somalia und Ruanda berichtet und greift an vielen Stellen auf diese Erfahrungen zurück. Das trägt mit dazu bei, dass ihr ein ungewöh
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nlich ehrliches Buch (bis hin zur Selbstkritik und zum Eingeständnis von Ratlosigkeit) über eine eitle Branche gelungen ist. Mit professioneller Bestimmtheit mahnt Bettina Gaus eine kontinuierliche sachkundige Berichterstattung aus Kriegs- und Krisengebieten an, 'die auch im Gedächtnis haftet'. Gelegentliches Trommelfeuer und anschließend langes Schweigen, wie in vielen Medien üblich, folge nur der Kurzatmigkeit der Politik." (Renate Wilke-Launer in "der überblick", 1/2005, Seite 95-96)
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"Das Verhältnis von Medien und Krieg ist spätestens seit dem Golfkrieg von 1991 zu einem viel diskutierten Thema geworden. Muss sich die Öffentlichkeit mit einem strategischen Informationsmanagement abfinden? Lässt sich umgekehrt ermessen, wie die Berichterstattung der Medien politische und mili
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tärische Aktionen in Friedens- und Kriegszeiten beeinflusst? Die Autoren untersuchen in diesem Band Medienberichterstattungen, Dokumentationen und fiktionale Produktionen nach Aspekten des Verschweigens, der bewussten Falschdarstellung und der Denunziation, aber auch der Konfrontation mit den Strukturen der militärischen und politischen Macht." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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