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Comparing Media Systems and the Digital Age

Paolo Mancini

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 5761-5774

"This article discusses a possible revision of the interpretative schema that was proposed in the book Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, published in 2004 before the dramatic development of digital communication. In particular, the article focuses on the idea of the media ... more

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Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Nepal

Chindu Sreedharan, Einar Thorsen, Laxman Upreti, Shreeman Sharma

Kathmandu: Nepal Press Institute (2020), 26 pp.

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The state of the media in the Visegrad countries

Dániel Mikecz (ed.)

Republikon Institute (2020), 47 pp.

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Libya Social Media Monitoring Report: Main Findings

Democracy Reporting International;ZINC Network (2020), 10 pp.

"This report presents our main findings from eleven months of social media monitoring. We identify the main narratives of online discourse and their key drivers, as well as the weaknesses of Libya’s social media landscape — and how to address them." (Summary)

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Les transformations postsoviétiques des médias et du journalisme russes

Elena Vartanova

Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 232 pp.

"Existe-t-il un chemin particulier d’ouverture d’un système médiatique à l’économie, aussi épineux soit-il ? C’est justement le fil rouge de cette monographie, qui examine, sur la base de données empiriques et théoriques, les processus de transformation du journalisme et des médias d ... more

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The Kenyan Social Media Landscape: Trends and Emerging Narratives, 2020

Patrick Kanyl Wamuyu et al.

Nairobi: SIMElab Africa;United States International University-Africa (USIU Africa) (2020), 77 pp.

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Political Parallelism in Transitional Media Systems: The Case of Libya

Anja Wollenberg, Carola Richter

International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1173-1193

"Among the media systems in transitional countries of the Middle East and North Africa, political parallelism has become a widespread feature that has both promoted and undermined the transition to democracy. Political parallelism refers to structural ties between media organizations and political a ... more

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Building Regional Strategies for Media Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Fatima El-Issawi, Nicholas Benequista

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.

"Experts from 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa agreed on the priorities that could provide the basis for greater collective action to defend independent media in the region. This report provides a summary of those deliberations [...] Building on and strengthening cross-country networ ... more

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Media Convergence and the Development Strategies of Radio and Television in China

Peng Duan

Singapore: Springer (2020), viii, 166 pp.

"This book discusses the development strategies of Chinese media convergence in the current, fast-changing communication environment. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical data and based on the author's observations, focus groups, and in-depth analyses of selected Chinese radio and TV networks, ... more

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Media Influence Matrix: Slovakia

Marius Dragomir

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS), 2nd, updated ed. (2020), 110 pp.

"Seemingly, Slovaks have access to a wealth of news sources. In reality, though, the market is concentrated in the hands of a few large players. Powerful financial groups such as Penta Investments and J&T, and a handful of magnates including Ivan Kmotrik and Andrej Babis (who is also Czech Republic� ... ��s prime minister) exert decisive influence in the ownership of most major media companies. They are also close to politicians (if they are not themselves one), which means big leverage in regulatory affairs. The entry on the Slovak market of PPF, a Czech financial group led by another wealthy oligarch, Petr Kellner, which bought Markiza TV in 2019, is further cementing the oligarchic control in the country’s media. The Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic known as PMU is much responsible for the shape of the Slovak media market. It has been the PMU that approved a spate of merger cases allowing the expansion of some media owners. Decisions by the PMU in 2015-2016 allowed Penta Investments to take over several major publishers. It was one of these deals that prompted journalists from the daily Sme (acquired by Penta) to leave and set up DennikN. Civil society exerts little influence. International groups are not effective either. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a Vienna-based intergovernmental group, has some political leverage, but that does not materialize in any earth-shattering policy changes or palpable improvements for journalists. For example, in early March 2018, Harlem Desir, the head of media at OSCE, called on Slovak authorities in a meeting in Bratislava to investigate the killing by unknown assaulters in February 2018 of the Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak. Instead, two months later, Slovak police began to harass Pavla Holcova, a Slovak journalist who was trying to help with the police investigation. It was only after massive pressures from citizens and journalism groups from abroad that four people were finally charged in October 2019 over Kuciak’s killing. Besides regulation, tightly controlled by authorities and highly politicized, the government plays also a direct role in the Slovak media market. Funding from license fees collected from all Slovak households and state budget makes the public broadcaster RTVS the largest player in the country’s media with a budget in excess of €115m. That is not necessarily bad. For some years, the Slovak public got its money’s worth. The station earned a feather in its cap for improved programming." (Key findings, pages 6-7) more

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Mediensysteme und Systemtypologien

Barbara Thomaß

In: Handbuch Politische Kommunikation

Isabelle Borucki; Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw; Stefan Marschall; Thomas Zerback (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), 14 pp.

"Die vergleichende Forschung zu Mediensystemen hat in ihrer nunmehr über 60jährigen Geschichte eine Fülle von Typologien hervorgebracht, die die vorfindbaren Mediensysteme kategorisieren sollen. Nachfolgend werden daher die Logik und die Ausprägungen solcher Systemtypologien und ihre Bedeutung f ... more

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Cambodian Communication Review 2020

Say Sok, Bun Y Ung (eds.)

Phnom Penh: Royal University of Phnom Penh, Department of Media & Communication, Cambodia Communication Institut (2020), 65 pp.

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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
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Sarah Chiumbu, Mehita Iqani (eds.)

Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.

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Television and the Afghan Culture Wars

Wazhmah Osman

Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2020), 288 pp.

"Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of Afghan media producers and people from all sectors of society. In this moving work, Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the r ... more

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Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences

Ratan Kumar Roy

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xviii, 237 pp.

"This book examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh. By using a multisited ethnography of television news media, it showcases the sociopolitical undercurrents of media practices and the everydayness of TV news in Bangladesh. It discusses a wide gamut of issues such as news ma ... more

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Les médias gabonais: Regards croisés

Fortuné Matsiegui Mboula, Joseph Tonda (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 214 pp.

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Media Cultures in Latin America: Key Concepts and New Debates

Anna Cristina Pertierra, Juan Francisco Salazar (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2019), x, 198 pp.

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'El Comercio' y la política peruana del siglo XXI: Pugnas entre liberales y conservadores detrás de las portadas

José Alejandro Godoy Mejía

Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) (2019), 389 pp.

"En tiempos de redes sociales, los actores políticos colocan sus contenidos en Twitter y Facebook para que sean replicados por otros medios y por la población. Sin embargo, los políticos tienen a los medios de comunicación como su principal vehículo de transmisión de ideas y mensajes a los ciu ... more

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Grundwissen Radio: Eine Chronik des Massenmediums

Hans-Jürgen Krug

München: UVK (2019), 184 pp.

"Radio umgibt, begleitet und unterhält uns seit rund 100 Jahren. Selbst im digitalen Zeitalter besteht es und verliert keineswegs an Attraktivität. Hans-Jürgen Krug vermittelt prägnant alles Wissenswerte und zeichnet die Geschichte des Radios von den Anfängen bis zur heutigen Zeit nach. Dabei g ... more

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la brújula sonora: La radiodifusión ecuatoriana en el siglo XXI

Armando Grijalva, Hernán Yaguana (eds.)

Quito: Abya-Yala;Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2019), 238 pp.

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