"[...] this book provides a concise and thorough overview of the field, looking back at newspapers’ history, and forward to their future – and insisting there will be one. The authors, former journalists who now teach the subject, review the practices of the profession – from defining news to
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examining who owns newspapers, from newspaper readership to the new media environment. Written in an accessible style, this comprehensive text is well suited for a range of courses on newspapers." (Publisher description)
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"This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalization, which has introduced what are termed as ‘foreign’ elements to Indian culture, and the opening of the floodgates for foreign media to enter the country. It discusses both theoretical co
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nsiderations and empirical studies related to the role of Indian media. Indian Media in a Globalised World adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and looks at the role of media in purveying political, economic, and cultural identities. It brings to light the current definitions of ‘we’ and ‘they’, the ‘other’, and how the ‘other’ is sought to be perceived in contemporary India. The discussions cover all forms of media, that is, newspaper, films, radio, television and online media, along with media policy and the challenges facing the media." (Publisher description)
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"The main finding of this study is that the Kenyan media have been operating in an unpredictable and swiftly changing political, social, cultural, economic and technological environment that has heavily influenced its development. A hostile and inadequate political, legal, policy and regulatory envi
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ronment continues to negatively impact on the media in Kenya. Unsophisticated liberalization of telecommunications since 1998 led to slow, uneven and haphazard growth in broadcasting." (Executive summary)
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"Die Lage der Medien in Serbien ist trotz positiver Tendenzen in jüngster Zeit keineswegs befriedigend. Nach dem Fall des Kommunismus und dem Auseinanderbrechen des ehemaligen Jugoslawien folgten in der Region Kriege, Abspaltungen und erbitterte ethnische Konflikte. Der aggressive Nationalismus Mil
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oševics fand sein Echo bei den weitgehend vom Regime kontrollierten Medien. Erst mit Kostunica und Ðindic begann im Jahr 2000 der noch unsichere Weg in Richtung einer vielfältigen, unabhängigen und pluralistischen serbischen Medienlandschaft. Inzwischen ist manches erreicht, doch es bleiben Defizite: Die demokratische Entwicklung insgesamt bedarf der Konsolidierung. Die Unabhängigkeit der Medien vom Staatshaushalt müsste gesichert, die Freiheit journalistischer Tätigkeit garantiert werden. Unklarer, teils illegaler Medienbesitz müsste erhellt, der Einfluss alter Eliten eingedämmt werden. Positiv ist, dass sich viele Medien in Serbien heute durch die Opposition zum „alten Regime” definieren. Ein solch demokratisches Wertebekenntnis ist viel wert." (Zusammenfassung)
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"The introduction of a liberal media model built on freedom of expression, non-regulation, and free market in Post-Communist Mongolia has lead to a plethora of new media outlets. In a context of external pluralism, the media are key players in dramatic political, social, and cultural changes in Mong
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olian society. However, due to violations of media freedom, lack of ethical standards as well as market failures in a media market marred with clientelism, the Mongolian media have neither lived up to the ideals of liberal media theory nor been driving forces in the ongoing democratization process. Instead, private and public media, in an unholy alliance, appear more like a lapdog in the service of the political and financial establishment than like a watchdog." (Abstract)
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