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Live from the Bully Pulpit: The Abuse of Obligatory Presidential Broadcasts in Latin America

Andrés Cañizález

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017)

"In Latin America, several countries’ laws permit the president to commandeer all radio and television broadcasts. Initially contemplated for use in rare circumstances such as national emergencies, a few leaders in the region, beginning with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, have taken advantage of thes ... more

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Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis

Nebojša Vladisavljevic, Katrin Voltmer

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 26 pp.

"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S ... more

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The Political Economy of Climate Change Reporting in Nigeria

nnaEmeka Meribe

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 40-65

"While scholarly inquiries into the coverage of climate change in Africa are growing, there appears to be a dearth of studies focusing on how the political economy shapes the coverage. This qualitative study addresses this gap by exploring how vested interests, corruption and declining advertising r ... more

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Questioning the Media-Democracy Link: South African Journalists’ Views

Wallace Chuma, Herman Wasserman, Tanja Bosch, Rebecca Pointer

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 104-128

"It is often assumed that a robust, free and independent media will contribute to the deepening of democracy by keeping governments accountable and broadening citizen participation in deliberative democratic debates. But in new democracies such as South Africa, the deepening and broadening of democr ... more

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Intermediality of Images: A Semiotic Analysis of the ‘Occupy Nigeria Protest’ Images on Social Media

Nura Ibrahim

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 33-48

"The protests that took place in Nigeria due to removal of fuel subsidy by the Jonathan administration in January 2012, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria Protest’, have been labelled the social media revolution by the conventional media commentators in the country. For the first time in the history of the ... more

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Formation of Citizenship Through Radio Talk Participation in Kenya

Joyce Omwoha

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 181-194

"This article aims at investigating the relationship between the concept of mediated citizenship and participation through radio talk deliberation. It intends to offer an analysis of the content mediated through public discourses by determining the way in which participants draw their identities thr ... more

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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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Anya Schiffrin (ed.)

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.

"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are ... more

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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 in the European Union, Montenegro and Turkey
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European University Institute;Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) (2017), 92 pp.

"The Monitor assesses the risks to media pluralism based on a set of twenty indicators covering a broad notion of media pluralism that encompasses political, cultural, geographical, structural and content related dimensions. All types of media are covered: public service, commercial, community media ... more

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Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention

Florian Zollmann

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xiv, 276 pp.

"Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of ... more

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Politisches Framing: Wie eine Nation sich ihr Denken einredet - und daraus Politik macht

Elisabeth Wehling

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 222 pp.

"Elisabeth Wehling zeigt anhand zahlreicher Erkenntnisse der modernen Neuro- und Kognitionsforschung, wie über Sprache und die jeweils adressierten Frames Assoziationen geweckt, Meinungen gelenkt und Handlungen bestimmt werden können: So müssen beispielsweise im geläufigen Jargon Steuern aufgebr ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.

"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more

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State, Media and Pluralism: Tracing Roots and Consequences of Media Policy Change in Poland

Beata Klimkiewicz

Publizistik, volume 62, issue 2 (2017), pp. 197-213

"Recent media policy developments in Poland attract wide media coverage and the attention of governmental and non-governmental international and national organisations and bodies. This article aims at putting the debated regulatory changes into a relevant context through policy analysis. The normati ... more

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Media Policy in Times of Transition: Tunisia's Bumpy Road to Democracy

Carola Richter

Publizistik, volume 62, issue 3 (2017), pp. 325-337

"Media freedom is still a fragile compromise in Tunisia and institutions and their rules are not as sustainable as one might wish for. The success of the transition process ultimately depends on the commitment of all elites to devote themselves to holding on to democracy. As could be observed in sev ... more

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The Role of Media in Public Advocacy and Countering Violent Extremism

Nadia Sraieb-Koepp

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 261-267

"Nadia Sraieb-Koepp shares her experiences designing participatory media campaigns and visual strategies that helped facilitate the democratic transition in Tunisia in 2011. She offers her thoughts about the need for inclusive social media strategies designed to counter recruitment messages targetin ... more

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Internet: Smarte neue Welt

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42

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De la "Radio banane" à La Voix de la révolution: L'expérience radiophonique en Guinée

Bangaly Camara

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 132 pp.

"L’expérience radiophonique en Guinée a connu trois grandes périodes. Lors de la première, de 1950 à 1955, la radio était au service de la métropole, afin de servir les intérêts exclusifs des planteurs européens, franco-syriens et franco-libanais. Elle donnait des informations sur le mou ... more

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The Role of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Staffers in Mediating Malawi's Ideological Nation-Building Project: The Case of 'Speak Out'

Sydney Friendly Kankuzi

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 141-158

"The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) was established as Malawi's first national radio station when the country gained independence from Britain in 1964, partly with an ideological function of mobilising Malawians for the task of nation building. Since its inception, the broadcaster has been ac ... more

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The Evolution of Political Blogging in French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa

Line Relisieux

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2017), 8 pp.

"Political blogging in Francophone Africa is quite a recent phenomenon. Most bloggers are journalists and use their blogs to practice writing and/or report affairs they can’t cover in the mainstream media. A blog is therefore a tool for the publication of content to inform the users of development ... more

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Medienpraktiken der ägyptischen Muslimbruderschaft: Anpassungen an politische und mediale Entwicklungen

Carola Richter

Communicatio Socialis, volume 50, issue 3 (2017), pp. 406-417

"Die ägyptische Muslimbruderschaft hat in den fast 90 Jahren ihres Bestehens immer wieder neue Kommunikationstechnologien adaptiert und Medienpraktiken inkorporiert, um ihre Außenkommunikation zu professionalisieren. Der Beitrag zeigt unter Rückgriff auf Ansätze der Sozialen-Bewegungs-Forschung ... more

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Reconnecting with Citizens: From Values to Big Data. Communication of Governments, the EU and Political Parties in Times of Populism and Filter Bubbles

Darija Fabijanic, Christian Spahr, Manuela Zlateva (eds.)

Sofia; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2017), 193 pp.

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