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Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media: Between Capture and Commercialization

Natalya Ryabinska

Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2017), 174 pp.

"In the period after the fall of communism, peculiar new obstacles to media independence have arisen. They include the telltale structure of media ownership, with news reporting being concentrated in the hands of politically engaged business tycoons, the fuzzy and contradictory legislation of the me ... more

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Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life

Deborah L. Wheeler

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), xi, 194 pp.

"This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use f ... more

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Relations Between Media and Politics in Albania

Rrapo Zguri

Tiranë: Albanian Media Institute;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2017), 59 pp.

"During the transition years, Albania saw the establishment of a relatively complete legal framework for the protection and development of media freedom and independence. However, in many cases, the legal framework was delayed or a mechanical transplant of western legislation. Enforcement of legisla ... more

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Medios comunitarios y democratización de la comunicación en Ecuador: Aporte para el debate sobre el Concurso Público de Frecuencias

Ana María Acosta Buenaño, Verónica Calvopiña Panchi, Jorge Cano Cañizares

Quito: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (FES-ILDIS) (2017), 58 pp.

"El presente artículo analiza la participación de los medios comunitarios y su importancia para la democratización de la comunicación en Ecuador en el marco del Concurso Público de Frecuencias de Radio y Televisión de señal abierta, convocado en 2016. Este concurso cobró importancia en la ag ... more

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Fakepolítica: Democracia y digitalización

Nueva Sociedad, issue 269 (2017), pp. 40-147

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights

Howard Tumber, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 520 pp.

"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece ... more

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Transparency is More Than Dollars and Cents: An Examination of Informational Needs for Aid Spending in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Aria Grabowski

Oxford: Oxfam (2017), 25 pp.

"This research looks at the information needed by in-country development stakeholders with an emphasis on accountability actors including civil society organizations, charities, government workers, and the media. To collect this information, semi-structured interviews were conducted in Sierra Leone ... more

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World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2017/2018
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Nicole Stremlau, Iginio Gagliardone, Monroe Price et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 200 pp.

"We have noted profound transformations in the field of media freedom, which is making progress in certain areas, but losing ground in others. Media freedom is limited in particular by many legal restrictions on the right to impart information and ideas, although progress is being made with regard t ... more

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#Democracy: Social Media Use and Democratic Legitimacy in Central and Eastern Europe

Matthew Alan Placek

Democratization, volume 24, issue 4 (2017), pp. 632-650

"While other studies have shown that mass media can influence a person's attitudes and opinions in the region, none has explored what effect social media can have on orientations toward democracy in the region. In the following paper, I build several hypotheses based on previous studies of media eff ... more

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5th Conference on Media Development in Myanmar: Inclusive Independent Media in a New Democracy, 7–8 November 2016

Susan Cunningham

Yangoon: UNESCO (2017), 32 pp.

"Under the heading “Inclusive, independent media in a new democracy”, the 5th annual Myanmar Media Development Conference took place 7 – 8 November 2016 in Yangon, the first to be held under the new democratically elected government. The conference featured government representatives, media ow ... more

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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Afghanistan: Final Evaluation

Anna Godfrey, Georgina Page, Ahmad Tamim Sharifzai

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 59 pp.

"In 2012 the opportunity for ordinary Afghans to communicate with political authorities or hold them to account was extremely limited. To help address this BBC Media Action worked with state broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and the BBC Afghan Service to co-produce the TV and radio nati ... more

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Media Resistance: Dislike, Protest, Abstention

Trine Syvertsen

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), vii, 153 pp.

"While there is strong continuity in the values that resisters perceive to be at stake, there are also profound changes. One important change is that media resistance increasingly has moved from the political to the personal domain. Three explanations are offered for how media resistance is sustaine ... more

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Meinung, Macht, Manipulation: Journalismus auf dem Prüfstand

Michael Steinbrecher, Günther Rager (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2017), 233 pp.

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First Level Agenda-Setting: A Study of Press Vs. Public Opinion in Kenya

Kioko Ireri, Eannes Ongus, Edna Laboso, Kangai Mwiti, Jared Onsongo

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 26-49

"The present research examines media agenda setting effects in a Kenyan context in 2013 and 2014. Specifically, focusing on the first level of agenda setting, the study investigates whether two national daily newspapers influenced public opinion on six issues of national importance: corruption, devo ... more

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The Political Economy of Media Capture: What Influences Media Capture in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and How Does This Present Opportunities and Challenges for Progress in Achieving Key Components of SDG 16?

Pamela Jiménez Cárdenas, Antony Declercq, Mandy Shi Lai, Nathan Rasquinet

London: London School of Economics (LSE), Capstone Project (2017), vii, 75 pp.

"In South Sudan, media capture, media market and audience segmentation are driven by: the ongoing civil conflict (since 2013), ethnic and linguistic divisions, a lack of rule of law, the legacy of clientelistic networks in the media and the government, a stark urban-rural divide, and a lack of infra ... more

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Supporting an Independent, Vibrant Media in Kazakhstan

In: OECD Integrity Scan of Kazakhstan: Preventing Corruption for a Competitive Economy

Paris: OECD (2017), pp. 275-296

"This chapter discusses the role of media in the Republic of Kazakhstan in combating corruption. First, it provides an assessment of the recently passed access to information legislation in the country as it relates to media's access to government information. Second, it analyses the extent to which ... more

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Journalism in Times of Crisis: Case Studies in Six SEE Countries

Sanela Hodžic

South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2017), 33 pp.

"This research project focuses on media reporting of and in crisis situations, with case studies of examples mostly from 2016. Political and social crises have been recurring in recent years, aggravated by unstable political environments, underdeveloped economies, ethno-national divisions and unreso ... more

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Comunicación y democracia en México: Los pasos dados

Jesús Becerra Villegas (ed.)

Zacatecas; México, DF: Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas;Colofón (2017), 212 pp.

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Diversidad e industria audiovisual: El desafío cultural del siglo XXI

Luis Alfonso Albornoz, María Trinidad García Leiva (eds.)

México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), 331 pp.

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Is Social Media a Threat to Democracy?

Anamitra Deb, Stacy Donohue, Tom Glaisyer

Omidyar Group (2017), 20 pp.

"It is becoming increasingly apparent that fundamental principles underlying democracy—trust, informed dialogue, a shared sense of reality, mutual consent, and participation—are being put to the test by certain features and attributes of social media. As technology companies increasingly achieve ... more

World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2017/2018 Top Insights

World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2017/2018
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