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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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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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Media Power in Indonesia: Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital Revolution

Ross Tapsell

London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2017), xxix, 172 pp.

"Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. While official statistics suggest that internet penetration is low, over 70 million Indonesians have a Facebook account, the fourth highest group in the world. Jakarta is the Twit ... 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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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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Image de soi et discours électoraux: Analyse des stratégies de communication électorale des présidentiables de 2011 en RDC

Célestin Katubadi Mputu

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 206 pp.

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The Instrumentalisation of Mass Media in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Russia's Presidential Election Campaigns of 2000 and 2008

Nozima Akhrarkhodjaeva

Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2017), viii, 283 pp.

"Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election? What effects do these strategies have on news content? Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008 ... more

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Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes

Elena Maestri, Annemarie Profanter (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxv, 277 pp.

"Maestri and Profanter highlight that the methodological approaches adopted in this volume are both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Focusing on the changing relationship between the dynamics of Arab communication spaces and the role of Arab women both in and through the media, the introduct ... more

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Radio and Revolution

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 12, issue 2 (2017), pp. 1-86

"Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broa ... more

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Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation

Anthea Garman, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press (2017), xi, 241 pp.

"Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisat ... 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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Tras las pistas de los dineros públicos: Guía para investigar contratación pública y redes de poder

Consejo de Redacción; La Silla Vacía; Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) (2017), 61 pp.

"Los periodistas que leamos esta guía, de principio a fin, encontraremos una ruta rápida para investigar procesos relacionados con la contratación pública y la identificación y construcción de redes de poder; a su vez, se encontrarán elementos para hacer consultas en bases de datos. Todo esto ... 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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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria: Final Evaluation

Michael Adebisi, Foluke Fadare et al.

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 47 pp.

"In a highly competitive media landscape, BBC Media Action’s governance programmes reached 52.8 million people in 2014 (and an estimated 64.6 million cumulatively), representing more than half the adult population of the country. One reason for this success was the brokering of radio partnerships ... more

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Digitale Öffentlichkeit: Wie algorithmische Prozesse den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs beeinflussen

Konrad Lischka, Christian Stöcker

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2017), 85 pp.

"Von algorithmischen Prozessen gesteuerte Intermediäre wie Google oder Facebook haben im Vergleich zu redaktionell gesteuerten Medien wie dem Fernsehen einen großen, aber bislang nicht entscheidenden Einfluss auf die öffentliche Meinungsbildung. Sie bewerten die Relevanz von Inhalten viel stärke ... more

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Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy

Trevor Garrisson Smith

London: University of Westminster Press (2017), 154 pp.

"The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subje ... more

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Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Media Freedom and Election Management Autonomy

Nicholas Kerr, Anna Lührmann

Accra: Afrobarometer (2017), 24 pp.

"Very few cross-national studies have examined the consequences of electoral manipulation, including the manipulation of election administration and the media, on citizens’ trust in elections. This paper addresses this gap by exploring how autonomy of election management bodies (EMBs) and media fr ... 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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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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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Kenya: Final Evaluation

Catharine Buckell, Sopie Baskett

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

"Funded by DFID, under the Global Grant project, BBC Media Action produced three seasons of the weekly TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks). Sema Kenya featured a moderated discussion between a live panel of officials and an audience of ‘ordinary’ Kenyans and was designed to enable i ... ndividuals, communities and governments to be better informed and more engaged in tackling governance challenges. Alongside this, BBC Media Action delivered a mentoring programme, initially with six local radio stations, and later with the national broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), which has the largest footprint in the country. Through this work, BBC Media Action aimed to strengthen the capacity of Kenya’s media sector to produce governance programming that supported and mainstreamed the overall objectives of the project at both the local and national level. [...] Sema Kenya contributed to people being more informed about and engaged in politics. Audiences were more knowledgeable about politics, discussed it more with friends and family, felt more confident in their ability to influence political processes and participated more in governance related activities (particularly at the community level) – all factors that support bottom-up accountability. Audiences themselves linked Sema Kenya with these outcomes. This finding was validated by analysis confirming a significant positive relationship between watching or listening to Sema Kenya and consistently higher knowledge, discussion and confidence to engage in politics, even when taking into account other factors that might influence these outcomes (such as education, age and interest in politics). While Sema Kenya’s audience was more likely to participate in politics, qualitative research respondents rarely attributed their actions directly to what they had heard on Sema Kenya. This reflects findings from advanced quantitative analysis (structural equation modelling) that suggests the link between Sema Kenya and increased political participation is indirect and mediated by political knowledge, discussion and self-efficacy. Supported by an extensive network of broadcast partners that stretched across all 47 counties in Kenya, the discussion programme reached an estimated 12.7 million people over three seasons, with a peak audience of 5.7 million in 2013 – the year of the general election. The show also maintained a loyal audience throughout all three seasons, with around half of all those reached annually tuning in for at least every second episode." (Executive summary, pages 6-7) more

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