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Production and Use of Independent Media: Road to Government Accountability

Anderson Macedo de Jesus, Irene van Staveren

The Hague: Hivos (2014), 28 pp.

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Social Media and the Politics of Reportage: The 'Arab Spring'

Saba Bebawi, Diana Bossio (eds.)

Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xii, 141 pp.

"Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a focus on the protests during the 'Arab Spring'." ... more

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Comparing Mass Media in Established Democracies: Patterns of Media Performance

Lisa Müller

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), vii, 270 pp.

"This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and implementation of a systematic framework to assess democratic media performance, both in terms of media systems and content. Part II studies media effects ... more

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Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics

Joshua Lerner

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2014), viii, 267 pp.

"In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable pro ... more

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On Media, Social Movements, and Uprisings: Lessons from Afghanistan, Its Neighbors, and Beyond

Wazhmah Osman

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 39, issue 4 (2014), pp. 874-887

"From Tehran to Tahrir Square to Gezi Park-to mention only three key sites of protest made prominent in 2013-social media has been lauded as one of the key factors enabling popular uprisings and social movements. This has provided further hype for new or digital media, which were already being toute ... more

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Caricaturistes: Fantassins de la démocratie

[Arles]: Actes Sud;Cartooning for Peace (2014), 415 pp.

"Caricaturistes - Fantassins de la démocratie est publié à l’occasion de la sortie du film-événement éponyme, co-écrit et produit par Radu Mihaileanu et réalisé par Stéphanie Valloatto, qui présente douze grands caricaturistes internationaux, reconnus pour leur courage et leur engagemen ... more

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Communication Rights and Social Justice: Historical Accounts of Transnational Mobilizations

Claudia Padovani, Andrew Calabrese (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xix, 358 pp.

"Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation - power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics - to articulate the concept of communic ... more

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The International Political Economy of Communication: Media and Power in South America

Ernesto Vivares, Cheryl Martens, Robert W. McChesney (eds.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xxi, 195 pp.

"This collection reflects on the international political economy of media and the valuable lessons to be learned from the media reforms currently taking place across South America. The contributors present a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the ongoing battle for media space i ... more

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Die Rolle der Medien im Demokratisierungsprozess Kenias

Doris Anna Binger

Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), 332 pp.

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Social Media and Journalism in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-122

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The Country of Thirty Berlusconis

Benoît Hervieu

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2013), 26 pp.

"This report examines all of the shortcomings of this South American giant’s media landscape. It is based on fact-finding visits to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia in November 2012. The media topography of the country that is hosting the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics has barely changed ... more

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Transformations in Egyptian Journalism

Naomi Sakr

London; Oxford: Tauris;Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xviii, 109 pp.

"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio ... more

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Rebels with a Pen: Observations on the Newly Emerging Media Landscape in Libya

Anja Wollenberg, Jason Pack

Journal of North African Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (2013), pp. 191-210

"This article explores the emergence of a new landscape of local print and broadcast media in revolutionary Libya that is both the result of the dramatic changes that the country has undergone and one of their facilitators. This article analyses the political impact of these new forms of media durin ... more

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Aufbruch, Erfolg und Erniedrigung

Lutz Mükke

Message, issue 2 (2013), pp. 10-13

"Investigative Reporter des afrikanischen Netzwerks FAIR decken in transnationalen Teams skandalöse Missstände auf. Trotz ihrer Erfolge gibt es kaum Grund zur Euphorie – auch wegen der Europäer." (Seite 10)

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Radio on the Iberian Peninsula: Autarky, Revolution and Convergence

Luis Arboledas, Montse Bonet

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 2 (2013), pp. 205-224

"This article aims to compare Portuguese and Spanish radio broadcasting systems from the mid-1970s to the present, from a political economy approach. It analyses the regulatory framework (communication policies) and the ownership structure. It explains how a highly similar situation has been reached ... more

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Creating Content, Shaping Society: Do Indonesian Media Uphold the Principle of Citizenship?

Yanuar Nugroho, Dwitri Amalia, Leonardus K Nugraha, Dinita Andriani Putri, Jimmy Tanaya, Shita Laksmi

Jakarta: Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG);Hivos (2013), 94 pp.

"The purpose of this research is to empirically examine Indonesian media content, their workings and the factors influencing their work [...] There is no open diversity in content. Content analysis of television shows that the coverage of majority and minority groups is unequal. We find that content ... more

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Is There a Link Between Digital Media and Good Governance? What the Academics Say

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 38 pp.

"From this short survey of some key thinkers, can we conclude that there is a causal link between digital media and good governance? The sum of the arguments and cases presented here do not point to a causal link, but they certainly show that digital technology is shaping social movements and politi ... more

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Transitional Libyan Media: Free at Last?

Fatima El-Issawi

Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2013), 27 pp.

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The Arab World: The Role of Media in the Arab World's Transformation Process

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Berlin: Vistas (2013), 286 pp.

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Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle

Lina Khatib

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp.

"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i ... more