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Dossier Medien und Macht in Lateinamerika

Berlin: Lateinamerika-Nachrichten (2013), 35 pp.

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Framing Bouazizi: ‘White Lies’, Hybrid Network, and Collective/connective Action in the 2010–11 Tunisian Uprising

Merlyna Lim

Journalism, volume 14, issue 7 (2013), pp. 921-941

"By delving into the detailed account of the Tunisian uprising, this article offers an explanation that sets the 2010 uprising apart from its precursors. The 2010 uprising was successful because activists successfully managed to bridge geographical and class divides as well as to converge offline an ... more

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The New Media and Malaysian Politics in Historical Perspective

Thomas B. Pepinsky

Contemporary Southeast Asia, volume 35, issue 1 (2013), pp. 83-103

"Drawing on a historical approach to Malaysia's political development since independence, this paper argues that the political effects of the rise of Malaysia's new media are best understood as being parallel to those of modernization and socio-economic change from previous decades, which augured im ... more

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Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In

Nele Noesselt

Hamburg: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2013), 26 pp.

"This paper reflects the adaptation and transformation of the Chinese party-state's government strategy in the digital era. Through a discourse analysis of the current Chinese debate on the role of microblogs in China, it argues that China's political elites have revised their social management stra ... more

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Mass Media and Public Policy: Global Evidence from Agricultural Policies

Alessandro Olper, Johan Swinnen

Washington, DC: World Bank (2013), 35 pp.

"Mass media play a crucial role in information distribution and in the political market and public policy making. Theory predicts that information provided by the mass media reflects the media’s incentives to provide news to different groups in society and affects these groups’ influence in poli ... more

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Guide du formateur en marketing et communication politiques

Jemaïel Hassainya

Tunis: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Arab Institute for Human Rights (2013), 56 pp.

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Sourcebook for Political Communication Research: Methods, Measures, and Analytical Techniques

E. Page Bucy, R. Lance Holbert

New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2013), xxi, 583 pp.

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How Do Political Debate Programmes Influence Political Participation? A Case Study from Nepal

Chris Larkin, Rhian Were

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 56 pp.

"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw ... more

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Media and Democratisation: What is Known About the Role of Mass Media in Transitions to Democracy

Nael Jebril, Václav Stetka, Matthew Loveless

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 51 pp.

"The review starts by elucidating the potential role of the media as a democratising agent. We then explore the relationship between media reform and institutional change during democratisation periods, and move to review the literature on the contribution of media to institution building and due pe ... more

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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity

Omar Al-Ghazzi

Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601

"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1 ... more

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Côte D’Ivoire 2010–2011 Post-Electoral Crisis: An Approach from the Media

José Carlos Sendín

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 187-201

"The objective of this work is approaching the political crisis occurred in Côte d´Ivoire after the contested elections of 2010, through the perspective of the Ivorian media and media professionals. This study draws theoretically on the media political economy and critical understanding of the rel ... more

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You Cannot Not See: The Media in the June 2013 Demonstrations

Daniel Fonsêca

São Paulo: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 29 pp.

"The June 2013 protests in Brazil caused a veritable political earthquake. Initially demanding the right to affordable public transportation, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets to express their discontent, which gradually came to include the sluggish progress made in public heal ... more

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Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring

Philip N. Howard, Muzammil M. Hussain

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2013), xiv, 145 pp.

"Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain examine the complex role of the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking applications in the Arab Spring. Examining digital media access, level of grievance, and levels of protest for popular democratization in 16 countries in the Middle East and North ... more

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The Media in Transitional Democracies

Katrin Voltmer

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2013), ix, 275 pp.

"This book provides an accessible and systematic introduction to the media in transitional democracies. It analyses the problems that occur when transforming the media into independent institutions that are able to inform citizens and hold governments to account. The book covers the following topics ... more

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Building Media Systems in the Western Balkans: Lost Between Models and Realities

Katrin Voltmer

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2013), 33 pp.

"The paper aims to address some of the theoretical and normative issues involved in transforming post-authoritarian media systems, which have been described and analysed in the country studies of this working paper series. The discussion starts by introducing the concept of ‘social constructivism� ... more

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Why do pluralistic media systems emerge? Comparing media change in the Czech Republic and in Russia after the collapse of communism

Florian Toepfl

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 239-256

"A quarter of a century after the collapse of communism in the former Eastern bloc, a wide range of scholarly projects have been undertaken to compare and theorize processes of media change in the region. One question that scholars have sought to address is: what were the factors that crucially impa ... more

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The Continued Relevance of the Concept of Propaganda: Propaganda as Ritual in Contemporary Hungary

Péter Bajomi-Lázár

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 219-237

"We will, in this paper, argue that the concept of propaganda is still relevant in the context of post-communist Hungary. More particularly, we will suggest that, in contrast to the period 1998-2010 when modern political marketing methods were applied widely, the political campaigns launched under V ... more

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Comunicación, información y poder en El Salvador: Claves para la democratización

San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos (2013), 199 pp.

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Objectivity in the Shadows of Political Turmoil, a Comparative Content Analysis of News Framing in Post-Revolution Egypt’s Press

Sara Farag Elkamel

Cairo: American University in Cairo, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, MA Thesis (2013), 128 pp.

"The study samples Al Ahram, Al Wafd, the Freedom and Justice Party paper, Al Masry Al Youm, and Al Shorouk, five major dailies that represent the three categories of ownership prevalent in Egyptian media – government owned, partisan, and independent (or privately owned) papers. Using quantitative ... more

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Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
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Devra C. Moehler

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 26 pp.

"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes [...] The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The seco ... more

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