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Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring
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
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Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In
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
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"Brasilien hat mehr als einen Berlusconi: Zehn Familien kontrollieren die Medienlandschaft. Politische und wirtschaftliche Interessen sind eng miteinander verzahnt. Alle Versuche, das zu ändern, sind bislang gescheitert." (Einleitung)
Dossier Medien und Macht in Lateinamerika
Berlin: Lateinamerika-Nachrichten (2013), 35 pp.
The Media in Transitional Democracies
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
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Is There a Link Between Digital Media and Good Governance? What the Academics Say
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
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The Country of Thirty Berlusconis
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
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Media and Democratisation: What is Known About the Role of Mass Media in Transitions to Democracy
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
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Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle
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
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An Analysis of the Cambodian Print Media
Phnom Penh: Alliance for Conflict Tranformation (ACT) (2013), iii, 59 pp.
"This paper reveals that Cambodian newspapers have tendency towards being biased to their political affiliations. According to the findings of this study, Cambodian newspapers have three inclinations: pro-government, opposition, and neutrality. The pro-government and opposition newspapers are the ma
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A Buzz in Cyberspace, But no Net-Revolution: The Role of the Internet in Singapore’s 2011 Elections
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 44 pp.
"The May 2011 general election has been the most contested and most discussed in Singapore’s history. Prior to the polls, the government relaxed the rules on election campaigning in the Internet. For the first time in the highly wired city-state with its tech-savvy population of 5 million people,
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Strategic Communications in Afghanistan’s Transition Context
Swansea: Swansea University, Thesis (2012), v, 64 pp.
"Following a decade of extensive international involvement and arduous fighting, Afghanistan is currently going through a significant Transition intended to enable Afghans to assume responsibility for their own security, development and governance. In addition to opportunities, this process provides
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De la guerra de guerrillas a la guerra de cuartillas: La comunicación en el gobierno de la "revolución ciudadana"
Quito: CIESPAL (2012), 180 pp.
"[Este libro] examina la relación entre el poder político, los medios de comunicación y la ciudadanía; recorre su evolución y establece un diálogo entre la teoría y la práctica mediante el constante acercamiento a episodios que ilustran su interdependencia, pero más allá de esto, el libro
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Film als Mittel der Befreiung und der Einheit Afrikas
In: 50 Jahre afrikanische Un-Abhängigkeiten: eine (selbst)-kritische Bilanz
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 170-179
Conceptualising Accountability: An Approach to Measurement
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 31 pp.
"Improving state accountability is a central preoccupation of development efforts. How individuals and institutions can and do hold governments to account for their actions and decisions differs radically between societies. Furthermore, what accountability actually means can differ greatly from one
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Forecasting and Observing: A Cross-Methodological Consideration of Internet and Mobile Phone Diffusion in the Egyptian Revolt
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 8 (2012), pp. 750-768
"This study examines the Egyptian revolt of January/February 2011 from two discrete perspectives. The first perspective is a contextual marker that takes into account long-term and forecast trends in democracy from 1952 through 2011. The second perspective reports the opinions and viewpoints of Egyp
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Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 21-49
"This article examines debates about national identity in the media landscape of post-referendum and post-independence South Sudan. Having never existed as a sovereign state and with its citizens being a minority group in Sudan, collective action among South Sudanese has historically been shaped in
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Press Freedom and Democratic Governance in the Gambia: A Rights-Based Approach
African Human Rights Law Journal, volume 12, issue 2 (2012), pp. 508-538
"The article explores the relationship between democratic governance and the free and independent press in The Gambia since the inception of the Gambian First Republic in 1970. It supports the rights-based approach which perceives the issues of democracy, good governance, and a free and independent
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The Role of the Internet in Shaping the Political Process in Egypt
International Journal of E-politics (IJEP), volume 3, issue 2 (2012), 21 pp.
"There has been a growing debate about the extent to which the Internet influenced the Arab World’s recent revolutions described as the “Arab Spring”. This belief that the Internet had a contribution is supported by several events and evidences that occurred prior to these revolutions and prov
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