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Der Medien-Kapitalismus: Das Lexikon der neuen kritischen Medienforschung

Dieter Prokop

Hamburg: VSA, aktual. Ausg. (2002), 359 pp.

"Prokops neues Werk liefert einen Überblick über ein breites Spektrum von Problemen und Risiken im Zuge der aktuellen Medienentwicklung. Dabei erhebt Prokop nicht den Anspruch, ein konventionelles Lexikon vorzulegen, sondern gibt in Teilen einer essayistischen Form sowie fiktiven Interviews den Vo ... more

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Der Transformationsprozess in Bulgarien und die Entwicklung der postsozialistischen Medienlandschaft

Michaela Tzankoff

Hamburg: Lit (2002), 196 pp.

"Bulgarien gehört zu den Transformationsländern Osteuropas, deren Entwicklung bislang vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Das vorliegende Buch zeichnet den Transformationsprozess Bulgariens seit 1989 nach, die politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und besonders die neu entstandene M ... more

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Die Medien im russischen Transformationsprozess: Akteur oder Instrument staatlicher Politik?

Ljuba Trautmann

Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang (2002), 620 pp.

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La mondialisation des médias contre la censure: Tiers monde et audiovisuel sans frontières
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Tristan Mattelart (ed.)

Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2002), 307 pp.

"La mondialisation des médias est souvent perçue comme une menace pour la souveraineté ou l'identité nationale des pays du Tiers Monde. Elle est en revanche rarement envisagée sous l'angle de ses effets potentiellement subversifs dans ceux de ces pays où le pouvoir, soucieux de son monopole po ... more

La campaña global: Los nuevos gurúes del marketing político en acción

Fritz Plasser, Gunda Plasser

Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2002), 413 pp.

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Politische Kommunikation in der demokratischen Gesellschaft: Ein Handbuch mit Lexikonteil

Otfried Jarren, Ulrich Sarcinelli, Ulrich Saxer (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, Nachdruck (2002), 764 pp.

The Media, Accountability and Civic Engagement in Africa

Wisdom J. Tettey

UNDP (2002), 57 pp.

Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Good Governance, Human Development and Mass Communications
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Pippa Norris, Dieter Zinnbauer

Cambridge, Mass.; London: UNDP Human Development Report Office (2002), 43 pp.

"The growth in electoral democracies presents many potential opportunities for human development. Yet in practice transitional and consolidating democracies often remain fragile and incomplete, lacking strong institutions essential for effective voice and accountability, including freedom of express ... ion and widespread opportunities for civic engagement. What can be done to strengthen democratic development and, in particular what is the role of the media in this process? Part I suggests that the mass media will have a positive impact on good governance and human development if they function effectively as a watchdog holding the powerful to account and as a civic forum facilitating a diversity of voices in public debate. Yet in practice the press is often limited in these roles. Liberal theories have long stressed the importance of an independent fourth estate as a check on the abuse of power. The study theorizes that this is necessary but not sufficient, in particular media systems strengthen good governance and promote positive development outcomes most effectively under two conditions: (i) where there is an unfettered and independent free press, [...] Part II operationalizes this typology then compares media systems around the world. Part III examines the cross-national evidence for the impact of these patterns. The study confirms that media systems characterized by widespread mass access and by an independent press are most closely associated with systematic indicators of good governance and human development. In particular, nations with these types of media system experience less corruption, greater administrative efficiency, higher political stability, and more effective rule of law, as well as better development outcomes such as higher per capita income, greater literacy, less economic inequality, lower infant mortality rates, and greater public spending on health. Part IV provides detailed case studies illustrating this relationship in particular countries. The conclusion considers the policy implications, suggesting practical steps to strengthen the channels of mass communications in poorer societies lacking either widespread access or freedom of the press." (http://www.escuelapnud.org) more

Civil Society, Media and Accountability in the Arab Region

Naomi Sakr

UNDP Human Development Report Office (2002), 32 pp.

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Comunicación popular: Del paradigma de la dominación al de las mediaciones sociales y culturales

Martha Aliza Dubravcic

Quito: Abya-Yala (2002), 118 pp.

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Media and Democracy in Africa

Göran Hydén, Michael Leslie, Folu F. Ogundimu

Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (2002), 260 pp.

Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Adel Iskandar

Cambridge: Westview Press (2002), 228 pp.

Macht und Ohnmacht der "Vierten Gewalt": Die Rolle der Massenmedien im russischen Transitionsprozeß

Sabine Alexandra Gladkov

Münster: Lit (2002), 400 pp.

"Die russischen Medien haben sich in der Krise eingerichtet: Leere Kassen, mauernde Bürokraten und Gewalt gegen Journalisten prägen den Redaktionsalltag zwischen Petersburg und Wladiwostok. Fast vergessen ist die glorreiche Glasnost-Zeit, als die Presse unversehens vom passiven Chronisten zum mach ... more

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Politikvermittlung in Unterhaltungsformaten: Medieninszenierungen zwischen Popularität und Populismus

Christian Schicha, Carsten Brosda (eds.)

Münster: Lit (2002), 264 pp.

"Politikvermittlung in der "Mediendemokratie" wird zunehmend durch Formate geprägt, die nicht mehr dem konventionellen Bild einer traditionellen Berichterstattung über politische Prozesse entsprechen. Zu beobachten ist eine Vermischung von politischer Information und Unterhaltungselementen (Infota ... more

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Entangled Evolutions: Media and Democratization in Eastern Europe

Peter Gross

Washington, DC; Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press;Johns Hopkins University Press (2002), 226 pp.

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Media and Power

James Curran

London: Routledge (2002), 308 pp.

Voice and Accountability: The Media and the Internet in Democratic Development

Takashi Inoguchi

UNDP (2002), 40 pp.

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Role of the Media and the Internet as Tools for Creating Accountability to Poor and Disadvantaged Groups

Katharina Subasic

UNDP (2002), 43 pp.

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Media, Markets, and Democracy

C. Edwin Baker

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002), 377 pp.

"Even if markets properly provide for people’s desires or preferences for most products, Part I of this book shows that unique aspects of media products systematically cause markets to fail in respect to them. Part II shows that four prominent, but different, theories of democracy lead to differen ... more