Este libro es el resultado de una investigación académica realizada con el auspicio de la Fundación Konrad Adenauer, que contribuye a desnudar la mitología mediática acerca de la transparencia del periodismo y de su mero papel testimonial. Por el contrario, el estudio sobre el desempeño period
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ístico en la crisis argentina de fines de diciembre de 2001 no hace sino constatar los modos por medio de los cuales el observador termina influyendo en el proceso observado.
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"This book examines how media have brought about or paced dramatic political events in Southeast Asia over the last two decades. It highlights a situation where media dynamics are no longer a simple formula of state control versus media resistance. The state can propel its own media-liberalizing pro
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gramme; civil society can be an enemy of press freedom; market forces and cultural mindsets are sometimes more potent agents of change than state-appointed media custodians. Practitioners, scholars and activists have come together in this volume to provide a diversity of narratives on subjects as varied as powerful politicians and marginalized transsexuals." (Publisher description)
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"Brett Davidson makes a convincing case for radio being the most hospitable media environment for retaining the human characteristics of public deliberation. In South Africa, for example, radio reaches far more people in their own languages than other media do. Moreover, radio can broadcast live,
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allowing hundreds, perhaps thousands, more citizens to listen in.” Although television has the same theoretical advantage, in some countries channels may be limited to those supported by the government. Radio is also cheaper and more pervasive than television, particularly in poor countries. Brett Davidson did not find countless examples of radio being used as a space for public deliberation. What he did find, however, were examples of radio playing a role in strengthening civil society by hosting other forms of public talk. From there, it is comparatively easy to add deliberative fora to the roster of other events such as panel discussions or public hearings." (Foreword)
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"The press in transition" chronicles and evaluates the experiences of six press institutions in four markedly different media systems. The book adopts a comparative framing to explore press functioning worldwide, and to draw preliminary conclusions about the press in transition. At the heart of the
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study, however, is an up-close portrait of institutions and individuals. Adam Jones is a professor of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia." (Catalogue Deutsches Übersee Institut 2002)
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"Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also t
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hrough mundane engagements with commodities and mass media. He offers a thoughtful critique of recent approaches to nationalism and consumption and an ethnographic perspective on constructs of the nation found in official policy documents, letters to the editor, school textbooks, song lyrics, advertisements, and other materials. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the links among nationalism, consumption, and media, in Melanesia and elsewhere." (Publisher description)
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Seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre wurde der senegalesische Medienmarkt durch die Aufgabe des staatlichen Informationsmonopols liberalisiert. Es wurde nicht nur eine Vielzahl von privaten Radiostationen und Tageszeitungen eingeführt, sondern auch das Fernsehangebot erweitert. Der Autor führt diese Lib
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eralisierung auf die Globalisierung und den damit verbundenen Druck zu Good Governance zurück, denn die Pluralisierung des Medienangebots habe es der alten Regierung unter Abdou Diouf ermöglicht, ihre Demokratiefortschritte gegenüber der internationalen Staatengemeinschaft nachzuweisen. Wie sich bei der Präsidentschaftswahl 2000 herausstellte, hatten die liberalisierten Medien einen entscheidenden Anteil am Sieg des Oppositionsbündnisses unter Abdoulaye Wade. Dies wertet der Autor als einen Hinweis dafür, "dass die Globalisierung nicht als Divergenz-, sondern als Konvergenzfaktor des internationalen Systems fungiert."
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"Zeigt auf, dass sich das Medium Fernsehen während der Ära Gorbatschow keineswegs zur 'Vierten Gewalt' im Staat entwickelte, sondern letztlich nur ein Spielball der politischen Interessen der Sowjetführung und der politischen Opposition blieb. Es fungierte als wichtigste Waffe im Kampf um die Ver
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wirklichung von Politik und war gleichzeitig wichtigstes Objekt des politischen Kampfes um die Macht." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This report analyzes the ways in which civil society and the media contribute to establish more accountable governments in the region. The report is organized around two main sections: section I provides a general overview of the trends and changes that affected the development of Latin American so
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cieties and the media in the past decade. More specifically, it will concentrate on the appearance of two actors that greatly contributed to shape the agenda of accountability in the region: a regional network of civic associations and movements organized around demands for due process and a new form of investigative or watchdog journalism. The section describes both the types of actors involved in a politics of accountability and the main issues they have addressed. Section II concentrates on the workings and achievements of this politics of accountability. It analyzes the methods and strategies employed to make public officials accountable and on some of their accomplishments." (Page 1)
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"The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa as a detailed and extended case study in political transformation - the transition from apartheid to democracy. The reform of broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency and the print press from apartheid-al
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igned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions took place via a complex political process in which civil society activism, embodying a post-social democratic ideal, largely won out over the powerful forces of formal market capitalism and older models of state control. In the cautious acceptance of the market, the civil society organizations sought to use the dynamism of the market while thwarting its inevitable inequities. Forged in the crucible of a difficult transition to democracy, communication reform in South Africa was navigated between the National Party's embrace of the market and the African National Congress leadership's default statist orientation." (Publisher description)
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