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Final Evaluation: Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment (DAME), 2012-2014
Search for Common Ground (2015), vii, 57 pp.
"1. The DAME project has contributed to its overall objective of ‘strengthening the democratization process in Timor-Leste’ and to its specific objective of ‘enhanced engagement between NSAs, State authorities and their constituencies’ in the development process. 2. Most effective were the a
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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism
London: Routledge (2015), xi, 285 pp.
Propaganda and Freedom of the Media
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2015), 78 pp.
"This non-paper aims to facilitate the OSCE participating states in formulating national and international law and policy toward the current spread of propaganda intertwined with the conflict in and around Ukraine. It distinguishes two sorts of propaganda in the contemporary world. The first is call
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Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement
New York: Routledge (2015), xix, 236 pp.
Gewichtungsstudie zur Relevanz der Medien für die Meinungsbildung in Deutschland
TNS Infratest; Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (DLM) (2015), 55 pp.
"Das Fernsehen ist nach wie vor das reichweitenstärkste Medium zur Information und Meinungsbildung. Mit einer „informierenden“ Tagesreichweite von knapp 60% liegt es deutlich vor dem Radio (51%) und der Tageszeitung mit 35% [...] Bei der informierenden Nutzung gestern zeigen sich deutliche Zusa
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Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising
London: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp.
"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's
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"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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Elecciones y medios de comunicación: Un zoom a las mujeres en la agenda política. Tomo 2: Seguimiento a medios: Proceso electoral - Congreso y Presidencia
Bogotá: Misión de Observación Electoral (MOE) (2015), 124 pp.
"Hoy gracias a lo logrado con el monitoreo de medios realizado en las elecciones de Congreso y Presidencia 2014 el país cuenta con información cualificada para que especialistas, investigadores y la MOE puedan crear diálogos con periodistas de todo el país sobre la importancia de temas como la p
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Effects of the Internet on Participation: Study of a Public Policy Referendum in Brazil
World Bank Group, Governance Global Practice Group (2015), 36 pp.
"Does online voting mobilize citizens who otherwise would not participate? During the annual participatory budgeting vote in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil—the world’s largest—Internet voters were asked whether they would have participated had there not been an online voting
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After the Revolution: Libyan and Tunisian Media Through the People’s Eyes
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 60 pp.
"Libya’s contested and, at times, chaotic political scene is reflected in its media, which represents a range of political and vested interests, sparking narrative and counter narrative. Ultimately, it has left people frustrated that they cannot access the information that they need. In Tunisia, t
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Kenya Decides: Kiswahili, Social Media and Politics in Kenya’s 2013 General Elections
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-183
"In contrast to most recent studies focusing on how ICT and new media were catalysts for the 2007/08 post-election violence, this article will shed light on the role of Kiswahili and social media in the process of fostering participation in the 2013 general election campaigns. It takes a closer look
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Does the Watchdog Need Watching in South East Asia?
In: Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 277-288
"In the transitional states of South East Asia, an alternative media helped mobilize support for popular uprisings against authoritarian rule. In a democratizing context which promoted press freedom, joumalists emphasized their role as ‘watchdogs‘, striving to ensure that new political leaders d
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Wandel im Journalismus autoritärer Regime: Das Beispiel Jordanien
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2015), 415 pp.
"Wie verändert sich Journalismus in autoritären Regimen angesichts technischer, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Entwicklungen? Inwieweit können Medienakteure Wandel anstoßen? Mit welchen Mitteln versucht das Regime, steuernd einzugreifen? Judith Pies beantwortet diese Fragen anhand einer detail
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New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World
Baden-Baden; London: Nomos; Bloomsbury (2015), 372 pp.
"This book explores socio-cultural dynamics in Asia and the Arab world, embedding them into current processes of mediatisation. The book is based on the assumption that social and cultural changes never originate exclusively from the media or technological innovations, but rather depend on the chang
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Development Agenda: Considering the Dark Side of the Media
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2015), 8 pp.
"Instead of serving the public and speaking truth to power, many media may act as mouthpieces of the powerful, repeat rumors without verification, discriminate against minorities, and feed the polarization of societies. Such media actions have a harmful influence that reaches far beyond the media se
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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
Deep Insights
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.
"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich
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Al-Jazeera and the Arab Uprisings: The Language of Images and a Medium's Stancetaking
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 7, issue 4 (2014), pp. 397-414
"This study (a) investigates the complex set of emergent meanings from Al-Jazeera's visual narratives about itself, and (b) analyzes how Al-Jazeera's visual texts articulate a broader set of nationalist meanings concerning Qatar, its home country. Rather than a content analysis of language, visual e
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Political Criticism from the Soviet Kitchen to the Russian Internet: A Comparative Analysis of Russian Media Coverage of the December 2011 Election Protests
Journal of Communication Inquiry, volume 38, issue 2 (2014), pp. 95-112
"The election protests in Moscow in December 2011 signified an important moment for Russian society. Political dissent, historically reserved for the private domain of Soviet kitchens and in recent years to the regulation-free space of the Russian Internet (RuNet), entered the public space of Moscow
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Social Media and the Politics of Reportage: The 'Arab Spring'
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'."
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