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The State of Journalism and Press Freedom in Postgenocide Rwanda

Meghan Sobel, Karen McIntyre

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 96, issue 2 (2019), pp. 558-578

"News media played a prominent role in perpetuating the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Since then, Rwanda has undergone impressive social and economic growth, but the media landscape during this redevelopment remains understudied. Qualitative interviews with Rwandan journalists reveal that reporters censor ... more

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African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128

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De-Centring Western Enlightenment: Revisionist Histories, Contestation and Communication Theory

Shakuntala Banaji (ed.)

Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

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Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists: TV and the Afghan Culture Wars

Wazhmah Osman

In: Modern Afghanistan: The Impact of 40 Years of War

M. Nazif Shahrani (ed.)

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press (2018), pp. 149-176

"Without a doubt, the combined power of the public arena and broadcast media is a very efective social tool for collective action in Afghanistan. Yet there are serious limits to both the media’s self-advocacy and the public’s strong and unwavering support. Te media-related crimes and murders men ... tioned in this chapter are a few of the many. Yet no arrests are made and no one is prosecuted in most of these cases. Zoorawarah can continue to censor media makers with impunity and without fears of retribution. Broadcasting the incidents of violence and censorship against media personnel and the media writ large, as well as the subsequent protests and production of investigative and expository programs is indeed generative in creating dialogue and raising awareness about media rights and the important role of a free media in a society, but it is clearly not enough. Tus far, we have seen examples of two types of potential cultural imperialism. By aggressively promoting and offering their own media products, programs, and formats, at little or no cost, the argument can be made that foreign countries are impeding the development of Afghanistan’s own media industry, artistry, and media crafts. Additionally, we have seen examples of censorship, both from endogenous and exogenous forces, ranging from pressuring the government to ban programming or directly pressuring producers to do so. In extreme cases, we have seen an egregious third form of censorship becoming prevalent in Afghanistan. High-level media personnel and wealthy media owners who are ofen prominent public fgures, such as politicians, warlords, drug lords, religious leaders, and businessmen, hire body guards and live behind gated fortress mansions, while low-level television personalities and reporters are subjected to threats, physical attacks, and death for providing people with programming they want to watch and which gives them a platform to raise their voices. Hence, it is the mid- and low-level media professionals, not the owners of the television stations they work for nor the foreign governments that are the patrons of the stations, who bear the ultimate burden of media freedom and reform in Afghanistan. Caught between warring ideologies that range from Islamist to commercial to “developmentalist,” as brave as these Afghan media personalities and journalists are, and despite their high media a profile, their low socioeconomic status leaves them vulnerable to abuse and possible death." (Conclusion, page 168-169) more

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Social Media in Turkey as a Space for Political Battles: AKTrolls and other Politically Motivated Trolling

Erkan Saka

Middle East Critique, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 161-177

"This article focuses on AKTrolls, defined as pro-government political trolls in Turkey, while attempting to draw implications about political trolling in the country in general. It examines their methods and effects, and it interrogates whether (and how) Turkish authorities have attempted to shape ... more

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Media Pluralism, Public Trust, and Democracy: New Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Mariana Rodríguez, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 25 pp.

"There has been a decline in trust in the media in the LAC region. While in 2004 nearly two-thirds of individuals reported having high trust in the media, this result dropped to only half of individuals in 2016/17. Individuals who perceive the media as representative of different viewpoints or who h ... more

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Vivir la comunicación: Inclusión, diversidad, pluralidad

Oscar Rubén Cáceres Jiménez

Asunción: Arandurã Editorial (2018), 517 pp.

"El libro contiene “un recorrido por la comunicación para el desarrollo, alternativas, popular, cambio social y buen vivir”. La obra recoge también experiencias de políticas de comunicación en la Región y una mirada del manejo de la comunicación en el Paraguay, además, “propuestas de ej ... es de discusiones para una política pública de comunicación en el Paraguay”. Según el autor, en los últimos años se aprobaron importantes normativas sobre “los servicios de comunicación audiovisual” en la Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia y Ecuador. Cada uno presenta características comunes y particularidades, siendo los derechos humanos la base de todas estas experiencias, y, en el caso de Bolivia y Ecuador con la inclusión de un nuevo paradigma: el bien vivir/buen vivir. Agrega que Paraguay “carece de una política pública de comunicación. Solo se adoptan estrategias comunicacionales por cada administración. Falta una política de estado en cuanto a la comunicación, discutida ampliamente con la ciudadanía, las entidades educativas, formadoras de profesionales de la comunicación, las organizaciones de medios empresariales, medios de servicios de la comunicación audiovisual, la comunicación y las TIC, la comunicación y los pueblos indígenas y colectivos culturales, otros actores”. En el libro, estos temas se desarrollan en tres partes, de las cuales, la primera aborda las aproximaciones teóricas a la comunicación y profundiza en lo que es hoy: comunicación para el desarrollo y cambio social, y, la comunicación para el buen vivir. En la segunda se recorre las políticas de comunicación, en especial las normativas recientes, de Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador y Uruguay. En la tercera parte se realiza un estudio sobre la comunicación en el Paraguay, una mirada histórica y un análisis de la comunicación en distintas etapas y planteándose propuestas teniendo en cuenta cinco grandes aspectos: los desafíos de la democratización de la comunicación, las tecnologías de información y comunicación, las necesidades formativas de comunicadores, las industrias culturales y la necesidad de contar con una entidad rectora democrática." (https://signisalc.org/presentan-libro-vivir-la-comunicacion, 25.11.2018) more

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Why Populism is Troubling for Democratic Communication

Silvio Waisbord

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 11, issue 1 (2018), pp. 21-34

"In this article, I argue that populism has a troubling relationship with democratic communication. As illustrated by contemporary Latin American cases, populism’s illiberalism is contrary to the existence of the communication commons—a public space characterized by diversity, tolerance, reason, ... more

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Der politische Mythos von sozialen Medien als liberalem Cyberspace und freier Online-Meinungsäußerung in Vietnam

Bui Hai Thiem

In: Vietnam: Mythen und Wirklichkeiten

Jörg Wischermann; Gerhard Will (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), pp. 212-234

"Während viele Bürgerinnen und Bürger sowie Beobachter große Hoffnungen hegen, die sozialen Medien könnten ein wirksames Instrument sein, um soziale Bewegungen zu Themen wie Ungleichheit, Ungerechtigkeit und Umwelt in Gang zu setzen, ist es zuweilen schwierig, die massenhaften Reaktionen in den ... more

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Social Media in Turkey as a Space for Political Battles: AK Trolls and Other Politically Motivated Trolling

Erkan Saka

Middle East Critique, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 161-177

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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2017 in the European Union, FYROM, Serbia & Turkey. 2018 Policy Report

Elda Brogi, Iva Nenadic, Pier Luigi Parcu, Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha

European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies;Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) (2018), 86 pp.

"2017 was marred by the assassination, in Malta, of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an event which represented the darkest hour for media freedom and media pluralism in the European Union since the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre in France. This crime has profoundly shaken Europe an ... more

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Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya

Nanjala Nyabola

London: Zed Books (2018), xxiv, 273 pp.

"Explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how ‘fake news’, a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president’s recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from ... more

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Paros docentes y representaciones mediáticas: La construcción de sentido efectuada por los diarios La Nación, Clarín y Página/12

Marcelo Botto

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2018), 141 pp.

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Let's Talk Digital. Case Studies: Using Digital Technologies in the Context of Governance and Conflict

Julia Manske, Andreas Pawelke

Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 45 pp.

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Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Resisting Neoliberalism?

Claudia Sandberg, Carolina Rocha (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xix, 284 pp.

"Contemporary Latin American Cinema investigates the ways in which neoliberal measures of privatization, de-regularization and austerity introduced in Latin America during the 1990s have impacted film production and film narratives. The collection examines the relationship between economic policies ... more

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Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism

Joseph Braude

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), 222 pp.

"Amid civil war, failing states, and terrorism, Arab liberals are growing in numbers and influence. Advocating a culture of equity, tolerance, good governance, and the rule of law, they work through some of the region's largest media outlets to spread their ideals within the culture. Broadcasting Ch ... more

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Social Media Guide for Politicians

Kerstin Welter

Northlands, ZA: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2018), 34 pp.

"Like we control our data, we should be aware that dealing with social media as a party or as a politician carries with it a far bigger responsibility than for an individual who uses it. Inappropriate posts or retweets of information that have not been cross-checked can cause havoc in communities an ... more

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Tendances mondiales en matière de liberté des d’expression et de développement des médias. Rapport mondial 2017/2018
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Nicole Stremlau, Iginio Gagliardone, Monroe Price et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 200 pp.

"Nous observons ainsi des mutations profondes dans le champ de la liberté de la presse, qui progresse sur plusieurs points, mais recule également dans certains autres. La liberté des médias est notamment limitée par de nombreuses restrictions légales sur le droit de communiquer des information ... more

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Comunicación para la resistencia: Conceptos, tensiones y estrategias en el campo político de los medios
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Florencia Saintout et al.

La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);CLACSO (2018), 361 pp.

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Poor News: Media Discourses of Poverty in Times of Austerity

Steven Harkins, Jairo Lugo-Ocando

London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), viii, 225 pp.

"Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring about certain ideological worldviews. This happens, the authors claim, because journalists and news editors make use of a set of information strategies whi ... more

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