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What Can Nonprofit Journalists Actually Do for Democracy?

Magda Konieczna, Elia Powers

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 12 (2016), pp. 1542-1558

"At a time when news organizations are struggling to define and promote their own relevance, some argue that journalists should make explicit their efforts to contribute to democracy as well as the results of those efforts. This study focuses on one prominent nonprofit news organization, the Interna ... more

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Captured News Media: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro

Milka Tadic Mijovic, Marija Sajkas

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 16 pp.

"Political and business elites in the countries that are the subject of this report have acquired control over a large number of public and private media, mostly through non-transparent privatization, advertising and/or budgetary support to loyal media. Consequently, media freedoms and freedom of ex ... more

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Tweeting Democracy: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Social Media Use in the Differing Politics of Senegal and Ethiopia’s Newspapers

Jeslyn Lemke, Endalk Chala

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 167-185

"This descriptive, empirical study gives context to how print journalists in two politically different African nations, Senegal and Ethiopia, use Twitter and Facebook to report the news and to what extent. We ask, ‘how is this new model of online reporting manifesting itself in Ethiopian and Seneg ... more

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#HashtagSolidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the MENA Region

Mareike Transfeld, Isabelle Werenfels (eds.)

Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2016), 62 pp.

"This study identified three local or subregional incidents that led to heated debates on Twitter: a video shared on Twitter of the sexual assault of a woman on Cairo’s Tahrir Square in June 2014, anti-fracking protests in southern Algeria in early 2015, and Saudi Arabia’s military intervention ... more

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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.

"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more

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‘Can You Hear Me?’ Mobile–radio Interactions and Governance in Africa

Iginio Gagliardone

New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 9 (2016), pp. 2080-2095

"The exponential diffusion of mobile phones in Africa and their ability to interact with other media have created new avenues for individuals to interface with power. These forms of engagement, however, have primarily been interpreted through the lenses of the ‘liberation technology’ agenda, whi ... more

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Arab Media Moguls

Donatella Della Ratta, Naomi Sakr, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp.

"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r ... more

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Medien, Geld und Freiheit

Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, volume 43, issue 10 (2015), pp. 1-27

"Das Fazit der Beiträge in diesem Heft bringt Snežana Milivojevic nüchtern auf den Punkt: „Der Glaube, dass ein freier Markt gleichbedeutend mit freien Medien ist, hat sich in den Transformationsländern als Illusion erwiesen.“ Die größte Gefahr für unabhängigen Journalismus liegt dort ni ... more

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Freedom of the Press and Media Regulation in Cambodia: Approaches and Options for Democratic Diversity

Andreas Oldag

Phnom Penh: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 66 pp.

"Two basic principles should prevail for media regulation in Cambodia: 1. Consistent application of the principles of the rule of law on the basis of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and press (Art. 35 and 41: Cambodian Constitution). 2. Transparent and predictable regulative decision- ... more

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Mechachal: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia. Report One

Iginio Gagliardone et al.

University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) (2015), 35 pp.

"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 ... more

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Social Media and the #Occupy Nigeria Protests: Igniting or Damping a Harmattan Storm?

Nwachukwu Egbunike, Anthony Olorunnisola

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 141-164

"This study compared social media (new media) and newspapers’ framing of the January 2012 #Occupy Nigeria Protest. Authors employed content analysis to investigate similarities and differences in the frames adopted by social media (Facebook page, blogs, conversations in Nairaland and Twitter) and ... more

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Mechachal: Online Debates and Elections in Ethiopia. From Hate Speech to Engagement in Social Media

Iginio Gagliardone et al.

University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) (2015), 103 pp.

"We analyzed more than 13,000 statements during the project. This report primarily builds on the statements that were collected between 24 February and 24 June 2015, three months before and one month after the parliamentary elections that took place in Ethiopia on 24 May 2015. FINDING 1 - Hate and d ... more

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After the Revolution: Libyan and Tunisian Media Through the People’s Eyes

Najla Dowson-Zeidan, Tim Eaton, Karen Wespieser

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 ... more

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Effects of the Internet on Participation: Study of a Public Policy Referendum in Brazil

Paolo Spada, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Peixoto, Frederick M Sjoberg

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 ... more

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Die Entfaltung der E-Demokratie

Heike Hermanns

In: Länderbericht Korea

Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 145-158

"Die Entfaltung der E-Demokratie legt die Probleme der demokratischen Praxis in Südkorea offen: da sich die Bürger durch die politischen Institutionen nicht repräsentiert fühlen, suchen sie neue Wege, ihre Meinung zu äußern. Dabei sind die Netizens den politischen Akteuren und staatlichen Stel ... more

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Medien als Akteure in der politischen Transition: Bolivien im Autonomiekonflikt

Andreas Hetzer

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2015), 422 pp.

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Media, Revolution and Politics in Egypt: The Story of an Uprising

Abdalla F. Hassan

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 ... more

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Media, Conflict, and Political Transitions in Africa

Nicole Stremlau, Iginio Gagliardone

In: Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 289-302

"In this chapter, we explore the role of the media in the context of Africa's broader democratization trends through an examination of three main areas: the media as political actors in conflict; the challenge of looking beyond formal state structures to informal governance in order to better unders ... more

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Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society After 2009

David M. Faris, Babak Rahimi (eds.)

Albany: State University of New York Press (2015), 334 pp.

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Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation

Lina Dencik, Oliver Leistert (eds.)

London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2015), vii, 240 pp.