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Too Close for Comfort: The Political Telenovela 'El Candidato' and the 2000 Mexican Presidential Election

Iván Abarca Torres

Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, volume 1 (2015), pp. 9-26

"The telenovela El Candidato did not elect Vicente Fox per se but it was a very powerful media vehicle that certainly helped him. Although there were suspicions from the beginning about the telenovela’s positive support of the PRI in the context of the real election, it turns out that in fact upon ... more

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Towards a Political Economy of Communication in Development?

Florencia Enghel

Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue Special Issue (2015), pp. 11-24

"In the development communication equation, whether more theoretical, empirical and analytical attention is given to ‘development’ or to ‘communication’ makes a difference: where the emphasis is on development, it is at the expense of communication. Since communication and media arguably pla ... more

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MedienVielfaltsMonitor: Ergebnisse 2. Halbjahr 2014. Anteile der Medienangebote und Medienkonzerne am Meinungsmarkt der Medien in Deutschland

Berlin: Direktorenkonferenz der Landesmedienanstalten (DLM) (2015), 33 pp.

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Radio silence: Burundi’s media during the 2015 election crisis

Michelle Betz

International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 19 pp.

"This desk study was commissioned by International Media Support (IMS) for the purposes of providing information to colleagues in the media support sector and to donors so that they may be better informed when devising and deciding on appropriate intervention strategies [...] Research for this repor ... more

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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 ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Albania: Nurturing Client-Based Media Practices

Ilda Londo

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.

"The transparency of media market in Albania continues to be low, including both commercial operations and the state funding, despite of the existing databases. The involvement of new actors, such as advertising agencies, and sister companies of media outlets, makes it even more difficult to track s ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Increasingly Dependent and Disciplined Media

Sanela Hodžic

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 20 pp.

"Particular political and business interests seem to overpower any notion of public interest in the financial relations between government and the media. The public interest that these financial patterns should in theory serve remains under-articulated and unmonitored with a lack of clear criteria, ... more

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State-Media Financial Relations in Serbia: A Transitional Year. Who Will Benefit from the Media Reforms?

Bojana Barlovac

Ljubljana: Peace Institute;South East European Media Observatory (2015), 15 pp.

"The outflow of money from state/public funds to the media has for years been unreasonable and non-transparent. Therefore, the ultimate goal of the ongoing media reforms is to introduce certain control and transparency through privatisation of state-owned media and introduce co-financing of media pr ... more

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Political Parody and Satire as Subversive Speech in the Global Digital Sphere

Sangeet Kumar, Kirk Combe (eds.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 3 (2015), pp. 211-311

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Media Pluralism and Diversity: Concepts, Risks and Global Trends

Peggy Valcke, Miklós Sükösd, Robert G. Picard (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xviii, 362 pp.

"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur ... more

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Russia

Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 12 pp.

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India's Gender Digital Divide: Women and Politics on Twitter

Sydney Anderson

New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (2015), 8 pp.

"This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women are marginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of 23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women in Twitter's political conversa ... more

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Networked China: Global Dynamics of Digital Media and Civic Engagement

Wenhong Chen, Stephen D. Reese (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2015), xix, 236 pp.

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Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies

Adrian Hadland

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 261 pp.

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Demokratisierung durch Social Media? Mediensymposium 2012

Kurt Imhof, Roger Blum, Heinz Bonfadelli, Otfried Jarren, Vinzenz Wyss (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 290 pp.

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Bulgarians Feel Badly Informed by Media and Politicians

Christian Spahr

Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Program South East Europe (2015), 4 pp.

"59 percent of the population of Bulgaria do not consider the media to be independent. Many are undecided and only 17 percent believe reporting is free. The crisis of confidence in the media is continuing, according to a study on behalf of the KAS Media Program South East Europe. Citizens also feel ... more

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Wandel im Journalismus autoritärer Regime: Das Beispiel Jordanien

Judith Pies

Bielefeld: transcript (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 ... more

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Studying Political Microblogging: Parliamentary Candidates on Twitter During the February 2012 Election in Kuwait

Noah W. Miller, Rosa S. Ko

International Journal of Communication, volume 9 (2015), pp. 2933-2953

"Kuwait boasts high levels of political and media freedoms compared to many countries in the Middle East, and it enjoys a vibrant social media scene. The Kuwaiti parliamentary election in February 2012 was the first election in which candidates widely utilized Twitter during their campaigns. This ar ... more

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Final Evaluation: Democracy and Development in Action Through Media and Empowerment (DAME), 2012-2014

Welmoed E. Koekebakker

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 ... more

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Journalists' Perceptions of Nomenklatura Networks and Media Ownership in Post-Communist Bulgaria

Lada Trifonova Price

Medijske Studije / Media Studies, volume 6, issue 11 (2015), pp. 19-33

"This article discusses the role of the former communist party elite (the nomenklatura) in the Bulgarian post-communist media landscape in relation to media ownership and the origin of media outlets’ capital. The spotlight is on Bulgarian journalists’ perceptions examined through semi-structured ... more