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ICT for Anti-Corruption, Democracy and Education in East Africa

Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (2013), 98 pp.

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Reporting Governance: A Content Analysis of Cambodian Media Outlets

Peou Chivoin, Manika Pin, Say Sok

Department of Media and Communication (DMC) (2013), 58 pp.

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From connectivity to service delivery: Case studies in e-governance

Raul Zambrano, Kristine Ruhiya Seward (eds.)

New York: UNDP (2013), 63 pp.

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Media in a Transitioning Nepal: Does Expansion Translate to Pluralism?

Nirmal Rijal, Jo Tacchi

Creative Industries Journal, volume 6, issue 1 (2013), pp. 57-70

"Characterized by socio-political changes, instability and conflict since 1990, Nepal is a nation in political transition. The media play a significant role in influencing this transition. Since 1990, various global and local factors have contributed to an unprecedented growth in the mass media in N ... more

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Microblogs in China: Bringing the State Back In

Nele Noesselt

Hamburg: GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (2013), 26 pp.

"This paper reflects the adaptation and transformation of the Chinese party-state's government strategy in the digital era. Through a discourse analysis of the current Chinese debate on the role of microblogs in China, it argues that China's political elites have revised their social management stra ... more

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The Continued Relevance of the Concept of Propaganda: Propaganda as Ritual in Contemporary Hungary

Péter Bajomi-Lázár

Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 219-237

"We will, in this paper, argue that the concept of propaganda is still relevant in the context of post-communist Hungary. More particularly, we will suggest that, in contrast to the period 1998-2010 when modern political marketing methods were applied widely, the political campaigns launched under V ... more

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Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring

Philip N. Howard, Muzammil M. Hussain

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2013), xiv, 145 pp.

"Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain examine the complex role of the Internet, mobile phones, and social networking applications in the Arab Spring. Examining digital media access, level of grievance, and levels of protest for popular democratization in 16 countries in the Middle East and North ... more

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Framing Bouazizi: ‘White Lies’, Hybrid Network, and Collective/connective Action in the 2010–11 Tunisian Uprising

Merlyna Lim

Journalism, volume 14, issue 7 (2013), pp. 921-941

"By delving into the detailed account of the Tunisian uprising, this article offers an explanation that sets the 2010 uprising apart from its precursors. The 2010 uprising was successful because activists successfully managed to bridge geographical and class divides as well as to converge offline an ... more

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Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
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Devra C. Moehler

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 26 pp.

"This paper focuses attention on randomised field experiments in the developing world that explicitly address the use of media to achieve democracy and governance (DG) outcomes [...] The first section describes the growth of DG assistance and the increasing interest in DG field experiments. The seco ... more

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Transitional Libyan Media: Free at Last?

Fatima El-Issawi

Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2013), 27 pp.

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An Analysis of the Cambodian Print Media

Phalla San, Subha Raj Shilpakar

Phnom Penh: Alliance for Conflict Tranformation (ACT) (2013), iii, 59 pp.

"This paper reveals that Cambodian newspapers have tendency towards being biased to their political affiliations. According to the findings of this study, Cambodian newspapers have three inclinations: pro-government, opposition, and neutrality. The pro-government and opposition newspapers are the ma ... jority in circulation. Most news articles published by these newspapers favor their own party‘s endeavors and concerns rather than the common public interest. There are also a small number of newspapers that claim to be neutral and independent from any political attachments. In contrast, the independent newspapers‘ contents serve public interest and are more in-depth. The case study on media coverage on the detention of 13 Beoung Kak activists, which is on the latter part of this study, proves this assertion. While it has been found that there are a few Khmer language newspapers that publish articles on this incident regularly, results of the content analysis suggests that English language newspapers more regularly and actively observe the developing story of the dispute ranging from less to most important events. Majority of the news focus on accidents, crime and land issues. This research has also observed that newspapers give more attention to recent events and issues rather than prioritizing on ongoing social problems. Opinion-based articles, news analysis of social issues and editorial are rarely published. Although editorials are appear in some newspapers, they are used to attack their enemy instead of providing solutions on the problems. When compared to English language newspapers, news reporting in some Khmer language newspapers lacks professionalism and ethical practice. In terms of news coverage, both Khmer and English newspapers are more focused on their reporting on events in Phnom Penh and undermine the news from provincial areas of Cambodia. Respondents agreed that media has an important role in building peace in Cambodia and that the local print media has yet to fulfill this crucial role due to economic, professional, and self-imposed ethical limitations. There is an immense need to educate and re-educate many Cambodian journalists to their responsibility to the public and their power to effect positive change, which includes sustainable peace." (Executive summary) more

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Transformations in Egyptian Journalism

Naomi Sakr

London; Oxford: Tauris;Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), xviii, 109 pp.

"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio ... more

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Aufbruch, Erfolg und Erniedrigung

Lutz Mükke

Message, issue 2 (2013), pp. 10-13

"Investigative Reporter des afrikanischen Netzwerks FAIR decken in transnationalen Teams skandalöse Missstände auf. Trotz ihrer Erfolge gibt es kaum Grund zur Euphorie – auch wegen der Europäer." (Seite 10)

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Media and Democratisation: What is Known About the Role of Mass Media in Transitions to Democracy

Nael Jebril, Václav Stetka, Matthew Loveless

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 51 pp.

"The review starts by elucidating the potential role of the media as a democratising agent. We then explore the relationship between media reform and institutional change during democratisation periods, and move to review the literature on the contribution of media to institution building and due pe ... more

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The Media in Transitional Democracies

Katrin Voltmer

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2013), ix, 275 pp.

"This book provides an accessible and systematic introduction to the media in transitional democracies. It analyses the problems that occur when transforming the media into independent institutions that are able to inform citizens and hold governments to account. The book covers the following topics ... more

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Changing Media and Politics in Tajikistan

Esfandiar Adinabay

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 66 pp.

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The Arab World: The Role of Media in the Arab World's Transformation Process

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Berlin: Vistas (2013), 286 pp.

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Guide du formateur en marketing et communication politiques

Jemaïel Hassainya

Tunis: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Arab Institute for Human Rights (2013), 56 pp.

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Building Media Systems in the Western Balkans: Lost Between Models and Realities

Katrin Voltmer

Sarajevo: Analitika – Center for Social Research (2013), 33 pp.

"The paper aims to address some of the theoretical and normative issues involved in transforming post-authoritarian media systems, which have been described and analysed in the country studies of this working paper series. The discussion starts by introducing the concept of ‘social constructivism� ... more

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You Cannot Not See: The Media in the June 2013 Demonstrations

Daniel Fonsêca

São Paulo: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 29 pp.

"The June 2013 protests in Brazil caused a veritable political earthquake. Initially demanding the right to affordable public transportation, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets to express their discontent, which gradually came to include the sluggish progress made in public heal ... more

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