"This book examines processes of media change in post-Communist countries. Considerable attention is paid to the general process of transformation before turning to the media in particular. In this reexamination of the media under the Communist system and its role in the transition, the stress is on
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analysis of media policy and media systems. The author develops a model of change in Central and Eastern Europe and how it can be applied. As such, the intention is not to provide a full account of the debate but to illustrate the main elements and mechanisms of the process as exemplified by the situation in selected countries." (Publisher description)
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"This book charts the development of professional journalism in Iran since the 1979 Revolution that replaced the monarchy with an Islamic Republic. Written to pay homage to Iranian journalists, the book focuses on newspapers, radio and television providing a fuller picture of Iran's media environmen
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t." (Publisher description)
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"This latest set of aggregate indicators, are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various dimensions of governance, taken from 33 data sources provided by 30 different organizations. The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector
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and NGO experts, as well as thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide. We also explicitly report the margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. We find that even after taking margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country comparisons as well as monitoring progress over time. In less than a decade, a substantial number of countries exhibit statistically significant improvements in at least one dimension of governance, while other countries exhibit deterioration in some dimensions." (Abstract)
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"This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of
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the insurrection against Saddam Hussein in 1991." (Publisher description)
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"In dieser Studie wird der strukturelle Wandel des russischen Fernsehens vom sowjetischen Status quo (1970-1985) bis zum Jahre 2005 untersucht. Dieser Medienwandel, der 1985/1986 beginnt und neben dem Fernsehen auch andere Medien umfasst, wird hier als Prozess der Erosion von Propaganda und der Ausd
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ifferenzierung eines autonomen Mediensystems beschrieben. Dabei werden zwei Aspekte prominent hervorgehoben: die Bedeutung der medialen Globalisierungsprozesse für das entstehende Mediensystem und die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Medienstrukturen und den zunächst parteilichen, später staatlichen Kontrollmechanismen der Medien. Die in der Russischen Föderation trotz globaler Diffusion und Vernetzung der Fernsehorganisationen weiterhin populäre Idee, dass Medien ein notwendiges Instrument politischer Machtausübung sind, stellt daher eines der zentralen Bezugsprobleme der Studie dar." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Demokratisierung und die Rolle der Medien innnerhalb dieses Prozess auf Taiwan untersucht. Dabei werden die im Westen entwickelten Transitionsansätze angewandt. In der bisherigen Transitionsforschung wurde die Rolle der Medien nur in geringem Maße einbezogen.
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Dass die Doppelrolle der Medien als Subjekt/Objekt in der politischen Transition einen entscheidenden Anteil am Demokratisierungsprozess haben, wird in der Untersuchung nachgewiesen. Es wird ebenfalls ersichtlich, dass die Zunahme der Bedeutung von Medien im politischen Prozess Gefahren für die Konsolidierung der Demokratie in sich birgt. Es zeigt sich ferner, dass die im Westen geprägten Ansätze nicht vollständig auf asiatische Verhältnisse anwendbar sind." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The iConnect website and monthly e-Bulletin is a major source for information on the application of knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in sustainable development. In 2005, as part of an effort to get more ‘southern voices’ into the current global discourse on ICT fo
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r development, iConnect formed a team of six coordinators in Africa who regularly commission articles by local journalists on the impact and the use of ICTs for development. The articles, written from a southern perspective, appear regularly on the iConnect website in English, French and Spanish." (Back cover)
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"Instead of limiting ourselves to an enumeration of the obstacles to pluralism, we tried to push the analysis further, proposing draft solutions to problems raised, in a realistic way. The democratic debate today can not be limited to the political arena only, by turning up one’s nose at the debat
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e on the media, especially at television pluralism, as in a kind of conspiracy of silence by politicians in power or in the opposition. Our inner conviction is that there can be no democracy in this twenty-first century without audiovisual democracy. Unless Africa, persisting in its denial of development or having opted for backwardness, by afro-pessimism, is not yet mature for any kind of pluralism. Which is obviously not the case, because Africa is already embracing television pluralism, something which, to quote a famous retort, is too serious to be left solely in the hands of politicians. The real challenge is and remains that of professionalism and economic viability." (introduction, page 15)
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