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Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), viii, 294 pp.
"How did the Trump administration capture one of the world’s most important public service news networks? This book uses rare interviews and an analysis of private correspondence and internal documents to explain why and how Voice of America (VOA) became intensely politicized from 2020 to 2021. It
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La communication de l'État en Afrique: Discours, ressorts et positionnements
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 360 pp.
RFA In-Depth Interviews: Uyghur Experiences of Detention in Post-2015 Xinjiang
Radio Free Asia (RFA) (2020), 40 pp.
"This report presents the results of in-depth interviews conducted with eight individuals with recent direct experience inside detention facilities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Findings are based on four face-to-face and four remote interviews conducted between November 201
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"Radio France Internationale" and "Deutsche Welle" in Francophone Africa: International Broadcasters in a Time of Change
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 9 (2016), pp. 68-85
"For decades international radio broadcasters on the African continent were considered the tools of Western imperialism, ideological weapons in the Cold War. Yet international broadcasters also provided a crucial, alternative supply of information in times of state monopoly of the media and when the
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Voices of Freedom - Western Interference? 60 Years of Radio Free Europe
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2015), xii, 294 pp.
"International radio broadcasters took on a centrally important role during the Cold War. Founded at the beginning of the 1950s, Radio Free Europe (RFE) was to become both a political instrument for influencing public opinion and one of the few alternative sources of information for many people livi
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Humanitarian Broadcasting in Emergencies: A Synthesis of Evaluation Findings
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 64 pp.
"This synthesis of evidence suggests that BBC Media Action interventions have an important role to play in assisting people affected by crisis, and is consistent with other literature that highlights the role of media in providing accurate and reliable information in crisis. It highlights that, as w
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Radio im interkulturellen Dialog
Stuttgart; Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2014), 29 pp.
"Nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und dem Ende der Sowjetunion musste der Auslandsrundfunk sich neu orientieren. In der Außen- und Entwicklungspolitik sind Kultur und Medien zunehmend als wichtige Faktoren für die Gestaltung auswärtiger Beziehungen und internationaler Entwicklungszusammenarbeit e
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Radio and Audio Strategies for External Cultural Relations: Conference Report, Berlin, 24–25 October 2013
Berlin, Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2014), 30 pp.
"Radio and online audio-formats are valuable instruments for international cultural work, and for education and development programmes. However, political developments following the end of the Cold War and the rise of satellite TV and online media have brought with them far-reaching cuts in the radi
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Selective Believability: A Perspective on Africans’ Interactions with Global Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 219-236
"This article attempts to highlight a new perspective on African audiences’ engagement with global media and point to new postulates in audience research. It briefly reviews key reception theories, ranging from the effects tradition to active audience paradigm and encoding-decoding model. It then
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Radio: Eine Einführung
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2012), 367 pp.
"Diese Einführung geht von der These aus, dass Radio das Vielfältigste aller Medien darstellt. Dies ist u. a. der Tatsache geschuldet, dass niemand so genau weiß, wo die äußeren Grenzen des Phänomens Radio liegen. Manches nennt sich heute Radio - z. B. Internetradio oder Radio-on-Demand -, da
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"This paper documents the effect of Serbian public radio on the voting behavior and nationalistic anti-Serbian sentiment of Croats in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, a post-conflict region of modern Croatia on the border with Serbia. We find that the exposure to the Serbian public radi
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International Radio Broadcasting: It's Not What it Used to Be
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), pp. 3-16
"Government-sponsored international radio broadcasting has been an important public diplomacy tool since shortwave frequencies were first used in the 1920s. This chapter defines international radio broadcasting as "the purposeful attempts on the part of stations in one country to reach listeners in
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A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2012), 88 pp.
"For more than half a century, North Korea’s leaders have relied on a domestic media monopoly to control what information North Koreans can access and how narratives around that information are presented. But the situation on the ground is changing, thanks in large part to North Koreans’ expandi
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Audience Research in Extremis: Cold War Broadcasting to the USSR
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 104-131
"How could Western broadcasters during the Cold War learn about their audiences in the USSR when they were denied the possibility of conducting surveys within the country? In response to this quandary, second-best approaches were developed at Radio Liberty employing interviews with travellers outsid
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China's Propaganda and Influence Operations, its Intelligence Activities That Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security: Hearing Before the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Washington, DC: United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (2009), vii, 176 pp.
China in the African Mediascape: A Critical Injection
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 3 (2009), pp. 343-361
"This study sets out to historically contextualize Chinese support to the African mediascape, arguing that contemporary Chinese media interventions in Africa must be seen as part of China's long history of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggle in its project of national and international identifi
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Broadcasting on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today
Jefferson: McFarland (2008), vii, 488 pp.
"The heart of the book is a detailed, year-by-year account of the shortwave bands in each year from 1945 to 2008. It reviews what American listeners were hearing on the international and domestic shortwave bands, describes the arrivals and departures of stations, and recounts important events. The b
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Gospel in the Air: 50 Years of Christian Witness Through Radio in the Arab World
Deep Insights
Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum (2008), xxxiii, 962 pp.
"This study is the result of archival research, hundreds of interviews, and listening to hundreds of programs as broadcast from 20-26 September 2004. It focuses on the question of how the broadcasts of the Protestants in the Arab World are a witness to the Christian gospel. The main question asked,
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