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Media and religion in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa: Fojo Media Institute (2024), 59 pp.
"The content analysis shows that polarization is still a major problem in the reporting of religion in the Ethiopian media. Stories are often biased towards the journalist’s political and ethnic stance. Claiming that they are ’secular’, the state media (’public media’) tend to ignore impor
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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment
HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi
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The Handbook on Religion and Communication
Deep Insights
Newark: Wiley Blackwell (2023), 571 pp.
"Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and
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"There is a growing gap between the coverage of religion and the needs of the faithful–global desire for better coverage, understanding and representation of faith in media. 53% of respondents [of the online survey among 9,489 adults in 18 countries across six continents] say the media actively ig
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Televising Religion in India
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 235 pp.
"This book explores how religion manifests itself in television. It focuses on how religious traditions, practices, and discourses have been incorporated into non-religious television programmes and how they bring both the community and the media into the fold of religion. The volume traces the cult
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Marginalized Religious Communities in Indonesian Media: A Baseline Study
Remotivi; International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 68 pp.
"This study finds that the Indonesian media ecosystem is not a safe space for marginalized religions. As explained in the conclusion to the content analysis, the space given by the media for news coverage of marginalized religious groups is still very small. Although non-Islamic official religions e
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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 441 pp.
"The handbook is divided into five parts, each taking global developments in the field into account: Theoretical Reflections, Power and Authority Conflict, Radicalization and Populism, Dialogue and Peacebuilding, Trends. Within these sections, central issues, debates and developments are examined, i
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Media Coverage of Religious Freedom and Diversity in Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan: Content Analysis Report
Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation; Internews (2020), 57 pp.
"The most mentioned religious groups include Muslims (Sunnis and Shiites). This is logical given that Islam is the majority religion in the three monitored countries. There is also a fair amount of content mentioning Christians in each country as well as Shiites and Sunnis in both Lebanon and Iraq.
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"A central theme running through this report is the basic and fundamental conviction that journalists and programme-makers should aim to explore the “lived experience” of religion as well as its doctrinal, ritual and ceremonial elements. This view was supported across the full body of our submis
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"Les médias reflètent-ils les sociétés telles qu’elles sont aujourd’hui ou bien ne reflètent-ils que les tendances majoritaires ? Comment mettre en lumière les différences et les particularismes sans encourager le communautarisme et contribuer aux divisions ? Le rôle des médias est-il d
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Discourses of Power and Counter-Power in the Zimbabwean Politico-Religious Communication in Online News Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 273-295
"Christianity as the predominant religion in Zimbabwe consists of several faith groupings, each of which responds to public events through the mass media. Mainline churches uphold a conventional human rights approach to faith-based political criticism, while Mapostori or Apostolic churches follow an
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ARD-Themenwoche 2017 "Woran glaubst Du?" Nutzung der Public-Value-Woche in Fernsehen und Internet
Media Perspektiven, issue 11 (2017), pp. 581-586
"Die ARD-Themenwoche 2017 hat ihre Ziele, nämlich möglichst viele Menschen mit einem besonderen Themenangebot vertieft in Kontakt zu bringen und Angebote zur Reflexion über den eigenen Glauben und den Glauben anderer Menschen an zu bieten, erreicht und damit erneut einen Beitrag zum Public Value
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A Summary of the Study “Religious Extremism in the Media”
Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2017), 8 pp.
"The monitoring and the analysis carried out for the purpose of this study found out that the media and the institutional channels of mass communication of religious communities have behaved correctly while carrying out their duties, and have established a climate of communication that emits and fos
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Reconciling Conservatives and Liberals: Mission Impossible? How to Effectively Communicate Religious Messages in Public Discourse. Lessons Learned from the Slovak Referendum on Family
Jurnalism si Comunicare, volume 10, issue 4 (2015), pp. 28-40
"It is quite obvious that cultural and ethical questions have a potential to stir public discourse in countries which claim to be a part of the Western civilization. The ongoing public discourse on these questions has been tagged as ‘culture war’. The conflict itself appears irreconcilable and c
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Can the Church Use Media Communication Channels? Inherent Features of Media Communication Channels Relative to Religious Messages in the Media
Central European Journal of Communication, volume 6, issue 1 (2013), pp. 66-89
"The present study is part of a complex research of media language to spread religious messages. It deals with the nature of the communication channel of the mass-media. It is based on the qulitative research carried out especially by means of the methods of focus groups and Delphi Techniques. Start
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Media Power and Religions: The Challenge Facing Intercultural Dialogue and Learning
Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang (2013), 161 pp.
"There can be no doubt about the high relevance of public media for the image we have of religion in general and certain religions in particular. Yet, it seems that the topic has long been neglected in academic research and discourse. This volume brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives, pres
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Religiya, mass-media i predstavleniya o boge v sovremennoy rossii
Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (2012), 185 pp.
"V monografii predstavlena istoriya vzaimootnosheniy religii i SMI v Rossii i za rubezhom, opisany osnovnye issledovatel'skie paradigmy v dannoy nauchnoy oblasti: artikulyatsiya (analiz togo, kak religiya ispol'zuet SMI), mediatizatsiya (izuchenie togo, kak SMI ispol'zuyut religiyu), unifikatsiya (s
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