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Defining the Nation? Lebanese Television and Political Elites, 1990-2005
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 346 + xxvi pp.
"Katharina Nötzold explores whether and how mass media can contribute to nation-building after civil war. Drawing on the example of Lebanon s audiovisual media organisations, which are mostly privately owned by politicians, she demonstrates how political elites use television to transmit their visi
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Uneven Performances by the Private Press in Ethiopia: An Analysis of 18 Years of Press Freedom
Journal of Communication & Language Arts, volume 3, issue 1 (2009), pp. 44-59
"It is generally said that an independent press is vital for any democracy. However, the case in many African countries is that the independent or private press is weak and lacks credibility, although its assumed role as a cornerstone of young democracies is repeatedly stressed by commentators and p
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Transnational Participatory Radio: A Case Study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER)
Madison: University of Wisconsin, Master Thesis (2009), vii, 197 pp.
"Expanding on previous scholarship, this case study of the Latin American Association of Radio Education (ALER) examines how the medium, conceptualized as “participatory radio,” functions on a transnational level from a social constructionist theoretical framework. Ten weeks of fieldwork were co
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Peking-Express: Das junge Kino aus China
Marburg: Schüren (2009), 205 pp.
"Maik Platzen und Qin Hu sind nach Peking ge-reist und haben mit jungen Filmemachern über ihr Land, ihre Filme und was sie uns damit über die Situation in China zeigen wollen, gesprochen. Die jungen Filmemacher stehen in der chinesischen Kunsttradition und gleichzeitig inmitten der gesellschaftlic
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Addressing the Effects of Assignment Stress Injury
Journalism Practice, volume 3, issue 2 (2009), pp. 162-177
"The purpose of this article is to present the results of a qualitative study on assignment stress injury within journalism. Thirty-one Canadian journalists and photojournalists participated in the research study. The focus of this article is on recommendations offered by our participants to address
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African Media and Investment
Diageo; africapractice (2009), 27 pp.
"This report has identified the importance of African business media to investment in Africa. Notwithstanding the increase in the quantity and quality of business media coverage revealed in our study, accurate and analytical business stories are still in demand from investors, and this will be more
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Best Practices of Journalism in Asia
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), xvi, 172 pp.
"The book’s narrative structure intentionally uses minimal theoretical academic abstractions. Instead, it adopts a pragmatic approach – journalistic to an extent – to speculate what works best for journalists in Asia given the political constraints and resource limitations that many are compel
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Media Training Trends and Practices in Nepal: A Status Report
Kathmandu: Martin Chautari (2009), vii, 62 pp.
"Martin Chautari (MC) has been researching various aspects of Nepali media for almost a decade now. In this study, MC’s focus is on one of the major components of the media sector in Nepal, namely, media training, a subject which has so far been neglected by academics and other researchers. In thi
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The Kenyan 2007 Elections and Their Aftermath: The Role of Media and Communication
London: BBC World Service Trust (2008), 16 pp.
"The media have shaped and will continue to play a central role in shaping Kenya’s democracy. The recent record of the media, according to many within it, is that media has undermined as well as invigorated that democracy. An understanding of democracy and democratic governance in Kenya is not pos
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Emisoras aymaras y movilizaciones campesinas: Un estudio acerca del rol de las emisoras comunitarias y radios aymaras en el altiplano paceño, 2000 y 2003
La Paz: Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Tesis de Licenciatura (2008), 158 pp.
"Las radios comunitarias en el área rural, se vuelven comunitarias sobre todo en tiempos de conflictos, al decir que la gente llega, participa, no cobran nada de la entrevista. Algunas de estas personas, se convierten en especie de reporteros populares, cuando llaman y se reportan. Sin que la radio
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China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield (2008), xii, 201 pp.
Medienoligarchen: Chancen und Grenzen für die Pressefreiheit in der Ukraine. Eine Fallstudie
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2008), 263 pp.
"Der als Revolution in Orange bezeichnete Widerstand Ende 2004 bot auch die Chance für eine einschneidende Veränderung der staatlichen Strukturen in der Ukraine. Eine Entwicklung hin zu einer demokratischen Gesellschaftsordnung, die mit konsolidierten Demokratien Ostmitteleuropas vergleichbar wär
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Karibuni Wananchi: Theatre for Development in Tanzania. Variations and Tendencies
Eckersdorf: Thielmann & Breitinger (2008), 193 pp.
"Stock taking of organisational forms, methodologies, intentions, themes and aesthetic form of Theatre for Development in Tanzania 1980 to 2002. In spite of the widely criticized dependency on funding organisations, Theatre for Development is still a vibrant form of theatre in Tanzania. The aestheti
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Die Meinungsmacher: Journalistische Kultur und Pressefreiheit in Russland
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2008), 121 pp.
"Journalistenmorde und Maulkorb für die Medien: Nachrichten über die russische Presse handeln meist von äußeren Angriffen auf ihre Freiheit. Doch wie die ticken die Journalisten selbst? Wie verstehen sie ihre gesellschaftliche Aufgabe? Fast im gesamten Verlauf seiner Geschichte wurde der russisc
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Journalists, war crimes and international justice
Media, War & Conflict, volume 1, issue 3 (2008), pp. 261-269
"The examination of the ethical and moral issues surrounding the reporting of war crimes signals one of the outstanding problems facing journalism in the contemporary era. As the nature of war has changed, so has the nature of the journalism mandated to cover it, and the selection of war crimes tria
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Internet und Gesellschaft in Iran
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2007), 195 pp.
"Das Internet besitzt das Potenzial, neue Formen von gesellschaftlicher Vernetzung und Kommunikation hervorzubringen und trägt damit wesentlich zur Ausgestaltung sozialer und politischer Systeme bei. Auch in Iran hat sich das Internet trotz infrastruktureller Schwierigkeiten und staatlicher Zensurm
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Community Radio in Nepal: A Case Study of Radio Madanpokhara
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Scripps College, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 353 pp.
"This study is about Community Radio Madanpokhara (CRM) in Palpa district in Western Nepal. Initiated and managed by the local residents, CRM has been on the air on frequency modulation (FM) band serving 800,000 potential listeners in the region since 2000. Triangulating in-depth interviews, observa
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Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere
New Dehli et al.: Sage (2007), 309 pp.
"Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere is the first in-depth study of the ongoing newspaper revolution in the Hindi-speaking states of India. With improved literacy levels, communications and purchasing power, the circulation of Hindi newspapers has grown rapidly in small
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