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Democratising the Media in the New Democracies of Ghana and Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 87-105
"The institutionalisation of democracy in Ghana (1992) and Nigeria (1999) after years of military regimes facilitated the need to reform old media structures that supported authoritarian regimes into institutions that would facilitate the democratic process. The media reform initiatives embarked upo
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The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries
Farnham: Ashgate (2014), xi,185 pp.
By the Numbers: Tracing the Statistical Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democracy
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 38 pp.
"Press freedom is a key component of the general level of democracy in a country. Most often, changes in the state of media freedom have happened in tandem with changes in broader freedoms, therefore making it a sensitive indicator of the overall health of a democracy. In some cases, its deteriorati
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Democracy in Crisis: Corruption, Media, and Power in Turkey
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2014), 20 pp.
Individual and Contextual Correlates of Trust in Media Across 44 Countries
Communication Research, volume 41, issue 6 (2014), pp. 760-782
"The current investigation utilizes data from 44 diverse countries (n = 57,847), collected as part of the World Values Survey, to broaden our understanding of trust in media. The aim is two-fold-to learn about individual-level correlates across contexts and to demonstrate that macro-level factors pl
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International Assistance and Media Democratization in the Western Balkans: A Cross-National Comparison
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 29 pp.
"This article explores the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance (IMA) as constrained by the local political conditions in the five countries of the Western Balkans. It aims to enhance the understanding of conditions and factors that influence me
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Comparing Mass Media in Established Democracies: Patterns of Media Performance
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), vii, 270 pp.
"This book examines the contribution of mass media to modern democracies, in comparative perspective. Part I deals with the conceptualization and implementation of a systematic framework to assess democratic media performance, both in terms of media systems and content. Part II studies media effects
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Citizen journalism footage im Dokumentarfilm: Demokratiefördernde Potenziale dokumentarischer Hybride
Frankfurt am Main: Goethe Universität, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Master Thesis (2014), 84 pp.
"Es lässt sich also feststellen, dass der Dokumentarfilm der Demokratie insofern zuträglich ist, da er seinen Schwerpunkt auf der Gewährleistung der Validierungs-, Orientierungs-, Informations-, Bildungs- und Sozialisationsfunktion hat, während das citizen journalism footage sich insbesondere da
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Medien in Lateinamerika: Zeit für Reformen
Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2013), 8 pp.
"Während sich die politischen Systeme Lateinamerikas seit den 1980er Jahren demokratisierten, nahm die Konzentration von Besitz und Macht im Mediensektor eher noch zu. Dieser Widerspruch schafft Spannungen, die sowohl gesellschaftliche Reformforderungen als auch staatliche Initiativen zur Neugestal
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Changing Media and Politics in Tajikistan
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 66 pp.
Democracy, Governance and Randomised Media Assistance
Deep Insights
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
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Authoritarianism and Media in Algeria
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2013), 20 pp.
"Quel que soit le pays ou le continent considéré, une interdépendance étroite existe aujourd’hui entre démocratie, liberté des médias et régulation de la communication. Une place cruciale revient en effet aux organes de régulation dans la procédure d’allocation de fréquences d’émis
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Citizens Rising: Independent Journalism and the Spread of Democracy
New York: CUNY Journalism Press (2013), 244 pp.
"As founder of Internews, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to information access and independent media, David Hoffman has had a backstage pass to many of the seminal world political upheavals in recent years. In these pages we see how media have been used for good and bad—to trigger gen
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Media and Democratisation: What is Known About the Role of Mass Media in Transitions to Democracy
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
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The Media in Transitional Democracies
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
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Why do pluralistic media systems emerge? Comparing media change in the Czech Republic and in Russia after the collapse of communism
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 239-256
"A quarter of a century after the collapse of communism in the former Eastern bloc, a wide range of scholarly projects have been undertaken to compare and theorize processes of media change in the region. One question that scholars have sought to address is: what were the factors that crucially impa
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A Critique of the Systems Approaches in Comparative Media Research: A Central and Eastern European Perspective
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 3 (2013), pp. 257-277
"This article looks critically at the systems approaches in comparative media studies when applied to studying the relationship between media and politics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It introduces a concept of methodological systematization consisting of four different components: (1) the r
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