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Public Service Broadcasting and its Role in Raising Civic Consciousness: Case Studies from Asia
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2012), 148 pp.
"This book explores the role of media in democratic societies and specifically that of PSB's in Asia. It presents case studies from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kampuchea, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Macau, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. These studies document the Asian experience in PSB while exploring if there
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Conference on Media Development in Myanmar
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 47 pp.
"This report summarises the presentations and recommendations made at the Conference on Media Development in Myanmar organised by the Myanmar Ministry of Information and Culture and UNESCO in cooperation with International Media Support (IMS) and Canal France International with support from the Gove
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The Media and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: An Overview of Government–media Relations, 1999–2009
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 377-393
"Relations between the media and government in Nigeria have historically been conflictual. Nevertheless, the Nigerian media has played important roles in the country’s struggles to free itself from the shackles of colonialism and military rule. A national desire for disengagement from decades of m
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Los medios masivos de información en el Perú, 1980-2012
Conexión (Departamento de Comunicaciones de la PUCP, Lima), volume 1, issue 1 (2012), pp. 11-31
"Revisar cuarenta años de historia de los medios masivos de información en tan breve espacio es sin duda insuficiente, pero lo hacemos considerando que cada vez más alumnos —y en especial tesistas— requieren de información histórica básica para sus trabajos. El propósito de este texto es,
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Is There a Link Between Media and Good Governance? What the Academics Say
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 45 pp.
"From this short survey of some key thinkers, can we conclude that there is a causal link between media and good governance? Does the existence of a free media increase accountability and reduce corruption? Do media influence society in positive ways and liberate the individual? As one would expect,
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Politics in Cyberspace: New Media in Malaysia
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 56 pp.
"There seems little evidence that the rise and increasing availability and range of new media have given real reason to expect different political outcomes on grounds of new patterns of mobilization, particularly given a persistent “digital divide.” What has been happening, though, is an increas
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Media Development in Transitional Democratic Cambodia
Malmö: Malmö University, Master Thesis in Communication for Development (2012), 65 pp.
"Through a series of qualitative interviews with a range of media stakeholders, the ultimate conclusion of this thesis is that the media landscape in Cambodia is diverse –with some (mostly foreign-owned and run) able to operate freely and independently, while others (most local Khmer media, partic
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Fight for Democracy: The ANC and the Media in South Africa
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
"Glenda Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and their conflictual relationship. She analyses this fraught relationship through various popular media stories, such as Manto and Mondli, Zapiro and Zuma. Her argument ist that there
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The Media of Afghanistan: The Challenges of Transition
Deep Insights
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 27 pp.
"[...] Afghanistan is a fragile, fractured state and has one of the most fragile and fractured media, where almost anyone with sufficient funds and the opportunity to move quickly has been able to establish a media presence. This environment has enabled the flourishing of television, radio and other
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Medias et démocratie au Burkina Faso
Dakar; Leiden: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); African Studies Centre (2012), 108 pp.
Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle
Bristol: intellect (2011), 405 pp.
"Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, developme
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Comunicación política en México: Retos y desafíos ante el proceso democratizador global
Sevilla et al.: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones (2011), 348 pp.
"La Comunicación Política en México aborda las formas en que la dimensión comunicativa de la sociedad mexicana enfrenta dos tendencias contrapuestas: las inercias de un sistema político autoritario, y la coexistencia con nuevos valores y significaciones en torno al poder y a la toma de decision
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Global Flows, Media and Developing Democracies: The Ghanaian Case
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 7-23
"This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (ob
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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New Media Vs. Old Politics: The Internet, Social Media, and Democratisation in Pakistan
Berlin; Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 72 pp.
"It has to be underlined that this study does not see the internet as a major remedy for the development of political culture and civil society that is so essential for Pakistan’s further democratic consolidation. To understand possible contributions of the new information technologies towards pol
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Media and Transition in Latin America
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-34
"This article reviews the authoritarian regimes, and the subsequent transitions to democracy, that existed in Latin America in the last third of the 20th Century. It is argued that, unlike in other cases, the political science account of such changes, usually self-described as “transitology”, do
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