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Mapping Digital Media: Lithuania

Arturas Racas, Liutauras Ulevicius, Dziugas Parsonis

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 88 pp.

"The explosion of digital media and their impact on journalism and democracy in Lithuania coincided with the country's second decade of independence and with the economic crisis of 2009-2010. With the rapid growth of internet penetration, websites dedicated to news appeared and traditional media wen ... more

Mapping Digital Media: Moldova

Victor Gotisan et al.

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 117 pp.

"In Moldova, the combination of digitization and political change has increased the diversity of media outlets and their news, the plurality of opinions, and the transparency of public institutions, while it has diminished political interference in the media. Yet the lack of independence of regulato ... more

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Global Flows, Media and Developing Democracies: The Ghanaian Case

Seyram Avle

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 ... more

Press in Stress: Media Under Threat in Balochistan

Aurangzaib Khan

Islamabad: Intermedia (2011), 20 pp.

"All journalists in Balochistan should undergo conflict sensitive journalism (CSJ) trainings. All journalists should undergo media law clinics to be educated on rights and responsibilities. A Safety Fund for Balochistan should be set up to provide resources on safety and security and address their l ... more

National Studies on Assessing the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 352 pp.

National Studies on Assessing the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 392 pp.

Pilot Study on Vietnam’s Media Landscape Based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators

Nina Vennevold

[no publisher] (2011), 38 pp.

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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.

"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more

@crossroads: Democratization and Corporatization of Media in Indonesia

Merlyna Lim

Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona State University, Participatory Media Lab;Ford Foundation (2011), 32 pp.

The Transformative Egyptian Media Landscape: Changes, Challenges and Comparative Perspectives

Sahar Khamis

International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 1159-1177

"This article analyzes the transformative Egyptian media landscape that shaped and reflected the equally transformative political landscape that led to Egypt’s historical revolution. It provides an overview of Egyptian media and discusses how that eclectic scene exhibited many paradoxes. It analyz ... more

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Sudan and South Sudan: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 92 pp.

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Russian Mass Media and Changing Values

Kaarle Nordenstreng, Arja Rosenholm, Elena Trubina (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2011), xii, 237 pp.

Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS): Pacific Media Benchmarks (2005)

Andrew Skuse

Melbourne; Adelaide: Australian Aid (AusAID);Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC);University of Adelaide (2011), 87 pp.

"This study draws together two bodies of work concerned with media pluralism, effectiveness, development and strengthening in the developing world. One is drawn from UNESCO’s global work on media assessment and impact indicators, the other from AusAID’s Pacific Media and Communications Facility ... more

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Atlas de l'Afrique

Danielle Ben Yahmed (ed.)

Paris: Éditions du Jaguar, 4. éd. (2011), 255 pp.

"L'Afrique dans son ensemble : 28 chapitres présentant le continent par rapport au reste du monde. Tous les aspects de la géographie physique : relief, hydrographie, climat, végétation, et aussi l'histoire, les religions, les langues. L'Afrique par régions. Les cartes de localisation avec visua ... more

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Russland: Medien zwischen Staatslenkung und Kommerzialisierung. Dokumentation der Wissenschaftlichen Fachtagung Deutsche Welle Mediendialog April 2010

Christoph Schmidt, Rolf Schwartmann, Peter Niepalla (eds.)

Berlin: Vistas (2011), 114 pp.

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Medienstrategien ägyptischer Islamisten im Kontext von Demokratisierung

Carola Richter

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2011), 349 pp.

"Die Umbrüche in Ägypten 2011 haben gezeigt, dass Medien eine wesentliche Rolle für die Mobilisierung politischer Partizipation spielen. Die Muslimbruderschaft, einer der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Akteure Ägyptens, hat seit 2002 gezielt auf Internetmedien gesetzt, um das Regime Mubaraks her ... more

Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Bamenda: Langaa (2011), xiv, 193 pp.

"In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real parti ... more

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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

Cyrus Farivar

New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.

"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es ... more

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Channels of Resistance in Lebanon: Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media

Zahera Harb

London; New York: Tauris (2011), 279 pp.

"The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media’s role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support o ... more