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Afghan Media in 2010: Synthesis Report

Eric Davin, Philibert de Mercey, Carlotta Tincati, Kinga Komorowska, Arezo Malakooti, Sébastien Duhaut

Altai Consulting;USAID (2010), 178 pp.

"In 2004-2005, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives commissioned Altai Consulting to conduct the first comprehensive media evaluation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, looking at the impact of the Afghan media on opinions and behav ... iors three years after the beginning of the country’s reconstruction. The evaluation found, among other things: that Afghans were avid and sophisticated media users and that cultural barriers to media use were less significant than previously expected; that the radio played a predominant role throughout the country; and that media are instrumental in social progress and education. However, since publication of that report1, Afghanistan’s media sector has seen important changes. To inform future assistance from the international community to the Afghan media, it was deemed necessary to assess the current state of the Afghan media – by reflecting a full and accurate audience profile, to determine program preferences, to measure the impact of the Afghan media on local opinions and behaviors and to gauge Afghan expectations in terms of programming and messaging. A large-scale research project was thus planned and conducted from March to August 2010. This research included a deep probe into the media sector and the public’s behaviors and expectations. The methodology used to achieved this included a combination of: literature review; direct observations; key informant interviews with most relevant actors involved in the media sector; 6,648 close-ended interviews in more than 900 towns and villages of 106 districts, covering all 34 provinces of the country; an audience survey on more than 1,500 individuals run daily for a week; about 200 qualitative, open-ended interviews; and 10 community case studies. Such an effort guarantees that results presented here are fairly representative of the Afghan population at large. This document provides a comprehensive synthesis of data collected during the survey. A database of media actors, 16 priority district reports, 10 case study reports, a complete description of the methodology and the original datasets from the main quantitative research and the audience research are publicly available, allowing anyone interested to access more focused information as needed." (Introduction, page 8) more

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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2010), xvi, 617 pp.

"Internet censorship and surveillance becomes more sophisticated. The first-generation controls like China's "Great Firewall" are being replaced by techniques that include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, take-down notices and stringent terms-of-usa ... more

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Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity

Gholam Khiabany

New York; London: Routledge (2010), xii, 251 pp.

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Arab New Media for Peace and Dialogue: Best Practice Guide and Pedagogical Toolkit

Barceloa: Centre UNESCO de Catalunya (2010), 162 pp.

"The Best Practice Guide gives a general overview of new media in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories and Syria. It analyses new media experiences acquired in conflict and post conflict areas, presenting best practice examples and recommendations developed by the workshop participants ... more

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Asian Media Barometer: Pakistan 2009

Kuala Lumpur; Islamabad: Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 76 pp.

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Media and governance in Pakistan: A controversial yet essential relationship

Marco Mezzera, Safdar Sial

Brussels: Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP);Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations (2010), 47 pp.

"Probably one of the most relevant pieces of military legislation affecting the media has been the establishment and formalisation of a media regulatory authority. The Regulatory Authority for Media Broadcast Organisations (RAMBO), the predecessor of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authorit ... more

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Diarios del Paraguay

Juan Crichigno

Asunción: [author] (2010), 459 pp.

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Media System and News Selection in Namibia

Andreas Rothe

Berlin; Münster: Lit (2010), 219 pp.

"This publication was created to serve two purposes: Firstly, it aims to provide a thorough review of the status quo of the Namibian media system. Secondly, it is the first study to apply the theory of the European-focused news value research tradition to Namibian media. Aside from literature and on ... more

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Industrias culturales en Español: Estados Unidos - España

Luis A. Albornoz

Madrid: Fundación Alternativas;Fundación Santillana (2010), 48 pp.

"Este documento presenta un panorama general de la presencia "latina" o "hispana" y del mercado medático en español en los Estados Unidos. Además introduce brevementa a la presencia cultural de España en Estados Unidos y los resultados de dos Foros de Industrias Culturales Latinas." (commbox)

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African Media Barometer: Uganda 2010

Windhoek; Kampala: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 76 pp.

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Mass Communication in India

Keval J. Kumar

Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 4th completely revised and updated ed. (2010), xviii, 609 pp.

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Die Medien in Osteuropa: Mediensysteme im Transformationsprozess

Marc Stegherr, Kerstin Liesem

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), 374 pp.

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Schwerpunkt: Medien als Macht?

Ost-West: Europäische Perspektiven, volume 11, issue 2 (2010), pp. 81-160

[...] In dieser Ausgabe von OST-WEST. Europäische Perspektiven nehmen wir die Medien in Europa in den Blick. Wir fragen nach der Macht und dem Einfluss der „vierten Gewalt“, wie die Medien oft genannt werden, in Deutschland, nach den Perspektiven der Medienentwicklung in Mittel- und Osteuropa, ... more

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Pakistan

Bernhard Chiari, Conrad Schetter (eds.)

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2010), 276 pp.

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New Media for a New China

James F. Scotton, William A. Hachten (eds.)

Malden; Oxford: Wiley Blackwell (2010), x, 244 pp.

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Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives

Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, Michal Glowacki, Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd (eds.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2010), xiv, 290 pp.

"Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the e ... more

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'Chindia' and Global Communication

Global Media and Communication, volume 6, issue 3 (2010), pp. 243-389

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Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom
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Beate Josephi (ed.)

New York: Peter Lang (2010), xiii, 263 pp.

"Since the 1990s journalism education programs have expanded exponentially around the world, but media freedom has not. Globally comparative, this edited volume assesses journalism education and the challenging environment in which it is delivered in countries with a partly free or not free status a ... more

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Länderbericht Russland

Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 581 pp.

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Die Ukraine im Wandel: Stabile Instabilität in einem Zwischenland

Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 525 pp.

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