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Unpacking the African media typology: Perspectives from journalists in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda
International Communication Gazette, volume 87, issue 7 (2025), pp. 633-656
"The uniqueness of journalism cultures across African nations often highlights the inapplicability of normative, Western-centric theories. The newly proposed African media typology suggests that media systems in Africa would be best understood by thinking about them within the context of the type of
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Enhancing the hybrid media system model: The role of critical theory in media and communication research
European Journal of Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (2025), pp. 55-69
"In this article, we propose a theoretical reconceptualization of the hybrid media system model by introducing structural and material conditions of contemporary media sphere with reference to critical theory. Our main thesis is based on the principle of historicization and the concept of social rel
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Comprehending Media Systems for Media Development
Dortmund: Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome);MEDAS21 (2022), 29 pp.
"Media development assistance and media systems research are intricately connected: by describing, assessing, and attempting to change them, media development actors produce knowledge about media systems and directly impact them. This research review explores the intersections of academic media syst
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Towards Media Systems Framework in Asia Chinese and Korean Media on Framing the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic
International Communication Gazette, volume 83, issue 5 (2021), pp. 183-205
"Due to the relative lack of media comparison studies within Asian contexts, theoretical frameworks based in Western societies have been applied to knowledge production in the global South. Using a ‘most different’ design, this study compares the dimensions of media systems reflected in two Chin
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Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xv, 239 pp.
"[This book] provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as technological change across media industries, the book offers an up-to-date, thorough overview o
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Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems: The Case of Southeast Europe
Routledge (2021), xvii, 301 pp.
"This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate co
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Measuring Beyond Money: The Media Viability Indicators (MVIs)
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 7 pp.
"This paper presents a new set of indicators to assess the viability of news media at a time when the discussion about the survival of quality media is omnipresent, while systematic, fact-based strategies to tackle the problem are omni-absent. As digital transformation is sweeping through the media
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Mediensysteme und Systemtypologien
In: Handbuch Politische Kommunikation
Isabelle Borucki; Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw; Stefan Marschall; Thomas Zerback (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), 14 pp.
"Die vergleichende Forschung zu Mediensystemen hat in ihrer nunmehr über 60jährigen Geschichte eine Fülle von Typologien hervorgebracht, die die vorfindbaren Mediensysteme kategorisieren sollen. Nachfolgend werden daher die Logik und die Ausprägungen solcher Systemtypologien und ihre Bedeutung f
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Journalists’ Autonomy Around the Globe: A Typology of 46 Mass Media Systems
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 8, issue 1 (2018), 23 pp.
"Using structuration theory, assuming that every government has a stake in steering public communication and comparing 46 nation-states, this paper explores the major principles that can be used to explain different mass media structures around the globe. The study draws on extensive documentary ana
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Mapping Media Development in Myanmar
Yangon: UNESCO;International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2018), viii, 49 pp.
"This mapping of the Myanmar media development sector is informed by three activities: a status update of the recommendations in the 2016 Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar report based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators, an online survey conducted in March and April 2018, and a seri
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Journalism and Mass Communication Education in the Arab World: Towards a Typology
International Communication Gazette, volume 80, issue 5 (2018), pp. 403-425
"This study offers an overview of the current status of journalism and mass communication education in the Arab World. Specifically, through an exploratory analysis of structure, curricula and faculty from ten journalism and mass communication programs in five Arab countries, the study identified fo
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Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 401-412
"While the internal dynamics or the role of the state has had a significant bearing on how media systems evolve and change, both internal and external factors have contributed to the type of media that exists in Malawi today. Although Hallin and Mancini did not include at length the role of external
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Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 195-211
"Drawing on previous work on the role of the media in the democratization processes of the Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe), this chapter addresses the challenges and paradoxes of conducting comparative research focused on cont
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Changing Media Landscapes in Transitional Countries: Handbook on Mapping Media Landscapes
International Media Support (IMS) (2016), 27 pp.
"The handbook is based on the authors’ varied experiences from consulting the implementation of media mappings in several transitional countries and it will focus on two of these projects: a. mapping the Mongolian media landscape initiated in 1999 ten years after the break down of Communism and b.
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The Lebanese Media: Anatomy of a System in Perpetual Crisis
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xix, 228 pp.
"This work has striven to examine the Lebanese media system from a comparative perspective by applying the Hallin and Mancini theoretical framework. This has helped illuminate salient factors influencing the Lebanese media system. The use of the framework also revealed the necessity of considerable
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Area studies: Regionalstudien in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
In: Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz; Michael Meyen (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), pp. 95-108
"Area Studies sollen helfen, regionalspezifische Erklärungen für Kommunikationsprozesse zu finden, gleichzeitig aber auch die Integration dieser Erkenntnisse in regional übergreifende Forschung zu erlauben. Dies dient der Validierung bestehender Theoriekonzepte und trägt zu ihrer Erweiterung üb
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Francophone Africa: The Rise of 'Pluralist Authoritarian' Media Systems?
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 103-112
"From the beginning of the process of opening up in the early 1990s, to the start of the 2000s, Francophone countries in Africa have been seen as ‘in transition‘, ‘emerging democracies‘ or ‘undergoing democratic consolidation‘. Their media were analysed through the lens of the ‘transit
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The Ongoing Significance of National Media Systems in the Context of Media Globalization
Media, Culture & Society, volume 37, issue 4 (2015), pp. 620-636
"This article argues that the concept of national media systems, and the comparative study of media systems, institutions, and practices, retains relevance in an era of media globalization and technological convergence. It considers various critiques of media systems theories, such as those which vi
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Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), xiv, 322 pp.
Re-Conceptualizing the Analysis of Media Development and Trajectories hereof in Post-Colonial Societies
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2015), pp. 131-146
"Using South Africa as a case study, this article presents a new argument for an adaptation of the Comparative Media Systems Model by Hallin and Mancini. The article proposes that factors of race, class and gender and intersections hereof as well as nation-building be added to the model to better su
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