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Changing the Narrative: China‘s Media Offensive in Africa

Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 9 pp.
"China’s media offensive in Africa is an expression of the need to create advantageous conditions for its own trade relations and for strategic alliances, for example in international organizations. At the same time, China’s global charm offensive or »charm defensive« is also a reaction to wha ... more

Reporting China in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 1-160
"This book employs a global perspective to explore the subject across the whole population and different media platforms in select developing markets of Africa and South Asia. It is unique in providing a theoretical framework by which to analyze demand and usage of and trust in news from internation ... more

Global Media Research: Can We Know Global Audiences? A View from a BBC Perspective

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 40-53
"This article provides an empirically grounded assessment of China’s increasing role in the African mediasphere. It examines the strategic importance of Chinese media assistance to Ghana along three dimensions: the potential appeal of the Chinese approach to information regulation for countries st ... more

The Rise of China’s State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa

Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2012), 31 pp.
"Traces China's media engagement in Africa since the 2000s, including a list of financed projects (pp. 13-15), and explains how strategies have changed. While the extension of hardware assistance continues to play an important role, China's media engagement in Africa started to diversify after the 2 ... more
"This report is focused on attitudes to trust in international media. It collates findings from 36 focus groups and 11 immersion interviews conducted in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mumbai (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) in the summer and autumn of 2010 [...] The report explores th ... more
"Im ersten Block analysieren Vertreter der iranischen Social-Media-Szene die Rolle des Web 2.0 in Iran von seinen Anfängen bis heute. Der iranische Blogger Mehdi Mohseni umreißt die Social-Media-Aktivitäten der Parteien rund um den Präsidentschaftswahlkampf 2009 und die Folgen für die iranische ... more
"This paper examines the relationship between a broadcaster’s research methods and aspects of the environment in which it operates, specifically its accountability to its funders and the growth of interactivity by its users. It is concerned with (1) how the BBC World Service’s funding by the UK ... more
"This article examines the changing ways in which intelligence about the BBC’s international audiences has been gathered and used since the advent of the Empire Service in 1932. It is written from the perspective of a former Head of Audience Research (1982-96) at the BBC World Service. In BBC dome ... more

Ethics and International Propaganda

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 912-932

Global Communication

Belmont: Thomson Wadsworth, 2nd ed. (2007), 356 pp.

The Myth of Media Globalization

Alex Skinner (transl.)
Cambridge: Polity Press (2007), viii, 224 pp.

Targeting International Audiences: Current and Future Approaches to International Broadcasting Research

Bonn: Conference of International Boradcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) (2005), 202 pp.

Mythos Globalisierung: Warum die Medien nicht grenzenlos sind

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2005), 252 pp.

New Frontiers in International Communication Theory

Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2004), 306 pp.

Beyond Borders: Research for International Broadcasting 2003

Bonn: Conferende of International Broadcasters' Audience Research Services (CIBAR) (2004), 168 pp.