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Watchdog Role: How Malawi Media Utilise Question Time During Press Briefings
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores how Malawian media utilise question time during press briefings to fulfil its watchdog role. Using the concept of ‘journalistic interview’, which treats interviews between journalists and politicians as an encounter of two institutions, each making a claim on its legitimacy,
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Retooling Politics: How Digital Media are Shaping Democracy
Cambridge; New York et al.: Cambridge University Press (2020), ix, 326 pp.
"Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: Digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, nongovernmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the e
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Les médias en Amérique Latine: Dire et construire l'actualité latino-américaine
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 318 pp.
La coexistence des médias et du confessionnalisme au Liban: Analyse du pouvoir politique et religieux sur les médias libanais
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 178 pp.
"Cette oeuvre révèle le pouvoir géant des identités politiques et religieuses libanaises sur les expressions artistiques et médiatiques, tout en racontant l’histoire de ce pays et en analysant divers événements politiques, religieux, artistiques et/ou médiatiques qui ont eu lieu entre 1989
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Medien und Macht
In: Lateinamerika: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium
Günther Maihold; Hartmut Sangmeister; Nikolaus Werz (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos;Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), pp. 653-664
"LA hat sich in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten wie nie zuvor mit seiner Medienlandschaft beschäftigt. Von den intensiven, oft auch polemischen Debatten wurden viele Problemzonen des Journalismus auf dem Kontinent angestrahlt: Konzentration, Meinungsmonoronie, Homogenität und Elitendominanz. Dies
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China’s New Media Dilemma: The Profit in Online Dissent
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 24 pp.
"Drawing from often overlooked sources of evidence, this report shows that China’s homegrown social media platforms have responded to market incentives by subtly shielding users from certain forms of online censorship and repression. Meanwhile, the party confronts rising costs—both economicall
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A Fragmented Landscape: Barriers to Independent Media in Iraq
London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Middle East Centre (2019), 15 pp.
"Fundamentally, this paper argues that the lack of political will combined with the failure of state-building processes to develop the frameworks and institutions to support independent media is maintaining a media landscape that reflects the key political challenges of Iraq. The politics of success
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Government Communication Capacity and Media Freedom
Burmingham: University of Birmingham (2019), 12 pp.
"This rapid literature review will focus on the influence of government communication on the government-media relationship. It does not encompass other avenues through which government is able to affect the media environment such as legislation, public policy and political culture. The role of the p
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Close and Distant: Political Executive-Media Relations in Four Countries
Gothenburg: Nordicom (2019), 264 pp.
"This book explores the interplay between government and media drawing on unique evidence from, and in-depth analysis of, four national cases: Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. Based on the chapters dedicated to each country, five additional chapters address the following cross-national themes:
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Local Media in Brazil: Draining the Newsrooms in the Country’s Poorest Region
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 30 pp.
"In spite of being one of the poorest places in Brazil, Pernambuco has historically had a combative and awarded local media. Until recently, local reporters had been winning the most important national journalism prizes with inspiring local stories and initiatives. This context has been changing dra
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'El Comercio' y la política peruana del siglo XXI: Pugnas entre liberales y conservadores detrás de las portadas
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) (2019), 389 pp.
"En tiempos de redes sociales, los actores políticos colocan sus contenidos en Twitter y Facebook para que sean replicados por otros medios y por la población. Sin embargo, los políticos tienen a los medios de comunicación como su principal vehículo de transmisión de ideas y mensajes a los ciu
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Surprising News: How the Media Affect - and Do Not Affect - Politics
Boulder; London: Rienner (2019), x, 277 pp.
"In chapter 2, the book lays down its foundations with a review of a large body of experimental psychology research on how and why individuals can preserve their beliefs, sometimes in the face of all evidence, logic, and argument to the contrary. The second part of the chapter shows that millions of
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Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
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Singapore: ISEAS (2019), xix, 407 pp.
"Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change is the first volume to overview the country’s contemporary media landscape, providing a critical assessment of the sector during the complex and controversial political transition. Moving beyond the focus on journalism and freedom of th
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The Media in Lebanon: Fragmentation and Conflict in the Middle East
London et al.: Tauris (2019), xiii, 222 pp.
"Lebanese society is famously, and even notoriously, fragmented, along both class and sectarian lines. Here, Nabil Dajani looks at how this societal division impacts on the nature of the mass media in Lebanon. Implementing the wider theory that the structure and content of mass media is unique to th
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Polarisation and the News Media in Europe
European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2019), 49 pp.
"Across Europe there is as yet little evidence to support the idea that increased exposure to news featuring like-minded or opposing views leads to the widespread polarisation of attitudes. Although some studies have found that both can strengthen the attitudes of a minority who already hold strong
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The Media in Arab Countries: From Development Theories to Cooperation Policies
London; Hoboken: ISTE;Wiley (2019), xxi, 173 pp.
Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism
Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), 222 pp.
"Amid civil war, failing states, and terrorism, Arab liberals are growing in numbers and influence. Advocating a culture of equity, tolerance, good governance, and the rule of law, they work through some of the region's largest media outlets to spread their ideals within the culture. Broadcasting Ch
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Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press (2018), 325 pp.
"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely ackno
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Comunicación para la resistencia: Conceptos, tensiones y estrategias en el campo político de los medios
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La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);CLACSO (2018), 361 pp.
Media, Politics, and Democratization in Latin America
Latin American Perspectives, volume 45, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-283
