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How Social Media Taxes Can Burden News Outlets: The Case of Uganda
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"In July 2018, the government of Uganda implemented a tax on individual users of social media platforms. In the first three months following the introduction of the tax in the country, internet penetration dropped from 47 percent to 35 percent. Given that a significant amount of news circulation now
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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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The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research
Key Guides
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxvi, 681 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research covers the craft that is and the methods used in media and communication policy research. It discusses the steps involved in conducting research, from deciding on a topic to writing a report and everything in between and, furthermore, deals
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The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence: Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2019), 331 pp.
"After a long time of neglect, Artificial Intelligence is once again at the center of most of our political, economic, and socio-cultural debates. Recent advances in the field of Artifical Neural Networks have led to a renaissance of dystopian and utopian speculations on an AI-rendered future. Algor
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Transparencia mediática, oligopolios y democracia: ¿Quién nos cuenta el cuento? Indicadores de rentabilidad social y políticas en radio y televisión: América Latina y Europa mediterránea
Salamanca: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones (2019), 235 pp.
"Nos encontramos ante un hecho incuestionable: desde hace décadas el proceso de concentración mediática es la norma en los estados contemporáneos y el poder político se ve supeditado a las líneas editoriales de los oligopolios mediáticos que tratan de conducir y representar a la opinión púb
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Understanding Global Media
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed. (2018), xii, 227 pp.
"Taking a comparative approach to the major theories of global media, Terry Flew looks at the rise of global media production networks and the emergence of 'media cities', multiculturalism, and the question of a global media culture. This engaging book raises the question of whether we are now in a
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Media, Politics, and Democratization in Latin America
Latin American Perspectives, volume 45, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-283
Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2017
São Paulo: Intervozes; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 76 pp.
Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (2018), xiii, 175 pp.
"Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges about what the role of media should be in political transitions, particularly when attempting to build a new state and balance a difficult legacy. Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa discusses how ideas, institutions and intere
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Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 186 pp.
"This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these
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Recherche/étude comparative sur les grandes écoles de politiques publiques médiatiques
Programme d’Appui aux Médias en Tunisie Media Up (2018), 41 pp.
"L’objectif de cette étude est de présenter et de décrire les axes et les éléments les plus importants en matière de politiques publiques médiatiques, à partir d’ expériences comparées et des standards consacrés par le droit et les organisations et instances internationales compétent
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International Development Aid Beyond Money: The Push and Pull of Media Democracy Promotion in Three Mercosur Countries
Journal of Latin American Communication Research, volume 6, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 116-134
"Media democracy promotion is a hidden form of international development aid (IDA). However, the dynamics underlying democracy promotion and their adaptation in local contexts is hardly considered when evaluating or theorizing international media development aid (IMDA). Multi-lateral organizations (
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Media Localism: The Policies of Place
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2017), xiv, 254 pp.
"What does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism amo
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The Audience-Centred Approach to Media Policymaking: A Critical Analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a Participatory Process of Review
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 74-99
"This article presents and makes a case for the audience-Centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this discussion within the South African revision of the regulatory mechanism for the press. In South Africa the press accountability mechanism, the Press Council of South Afric
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Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xiii, 271 pp.
"Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than merely a passive mouthpiece or a dissident voice, the media in China also plays a critical oversight role, one more frequently associated with liberal democracies than with autho
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State, Media and Pluralism: Tracing Roots and Consequences of Media Policy Change in Poland
Publizistik, volume 62, issue 2 (2017), pp. 197-213
"Recent media policy developments in Poland attract wide media coverage and the attention of governmental and non-governmental international and national organisations and bodies. This article aims at putting the debated regulatory changes into a relevant context through policy analysis. The normati
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Globale Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik: Konzeption und Analyse eines Politikbereichs im Wandel
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2017), 429 pp.
"Der Autor konzeptualisiert Globale Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik erstmalig umfassend aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive und gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in die Herausbildung und den Wandel des über 150 Jahre alten Politikfeldes. Die Analyse zeigt, dass sich kommunikationspolit
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Media Policy in Times of Transition: Tunisia's Bumpy Road to Democracy
Publizistik, volume 62, issue 3 (2017), pp. 325-337
"Media freedom is still a fragile compromise in Tunisia and institutions and their rules are not as sustainable as one might wish for. The success of the transition process ultimately depends on the commitment of all elites to devote themselves to holding on to democracy. As could be observed in sev
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Diversidad e industria audiovisual: El desafío cultural del siglo XXI
México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), 331 pp.
5th Conference on Media Development in Myanmar: Inclusive Independent Media in a New Democracy, 7–8 November 2016
Yangoon: UNESCO (2017), 32 pp.
"Under the heading “Inclusive, independent media in a new democracy”, the 5th annual Myanmar Media Development Conference took place 7 – 8 November 2016 in Yangon, the first to be held under the new democratically elected government. The conference featured government representatives, media ow
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