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Medien als Akteure in der politischen Transition: Bolivien im Autonomiekonflikt
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2015), 422 pp.
Medienfreiheit in Ägypten: Zum journalistischen Arbeiten in Ägypten nach der Arabischen Revolution
Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2015), 217 pp.
"Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der beunruhigenden Lage der ägyptischen Medien. Er beschreibt Gleichschaltung und Zensur, er berichtet von Einschüchterungsversuchen der al-Sisi-, aber auch der Mursi-Regierung gegenüber in- und ausländischen Pressevertretern. Journalistinnen und Journalisten wu
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil
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Building an Imperial Broadcasting Network as the Empire Disintegrated: The Birth of Radio in the French Sub-Saharan African Colonies During Decolonization
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 120-135
"Whereas France owned the second most important empire in the world in 1945, the colonial domination paradoxically leaned very little on radio broadcasting. It was not until 1954 that the French governement, under the impulsion of Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of the “musique concrète,” launched a
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Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia During the Decolonization War (1945–1949)
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 42-60
"Dutch international radio broadcaster Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) was founded in 1947, during the decolonization war in Indonesia. This paper explores the nature of the broadcasts to Indonesia in the early years of RNW. It is argued that these broadcasts must be seen in the context of the Du
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Pirate Waves: Polish Private Radio Broadcasting in the Period of Transformation 1989-1995
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2022), 248 pp.
"This book reveals the value and significance of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland in the early 90s. It shows that many of them, like in other countries from the region, began as non-commercial, community-oriented initiatives. Several sourc
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The Arab Archive: Mediated Memories and Digital Flows
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 134 pp.
"As the revolutions across the Arab world that came to a head in 2011 devolved into civil war and military coup, representation and history acquired a renewed and contested urgency. The capacities of the internet have enabled sharing and archiving in an unprecedented fashion. Yet, at the same time,
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Journalism and the Challenge of Democracy in Transitional Countries: African Experiences
International Communication Gazette, volume 82, issue 7 (2020), pp. 591-681
Political Parallelism in Transitional Media Systems: The Case of Libya
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1173-1193
"Among the media systems in transitional countries of the Middle East and North Africa, political parallelism has become a widespread feature that has both promoted and undermined the transition to democracy. Political parallelism refers to structural ties between media organizations and political a
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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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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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Organizaciones de prensa y posconflicto en Colombia
Bogotá: Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra señora del Rosario, Trabajo de Grado (2018), 90 pp.
"Esta investigación tiene como objetivo determinar los alcances y las limitaciones que tienen las organizaciones de prensa colombianas al momento de preparar a los periodistas para cubrir y afrontar el proceso de posconflicto, derivado del Acuerdo Final para la Terminación del Conflicto y la Const
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Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development
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Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Doctoral Thesis (2018), xiv, 239 pp.
"Media in small emerging democracies face multiple obstacles caused by “smallness” and the state of “late democratization.” “Smallness” raises the question of how to develop financial independence in these countries. “Late democratization” gives rise to the challenge of maintaining p
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Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World: Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment After Communism
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2018), 446 pp.
"This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and rang
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Media, Geopolitics, and Power: A View from the Global South
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2018), xvi, 217 pp.
"The end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South Afric
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Training journalists in times of transition: The case of Kosovo
Journalism Education, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 37-47
"With Kosovo as its case, this article explores the context and challenges of journalism education in transition societies. Journalists in Kosovo have lived through constant changes from authoritarian to democracy. In this struggle, journalism education has never been stable and steady. The past con
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Emergent Voices and Evolving Agendas: Writing Realities in Cuba’s New Media Landscape
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 25 pp.
"This paper aims to understand the motivations, decision-making processes, and missions of the producers of new Cuban media using interviews with journalists recruited from the wider group of twenty non-governmental publications. In ten semi-structured interviews, participants described their person
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Relations Between Media and Politics in Albania
Tiranë: Albanian Media Institute;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2017), 59 pp.
"During the transition years, Albania saw the establishment of a relatively complete legal framework for the protection and development of media freedom and independence. However, in many cases, the legal framework was delayed or a mechanical transplant of western legislation. Enforcement of legisla
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The Role of Media in Public Advocacy and Countering Violent Extremism
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 261-267
"Nadia Sraieb-Koepp shares her experiences designing participatory media campaigns and visual strategies that helped facilitate the democratic transition in Tunisia in 2011. She offers her thoughts about the need for inclusive social media strategies designed to counter recruitment messages targetin
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Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media: Between Capture and Commercialization
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2017), 174 pp.
"In the period after the fall of communism, peculiar new obstacles to media independence have arisen. They include the telltale structure of media ownership, with news reporting being concentrated in the hands of politically engaged business tycoons, the fuzzy and contradictory legislation of the me
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