"In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Demokratisierung und die Rolle der Medien innnerhalb dieses Prozess auf Taiwan untersucht. Dabei werden die im Westen entwickelten Transitionsansätze angewandt. In der bisherigen Transitionsforschung wurde die Rolle der Medien nur in geringem Maße einbezogen.
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Dass die Doppelrolle der Medien als Subjekt/Objekt in der politischen Transition einen entscheidenden Anteil am Demokratisierungsprozess haben, wird in der Untersuchung nachgewiesen. Es wird ebenfalls ersichtlich, dass die Zunahme der Bedeutung von Medien im politischen Prozess Gefahren für die Konsolidierung der Demokratie in sich birgt. Es zeigt sich ferner, dass die im Westen geprägten Ansätze nicht vollständig auf asiatische Verhältnisse anwendbar sind." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This dissertation examines international aid in support of Afghan media from fall 2001 to fall 2004 as a case study to interrogate the notion of “media transition” and its underlying assumptions. It examines how development organizations such as the United Nations, bilateral aid agencies such a
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s the U.S. Agency for International Development, and non-governmental agencies created the institutional structures that define and support the practice of media transition. It analyzes how the nascent Afghan state media institutions and non-governmental organizations dedicated to media reconstruction negotiated and mobilized the discourse of media transition to further their own aims. It also analyzes how changing political considerations, media production and dissemination outlets, and media producers’ own sense of mission affected the production of a series of radio programs designed to promote Afghan political transition. This dissertation argues that democracy should not be treated as a self-evident goal for media transitions, but should be viewed as a discursive process that shares many of the same concerns as development communications, and that mobilizes a transnational public sphere." (Abstract)
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"Press freedom provides both the oxygen of democracy and the laughing gas of infotainment and commercial exploitation. This has been something of a shocking discovery to make for people in Central and Eastern Europe. When they were trying to imagine, and plan for, a new media order once the Communis
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t system had been abolished, they had visions of a media scene where everyone would “speak with their own voice”, the media would be socially-Controlled and would serve as the forum of a serious, pluralistic public debate on fundamental issues of our countries. The reality is somewhat different. In this paper I will try to provide a very general overview of that reality and put it in a comparative perspective to see what progress has been achieved since 1989." (Introduction)
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"This thesis considers the role of the mainstream South African print media in perpetuating discrimination during the years of legalised racial discrimination – commonly known as apartheid – from when the Herenigde Nationale Party took power in May 1948 with an unprecedented 28-seat swing under
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the leadership of 74-year-old Dr Daniel F. Malan until it was replaced by the African National Congress, black-dominated unity government in April, 1994. Against an historical background, it focuses on the agenda and efforts of the mainstream metropolitan print media during the apartheid era, the build-up to the first nonracial elections, and the media’s role in the immediate post-apartheid era." (Abstract, page 5)
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"This report represents the first attempt by a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) to appraise the media-development work of OSCE in the field. It is the outcome of a project designed by Press Now, an NGO based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. For the past decade, Press Now has assisted media in the co
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untries of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, working with funds from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture a nd Science, and the European Agency for Reconstruction, as well as from other governments and private donors. With its experience of cooperating with many OSCE field missions and offices, Press Now believes that the importance of the OSCE’s activities in media development merit this methodical survey. Despite many differences in mandate, resources and context, the OSCE operations analysed in this report reveal a number of distinctive achievements and patterns. Unless these patterns are more widely discussed, there is a risk that the OSCE will not draw the lessons that are offered by its own experience. Press Now hopes that this report will help to catalyse such discussion." (Preface, page 5)
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"Gesellschaftswandel kann - egal, ob er Politik, Wirtschaft oder Kultur betrifft - ohne die Berücksichtigung von Medien und ihrer Rolle in der Geschichte kaum mehr angemessen verstanden werden [...] Die Publikation gibt einen Überblick über Voraussetzungen der Erforschung der Rolle der Medien im
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Kontext von Kultur- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte sowie über wichtige Fragen, Forschungen und Problemstellungen zur Thematik." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Bulgarien gehört zu den Transformationsländern Osteuropas, deren Entwicklung bislang vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Das vorliegende Buch zeichnet den Transformationsprozess Bulgariens seit 1989 nach, die politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und besonders die neu entstandene M
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edienlandschaft. Zudem wird ein theoretischer Zugang zum Zusammenhang von Medien und Transformation eröffnet." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Die russischen Medien haben sich in der Krise eingerichtet: Leere Kassen, mauernde Bürokraten und Gewalt gegen Journalisten prägen den Redaktionsalltag zwischen Petersburg und Wladiwostok. Fast vergessen ist die glorreiche Glasnost-Zeit, als die Presse unversehens vom passiven Chronisten zum mach
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tvollen Akteur der Umgestaltung wurde. Seither hat sich vieles verändert. Meinungsbildung findet heute in den Regionen statt, eine neue Generation von Journalisten wächst heran - und die Ära Putin diktierte auch innerhalb der Medienlandschaft Russlands "neue Spielregeln"." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The press in transition" chronicles and evaluates the experiences of six press institutions in four markedly different media systems. The book adopts a comparative framing to explore press functioning worldwide, and to draw preliminary conclusions about the press in transition. At the heart of the
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study, however, is an up-close portrait of institutions and individuals. Adam Jones is a professor of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia." (Catalogue Deutsches Übersee Institut 2002)
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"This book examines how media have brought about or paced dramatic political events in Southeast Asia over the last two decades. It highlights a situation where media dynamics are no longer a simple formula of state control versus media resistance. The state can propel its own media-liberalizing pro
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gramme; civil society can be an enemy of press freedom; market forces and cultural mindsets are sometimes more potent agents of change than state-appointed media custodians. Practitioners, scholars and activists have come together in this volume to provide a diversity of narratives on subjects as varied as powerful politicians and marginalized transsexuals." (Publisher description)
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"Zeigt auf, dass sich das Medium Fernsehen während der Ära Gorbatschow keineswegs zur 'Vierten Gewalt' im Staat entwickelte, sondern letztlich nur ein Spielball der politischen Interessen der Sowjetführung und der politischen Opposition blieb. Es fungierte als wichtigste Waffe im Kampf um die Ver
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wirklichung von Politik und war gleichzeitig wichtigstes Objekt des politischen Kampfes um die Macht." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This article reviews the transformation in society and the media in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Adopting a path dependence approach, "the different countries of the region are analysed and allocated to two general categories, depending upon the nature and extent of
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the changes that have taken place in society and the media. The first group of countries (called here 'Type A') have advanced relatively far along the road to transformation. Examples would be Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and Estonia. The second group (called here 'Type B') retain much more of the old order. Examples would be Russia and some of the other republics that have issued from the collapse of the old Soviet Union. A range of theories of media change are reviewed, and their prognoses for the development of the media after the fall of communism are tested against the subsequent developments. It is argued that the media in both Type A and Type B countries remain highly politicised, particularly in the case of broadcasting, and with limited independence from the political elite. Journalism, too, remains paternal and didactic, partly as a result of the historical position of intellectuals in the region. While there are important differences between Type A and Type B countries, neither represents a stable and finished model of transformation. In neither case, are the media the passive victims of social forces. On the contrary, their shortcomings help to reproduce the limits of the overall transformation process." (Abstract)
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