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Newsgathering and Policy Perceptions in Ukraine
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 35 slides
"Use of Ukrainian vs. Russian in news content is not important for the vast majority of adults; trust in content is key to reliance on sources. Ukrainian TV channels remain the top news sources for adults across ethnic groups and regions (other than Crimea), and offer news trusted by large majoritie
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Inhabiting Two Worlds: The Role of News in the Lives of Jewish and Arab Children and Youth in Israel
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 2 (2014), pp. 128-151
"This study investigated the role of the news media in the lives of Jewish and Arab children in Israel. A survey of 1657 children (ages 8–18), including analysis of open-ended questions, reveals that Jewish and Arab children in Israel live in two different worlds of news. They are exposed to diffe
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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110
"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat
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The Future of News Media in the Arab World
Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (2014), 217 pp.
Youth in Cambodia: Media Habits and Information Sources
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 38 pp.
Consulta ciudadana "Tu palabra sobre las noticias y el derecho a la información y la comunicación": Informe final
La Paz: Observatorio Nacional de Medios (ONADEM); Fundación UNIR (2013), 47 pp.
"Esta investigación, en líneas generales, ha permitido establecer que la televisión es el medio preferido para informarse y está situada en los extremos de la credibilidad: se le cree o no se le cree. La población se informa principalmente para 'estar al tanto' e interrelacionarse y de manera s
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News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries
New York; London: Bloomsbury (2013), viii, 199 pp.
"News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing nature of the news media in Arab countries. They have investigated the role of newspape
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News Consumption Behavior of Young Adults in Malaysia
International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), pp. 121-124
"News consumption has been undergoing massive changes due to advances of digitization. In this context, analyzing readers’ consumption behavior is pertinent. This study explores the news consumption behavior of young adults in Malaysia. The methodology is based on a quantitative survey of college
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Patterns of News Media Consumption Among Young People in Libya
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 173-191
"The purpose of the study was to investigate patterns of major local and non-local news suppliers operating across a range of media – broadcast and print – and relationships between Libyan undergraduate students’ consumption of different news media platforms. A survey was administered to a sam
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Mapping Digital Media: News and New Media in Central Africa. Challenges and Opportunities
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 65 pp.
"In this report, Marie-Soleil Frère surveys the news landscapes of DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda. Marshaling an impressive range of data, she examines patterns of production and consumption, the often grim realities of law and regulation, the embryonic state of media policy, the role of donors, and the
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Freedom of Expression in Kenya: Exploring Public Use of Old and New Media
Afrobarometer (2012), 12 pp.
"Freedom of expression in Kenya has witnessed several phases of development, ranging from the autocratic to a proactive new media regime. This transformation has been enabled by governance reforms, including repeals and amendment of laws, as well as the promulgation of a new Constitution in 2010. Wi
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Digital News Report 2012: Tracking the Future of News
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2012), 64 pp.
"Based on a representative survey of online news consumers across five countries – UK, US, Germany, France and Denmark – the report is the start of an ambitious project to track changing digital news behaviour over the next decade. Key international findings: There are significant differences in
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News Use and Political Socialization Among Young Jordanians
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 8 (2011), pp. 706-731
"This study examined the relationship between young Jordanians' (N = 321) news use and their feelings toward the Jordanian and US governments. Consumption of traditional news delivery formats (such as print newspapers, radio broadcasts and interpersonal sources) was measured, as was reliance on new
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Trust in international news media in partially free media environments: A case study of five markets in Africa and South Asia
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 92 pp.
"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
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Audience Analysis: The Role of Journalism and Social Media in the Consumption of News in Iraq. 2011 Iraq Media Study
Washington, DC: IREX; D3 Systems (2011), 59 pp.
The IREX Audience Measurement Survey 2011 in Iraq was an ad hoc national quantitative research study on media usage, habits and attitudes of people over the age of 15, across Iraq, with a total sample size of 3,000 individuals. The total sample consists of a representative sample of 2,600 individual
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News Consumption Among Young Libyan Adults: Are New Satellite TV News Services Displacing Local TV News?
Arab Media & Society, issue 12 (2010), 21 pp.
"This study investigates the relationship between Libyan university students' consumption of Libyan and international Arab satellite TV news services and their perceptions of gratifications received from these news services. A self-completion questionnaire survey was administered to a sample of 400
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Ghana: Communicating with Policymakers About Development Issues. A Guide for International Development Community
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 54 pp.
"InterMedia conducted in-depth interviews with 15 senior Ghanaian policy actors, comprising mostly senior politicians and bureaucrats, as well as a few influential figures outside government. The interviews focused on how the policy actors gather, assess, share and disseminate information critical t
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"While in some respects – particularly through their radios – Africans are very connected to the outside world, our findings suggests that the majority continue to be local rather than world citizens. However, this initial work on cosmopolitanism suggests that as their world becomes larger throu
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Critical Readings: Media and Audiences
Maidenhead: Open University Press (2003), 301 pp.
Freedom of Speech, Media Exposure, and the Defense of a Free Press in Africa
Afrobarometer (2003), 6 pp.
"There are considerable regional variations in media exposure across and within African countries. Take access to daily radio news bulletins, which is higher in Southern Africa (except Lesotho) than in West Africa: whereas 71 percent of South Africans listen to radio news daily, only 44 percent of N
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