"The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media’s role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support o
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f the Lebanese resistance in South Lebanon. This book investigates the culture and performance of Lebanese journalism in this setting. It is a story about journalism told by a journalist who is also using tools of scholarship and research to narrate her story and the story of her fellow journalists. Zahera Harb is also presenting here an alternative interpretation of propaganda under conditions of foreign occupation and the struggle against that occupation. She identifies the characteristics of ‘liberation propaganda’ through the coverage and experience of the two Lebanese TV stations Tele Liban and Al Manar within the historical, cultural, organisational and religious contexts in which they operated, and how these elements shaped their professional practice and their news values." (Publisher description)
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"A Comunicação Política é uma área vasta em expansão quer sob o ponto de vista da reflexão teórica praticada nas Academias quer sob o ponto de vista da sua prática em numerosos domínios da vida cívica. Vislumbra-se um claro aprofundamento dos estudos nesta área visível na imprensa unive
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rsitária e especializada, na formação de Grupos de Trabalho nas Sociedades Científicas nacionais e internacionais. O livro surge neste contexto deveras interessante em que a Comunicação Política ganha uma centralidade nos estudos seja de comunicação seja de política, carecendo quer de modelos descritivos quer de reflexões normativas que apreendam a complexidade das modernas sociedades pluralistas." (Sinopse pág. web)
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"This book examines how the media in different parts of Africa plays an important role in the continent's political and social processes of change. The perspective of the book is comparative. It contains overviews of the role of communication, as well as case studies, of the situation in individual
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countries and societies: Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. The book analyzes the printed press and broadcasting, as well as the function of new digital media, such as the Internet and cell phone technology. The chapters discuss both the more political and democratic implications of the media, as well as issues around communication for development." (Publisher description)
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"Breaking news überwinden dank Internet und Satellitenfernsehen in Sekundenschnelle Kontinente und Staatsgrenzen. Alles wird global verbreitet und kann in Blogs und Internetforen von jeder und jedem kommentiert werden. Längst nutzen auch totalitäre Staaten und global agierende Terroristen Medien
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und das Internet. Vielerorts besteht der einzige Zugang zu ungefilterten Informationen noch immer über Kurzwellenempfang von Auslandssendern. Die internationalen Sender verstärken ihre Internetpräsenz." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Heinz Rühmann, Hans Albers, Marika Rökk, Max Schmeling, Heinrich George und Leni Riefenstahl – die Schauspieler, die Regisseurin und der Jahrhundertboxer –, sie gehörten zu den großen Stars der NS-Zeit. Warum konnten oder wollten sie sich der Instrumentalisierung durch die braunen Machthabe
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r nicht entziehen? Warum ließen sie sich vereinnahmen, bis das „Tausendjährige Reich“ in Trümmer fiel? Waren die Helden und Idole nur willfährige Handlanger der Nazis? Zwischen Gehorsam und Gewissen, Begeisterung und Distanz, Verstrickung und Protest – Guido Knopp zeigt, wie Vertreter von Kunst, Sport und Kultur das NS-Regime stabilisierten." (Klappentext)
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"This book examines the crucial role the media played in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, bringing together local reporters and commentators from Rwanda, Western journalists, and media theorists. Part One (eight articles) describes and analyzes "Hate Media in Rwanda", mainly, but not exclusively, focusing
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on Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). Part Two (thirteen articles) presents a critique of international media coverage of the genocide, including not only the United States and Western Europe, but also Kenya and Nigeria. Part three (five articles) covers the deliberations by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on the role of the media in the genocide, identifying various missed opportunities. Part Four, "After the Genocide and the Way Forward" (six articles), goes beyond the Rwanda experiences, tackling issues like the use and abuse of media in vulnerable societies. The authors outline how censorship and propaganda can be avoided, argue for a new responsibility in media reporting, and give recommendations for media intervention in the prevention of genocidal violence." (CAMECO Update 1-2008)
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"Sunni insurgents in Iraq and their supporters worldwide are exploiting the Internet to pursue a massive and far-reaching media campaign. Insurgent media are forming perceptions of the war in Iraq among the best-educated and most influential segment of the Arab population. The Iraqi insurgent media
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network is a boon to global jihadist media, which can use materials produced by the insurgency to reinforce their message. Mainstream Arab media amplify the insurgents’ efforts, transmitting their message to an audience of millions. The insurgent propaganda network does not have a headquarters, bureaucracy, or brick-and-mortar infrastructure. It is decentralized, fast-moving, and technologically adaptive. The rising tide of Sunni-Shi'ite hate speech in Iraqi insurgent media points to the danger of even greater sectarian bloodshed. A wealth of evidence shows that hate speech paved the way for genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The popularity of online Iraqi Sunni insurgent media reflects a genuine demand for their message in the Arab world. An alternative, no matter how lavishly funded and cleverly produced, will not eliminate this demand. There is little to counter this torrent of daily press releases, weekly and monthly magazines, books, video clips, full-length films, and even television channels." (Key findings)
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"Die deutsche Soziologin Kristina Isabel Schwarte zeichnet nach, wie US-Regierung und -Militär die Rahmenbedingungen für die Berichterstattung über den Vietnamkrieg und Interventionen im Irak seit 1991 beeinflussten. Schwarte beleuchtet die Informationspolitik und Propaganda-Strategien der Konfli
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ktparteien sowie die Veränderungen der Wahrnehmung von Kriegen in der Öffentlichkeit aufgrund der Möglichkeit von Live-Berichterstattung vom Kriegsschauplatz und Information über das Internet. Sie arbeitet heraus, wie das Militär über die Einbettung von JournalistInnen in Kampfverbände einen Solidarisierungseffekt zu erreichen sucht und mit ausgeklügelten Reglements die Kriegsberichterstattung manipuliert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In dieser Studie wird der strukturelle Wandel des russischen Fernsehens vom sowjetischen Status quo (1970-1985) bis zum Jahre 2005 untersucht. Dieser Medienwandel, der 1985/1986 beginnt und neben dem Fernsehen auch andere Medien umfasst, wird hier als Prozess der Erosion von Propaganda und der Ausd
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ifferenzierung eines autonomen Mediensystems beschrieben. Dabei werden zwei Aspekte prominent hervorgehoben: die Bedeutung der medialen Globalisierungsprozesse für das entstehende Mediensystem und die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Medienstrukturen und den zunächst parteilichen, später staatlichen Kontrollmechanismen der Medien. Die in der Russischen Föderation trotz globaler Diffusion und Vernetzung der Fernsehorganisationen weiterhin populäre Idee, dass Medien ein notwendiges Instrument politischer Machtausübung sind, stellt daher eines der zentralen Bezugsprobleme der Studie dar." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"A truly international, authoritative A–Z guide to five centuries of propaganda, in both wartime and peacetime, which covers key moments, techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history. This fascinating survey provides a comprehensive introduction to propaganda, it
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s changing nature, its practitioners, and its impact on the past five centuries of world history. Written by leading experts, it covers the masters of the art from Joseph Goebbels to Mohandas Gandhi and examines enormously influential works of persuasion such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, techniques such as films and posters, and key concepts like black propaganda and brainwashing. Case studies reveal the role of mass persuasion during the Reformation, and wars throughout history. Regional studies cover propaganda superpowers, such as Russia, China, and the United States, as well as little-known propaganda campaigns in Southeast Asia, Ireland, and Scandinavia. The book traces the evolution of propaganda from the era of printed handbills to computer fakery, and profiles such brilliant practitioners of the art as Third Reich film director Leni Riefenstahl and 19th-century cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose works helped to bring the notorious Boss Tweed to justice." (Publisher description)
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