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Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age

Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer, Christian Schwarzenegger (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2021), vi, 318 pp.

"As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed ... more

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Cuba’s Parallel Worlds: Digital Media Crosses the Divide

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 25 pp.

"For many years, the media development conversation regarding Cuba has largely focused on the country’s harsh censorship practices and other restrictions on freedom of expression. Those concerns remain. But with the opening of relations with the United States over the past two years, the conversat ... more

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CCTV’s International Expansion: China’s Grand Strategy for Media?

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 37 pp.

"China Central Television has come a long way since its founding as a domestic party propaganda outlet in 1958. The domestic service has been supplemented by an international service, boasting three major global offices in Beijing, Washington, and Nairobi, and more than 70 additional international b ... more

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The Medium Versus the Message: U.S. Government Funding for Media in an Age of Disruption

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 28 pp.

"The new priorities include: 1. Expanding the access in developing countries to digital platforms. 2. Devising and promoting uses for new platforms (especially mobile) for functions that occupy a new, poorly defined space between traditional journalism and other modes of information. 3. Contesting o ... more

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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
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Anne Nelson (ed.)

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA);African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp.

"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, ... more

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Funding Free Expression: Perceptions and Reality in a Changing Landscape

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 25 pp.

"Seven key findings emerged from this research: 1. Overall donor funding for free expression work has increased–not decreased–over the past three to five years [...] 2. Under current conditions, it is impossible to conclusively measure the amount of free expression funding. Donors themselves hav ... more

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Continental Shift: New Trends in Private U.S. Funding for Media Development

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 26 pp.

"This work is an update of the October 2009 CIMA report, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development by the same author. The field of private sector funding of independent media abroad has continued to undergo a massive upheaval over the past two years. Both the 2008 r ... more

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Media, Information Systems and Communities: Lessons from Haiti

Anne Nelson, Ivan Sigal

Miami: Communicating with Disaster Affected Communities (CDAC);Knight Foundation;Internews (2010), 26 pp.

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U.S. Universities and Media Development

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 27 pp.

"In July 2010, World Journalism Education Council gathered more than 400 journalism educators from about 50 countries for the second World Journalism Education Congress in South Africa. There was broad recognition that social media has become a major force in the field that cannot be marginalized an ... d that Africa has become a world-class incubator for media innovation. At the August meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Eric Newton carried these ideas a step farther, laying out the “four transformations” for U.S. journalism programs. Journalism schools are: 1. Becoming better connected to other university disciplines and departments, expanding the definition of what it means to be a journalist; 2. Playing an increasing role as content and technology innovators; 3. Emerging as promoters of collaborative, open approaches and models; 4. Becoming news providers that understand the ecosystem of their communities. In the digital age, journalism schools are trying to engage more deeply with the people we used to call the audience. These transformations are even more urgently required in the field of media development. In the future, media development projects will originate in an ever-widening pool of university departments. These will include law, public health, library science, computer science, international relations, visual design, and even architecture and urban planning, where striking advances in mapping applications are taking place. Nonetheless, programs that specialize in data will also require skills from the traditional journalism toolkit: verification, story-telling ability, and contextualization. Academia could be an ideal setting for this exchange of ideas, a meeting place between core values and technological innovation. Universities could also provide a space for frank discussion about the limitations of technology and the means to discern when new technologies offer concrete benefits to the user and when they constitute a distraction. These questions are even more critical in resource-poor societies in the developing world. To achieve these ends, more coordination is needed, both within and among universities, to serve as a critical bridge–between North and South, between technologists and humanists, between social media and traditional journalism." (Conclusion, page 23) more

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Arab New Media for Peace and Dialogue: Best Practice Guide and Pedagogical Toolkit

Barceloa: Centre UNESCO de Catalunya (2010), 162 pp.

"The Best Practice Guide gives a general overview of new media in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories and Syria. It analyses new media experiences acquired in conflict and post conflict areas, presenting best practice examples and recommendations developed by the workshop participants ... more

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Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development: A Report

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 25 pp.

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