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"There is very little undestanding of the role that communicartion processes play in the numerous starnds of post-conflict reconstruction, including peacebuilding, governance, and long-term development. This paper addressess this gap by distilling lessons learned from the media and communication str ... more

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Kosovo and the Media

Marko Trosanovski, Tome Smilevski (eds.)

Skopje: Macedonian Institute for Media (2008), 261 pp.

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Public Service Television in the Digital Age: Strategies and Opportunities in Five South-East European Countries

Miklós Sükösd, Adla Isanovic (eds.)

Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2008), 324 pp.

"The two main questions of the research were as follows. To what degree are PSBs in the five selected Southeast European countries ready to meet the new challenges? What actions and policies are needed to ensure the existence and development of public service TV programming in a digital environment? ... more

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Freedom of Speech in South East Europe: Media Independence and Self-Regulation

Sofia: Media Development Center; South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2007), 613 pp.

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Ten Years of Media Support to the Balkans: An Assessment
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Aaron Rhodes

Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Media Task Force (2007), 47 pp.

"From 1995 to 2005, the international community provided significant support to media in the Western Balkans. Based on a meta-analysis of 37 project reports and interviews with a broad range of media experts, this study finds that direct support to independent media was a key factor in helping the c ... more

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The MDGs as a Communication Tool for Development
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Paola Pagliani

Oslo: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2007), 51 pp.

"This paper intends to look at the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a communication tool instead of an object of communication. The MDGs possess the potential to make development more understandable to people at the centre of development policies: the poor, vulnerable and socially excluded. Th ... more

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Money Matters: How Independent Media Manage to Survive. 15-16 September 2006

A. Sofie Jannusch (ed.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO); Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome) (2007), 77 pp.

"Discussions on how to support sustainability of independent media generally focus on the political conditions, the legal framework and – especially in German development cooperation – on the quality of journalistic coverage. Nevertheless, economic factors are of equal importance, not only for p ... more

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The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

Dubravka Zarkov

Durham: Duke University Press (2007), 286 pp.

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Simone Schlindwein

Wiesbaden: Netzwerk Recherche; N-ost Netzwerk für Osteuropa-Berichterstattung; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2007), 113 pp.

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Peace, Democratization and Reconciliation in Textbooks and Educational Media: Ninth International Conference on Textbooks and Educational Media

Mike Horsley, Jim McCall (eds.)

International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) (2007), 277 pp.

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Human (Child) Trafficking: A Look Through the Internet Window

Neda Ilic, Marija Andelkovic, Zorica Rajic, Aleksandra Jovanovic, Ana Doric, Jovan Ciric

Belgrade: ASTRA Anti Trafficking Action (2006), 155 pp.

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Media and Minorities in South East Europe

Thomas Bauer, Oliver Vujovic (eds.)

Vienna: South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) (2006), 774 pp.

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Die deutsche ITK-Wirtschaft

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM); Auswärtiges Amt (2006), 498 pp.

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Caught in the Web or Lost in the Textbook? Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media

Éric Bruillard, Bente Aamotsbakken, Susanne V. Knudsen, Mike Horsley (eds.)

International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) (2006), 485 pp.

This volume gathers contributions presented during the 8th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held in Caen (France) in October 2005. The conference reader contains a wide range of contributions from industrialised, transitional and developing countries.

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Promoting Independent Media: Strategies for Democracy Assistance
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Krishna Kumar

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner (2006), 189 pp.

"This book represents one step in explaining international efforts to promote independent media. It attempts to examine the nature and significance of media assistance, discussing the evolution of the field, the focus of various programming approaches, and the possible impact of such efforts. It pre ... sents case studies of media assistance programs in different countries. The book concludes with a set of recommendations for expanding and deepening media assistance for the international community. This book project grew out of a multi-country study that I directed in 2002–2004 to examine media assistance programs funded by the US Agency for International Development. The overall purpose of the study was to assess the nature and effectiveness of USAID programs and make policy and programmatic recommendations for the future. In writing this book I have mostly drawn from the massive information collected during two years of research and analysis. The book is based primarily on three sources of information. First are reviews of literature covering scholarly writings, project and program documents, and articles in popular magazines and newspapers on media assistance. Such reviews were country specific as well as global in nature. Because the academic literature is extremely limited and media assistance is hardly covered in magazines and newspapers except in high-profile cases such as Bosnia and Serbia, reviews largely relied on program documentation. I had the unique advantage of perusing thousands of documents that are not available to the public. Although mostly descriptive and often self-serving, they identified critical gaps in our knowledge and illuminated the challenges and achievements of international media endeavors. Second, my colleagues and I undertook extensive fieldwork in seven countries/regions—Afghanistan, Bosnia, Central America, Indonesia, Russia, Serbia, and Sierra Leone. In each of these cases, research teams conducted extensive discussions with international donor agencies, officials of host countries, project staff and contractors, and local media experts and journalists. Every possible effort was made to interview all those experts and managers who had intimate knowledge of the ongoing media assistance programs. Teams also examined locally available documents and reports and used translators to translate documents into English when necessary. In the absence of hard quantitative data, they largely relied on available documentation, indepth interviews, and their own knowledge of the media scene for their findings and conclusions. Finally, I organized a series of meetings in Washington, D.C., to discuss the findings of the country studies and explore new directions for media assistance programs. Such meetings helped to identify many problems and challenges facing media assistance programs and helped in formulating a set of recommendation for policymakers." (Chapter 1, page 10-11) more

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South East Europe Media Handbook 2005/2006

Oliver Vujovic (ed.)

Belgrade: South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) (2006), 748 pp.

"It is a simple fact that it is hard to find reliable information on the media in South Eastern Europe. The 'South East Europe Media Handbook' bridges this gap in a unique way and offers basic information about the situation of the media in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, ... more

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