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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.

"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G ... more

Media Freedom and Independence in 14 European Countries: A Comparative Perspective

European Commission;Mediadem (2012), 188 pp.

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Chasing Sustainability on the Net: International Research on 69 Journalistic Pure Players and Their Business Models
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Esa Sirkkunen, Clare Cook, Risto Kunelius (eds.)

Tampere: Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (2012), 125 pp.

"The SuBMoJour study has mapped journalistic startups in nine countries. It has created an online database detailing the business models of journalistic startups that are deemed sustainable (www.SuBMoJour.net) and this accompanying narrative report. The study supports research to date that online en ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders

Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.

"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me ... more

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio

John Allen Hendricks (ed.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xxxiv, 590 pp.

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The Geography of Foreign News on Television: A Comparative Study of 17 Countries

Jürgen Wilke, Christine Heimprecht, Akiba Cohen

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 4 (2012), pp. 301-322

"The project investigated foreign TV news in 17 countries from five regions in the world: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States of America. The data of the content analysis in all ... more

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Understanding Media Policies: A European Perspective

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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 284 pp.

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Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

Eva Anduiza Perea, Michael James Jensen, Laia Jorba (eds.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xv, 287 pp.

"This book focuses on the impact of digital media use for political engagement across varied geographic and political contexts, using a diversity of methodological approaches and datasets. The book addresses an important gap in the contemporary literature on digital politics, identifying context dep ... more

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Getting the Facts Right: Reporting Ethnicity and Religion. A Study of Media Coverage of Ethnicity and Religion in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Slovakia and the United Kingdom

Verica Rupar

Media Diversity Institute;Article 19;International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 71 pp.

"This study brings journalists back to the centre of inquiry about the media’s role in covering ethnicity and religion. It asks: What professional norms guide editors and journalists when reporting on ethnicity and religion? What news gathering tools are most commonly used? What are the institutio ... more

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Ten Years That Shook the Media World: Big Questions and Big Trends in International Media Developments

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2012), 73 pp.

This report documents some very significant differences in how media companies in different countries have fared over the last decade, examining six affluent democracies (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States) as well as two emerging economies (Brazil and India).

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The Global EBook Market: Current Conditions and Future Projections

Rüdiger Wischenbart

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"In Europe, Germany and France are ahead in digitally embracing trade books, notably !ction, yet are clearly behind the US and UK. But countries as diverse as Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden have recently seen the implementation of an ebook distribution infrastructure, and at lea ... more

INDIREG Preliminary Final Report: Indicators for Independence and Efficient Functioning of Audiovisual Media Services Regulatory Bodies for the Purpose of Enforcing the Rules in the AVMS Directive (SMART 2009/0001)

Hamburg; Leuven: Hans-Bredow-Institut;Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS), Central European University;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT (ICRI) (2011), 417 pp.

"The study has three general objectives: (1) A detailed legal description and analysis of the audiovisual media services regulatory bodies in the Member States, in candidate and potential candidate countries of the European Union and the EFTA countries, as well as four non-European countries; (2) an ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2011), 273 pp.

"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more

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Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery

Regina Hansen (ed.)

Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2011), ix, 294 pp.

Mapping Media Accountability: In Europe and Beyond

Tobias Eberwein, Susanne Fengler, Epp Lauk, Tanja Leppik-Bork (eds.)

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2011), 267 pp.

"Media scholars and students, professionals and policy-makers alike will be introduced to the specific problems and perspectives of media accountability in different media systems and journalistic cultures. The status quo of media criticism online across Europe will be a key issue and provide insigh ... more

Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences

Diana I. Ríos, Mari Castañeda (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2011), xiii, 305 pp.

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