"This report concludes that there are major threats in Europe’s media landscape. Some of the threats identified are political and private threats to public service broadcasting, power over global media in the hands of few, more and more media concentration, the threat to emerging markets in Easter
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n and Central Europe and regulation getting weaker as media power grows." (Summary of findings, page 4)
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"This is an entirely new edition of the author’s 1984 study (originally published by South End Press) of radical media and movements. The first and second sections are original to this new edition. The first section explores social and cultural theory in order to argue that radical media should be
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a central part of our understanding of media in history. The second section weaves an historical and international tapestry of radical media to illustrate their centrality and diversity, from dance and graffiti to video and the internet and from satirical prints and street theatre to culture-jamming, subversive song, performance art and underground radio. The section also includes consideration of ultra-rightist media as a key contrast case. The book’s third section provides detailed case studies of the anti-fascist media explosion of 1974-75 in Portugal, Italy’s long-running radical media, radio and access video in the USA, and illegal media in the dissolution of the former Soviet bloc dictatorships." (Publisher description)
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"De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?" (Publisher des
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Unter anderem mit Beiträgen von Angelo Agostini (Italien), Dorothee Bölke (Deutschland), Walter Haubrich (Spanien) und Elfie Siegel (Russland).
El libro examina los modelos y las políticas de descentralisación que han sustentado el desarrollo de la 'televisión de proximidad' en cada uno de los países de la UE. El analysis esta centrado en el marco legal, la estructura y la financición, las estrategias de programación y el uso de lengu
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as minoritarias de las televisiones de ambito regional, local y urbano.
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"This is the first in-depth study of how television viewers around the world respond to the ever increasing mass of information available from news programmes. It describes and interprets the type of news available and how it is understood in the context of everyday life. The study is based on news
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analysis, individual interviews and household interviews in seven countries: the United States, India, Mexico, Italy, Denmark, Israel and Belarus. Contributors include Michael Gurevitch, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Tamar Liebes, Paolo Mancini and Guillermo Orozco-Gomez." (Publisher description)
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"Enthält die Beiträge einer Konferenz zum Thema Bildungsfernsehen, die das Internationale Zentralinstitut für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (München) 1996 veranstaltete. Am Beispiel erfolgreicher Bildungsprogramme und anhand von Studien wird untersucht, warum Bildungsprogramme von Zuschauern
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genutzt bzw. nicht genutzt werden. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass der Erfolg einer Sendung von der medienadäquaten Umsetzung des Materials und dem persönlichen Interesse des Zuschauers abhängen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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