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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Russia

Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 12 pp.

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Bringing Plurality and Balance to the Russian Language Media Space: Feasibility Study on Russian Language Media Initiatives (RLMIs) in the Eastern Partnership and Beyond. Summary and Recommendations

European Endowment for Democracy (EED) (2015), 5 pp.

"Recommendations revolve around five building blocks of a co-ordinated strategy that calls for: 1. A regional news hub for the Russian language that embodies the values of fairness, accuracy and watchdog reporting, and builds a network of partners to leverage high-quality news content to wider audie ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

Bill Sweeney (ed.)

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Wiley (2015), 256 pp.

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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

Timothy Havens, Anikó Imre, Katalin Lustyik (eds.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 285 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more

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Balancing Act: Press Freedom at Risk as EU Struggles to Match Action with Values

Jean-Paul Marthoz

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2015), 65 pp.

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Reconciling Conservatives and Liberals: Mission Impossible? How to Effectively Communicate Religious Messages in Public Discourse. Lessons Learned from the Slovak Referendum on Family

Terézia Roncáková

Jurnalism si Comunicare, volume 10, issue 4 (2015), pp. 28-40

"It is quite obvious that cultural and ethical questions have a potential to stir public discourse in countries which claim to be a part of the Western civilization. The ongoing public discourse on these questions has been tagged as ‘culture war’. The conflict itself appears irreconcilable and c ... more

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The Relationship of Young Slovak Catholics to the Media

Terézia Roncáková

Communication Today, volume 6, issue 2 (2015), pp. 62-76

"The article discusses the relationship of young engaged Catholics in Slovakia to the various media outlets which they follow. It attempts to reveal which media outlets are considered to be inspiring and thought-provoking and how are they perceived and evaluated by their followers. The author draws ... more

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The Role of the Internet in Trafficking for Labour Exploitation

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC);FINE TUNE - Labour Trafficking: Fighting New Trends, Understanding New Elements, developing new responses and partnerships;EU Prevention of and Fight against Crime Program (ISEC) 2011 (2015), 21 pp.

"The report examines what role the internet plays in trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation. It considers in particular methods of online job recruitment and looks at cases studies from several EU Member States – Czech Republic, UK, Ireland, and Romania – and discusses to what exten ... more

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Media Consumption Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 192 pp.

"This report surveys the changing patterns of media consumption in 65 countries across the world, and forecasts how the amount of time people allocate to different media will change between 2014 and 2017. It measures the amount of time spent reading newspapers and magazines, watching television, lis ... more

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Im Würgegriff: Russlands Medienlandschaft unter Druck

Gleb Morev, Marija Stepanova

Osteuropa, volume 65, issue 3 (2015), pp. 141-149

"Unabhängige Medien befinden sich weltweit seit über einem Jahrzehnt in einer tiefen ökonomischen Krise. In Russland kommt massiver politischer Druck hinzu. In den vergangenen zehn Jahren wurden zahlreiche kritische Journalisten und Redakteure entlassen, Fernseh- und Radiosender geschlossen, Zeit ... more

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Mediatization of Religion: Historical and Functional Perspectives

Victor M. Khroul (ed.)

Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism (2015), 242 pp.

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Ukraine: Reporting Conflict. A Practical Guide for Journalists

Thomson Foundation (2015), 18 pp.

"This short booklet aims to provide some pointers and practical advice on how to stay safe while getting closer to the heart of what is going on. It is not an exhaustive guide to reporting conflict but a short introduction to some of the challenges reporters face in a bitterly divided area. Expect t ... more

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Im Visier: Die Medien in der Ukraine

Olga Tokariuk-Shelest

Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, volume 43, issue 10 (2015), pp. 7-10

"Die wichtigsten Medien in der Ukraine sind die zahlreichen Fernsehsender, deren Interessen- und Besitzverhältnisse jedoch häufig intransparent sind. Zumeist stehen Oligarchen hinter den diversen privaten Fernsehsendern. Seit 2013 haben Journalisten unabhängige Medien gegründet, die im Laufe des ... more

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Collective Memory as a Resource in Russian Information Warfare Against Latvia

Janis Krekis

Journalism Research (Žurnalistikos tyrimai, engl. edition), issue 8 (2015), pp. 92-115

"The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th c ... more

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Open Data Readiness Assessment Ukraine

Artem Serenok, Daniel Dietrich et al.

Kyiv: UNDP (2015), 90 pp.

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Trapped in a Propaganda War. Abandoned. Frustrated. Stigmatized: Understanding Information and Communication Needs Among IDPs in Eastern Ukraine

Jacobo Quintanilla, Oksana Parafeniuk, Vitaliy Moroz

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2015), 20 pp.

"As information among internally displaced people (IDPs) spreads mostly through word-of-mouth and social media, rumors and misinformation are rife. Citizens in eastern Ukraine have low trust in traditional media, and Ukrainian TV is largely not perceived as a credible source of information. IDPs do ... more

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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.

"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... urnalism is a tool routinely used by politicians at election time. The same is true in India. In other countries, including Nigeria, Philippines, and Colombia the precarious working conditions of news staff provide fertile conditions for corruption and “brown envelopes” or under-the-table cash payments to reporters and editors which are a routine feature of journalistic work. The struggles facing journalists in settled democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Denmark, are less brazen, but no less challenging and in a range of countries across the Western Balkans with a shared and painful history, media corruption hinders aspirations to break free from the legacy of war, censorship and political control during decades of communist rule. The story is of an uphill struggle. Everywhere there is a crisis of confidence inside newsrooms caused by crumbling levels of commitment to ethics, a lowering of the status of journalistic work and a pervasive lack of transparency over advertising, ownership and corporate and political affiliations. Government control over lucrative state advertising, which is often allocated to media according to their political bias, remains widespread. At the same time, the elimination in most countries of the invisible wall separating editorial and advertising has created a surge of so-called “native advertising,” hidden advertorials and paid-for journalism. It was this conflict of interest that plunged the crisis-prone UK press into a new bout of handwringing in February 2015 when Peter Oborne, a leading political journalist, quit his job at the Daily Telegraph accusing the management of censoring stories about HSBC bank, a leading advertiser caught up in a tax scandal. These reports tell essentially the same story of deep cuts in editorial investment, undue pressure on newsrooms, and media increasingly dependent upon atypical models of ownership in which media have become the trophy possessions of powerful figures and institutions in pursuit of wider corporate and political objectives." (Introduction, page iii-iv) more

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Von Helden, Bösewichten und Herrschern: Der sowjetische Märchenfilm zwischen Folkloretradition und Entstehungswirklichkeit. Mit einer umfangreichen Materialdokumentation sämtlicher in der Sowjetunion von 1938-1989 entstandenen Märchenlangspielfilme

Sebastian Hoferer

Freiburg im Breisgau: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 500 pp.

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The Cyberspace War: Propaganda and Trolling as Warfare Tools

Jessika Aro

European View, volume 15, issue 1 (2015), pp. 121-132

"Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has taken control of the traditional media in Russia: TV, radio and newspapers. As Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has stated, the Kremlin sees the mass media as a ‘weapon’. Now Russia’s leadership is trying to take control of social media to ... more

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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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