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Proteste im Sommer 2011: Was hat die "Revolution durch das soziale Netz" erreicht?

Anna Shirokanova

Belarus-Analysen, issue 3 (2011), pp. 2-7

"Spontane Proteste, die über soziale Netzwerke organisiert werden, haben das politische Leben Belarus’ in Aufruhr versetzt. Die Bewegung, die diese Proteste organisierte, bediente sich – im Vergleich zu anderen politischen Kräften – innovativer Methoden und konnte eine Vielzahl neuer Mitglie ... more

Die Einführung eines staatsfernen öffentlichen Rundfunks in der Ukraine: Sisyphos kurz vor dem Gipfel?

Olexiy Khabyuk

Ukraine-Analysen, issue 96 (2011), pp. 2-13

"Diskussionen um den öffentlichen Rundfunk gibt es in der Ukraine schon, seitdem die Unabhängigkeit dieses Staates ausgerufen wurde. Aus ihnen resultierten unter anderem ein verabschiedetes, jedoch nicht umgesetztes Gesetz zum öffentlichen Rundfunk aus dem Jahre 1997, diverse gescheiterte Gesetze ... more

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Voiceless Glasnost: Responding to Government Pressures and Lack of a Free Press Tradition in Russia

Victor Akhterov

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 677-699

Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

Carolyn M. Byerly

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.

"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more

Mapping Digital Media: Latvia

Janis Juzefovics

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 99 pp.

Mapping Digital Media: Lithuania

Arturas Racas, Liutauras Ulevicius, Dziugas Parsonis

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 88 pp.

"The explosion of digital media and their impact on journalism and democracy in Lithuania coincided with the country's second decade of independence and with the economic crisis of 2009-2010. With the rapid growth of internet penetration, websites dedicated to news appeared and traditional media wen ... more

Introducing State-Distant Public Broadcasting in Ukraine

Olexiy Khabyuk

Cologne: Institut für Rundfunkökonomie an der Universität zu Köln (2011), 39 pp.

"The majority of political elites still consider media as a central instrument for manipulating public opinion [...] Fortunately, long-standing debates illustrate that the critical attitude of journalists and civil society organisations has increased through new media developments. The demands for p ... more

Audience Research in Extremis: Cold War Broadcasting to the USSR

R. Eugene Parta

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 104-131

"How could Western broadcasters during the Cold War learn about their audiences in the USSR when they were denied the possibility of conducting surveys within the country? In response to this quandary, second-best approaches were developed at Radio Liberty employing interviews with travellers outsid ... more

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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.

"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more

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Media Systems and Political Systems: Dimensions of Comparison

Sven Engesser, Annika Franzetti

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 4 (2011), pp. 273-301

"In social sciences, the interdependence between media systems and political systems is generally not in doubt. However, empirical knowledge about the relation between the two types of systems is rare. A deeper understanding can be gained by an international comparison of media and political systems ... more

Poland: Waiting for the Citizens to Demand Online Media Accountability

Michal Kus

Tampere: University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre (2011), 19 pp.

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Russian Mass Media and Changing Values

Kaarle Nordenstreng, Arja Rosenholm, Elena Trubina (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2011), xii, 237 pp.

Final Program Report: International Media Partnerships Program (IMPP)

Washington, DC: IREX (2011), 53 pp.

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Russia

Birgit Beumers (ed.)

Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2011), 333 pp.

"Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein’s anti-tsarist drama, Battleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explo ... more

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Russland: Medien zwischen Staatslenkung und Kommerzialisierung. Dokumentation der Wissenschaftlichen Fachtagung Deutsche Welle Mediendialog April 2010

Christoph Schmidt, Rolf Schwartmann, Peter Niepalla (eds.)

Berlin: Vistas (2011), 114 pp.

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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

Cyrus Farivar

New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.

"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es ... more