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Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, But Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver: Deep Political Divides in Many Nations on Satisfaction with News Media

Amy Mitchell, Katy Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa, Laura Silver

Pew Research Center (2018), 54 pp.

"Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far mo ... more

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Les médias face aux crises libyenne et syrienne

David Rannou

Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 267 pp.

"L’objet de ce livre est de décrire le système médiatique français et sa manière de traiter les conflits libyen et syrien à l’aune du « modèle de propagande » mis sur pied par Edward Hermann et Noam Chomsky dans les années 1980, dans leur ouvrage de référence Manufacturing Consent. A ... more

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Measuring the Reach of 'Fake News' and Online Disinformation in Europe

Richard Fletcher, Alessio Cornia, Lucas Graves, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 10 pp.

"The purpose of this RISJ factsheet is to provide toplevel usage statistics for the most popular sites that independent fact-checkers and other observers have identified as publishers of false news and online disinformation in two European countries: France and Italy. We focus specifically on sites ... that independent fact-checkers have shown to publish demonstrably false news and information, whether for profit or for ideological/political purposes. This constitutes a more clearly defined subset of a wider range of issues sometimes discussed using the broad, vague, and politicized term “fake news”. We examine France and Italy as two particularly important cases, as both are widely seen as facing serious issues with forprofit and ideologically/politically motivated online disinformation. Based on a starting sample of around 300 websites in each country that independent fact-checkers have identified as publishers of false news (which, on this basis, we refer to as “false news sites”), we focus on measuring these sites’ reach, attention, and number of interactions on Facebook. We provide context by comparing these figures with equivalent data for a small selection of the most widely-used French and Italian news brands. We find that: • None of the false news websites we considered had an average monthly reach of over 3.5% in 2017, with most reaching less than 1% of the online population in both France and Italy. By comparison, the most popular news websites in France (Le Figaro) and Italy (La Repubblica) had an average monthly reach of 22.3% and 50.9%, respectively; • The total time spent with false news websites each month is lower than the time spent with news websites. The most popular false news websites in France were viewed for around 10 million minutes per month, and for 7.5 million minutes in Italy. People spent an average of 178 million minutes per month with Le Monde, and 443 million minutes with La Repubblica—more than the combined time spent with all 20 false news sites in each sample; • Despite clear differences in terms of website access, the level of Facebook interaction (defined as the total number of comments, shares, and reactions) generated by a small number of false news outlets matched or exceeded that produced by the most popular news brands. In France, one false news outlet generated an average of over 11 million interactions per month—five times greater than more established news brands. However, in most cases, in both France and Italy, false news outlets do not generate as many interactions as established news brands." (Pages 1-2) more

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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective

Monroe Price, Nicole Stremlau (eds.)

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.

"This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech an ... more

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Exporting the French Co-Production Model: Aide Aux Cinémas Du Monde and Produire Au Sud

Ana Vinuela

In: European Film and Television Co-Production: Policy and Practice

Julia Hammett-Jamart; Petar Mitric; Eva Novrup Redvall (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 223-239

"This chapter examines how the Aide aux cinemas du monde fund and the Produire au Sud workshop aim at strengthening France’s central position in the co-production of world cinemas. The Aide aux cinemas du monde provides funding to French co-producers of films from all over the world, while the Pro ... more

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European Film and Television Co-Production: Policy and Practice

Julia Hammett-Jamart, Petar Mitric, Eva Novrup Redvall (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 365 pp.

"This volume offers an up-to-date analysis of film and television co-production in Europe. It brings together the voices of policy professionals, industry practitioners and media industry scholars to trace the contours of a complex practice that is of increasing significance in the global media land ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.

"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more

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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Jeroen Temperman, András Koltay (eds.)

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.

"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l ... more

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European Foreign Conflict Reporting: A Comparative Analysis of Public News Providers

Emma Heywood

London; New York: Routledge (2017), 174 pp.

"This book explores the state of European foreign conflict reporting by public-sector broadcasters, post-Cold war and post-9/11. It compares the values of three television news providers from differing public systems: BBC’s News at 10, Russia’s Vremya and France 2’s 20 Heures. The book examine ... more

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Media and Global Climate Knowledge: Journalism and the IPCC

Risto Kunelius, Elisabeth Eide, Matthew Tegelberg, Dmitry Yagodin (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xx, 309 pp.

"This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism, it demonstrates, is a key elem ... more

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How Does the Media on Both Sides of the Mediterranean Report on Migration? A Study by Journalists, for Journalists and Policy-Makers
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Vienna et al.: International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD);Ethical Journalism Network (EJN);European Union (2017), 120 pp.

"Journalists from 17 countries, mostly around the Mediterranean, have examined the quality of media coverage within their respective national contexts. They highlight examples of good work marked by careful, sensitive and humanitarian reporting and also expose the shortcomings as well as the darker ... more

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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study

Scott Griffen

Barbara Trionfi (ed.)

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.

"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat ... more

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Guide du documentariste sonore

L’Association pour le Développement du Documentaire Radiophonique et de la Création Sonore (Addor);Syndicat National des Auteurs et des Compositeurs (Snac) (2017), 58 pp.

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Digital News Report 2017

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2017), 133 pp.

"The report is based on a survey of more than 70,000 people in 36 markets, along with additional qualitative research, which together make it the most comprehensive ongoing comparative study of news consumption in the world. A key focus remains in Europe where we have added Slovakia, Croatia, and Ro ... more

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Audience and Media Use Research: An International Perspective. Report

René Grossenbacher, Sonja Glaab-Seuken, Christian Stumm, Jesse Raymond Bächler

Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Swiss Federal Office of Communications);Publicom (2017), 121 pp.

"Currency research organisations, i.e. organisations conducting research into media use, whose results constitute a nationally valid standard (“currency”) for the advertising business, are of prime importance for developed media systems. In 2017, the global advertising market will reach a volume ... more

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Manifestations of Online Hate Speech: Reports on Antisemitic, Antiziganistic, Homophobic and Anti-Muslim Hate Speech

Maren Hamelmann, Camille Lhopitault, Andreas Schadauer

Amsterdam: International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) (2017), 232 pp.

"The aim of this report is to illustrate, on the basis of online hate speech examples from six countries - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain -, patterns of cyber hate against four communities. The topics that will be subsequently analysed are: antisemitism, antiziganism, h ... more

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La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone (1960-2012)

Claire Ducournau

Paris: CNRS Éditions (2017), 442 pp.

"Comment une œuvre littéraire accède-t-elle au rang de « classique » lorsque son auteur est issu d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone, l’une des zones les plus déshéritées du monde selon les standards culturels internationaux ? Si les noms de Léopold Sédar Senghor et d’Ahmadou Kouroum ... more

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Holocaust memory in a globalizing world

Jacob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 278 pp.

"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg ... more

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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

Ian Aitken, Camille Deprez (eds.)

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.

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Compassion as a News Value: Comparing French and UK Humanitarian Coverage of the War in Gaza 2014

Emma Heywood

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action

Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), pp. 211-220

"This chapter examined compassion as a news value in the humanitarian coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza by French and UK broadcasters to show the extent to which victims of foreign conflict can be portrayed with greater and lesser degrees of compassion … The study demonstrates that compassion as a ... more

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