"This study takes it upon itself to present a general overview of the development of online media and social media in Albania, focusing particularly on how professional media outlets use social media. The empirical research focused on monitoring the most widely used social media in Albania, such as
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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Instagram and the blogosphere, as well as the six leading online media in Albania, namely top-channel.tv, balkanweb.com, shekulli.com.al, panorama.com.al, albeu.com, and shqiptarja.com. The monitoring covers a one-year period extending from August 2014 to August 2015." (Page 3)
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"Almost half (49%) of all Russians believe that information on the Internet needs to be censored; a plurality (42%) of Russians believe foreign countries are using the Internet against Russia and its interests. About one-quarter of Russians think the Internet threatens political stability (24%); abo
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ut four out of five Russians (81%) stated a negative feeling toward calls to protest against the government and change political leadership; the Russian government and the Russian security service were virtually tied in the percentage of Russians (42% and 41% respectively) that cited these organizations as trusted regulators of the Internet; 51% of Russian believe the primary motivation of government legislation creating a blacklist of websites is the maintenance of political stability versus 13% who believe the primarily motivation was limiting democratic freedoms." (Website CGCS)
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"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula
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ting journalism at national level: a voluntary system for the press and legal controls over broadcasting. These structures were created for yesterday’s media landscape and are increasingly out of date. Today’s digital journalists work on video, print and audio simultaneously. That’s why it makes sense to have only one national regulator, and one that covers all platforms of journalism. Another testing issue is the question of funding. Ideally, journalists and media should pay the bills for press councils, but in these cash-strapped days can media continue to afford it? Increasingly, the answer is no. So who will pay in future? Perhaps we should think about using public funds, after all, independent regulation of media is a public interest activity. But if we use taxpayers’ money how do we ensure it won’t compromise editorial independence? Finally, as this report shows, making self-regulation work at enterprise level is perhaps what counts most. Building trust with the audience should be an issue in every newsroom and the growth in the number of in-house ombudsmen or readers’ editors is a welcome sign that more media are taking the issue seriously. However, in the face of editorial cuts some managements still question money being channelled into cleaning up the mistakes of the newsroom. But as this report illustrates, keeping journalism honest is money well spent for media and, for the public at large, it’s a good investment in democracy." (Introduction, page v)
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"Der Beitrag analysiert die Kommunikation der römisch-katholischen (Erz-)Bistümer und der evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirchen in Deutschland im Social Web. Empirische Untersuchungen der „Facebook“-, „Twitter“- und „Youtube“-Aktivitäten der beiden Großkirchen verdeutlichen, dass di
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e Bistümer den Katholikentag 2014 positiv für ihre Social-Web-Auftritte nutzen konnten. Dennoch war keine konsistente Kommunikationsstrategie zur Verknüpfung von Regel- und Veranstaltungskommunikation ersichtlich. Insgesamt werden partizipative Plattformen noch sehr zurückhaltend genutzt, wie wohl es einzelne Leuchttürme gibt, die in einen aktiven Dialog mit Mitgliedern und anderen Bezugsgruppen treten. Die katholischen Institutionen scheinen den Landeskirchen bereits einige Schritte voraus zu sein – was aber auch als Zeichen der unterschiedlichen Ekklesiologie gedeutet werden kann. Zukünftige Social-Web-Studien könnten sich daher gezielt auf die Ebene der Kirchenkreise und Dekanate sowie der lokalen Ortsgemeinden konzentrieren." (Abstract)
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"A crowded and rather poor media market, unable to secure the sustainability of media operations, a high level of job insecurity making the journalists vulnerable to political and economic pressures and – more often than not – leading to self-censorship – are some of the conclusions [...] The
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report reveals that across the region, journalists are making less than the national average salary, which indicates an erosion of the social respect for the profession. Paradoxically, the public media – still unreformed and subject to state influence – offer more stable and better paid jobs. This creates an opportunity for these media, as more and more journalists are seeking these jobs. It also reveals the need for a stronger associative effort on the part of journalists, to protect their rights." (http://www.seenpm.org)
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"This book considers how Moroccan-Dutch youth, mostly born in the Netherlands, navigate digital spaces to articulate their politicized identities in a time when claims over the failure of multiculturalism, anti-immigration sentiments and Islamophobia sweep across Europe. Digital Passages: Migrant Yo
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uth 2.0 addresses not only to how these mostly second-generation migrant youth navigate across digital spaces, but also considers the digitization of key identity-formation processes, such as coming of age, rites of passage and the negotiation of offline/online gender, diaspora, religious and youth cultural expectations." (Introduction, page 14)
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"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term
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emergency relief, appearing to be generous in reaction to disturbing media images. Furthermore Ministers were concerned that the relief that was provided (airdrops of food by RAF planes) should garner the maximum possible domestic political benefit and reap the best political dividend vis-à-vis Cold War adversaries. It is apparent from this analysis that the ability of the media coverage to produce change in official policy and official assistance was less apparent than might first have appeared. Ultimately the impact of the coverage was far more significant upon driving public opinion and (with the advent of Band Aid) in the way it changed the nature of charitable giving and private philanthropy. So that in terms of policy effects the media on this occasion appears to have a greater effect upon the policies and institutions of the voluntary sector and NGOs. If the 1980s is considered the ‘decade of the NGO’, then the response to the media coverage of Ethiopia played a key part in this expansion. Thus, we can see that in response to the media coverage of the Ethiopian famine the ability of news coverage to push official policy was far less substantial than may have appeared at the time. When in successive academic debates the Ethiopian famine is considered historically as a case of a ‘strong CNN effect’ that is not strictly speaking true. Public policy did not shift as a result of powerful media coverage of suffering. Official humanitarian assistance was severely limited and there was no change of heart about development aid." (Conclusions)
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"Seit 1998 untersucht der Medienpädagogische Forschungsverbund Südwest (mpfs) mit der Studienreihe »Jugend, Information, (Multi-)Media«, der JIM-Studie, kontinuierlich das Medienverhalten der 12- bis 19-Jährigen in Deutschland. Die jährlich im Frühsommer durchgeführte Studie bildet mit einer
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Stichprobengröße von ca. 1.200 Befragten ein repräsentatives Abbild des Medienumgangs Jugendlicher in Deutschland. Durch die Kontinuität der Studienreihe konnten wichtige Entwicklungen der letzten 15 Jahre dokumentiert werden. Zentrale Erkenntnisse zum Medienwandel, aber auch zur Konstanz der Nutzungsmuster von Jugendlichen wurden in dem Sonderband »15 Jahre JIM-Studie« publiziert. Aktuell zeigt die dynamische Entwicklung der Verbreitung von Smartphones und der mobilen Internetnutzung, dass sich die Mediennutzung von Jugendlichen durch technische Neuerungen und neue Angebote ständig im Wandel befindet, auf der anderen Seite aber auch von hoher Stabilität gekennzeichnet ist." (Seite 7)
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"Der Artikel beschreibt, wie Jugendliche in Deutschland mit Smartphone, Apps und Social-Media-Plattformen umgehen und inwiefern dies Chancen und Risiken bei der Bewältigung ihrer Entwicklungsaufgaben mit sich bringt." (Seite 12)
"Although in the decade 1995 to 2005 there was a slow but steady increase in women’s visibility in the news, the decade 2005 to 2015 has been one of stagnation. At 24% of the total, there has been no change in women’s share of news-making roles in the traditional media (newspapers, radio, televi
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sion) since 2010, and indeed almost none since 2005 when women were 23% of newsmakers. The new digital media (Internet and Twitter news) offer little comfort. Here too, women were only 26% of people in the news in 2015. Across all media, women were the central focus of just 10% of news stories – exactly the same figure as in 2000. Since 2005 the percentage of stories reported by women has been static at 37%, and there has been almost no movement in the proportion of news that challenges gender stereotypes – just 4% of the total in 2015." (Foreword, page 1)
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"Wie kann ich das Internet zum Spendensammeln nutzen? Wie binde ich meine Unterstützer auch virtuell an mich? Wie vermeide ich durch den Einsatz von Facebook & Co. teure Postmailings? Dutzende dieser Fragen erreichen die Mitarbeiter von betterplace.org jeden Tag. Daher haben wir uns entschieden, da
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s erste Online-Fundraising-Handbuch herauszugeben, um unser Wissen für alle verfügbar zu machen. Wir duzen dich in diesem Buch übrigens, denn wir möchten dir unser Wissen direkt und persönlich vermitteln. Wir, das sind viele Mitarbeiter von betterplace.org, aber auch zahllose Experten aus NPOs, Internet-Firmen und Agenturen. Gemeinsam geben wir unser geballtes Wissen aus Tausenden (Spenden-)Kampagnen, Social Media Posts und Newslettern an dich weiter. Deshalb ist dies keine betterplace.org-Werbebroschüre, sondern die Sammlung unserer Erfahrungen aus der ganzen Bandbreite des Online-Fundraisings – unabhängig von genutzten Plattformen, Dienstleistern und Technologie. Damit dieses Buch für dich den größtmöglichen Mehrwert bietet – egal, ob du gerade mit dem Online-Fundraising beginnst oder schon erste Erfahrungen gemacht hast – führen wir dich anhand des Spenderloyalitätszyklus hindurch (mehr auf Seite 9). Das bedeutet, dass du der idealtypischen Reise eines Spenders folgst: vom ersten Kontakt zu deiner NPO über das Abonnieren des Newsletters hin zur ersten Spende. Am Ende des Buches findest du eine passende Checkliste, mit der du die konkreten Schritte nachverfolgen und „abarbeiten“ kannst – dein Weg zu einem erfolgreichen Online-Fundraiser." (Vorwort, Seite 6-7)
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"This report recommends the use of opt-in regulation that offers favourable terms for the provision of content of ‘public value’. This approach will ensure that common European aims and values are maintained and national cultural particularities respected in a stable and long-lasting regulatory
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framework." (Executive summary)
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"Results of the 2015 MSI study for Europe & Eurasia (E&E) at first glance show encouraging results: the average of 21 overall country scores increased by 0.04 compared with last year, representing the highest average of overall scores so far this decade. Out of 21 countries studied, seven increased
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by more than one-tenth of a point. Eleven country scores remained about the same and only three decreased by more than a tenth. Indeed there are some encouraging developments, described in more detail below. However, in other cases what appear to be improvements in scores are likely to be only short-term blips on an otherwise downward or flat trend. Belarus (+0.16), Azerbaijan (+0.15), and Kazakhstan (+0.16) all showed small increases in overall score, but in all of these cases several factors indicate that this is not part of a new trend.." (Executive summary)
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"The government has developed various mechanisms for creating financial dependence on the part of the media, at both the national and the regional level. Owing to these financial relations, the media outlets become servile to the government, thereby seriously undermining own professional integrity a
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nd independence. The allocation of government advertising has been conducted on the grounds of political eligibility, in a non-transparent manner, disregarding the specific criteria such as viewership, ratings and influence. The advertising campaigns were awarded to media outlets whose editorial policy was biased towards the government, as well to other broadcasters after changing ownership and consequently also editorial policy. Using the state budget funds, the government fosters the sustainability as well as the rise of many media outlets at the national and regional levels, creating unfair competition and distorting the media market. In this way, a wide network of supportive media outlets is created, through which the media space is captured in order to spread political propaganda." (Conclusions)
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