"Kroatiens Medienlandschaft befindet sich im Übergang. Ausgehend von einer staatlich kontrollierten über eine autoritär geführte hin zu einer demokratisch-pluralistischen Medienlandschaft. Die journalistische Entwicklung folgte dabei im Wesentlichen dem politischen Weg." (Seite 21)
"El objeto del presente estudio son las industrias llamadas "infocomunicacionales", que incluyen medios de comunicación, industrias de telecomunicaciones, internet y otras industrias culturales (editorial gráfica, fonografía y cinematografía). La investigación se ha realizado en Sudamérica y M
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éxico. También se relevaron datos de España. Se muestra en este texto cómo muy pocos grupos infocomunicacionales concentran la mayor parte de la producción, edición y distribución de los contenidos (información y entretenimiento) que circulan en las sociedades latinoamericanas, condicionando de este modo la diversidad de voces a escala masiva." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Democracy Redefined: Leading authoritarian regimes are working to reshape the public understanding of democracy. A redefined and heavily distorted version of the concept is communicated to domestic audiences through state-dominated media. Especially on television, these regimes put forth a dual mes
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sage that stresses their own achievements while belittling the core institutions of genuine democracy, which is often kept at arm’s length with the appellation “Western.” [...] Internet Under Threat: The leading authoritarians—particularly in China, Iran, and Russia—are using advanced and well-funded techniques to subvert legitimate online discourse. In addition to controlling access through physical, economic, and technological means, these regimes have enlisted loyal commentators and provocateurs like the “Fifty Cent Party” in China and the “Brigades” in Russia to overwhelm or disrupt undesirable discussions [...] Authoritarian Foreign Aid: These regimes are using soft-power methods to advance their interests internationally, particularly through billions of dollars in no-stringsattached development aid. Chinese leaders enunciate a doctrine of win-win foreign relationships, encouraging Latin American, African, Asian, and Arab states to form mutually benefi cial arrangements with China based on the principle of noninterference. As part of this strategy, the win-win philosophy is implicitly contrasted with that of the West, which Beijing portrays as pushing a self-serving and alien “democracy agenda” onto developing nations." (Main findings, page 3-4)
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"1. The media development community should work within individual media houses to create in-house, publicly reported complaint systems rather than relying solely on outside press councils to do the job. 2. Funding groups should encourage media criticism, in forms such as local journalism reviews. 3.
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Press councils and ombudsmen should be adequately funded from a variety of sources (NGOs, media organizations, international donors) while safe-guarding their independence. 4. In the establishment of a press council, there must be an effective mechanism to avoid, or greatly reduce, the possibility that complainants will take advantage of defamation laws and take their issues to court rather than to the council. 5. To be effective, press councils and ombudsmen should focus on journalistic standards: ethical behavior (such as not accepting payment for stories), fairness, balance, and using appropriate and varied sources for information." (Summary of recommendations, page 7)
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"The capacity of the minority-language (including Serbian-language) broadcast media to inform minority communities in Kosovo about local news is limited. There are several Serbian language TV stations but none of them broadcasts throughout the entire territory of Kosovo. As a consequence, many Kosov
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o Serbs turn to media broadcasted from Serbia. The Kosovo Serb Community as well as other minority communities have repeatedly expressed an interest in their own Kosovo-wide TV station. According to an IREX research, 72% of the Kosovo Serb community would surely or probably watch a Serbian-language TV station covering the whole territory of Kosovo. Access to information and media is a human right as laid down in Art. 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Furthermore, the Constitution of Kosovo explicitly mentions the right of the Kosovo Serb Community to a Kosovo-wide Serbian-language TV channel. There a several different options to address this need – such as a second channel within the RTK umbrella, a public channel outside of RTK’s umbrella, or a commercial Serbian language television station – but there is currently no broad consensus yet among key stakeholders on which option to further pursue. The overall objective of the 12 month Preparatory Assistance project (2009) is to explore all these questions and to lay the groundwork for a Kosovo-wide Serbian/minority language TV channel." (Executive summary)
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"Evaluation als Instrument zur systematischen und transparenten Bewertung von Projekten, Massnahmen, Programmen, Gesetzen und anderen Gegenständen hat in den letzten zwei Dekaden in Kontinentaleuropa stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Evaluationstätigkeiten werden auf der Angebots- und Nachfrageseite pr
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ofessionalisiert. Die Gründung entsprechender Fachgesellschaften, die Schaffung spezifischer Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebote und die Etablierung fachlicher Standards belegen dies. Dieser Sammelband spiegelt Entwicklungsstand und Leistungsprofil der Evaluation in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz wider. Namhafte, mit der jeweiligen Landessituation vertraute Autorinnen und Autoren leisten Beiträge zu zehn Themenfeldern: Agrarpolitik, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Bildung, Energie- und Umweltpolitik, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, Forschung und Technologie, Gesundheit, institutionelle Politik, Raumentwicklungspolitik und Soziale Arbeit. Ländervergleichende Beiträge arbeiten Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede themenspezifisch heraus. Ergänzt werden diese vierzig Beiträge um Querschnittsbeiträge zur Institutionalisierung und zur Nutzung von Evaluation in den drei Ländern. "Expansion, Vielfalt und Divergenz der Evaluation" lautet die Quintessenz des übergreifenden Themenvergleichs im abschliessenden Beitrag." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Die Arbeitshilfe richtet sich in erster Linie an kirchliche Einrichtungen wie z. B. Kirchengemeinden oder kirchliche Verbände und Vereinigungen, die sich mit einer eigenen Website im Internet vorstellen wollen. Sie möchte auf die wichtigsten rechtlichen Gesichtspunkte hinweisen, die hierbei beach
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tet werden sollten. Nicht behandelt werden spezielle Rechtsfragen, wie sie sich beispielsweise in der „Online-Beratung“ ergeben oder im Zusammenhang mit gewerblichen Unternehmungen kirchlicher Einrichtungen auftreten. Die Darstellung beschränkt sich nicht nur auf die Aspekte, die Ersteller einer eigenen Website zu beachten haben, sie befasst sich darüber hinaus auch mit der Frage, welche Rechte der Betreiber einer Website hat und wie er sich in Fällen, in denen ihm selbst Verletzungen von Rechten anderer vorgeworfen wird, verhalten soll." (Einleitung)
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"This book is meant to present the basics of freedom of information or right to information, defined as the universal right to access information held by public bodies. It presents in an easy-to-understand and non-technical fashion the basic principles of freedom of information, such as maximum disc
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losure, obligation to publish, promotion of open government, limited scope of exceptions and the process to facilitate access. In this new edition, the introduction, the comparative chapter, and the section on international standards and trends, have been totally revised. The country chapters provide an in-depth-analysis to the right of access in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand, Uganda, United Kigdom and the USA. According to the author "since the last edition five years ago, we can now say that every region of the world has adopted right to information laws." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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