"This report concludes that there are major threats in Europe’s media landscape. Some of the threats identified are political and private threats to public service broadcasting, power over global media in the hands of few, more and more media concentration, the threat to emerging markets in Easter
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n and Central Europe and regulation getting weaker as media power grows." (Summary of findings, page 4)
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"The objective of this document is to outline a framework for a communication policy (content regulation) that can tackle portrayal and representation issues. The main obstacle in the way to do sensible content regulation concerning stereotyped representations is that these portrayals perform their
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effect in a longitudinal and cumulative way – features that make these phenomena as social facts easy to analyze for social scientists, but make it rather difficult to be addressed by media regulators, because content restrictions –on human dignity, privacy, and professional standards– seek to address content issues through the portrayed individual’s right to appropriate media treatment. This discrepancy results in serious moral and justice-related concerns especially in the case of the portrayal of economically disadvantaged groups by television factual entertainment programs, such as current affair entertainment and human interest magazines, confessional chat shows, police magazines, crime buster shows, docusoaps, ambulance and hospital reality programs, etc; programs which have occupied solid positions in commercial stations’ prime time program." (Results of content and production analysis, page 3)
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"Pourquoi certains films sont diffusés pour la quatorzième fois ? Pourquoi les vraies variétés nexistent plus ? Pourquoi les prix des droits des matchs de football explosent ? Pourquoi un grand nombre de compétitions sportives ne sont pas diffusées ? Le marketing et l'audimat ont-t-ils tué
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la création à la télévision ? Ce livre répond à ces questions et explique comment marche la programmation et comment on construit une grille de programmes à la télévision. Tout le processus d'élaboration d'une grille de programmes est analysé, avec les problématiques de chacun des genres de programmes : information, sport, jeunesse, fictions françaises et étrangères, séries, films, téléfilms, variétés, jeux, divertissements, documentaires, en présentant la logique et les contraintes des producteurs, des fournisseurs de programmes, de tous les intervenants : fédérations sportives, maisons de disques, etc." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"This book, containing 17 chapters from health communication scholars both in the U.S. and abroad, is expressly concerned with media-related aspects of AIDS. Whether that media is print, electronic, and/or visual, they lie at the heart of understanding the messages we have, or perhaps have not, rece
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ived about AIDS. This book addresses the invaluable role of communication in terms of HIV/AIDS pandemic." (Publisher description)
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"The first section provides summary information on 69 UNDP supported projects and initiatives as of 2002/03. These initiatives were identified primarily by desk research from three main sources: (i) direct feedback from the Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs)2), the COs and Regional Bureaux, (i
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i) scanning of UNDP intranet databases and internal reporting systems especially the data contained in the ROAR3), and (iii) scanning of the internet including CO, SURF and Regional Bureaux websites and general Internet searches [...] The second section provides information on more than 100 international organizations actively working on Access to Information issues. The majority of these organizations work with developing countries to promote freedom of expression and information. They were identified through (i) internet and literature searches (ii) direct feedback from country offices, regional bureaux and SURFs and (iii) referrals from within and outside UNDP." (Page 6)
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