commbox Europe

WorldCat (9)

Who's Reporting Africa Now? Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia

Kate Wright

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xiv, 280 pp.

"As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations have begun to expand into news reporting. But why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What are the effects of this on the kinds of stories told about Africa? ... more

Download (1)

An Illiberal Model of Media Markets: Soft Censorship 2017

Budapest: Mérték Media Monitor (2018), 57 pp.

"The main goal of the 2017 Soft Censorship report is to show how massively uneven the playing field has become for the various players. What remains at this point is only seemingly a market, in reality the enterprises with ties to the government operate in a whole different framework and logic than ... more

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (8)

Medienrecht: Lehrbuch des gesamten Medienrechts unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Presse, Rundfunk und Multimedia

Frank Fechner

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 22., aktual. und erg. Aufl. (2018), xxxiv, 481 pp.

"Ein umfassender aktueller Überblick über das Medienrecht. Aufgrund der sich ständig und grundlegend ändernden Medienlandschaft und des sich wandelnden Medienrechts hat Frank Fechner in den letzten 20 Jahren sein Lehrbuch jedes Jahr überarbeitet und Gesetzesänderungen, Rechtsprechung und die e ... more

WorldCat (9)

Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda, Bruce Mutsvairo, Gerard Goggin (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.

"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ... more

External Link (10)

WorldCat (10)

Der neue kalte Krieg der Medien: Die Medien Osteuropas und der neue Ost-West-Konflikt

Marc Stegherr

Wiesbaden: Vieweg (2018), 424 pp.

"Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der Verschärfung des politischen Diskurses zwischen Ost und West, die vielfach in den westlichen Medien kritisierte Renationalisierung der osteuropäischen Gesellschaften, ihr „neo-konservativer“ Trend, der sich auch und gerade in den Medien spiegelt. Russland is ... more

External Link (20)

WorldCat (13)

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

External Link (5)

Google Scholar (4)

WorldCat (4)

The Potential of Constructive Journalism Ideas in a Croatian Context

Petra Kovacevic, Tena Perisin

Journalism Practice, volume 12, issue 6 (2018), pp. 747-763

"This study examines the potential of constructive journalism ideas and their implementation in Croatia, a country with a different social, cultural and historical background than that of Denmark or other Western European countries where constructive journalism is practised. Three Croatian linguists ... more

External Link (8)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (9)

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

Digital in 2018: Essential Insights Into Internet, Social Media, Mobile, and E-Commerce Use Around the World

Simon Kemp

We Are Social;Hootsuite (2018), 153 slides

"Perhaps the most exciting headline in this year’s reports is that global internet users have now passed the 4 billion mark. Well over half of the world’s population now uses the internet, and a quarter of a billion new users came online for the first time during the past 12 months. People are s ... more

How the Propaganda Machine Stole the Russian Election. Monitoring of Media: Russian Presidential Election 2018

Luydmila Savchuk, Rasto Kužel

International Media Support (IMS);Memo98 (2018), 74 pp.

"The Russian state media failed to provide sufficient information about political alternatives to incumbent Vladimir Putin ahead of the 18 March presidential election. Coverage on nationwide private channels was similarly limited. For the 2018 presidential election, a strong and independent media pr ... more

External Link (10)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (10)

Community Radio, Democratic Participation and the Public Sphere

Niamh Gaynor, Anne O'Brien

Irish Journal of Sociology, volume 25, issue 1 (2017), pp. 29-47

"In this article, which draws on a detailed study of four community radio stations, we have highlighted a number of elements of community radio which contribute towards a democratisation of the public sphere as envisaged by Habermas and his followers. However, we have argued that democratic particip ... more

External Link (13)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

Digital Trauma Processing in Social Media Groups: Transgenerational Holocaust Trauma on Facebook

Anna Menyhért

Hungarian Historical Review, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 355-376

"In recent years, more and more social media (Facebook) groups have been created dealing with memories of the Holocaust in Hungary. In this article, I analyze and compare two groups, “The Holocaust and My Family” and “The Descendants of the Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust” in the fram ... more

External Link (15)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (14)

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

WorldCat (10)

In Media We Trust: Journalists and Institutional Trust Perceptions in Post-Authoritarian and Post-Totalitarian Countries

Alice N. Tejkalová et al.

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 629-644

"Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have i ... more

External Link (8)

Google Scholar (7)

WorldCat (7)

The Myth of Representations of Africa: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of the Literature

Martin Scott

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (2017), pp. 191-210

"This paper presents the results of a comprehensive scoping review of empirical research into US and UK media representations of Africa published between 1990 and 2014. The results show that existing research has a remarkably narrow focus on a specific number of countries, events, media and texts. R ... more

External Link (5)

Supporting the Media: State Measures Around the World

Elena Perotti, Ilaria Fevola

Paris: WAN-IFRA (2017), 43 pp.

Pluralism Under Attack: The Assault on Press Freedom in Poland

Annabelle Chapman

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2017), 20 pp.

"Poland has become a crucial battleground in the drive by authoritarian-minded leaders to gain control over political discourse and limit media pluralism. The Law and Justice government has sought to control the media as part of a broader push to weaken checks and balances and silence independent vo ... more

WorldCat (11)

Acoso escolar: Bullying y ciberbullying

José Antonio Martínez Rodríguez

Barcelona: Bosch Editor (2017), 193 pp.

"En este estudio se analiza el acoso escolar y las graves consecuencias que está provocando a las víctimas de esta agresiva violencia en los centros educativos, que destruye la autoestima y la confianza de los menores acosados. En este trabajo de investigación también se abordael acoso escolar p ... more