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KAS Media Program South East Europe: Professional Journalism and Communication

Christian Spahr, Manuela Zlateva (eds.)

Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2017), 16 pp.

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Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention

Florian Zollmann

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xiv, 276 pp.

"Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of ... 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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Media Regulatory Authorities and Hate Speech

Asja Roksa Zubcevic, Stanislav Bender, Jadranka Vojvodic

Belgrade: Council of Europe (2017), 136 pp.

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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Teresa Castro (eds.)

Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.

"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic ... more

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Media in Third-Wave Democracies: Southern and Central/Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Péter Bajomi-Lázár (ed.)

Paris; Budapest: L'Harmattan (2017), 238 pp.

"The media and political systems of former communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe share a number of similarities with those in Southern Europe. According to Karol Jakubowicz, these similarities also include late democratisation, a weak middle class, marked social and economic differences, a s ... 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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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 in the European Union, Montenegro and Turkey
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European University Institute;Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) (2017), 92 pp.

"The Monitor assesses the risks to media pluralism based on a set of twenty indicators covering a broad notion of media pluralism that encompasses political, cultural, geographical, structural and content related dimensions. All types of media are covered: public service, commercial, community media ... more

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Radio and Revolution

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 12, issue 2 (2017), pp. 1-86

"Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broa ... more

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Media, Gender and the Reporting of Emergencies: A Booklet for Journalists and Professionals Dealing with Flood Reporting

Brankica Jankovic, Milan Srdic, Višnja Bacanovic

Belgrade: OSCE (2017), 54 pp.

"This booklet first presents as a case study an overview and analysis of the actual reporting during the May 2014 flood in Serbia from the gender perspective. This part contains examples of gender stereotypical portrayal of men and women, but also the lack of visibility of female contribution to the ... more

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‘Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn’t It?’ The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Hannah Grünenthal, Sina Gogolok

In: Communicative Figurations: Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research

Andreas Hepp; Andreas Breiter; Uwe Hasebrink (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), pp. 267-286

"[...] there are, for example, tendencies of ‘branding’ and ‘professionalization’ on a translocal level. Locally, however, we can observe quite different processes: a reluctant appropriation of the organization’s media ensemble by the local authorities even though media-related communicati ... more

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Community Action and Social Media: Trouble in Utopia?

Kevin Harris, Angus McCabe

Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) (2017), 75 pp.

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Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia

Tim Kelly, Aleksandra Liaplina, Shawn W. Tan, Hernan Winkler

Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), xxii, 229 pp.

"Unfortunately, the Internet has fallen short of its promises in some other aspects, as its benefits have not fully reached people in the bottom of the income distribution. For example, skilled workers are better able to leverage the Internet to increase their earnings, whereas unskilled workers fac ... more

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Social Media Codex für Mitarbeiter/-innen in der Diözese Augsburg

Augsburg: Bistum Augsburg (2017), 2 pp.

"Für Priester und Diakone, die in sozialen Netzwerken dienstlich als auch privat präsent sind oder sich mit dem Gedanken tragen, Social Media für die Seelsorge zu nutzen, soll dieser „Social-Media-Codex“ verbindliche Regelungen vorgeben. Der nachstehende Codex gilt dienstrechtlich verbindlich ... 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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Ad Wars: Digital Challenges for Ad-Financed News Media in the Nordic Countries

Jonas Ohlsson, Ulrika Facht

Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 229 pp.

"The accelerating digitalisation of the media landscape has released enormous forces of change in the Nordic advertising markets. The overall impression from the results of this study is that the sweeping changes digitalisation is bringing about are not just undermining the business model on which t ... more

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Media Freedom Trends 2017: Russia

Martin Russell

European Parliament, Members' Research Service (2017), 2 pp.

"In Russia, the state controls strategic media (such as national TV), and restricts independent media and the internet through increasingly repressive legislation. However, there is still some scope for media pluralism, with a few outlets openly criticising the authorities." (Page 1)

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Russian Analytical Digest, issue 197 (2017), 17 pp.

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Lost in Translation: The Misinformed Journey of Migrants Across Italy

Rose Foran, Anahi Ayala Iacucci

Internews (2017), 22 pp.

"In April 2017, an Internews team conducted a rapid assessment on information needs among refugees and migrants in Italy, visiting formal reception facilities (hotspot, CAS, CARA) in Lampedusa, Agrigento, Catania, and informal centers in Ventimiglia and Rome [...] Lost in Translation examines the cr ... more

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Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis

Nebojša Vladisavljevic, Katrin Voltmer

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 26 pp.

"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S ... more

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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 in the European Union, Montenegro and Turkey Top Insights

How Does the Media on Both Sides of the Mediterranean Report on Migration? A Study by Journalists, for Journalists and Policy-Makers Top Insights

Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Application of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2016 in the European Union, Montenegro and Turkey
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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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