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Russian Social Media Influence: Understanding Russian Propaganda in Eastern Europe

Todd C. Helmus, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Andrew Radin, Mdeline Magnuson, Joshua Mendelsohn, William Marcellino, Andriy Bega, Zev Winkelman

Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (2018), xvii, 130 pp.

"A RAND Corporation study examined Russian-language content on social media and the broader propaganda threat posed to the region of former Soviet states that include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and, to a lesser extent, Moldova and Belarus. In addition to employing a state-funded multilingu ... more

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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
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Florencia Enghel, Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.

"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more

Mapping Community Media Organisations in Cyprus: A Methodological Reflection

Chris Voniati, Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2018), pp. 17-32

"Identifying grassroots or ‘below-the-radar’ organisations, such as community media organisations, is a challenging task that is not always supported sufficiently by methodological literature. The objective of this article is to address this challenge by proposing a structured approach to mappin ... more

Newsreel: New Skills for the Next Generation of Journalists. Research Report

Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer, Nadia Leihs, Gábor Polyák, Annamária Torbó, Ana Pinto Martinho, Miguel Crespo, Raluca Radu

Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism (EBI);University of Pécs (PTE), Institute for Communication and Media Studies;ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL);University of Bucharest (UB), Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies (FJSC) (2018), 106 pp.

"The digitalisation has significantly changed the dynamics of journalism and the job of journalists. Journalism education should stay abreast of these changes. Against this background, we have analysed how academic journalism education in Germany, Hungary, Portugal and Romania teaches new skills nee ... more

Media Ownership Monitor Albania

Reporters Without Borders;Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2018), 871 pp.

"The boundaries between media, politics and business have always been blurry in Albania. However, because of the small size and the high number of outlets the market was perceived by some local observers as vibrant and plural. However, a joint research project between Reporters Without Borders and t ... more

Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard

Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute;Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s ... more

The Feasibility of a Public Service Orientation in the Western Balkans: Complications for a ‘networked Society’ in an Illiberal Context

Davor Marko

In: Public Service Media in the Networked Society

Gregory Ferrell Lowe; Hilde van den Bulck; Karen Donders (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2018), pp. 125-141

"This chapter analyses contextual factors that are common to the seven countries of this region that affect developing a genuine public service orientation in media policies and performance. By better understanding historical legacies, inadequate technological development and late entry into digital ... more

Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development
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Cao Yuanyuan

Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Doctoral Thesis (2018), xiv, 239 pp.

"Media in small emerging democracies face multiple obstacles caused by “smallness” and the state of “late democratization.” “Smallness” raises the question of how to develop financial independence in these countries. “Late democratization” gives rise to the challenge of maintaining p ... more

Content Analysis of the Representation of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine and Moldova in the Media of Kyrgyzstan in 2017

Elira Turdubaeva

Bishkek: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 39 pp.

"In sum, the representation of the several discussed topics – regional unions, regional cooperation organizations such as the EAEU, CIS, CSTO; Kyrgyz-Uzbek relations, Kyrgyz-Kazakh border conflict, Kyrgyz-Tajik relations and border issues, Central Asian integration, Central Asia and Caucasus, Cent ... more

Understanding Russian Communication Strategy: Case Studies of Serbia and Estonia

Stefan Meister (ed.)

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2018), 60 pp.

"As a part of Russian soft (or coercive) power disinformation and propaganda have become key elements in an updated Russian security policy since 2012/13. For Russian leadership disinformation and propaganda have become key instruments to impact domestic debates in EU member states and in the neighb ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.

"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more

Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health an Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece

Mark Latonero, Danielle Poole, Jos Berens

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative;Data & Society Research Institute (2018), 40 pp.

"The study reveals key aspects of digital connectivity in the lives of refugees at the Ritsona camp in Greece in January 2017. Of the approximately 750 residents of the camp, 135 adults were sampled and interviewed [...] Mobile phone access is 'important' to over 80% of refugees in this study. Women ... more

Albanian Media Scene Versus European Standards: Report Based on Council of Europe’s Indicators for Media in a Democracy

Albanian Media Institute (ed.)

Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2018), 79 pp.

"This report, which follows the Council of Europe’s list of “Indicators for Media in a Democracy”, intends to provide an analysis of the current media situation based on the standards upheld by this list. The aim of this report is to raise awareness on the status of affairs in the media scene ... more

Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-Day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction

Christiana Gregoriou (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xi, 153 pp.

"This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles ... more

The Media Freedom White Paper

Sofia: Union of Publishers (2018), 32 pp.

Media Coverage of the Justice Reform in Albania: Between Public Interest and Political Clientelism

Prapo Zguri, Darian Pavli

Tirana: Albanian Media Institute (2018), 58 pp.

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Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans
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Kristina Irion, Tarik Jusic (eds.)

Budapest: Central European University Press (2018), xiii, 346 pp.

"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her ... more

Word on the Street: Examining What Characteristics of a Street Paper and its Host City Best Contribute to Success

Jelena Gajic

Budapest: Central European University, Master Thesis (2018), iii, 60 pp.

"By creating opportunities for microentrepreneurship, street papers have been tackling homelessness and poverty in U.S. cities since the late 1980s. Homeless or low-income vendors purchase these social justice-oriented publications for a fraction of the cover price, and then resell them on street co ... more

Media Influence Matrix: Bulgaria. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism

Marius Dragomir, Mariia Altergot

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2018), 24 pp.

"Technology plays an important role for news media distribution in Bulgaria: 88% of Bulgarians get their news online, first and foremost on the online platforms of popular television channels and their social network pages. Bulgarians are some of the most active social media users in the EU (ranked ... more

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Mission So Possible: Investigative Journalism in Bulgaria

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2018), 5 pp.

"For a motivated journalist in Bulgaria it is easy to detect, investigate and collect proof of corruption and abuse of power. But currently, when making their findings public, instead of a gratifying applause, journalists encounter great chances of hitting a wall of silence, facing authorities with ... more