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Mapping Digital Media: Macedonia

Roberto Belicanec, Zoran Ricliev

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 86 pp.

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Researching Media Assistance as a Tool of Democratisation and State Building in Post Conflict Societies: Lessons from the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Nidžara Ahmetaševic

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 2 (2012), 18 pp.

"This paper aims to give insights into my research on media assistance and its effects on democratisation and state building processes in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnia). I try to analyse a process which lasts more than 15 years, and includes different aspects, from law making to establishing new me ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Amer Dzihana, Kristina Cendic, Meliha Tahmaz

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.

"Both media organizations and the organization of media in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been profoundly affected by ethnocentrism, political clientelism, the withdrawal of international donors, and the financial crisis. As a result, the country’s march towards digitization has been protracted and u ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Croatia

Viktorija Car, Ivana Andrijaševic

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 100 pp.

"Croatia is well ahead of the curve. Experimental broadcasting via digital signals began in 2002 and the last analog television signals were switched off in September 2011. The country has the highest free-to-air digital terrestrial coverage in Europe, exceeding 99 percent of national territory, and ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Slovenia

Marko Milosavljevic, Tanja Kerševan Smokvina

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 112 pp.

"With the second-highest penetration of IPTV in Europe, it appears that the Slovenian population has keenly embraced new media platforms at the expense of radio, newspapers, and satellite TV. But the changes and implications for media diversity and society more broadly have stopped short of anything ... more

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Mapping EU Media Support 2000-2010

Andrew Puddephatt, Per Oesterlund

EPRD Policy & Development;European Commission (2012), 52 pp.

"Generally, data about media development support are not complete and reliable due to insufficient classification categories in the DAC system, so the EC and most other international institutions and organisations share the problem of not having solid knowledge about the scope and size of support in ... this field. This is also the case in the CRIS data base, which does not distinguish for example between public diplomacy and media support [...] As a consequence, the amounts and other figures in this report should not be taken as exact values. But the mapping does show some clear trends and tendencies despite the weakness ofthe basic data, and the main findings are: According to the information available in the CRIS data base and the definition of projects applied for this support, the total amount spent on media development and freedom of expression in the period 2000-2010 has been 148,4 Million Euro. More than half of the total amount has been spent in the neighbour countries East and South of the EU. More than 40 % has been spent in the Western Balkans, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Turkey, while 12,5 % has been spent in the Middle East and North Africa. 24,3 % of the total funds have been spent in Sub-Saharan Africa. The EC support for media development and freedomof expression has been limited compared with the bilateral support from EU. Member States and other bilateral donors. For comparison the Swedish budget for media support from SIDA in 2012 is 26 Million Euro and DfiD supports the BBC Media Action with more than 20 Million Euro per year. The funding comes from a variety of thematic and geographic Instruments with the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, EIDHR, as the single biggest source, which accounts for 41 % of the total support. Other significant Instruments are IPA, CARDS, ENPI and MED. The main focus has been on training of journalists and editors in journalistic skills and professional standards. Other initiatives have been support to reform of media related legislation and direct support to endangered journalists and writers. The projects supportedby the EC have not been different from projects funded by bilateral donors. Very few projects have benefitted from the potential comparative advantages of the EC/EU as a multinational entity. Very few projects have been designed and implemented in cooperation with member states or other donor agencies, and the projects do not reflect on-going internal medla developments in the EU. There seems to be more focus on EU visibility than on EU additionallity. The top ten contract holders have implemented 36 % of the total project value with BBC Media Action as the single biggest partner, which has implemented almost ten percent of the total project value in the period 2000-2010. lnternews (with lnternews Europe as the biggest entity) comes second with 4,6 % of the total project value followed by the International Federation of Journalists with 3,4 % of the project value. The EC is seen as a “difficult“ or “bureaucratic“ donor agency, which is difficult to approach for smaller organisations because the possible funding does not correspond with the paper work needed to apply for support." (Executive summary more

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Cluster Evaluation Report: UNDEF-Funded Media-Related Projects

Pierre Robert

United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF);Transtec (2012), 40 pp.

"This report is the cluster evaluation of 12 UNDEF-supported projects related to the media. It concerns projects that either focused on media capacity building or included a significant element of work with the media. The projects were implemented between 2007 and 2011; they lasted between 12 and 24 ... more

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Diversity Through the Prism of Newsrooms: An Insight Into the News Production Process

Ljubomir Jakimovski (ed.)

Skopje: School of Journalism and Public Relations;Institute for Communication Studies (2012), 103 pp.

"The book presents the results of a comprehensive qualitative research study conducted in 2011 with journalists and editors in more than 20 newsrooms of different media outlets. Several authors analyzed different aspects of the reporting on diversity issues, on the basis of the views and opinions of ... more

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Serbian Media Scene Vs. European Standards: Report Based on Council of Europe's Indicators for Media in a Democracy

Jovanka Matic

Belgrade: Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM);Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS);Association of Local Independent Media - Local Press;Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina (NDNV);Civil Rights Defenders (2012), 88 pp.

"The report analyzes 27 aspects of the media system of Serbia, basing on principles established by the Council of Europe as desirable standards in media legislation and practice. Each of 27 parts of the study describes the legal regulation of the subject matter and then provides available facts abou ... more

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Media Freedom and Independence in 14 European Countries: A Comparative Perspective

European Commission;Mediadem (2012), 188 pp.

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The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2012), 584 pp.

"The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more ... more

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Media and Religion in Romania: Three Contexts and a Discussion

Romina Surugiu

European Journal of Science and Theology, volume 8, issue 4 (2012), pp. 205-213

"The paper analyses the relation between media and the Eastern Orthodox religion - the dominant religion in Romania. We will examine three contexts: (1) the existing sociological theories on religion and their relevance for understanding the Orthodox world today, (2) the religious media and (3) the ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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The State of the Media in Kosovo

Shkamb Qavdarbasha

Prishtina: Institute for Development Policy (INDEP) (2012), 23 pp.

"Kosovo has marked a number of improvements in the legal provisions pertaining to the media sector with the establishment of the law on access to information, decriminalization of libel and improvement of the criminal code and law on RTK. Considerable work, however, still remains to be done in the p ... more

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Press Trends in Croatia 2011

Zagreb: Centar za istraživanje medija i komunikacije (2012), 5 pp.

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Repräsentationen des Krieges: Emotionalisierungsstrategien in der Literatur und in den audiovisuellen Medien vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert

Søren R. Fauth, Kasper Green Kreijberg, Jan Süselbeck (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2012), 375 pp.

"Seit jeher provozieren Kriege heftige Emotionen. Mit dem Fortschritt militärischer Techniken und Propagandamethoden ging aber auch eine Veränderung der Wahrnehmung von Kriegen durch die Künste einher. Bis heute konstruieren die Literatur, die Fotografie, der Film und das Fernsehen Abbilder von K ... more

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A Suitable Case for Transplant? The BBC and Public Service Journalism in Post-Communist Romania

James Stewart

Journalism Practice, volume 7, issue 3 (2012), pp. 329-344

"This paper is the first detailed account of the BBC's engagement with journalism in Romania after the fall of communism, including a description and evaluation of the journalism training carried out by the BBC in the country in the 1990s. Drawing on interviews with a cohort of journalists who were ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

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Follow the Paper Trail: A Guide to Document-Based Investigative Journalism in Kosovo

Lawrence Marzouk, Gresa Musliu

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), 5th ed. (2012), 70 pp.

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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

Philip Lee, Pradip Thomas (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.

"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are ... more