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Many Voices, One Vision: The Right to Communicate in Practice

Philip Lee (ed.)

Penang (MY): Southbound;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2004), 170 pp.

Report on Regional Public Television in Europe: Albania, Belgium, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden

Lugano: Instituto Media e Giornalismo, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione, Università della Svizzera Italiana (2004), 131 pp.

"What follows from the analysis of the surveyed cases is a high level of variety of public television activity on the regional level. This clearly depends on the size and population of different countries, on the central and local administrative organization, on the level of linguistic homogeneity a ... nd from a series of historical, political and cultural factors. For this reason is difficult to talk of variable models of public regional television. In reality, however, there is an important factor of comparison, which allows us to subdivide the surveyed cases in two large categories how we did in the first step report: the statute of regional television centres in terms of independence or organic dependence on the national television companies. In Bosnia, Denmark, Greece, Netherland, Portugal, Russia and Serbia there are public regional television centres independent from national television companies. In Albania, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Ireland and Slovenia there are regional centres, which constitute an organic and integrated part of the national television companies. Where regional public televisions are independent in some cases they broadcast only to the regional population as in Denmark, Portugal, Netherland, Finland, Russia, in other cases they broadcast at national level as in Belgium and Greece. Where regional public televisions are local branch of national companies in some case they produce only for regional transmissions as in Albania and Finland, in other cases they produce also for national public television channels as in Czech Republic and Sweden. In the case of Portugal, regional television centres are independent companies, owned in part by national public television, and they produce programs also for the international public channel to reach the “diaspora” of regional population. A second factor of comparison concerns the relationship between the regional television centres and the regional political, cultural, and social context. In some cases the relationship is important as in Bosnia, Portugal, Belgium, Russia, Serbia in other are not evident as in Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland. A third factor of comparison concern the extension of regional broadcasting activities. In some cases the regional activity is limited to some daily news broadcasted in a window inside the national programs as in Finland and Ireland, in other cases it concern a more or less wide range of programs of various genres as in Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, Portugal. In correspondence to that dimension there are differences of the economic resources at disposal of each regional television." (Introduction, page 2-3) more

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The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook

Mary Kelly, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Denis McQuail (eds.)

London: Sage, 3rd revised ed. (2004), 274 pp.

"Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study. The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Grou ... more

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Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos, 27th ed. (2004), 1200 pp.

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More Than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi Media World

Andrew Crisell (ed.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2004), xiv, 315 pp.

"This collection of essays shows how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio continues to provide distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, yet also enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. Ranging from radio ... more

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Support to Media in Developing Countries: Stockholm 4-5 March 2004

Bhanu Bhatnagar

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2004), 13 pp.

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Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 Answers to 4 Questions. Reflections on Freedom of the Media and the Internet. Amsterdam Conference, June 2003

Christiane Hardy, Christian Möller (eds.)

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2003), 224 pp.

European Media Ownership: Threats on the Landscape. A Survey of Who Owns What in Europe

Granville Williams

Brussels: European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), updated ed. (2003), 49 pp.

"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 ... more

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The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional Journalism

Johannes von Dohnanyi, Christian Möller

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2003), 207 pp.

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World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide

Amanda C. Quick (ed.)

Detroit: Gale, 2nd ed. (2003), xxviii, 1285 pp.

"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat ... more

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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2002/2003

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Baden-Baden: Nomos, 26th ed. (2002), 1056 pp.

Media education in 12 European countries. A comparative study of teaching media in mother tongue education in secondary schools

Andrew Hart, Daniel Süss

Zürich: E-Collection of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (2002), 158 pp.

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Déontologie des médias: Institutions, pratiques et nouvelles approches dans le monde

Henri Pigeat, Jean Huteau

Paris: UNESCO (2000), 574 pp.

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Baden-Baden: Nomos (2000), 926 pp.

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Rethinking the Media Audience: The New Agenda

Pertti Alasuutari (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (1999), 212 pp.

"The key idea of this book is to argue that a 'third generation' of reception studies and audience ethnography is presently taking shape and will establish itself in the near future. However, the division of the development of reception studies and audience research into three 'generations' outlined ... more

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Televisión de proximidad en Europa: Experiencias de decentralización en la era digital

Miguel de Moragas Spà, Carmelo Garitaonandía, Bernat Lopéz (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Jaume I (1999), 428 pp.

El libro examina los modelos y las políticas de descentralisación que han sustentado el desarrollo de la 'televisión de proximidad' en cada uno de los países de la UE. El analysis esta centrado en el marco legal, la estructura y la financición, las estrategias de programación y el uso de lengu ... more

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