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Countering Russian Propaganda

Per Concordiam: Journal of European Security and Defense Issues, issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.

"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th ... more

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Resisting Foreign State Propaganda in the New Information Environment: The Case of the EU, Russia, and the Eastern Partnership Countries

Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) (2016), 293 pp.

"With well-organised and far-reaching weapons of information Russia has succeeded in sowing doubt about the need for democratic values and is therefore also undermining faith in democratic countries, weakening it. Russia government uses lies, concealment, and the manipulation of anything that can se ... more

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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.

"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more

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Journalists in Estonia

Haliki Harro-Loit, Epp Lauk

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.

"Four “classic” roles: to report things as they are, to be a detached observer, to educate the audience and provide news that attracts the largest audience are fairly unanimously seen as the most important among Estonian journalists, as the relatively low standard deviations suggest. Especially ... more

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Journalists in Latvia

Liga Ozolina

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.

"When it comes to professional role orientation, Latvian journalists are almost unanimous that journalists should report things as they are and act as detached observers. Interviewed journalists also found it important to provide analysis of current affairs, to educate the audience, to let people ex ... more

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, paperback ed. (2016), xxxi, 477 pp.

"Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. ... more

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CANnual Report 2016: A New Constellation in the Advertising Industry of Central and Eastern Europe

Budapest: WeCAN Communications (2016), 214 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more

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Online Video Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 85 pp.

"This report gives forecasts for online video spend and consumption, where available, for 40 markets in which online video is at varying stages of development. From markets such as Singapore, where 85% of the population claims to access online video (according to GlobalWebIndex, 2014), to countries ... more

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Media Consumption Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 192 pp.

"This report surveys the changing patterns of media consumption in 65 countries across the world, and forecasts how the amount of time people allocate to different media will change between 2014 and 2017. It measures the amount of time spent reading newspapers and magazines, watching television, lis ... more

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Collective Memory as a Resource in Russian Information Warfare Against Latvia

Janis Krekis

Journalism Research (Žurnalistikos tyrimai, engl. edition), issue 8 (2015), pp. 92-115

"The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th c ... more

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CANnual Report 2015: The Advertising Economy of Central and Eastern Europe Reflected in Numbers

Budapest: WeCAN Communications (2015), 196 pp.

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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism

Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov (eds.)

Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.

"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more

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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte

Access Info Europe;Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.

"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th ... more

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The Last Gasp of Empire: Russia’s Attempts to Control the Media in the Former Soviet Republics

David Satter

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 36 pp.

"Russia still aspires to influence the news media in the former Soviet republics. The objective appears to be to manipulate their media environments in order to promote dependence on Russia and distrust of the West and to help Russia to pursue its political and commercial objectives–such as persua ... more

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Journalists and Media Accountability: An International Study of News People in the Digital Age

Susanne Fengler, Colin Porlezza, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Tobias Eberwein (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), vii, 313 pp.

"Do existing structures of media accountability - such as press councils, codes of ethics, and ombudspersons - suffice, or do we urgently need new instruments and initiatives in today's converging media world? These questions were tackled in an international survey of 1,800 journalists in twelve Eur ... more

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Cyber Security in Developing Countries, a Digital Divide Issue: The Case of Georgia

Ellada Gamreklidze

Journal of International Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2014), pp. 200-217

"Based on the case study of the cyber war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, this paper is a theoretical deliberation in an attempt to illustrate connection between the Digital Divide and cyber security. Through a qualitative study of cyber warfare between the two countries, one on the devel ... more

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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
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Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.

"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more

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