"In vielen Ländern der Welt haben die Printmedien seit dem Siegeszug der audiovisuellen, elektronischen Medien, allen voran des Fernsehens, einen schweren Stand. Die Anzeigenmärkte sind so stark umkämpft wie nie zuvor und die Aufmerksamkeit des Publikums gilt als rar werdendes Gut. Anders verhäl
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t es sich dagegen in Indien, wo zeitgleich zur beginnenden Ausbreitung des Fernsehens Anfang der 1980er Jahre ein Presseboom einsetzte, den Robin Jeffrey als „Zeitungsrevolution“ bezeichnet hat. Damit bezieht er sich in erster Linie auf den beispiellosen Boom der indischsprachigen Presse, denn obwohl die englischsprachige Presse ebenfalls von dieser Entwicklung profitiert - und Indien inzwischen der weltweit größte Markt für englischsprachige Printmedien ist -, ist sie längst von der Hindi-Presse überholt worden. Nadja-Christina Schneider beschreibt die wichtigsten Phasen in der Entwicklung der indischen Presse von ihren Anfängen im 19. Jh. bis zur Unabhängigkeit 1947 und beschreibt darauf aufbauend die signifikanten Veränderungen, die der indische Pressesektor insbesondere in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten erfahren hat. Hierfür werden die indische Presse bzw. die dahinter stehenden Unternehmen im Hinblick auf ihre enge Kooperation mit anderen Medien wie dem Fernsehen, Radio und Internet untersucht. Abschließend erfolgt eine Einschätzung ihrer gegenwärtigen Rolle und Bedeutung für das indische Mediensystem." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This study investigates the role of Turkish commercial local radio in the construction of a youth community in the city of Sanliurfa, which is located in the poor rural south-eastern region near the Syrian border. Through in-depth interviews with radio listeners and analysis of their interactions v
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ia radio, this article also examines young people’s attempts to overcome traditional restrictions and social norms through talk radio. By doing so, this study aims to highlight the social role of radio, which is often underestimated in media studies, and to challenge western-centric scholarship on talk radio, which ignores talk radio’s role in community formation. By drawing on Downing’s concept of ‘radical media’, Atton’s definition of ‘alternative media’, and Couldry’s theorization of the ‘symbolic hierarchy of media power’, this study will discuss why some local commercial stations in Sanliurfa function as alternative media for the Turkish youth and how they cross the boundary between the ‘media’ and ‘ordinary’ worlds to create a space for themselves." (Abstract)
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"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut
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eurs, parmi lesquels figurent quelques Prix Nobel, comme Joseph Stiglitz, ancien économiste en chef de la Banque Mondiale et le célèbre Gabriel García Márquez, étudient le rôle des médias comme garde-fous des secteurs publics et privés et la politique en matière de liberté de la presse. Ils jugent également les effets nuisibles que peut causer un journalisme irresponsable et contraire à l’éthique. Un ouvrage de réflexion pour les étudiants, les professeurs et les chercheurs en communication et pour ceux qui s'intéressent au pouvoir et à l'impact des médias." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"To develop communication capacity specifically around adverse events following immunisation (AEFI), the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) and the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO) organized a joint regional workshop "Strategic Communication: Building Trust and Responding to
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Adverse Events Following Immunisation in South Asia", in New Delhi from 9 to 10 August 2004. This working paper synthesises the presentations and debates from the workshop." (Foreword)
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"This toolkit is a collection of participatory exercises for use in sensitisation of media persons involved in HIV/AIDS coverage. It can also be integrated with the existing curriculum of schools of journalism and mass communication. The toolkit has been developed keeping in view the needs of journa
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lists working in remote areas having limited access to experts and resources related to HIV/AIDS. Content of the toolkit has been derived from the research on vernacular media in three [Indian] states keeping in view the impact of media reports on stigma and discrimination related to HIV/AIDS. It is expected that the workshops conducted according to the toolkit will lead to a better understanding and sensitivity towards issues related to HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination. Although the toolkit is structured for conducting a "One Day Workshop", the user may customise the content and timing of the workshop as per the local requirements." (Introduction to the toolkit)
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"Since independence in 1991, the Central Asian republics to varying degrees have given lip service to democratization and the recognition of free press and political rights. However, the reality has been dramatically different under all five authoritarian regimes. That reality includes limits or ban
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s on opposition parties, as well as elections that are neither fair nor free. Most mass media entities remain state-owned or tightly controlled, and there is pervasive censorship, self-censorship, harassment, and intimidation of individual journalists and their media organizations. One result is inadequate, shallow reporting about political, press, and speech rights and controversies. Western-based Web news sites provide alternative venues for some. Central Asian journalists to independently cover such issues. This study analyzes the coverage of political, press, and speech rights news on three such sites: Eurasianet, IRIN News, and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. It examines the topics covered, the degree to which these stories use unnamed and named sources, and the proportion of journalists writing under pseudonyms. It concludes that even journalists reporting on these issues for Western-based media operate under tight constraints, including the risk of official retaliation." (Abstract)
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"This article analyzes the framing of Norwegian media coverage of the war against terror in Afghanistan with special emphasis of the coverage of the Norwegian military presence in Afghanistan. Two main issues are discussed: 1. How was the start of the war covered in the media in October 2001? 2. In
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what context was the Norwegian military presence covered? The two newspapers analyzed are Aftenposten and VG. The choice of these two newspapers was made to include Norway’s largest and potentially most influential morning paper (Aftenposten) and its largest tabloid, as well as largest newspaper (VG). Quantitative as well as qualitative methods are used to analyze the coverage. Both Aftenposten’s and VG’s coverage on the first day of the war in Afghanistan are dominated by pro-US framing and the use of Western sources. The pro-US framing is more obvious in Aftenposten than in VG." (Abstract)
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