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"My Boss is 18,000 People": Journalism Practices in Crowdfunded Media Organizations

Adilya Zaripova

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 110-118

"This article analyses three crowdfunded media organizations in three different countries – Krautreporter (Germany), Direkt36 (Hungary), and Colta (Russia). Using qualitative in-depth interviews, it demonstrates that journalism practices in a crowdfunded newsroom are very different from those in o ... more

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Journalism in Times of Crisis: Case Studies in Six SEE Countries

Sanela Hodžic

South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2017), 33 pp.

"This research project focuses on media reporting of and in crisis situations, with case studies of examples mostly from 2016. Political and social crises have been recurring in recent years, aggravated by unstable political environments, underdeveloped economies, ethno-national divisions and unreso ... more

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Civil Defamation and Media Freedom in Hungary: Trends and Challenges in Court Practice in Personality Rights Cases

Bea Bodrogi

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2017), 21 pp.

"The present study examines current legislation and court practice in Hungary regarding civil law violations of rights to reputation, privacy and likeness, with a particular focus on trends in terms of awarding non-pecuniary damages/restitution. Through an analysis of relevant legislation and a pres ... more

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Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin

Daphne Skillen

London; New York: Routledge (2017), viii, 363 pp.

"This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachev’s glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured, ... more

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Journalists in Kosovo

Abit Hoxha, Kenneth Andresen, Arbesa Hoxha-Dobrunaj

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"With regards to professional role orientations, Kosovan journalists found it most important to report things as they are, to be a detached observer, to provide analysis of current affairs, and to promote tolerance and cultural diversity. The relevance of these “classic” roles was fairly undispu ... more

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On the Need to Amend Chapter XV of the Special Section of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

Lyudmila Mostepanyuk

Journal of Eastern European Law, volume 24 (2016), pp. 57-61

"The article deals with the issue of establishing criminal liability for crimes against journalists. Areas of research on this subject are identified. The basic research and publications on issues are reviewed. The need for introducing such liability is investigated. It is indicated that several spe ... more

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In the Beginning Was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures. Time, Truth, Tradition

András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki (eds.)

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang (2016), 190 pp.

"The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.

"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more

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Global Media Literacy in a Digital Age: Teaching Beyond Borders

Belinha S. De Abreu, Melda N. Yildiz (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2016), vii, 298 pp.

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Digital News Report 2016

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.

"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and ... more

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Comparative Analysis of Civil Society, Media and Conflict

Rebecca Pointer, Tanja Bosch, Wallace Chuma, Herman Wasserman

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 52 pp.

"This paper explores how Egyptian, Kenyan, Serbian and South African civil society organisations (CSOs) use communication and relationships with media to engage in democratic contestation. Individual interviews were conducted with 91 CSO members who participated in the various democratisation confli ... more

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Assessing Russia’s Influence in its Periphery

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2016), 40 slides

"Russian speakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rank Kremlin-backed media as the least trustworthy among international, Russian Federation and domestic news sources, according to research presented by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In addition, only those survey respondents who considered R ... more

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Journalists in Moldova

Natalia Milewski

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"There were three roles the Moldovan journalists felt closer: report things as they are, be a detached observer, and provide analysis of current affairs. According to the lowest standard deviation scores, these roles were top priority for most of the journalists. On the opposite site, the respondent ... more

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Facing Reality After the Euromaidan: The Situation of Journalists and Media in Ukraine

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2016), 51 pp.

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Medienfreiheit unter Druck: Medienregulierung und Medienpolitik in Ungarn

Bernd Holznagel, Polyák Gábor (eds.)

Berlin: Siebenhaar Verlag (2016), 183 pp.

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Diversity in Transcultural and International Communication

Carola Richter, Indira Dupuis, Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz (eds.)

Wien: Lit (2016), 194 pp.

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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.

"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more

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Conflict Sensitive Journalism: Best Practices and Recommendations

Mykhailo Buromensky, Serhy Shturkhetsky, Emma Beals, Zoya Kazanji, Michelle Betz, Chris Schuepp

Kyiv: OSCE;International Media Support (IMS) (2016), 101 pp.

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Wie Staaten schwach werden: Fragilität von Staaten als internationale Herausforderung

Kai Hirschmann

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 264 pp.

"Der Zerfall von Staaten ist eine wesentliche Bedrohung für die Bürger der betroffenen Länder und für die internationale Sicherheit. Wenn ein Staat seine essenziellen Aufgaben nicht mehr erfüllen kann, versuchen andere Akteure diese Lücken zu schließen. Aber wie kommt es dazu, dass Nationalst ... more

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Memory in a Mediated World: Remembrance and Reconstruction

Andrea Hajek, Christine Lohmeier, Christian Pentzold (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 307 pp.

"Considering both retrospective memories and the prospective employment of memories, Memory in a Mediated World examines troubled times that demand resolution, recovery and restoration. Its contributions provide empirically grounded analyses of how media are employed by individuals and social groups ... more

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