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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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Communicating Citizens' Protests, Requiring Public Accountability: Case Studies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia

Sanela Hodžic, Mojca Pajnik (eds.)

Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2016), 384 pp.

"In the recent years, we have witnessed several protests, initiatives and social uprisings in the SEE region, through which the citizens demanded for government accountability, suggested better policy solutions and promoted better citizen participation. Regional research “Communicating citizens' p ... more

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Pulverfass Kaukasus: Nationale Konflikte und islamistische Gefahren am Rande Europas

Manfred Quiring

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 219 pp.

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Voices of Refugees: Information and Communication Needs of Refugees in Greece and Germany

Theodora Hannides, Nicola Bailey, Dwan Kaoukji

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.

"This study provides a snapshot of refugees’ experiences regarding communication and information at different points on their journey. It examines the communication behaviours and priority information needs of refugees in three areas: on their journey, in “transit” camps in Greece, and in Germ ... more

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Citizen Media and Public Spaces: Diverse Expressions of Citizenship and Dissent

Mona Baker, Bolette Blaagaard (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 250 pp.

"Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes o ... 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 the Czech Republic

Alice Nemcová Tejkalová, Filip Láb

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"The differences between the most and least important roles according to Czech journalists are very big. While almost 100 percent of journalists viewed their role to “report things as they are” as very or even the most important, only 1.4 percent of interviewed journalists perceived “support o ... more

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Journalists in Serbia

Sonja Seizova, Verica Rupar

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"Journalists in Serbia seriously believe in their role to inform, interpret, educate and advocate for social change. Nearly all of them, with very little divergence, say the main role of journalism is to report things as they are, followed by providing analysis, promoting tolerance and diversity, ed ... more

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Journalists in Romania

Mihai Coman, Antonia Matei, Natalia Milewski, Rodica Melinda Sutu

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"Romanian journalists said that objectivity is the most important attribute of their work. They strongly believe that their job is to report events exactly the way they happened, without any external or internal intervention. The low standard deviations in these cases indicate that there is a high l ... more

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.

"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more

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Distract, Deceive, Destroy: Putin at War in Syria

Maksymilian Czuperski, John Herbst, Eliot Higgins, Frederic Hof, Ben Nimmo

Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2016), 24 pp.

"This paper sets out how Russia built up its disinformation campaign, by analyzing what was said and comparing it with what was done. Using open source and social media intelligence (OSSMINT), it exposes the false claims that Russia targeted ISIS or defeated international terrorism. It reveals that, ... more

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Winning the Information War: Techniques and Counter-Strategies to Russian Propaganda in Central and Eastern Europe

Edward Lucas, Peter Pomeranzev

Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2016), 64 pp.

"Currently, no dedicated agency or systematic effort analyzes the effect of Russian (or any other) disinformation. Who really watches Russia Today? Where? For how long? And why? Nor do we have the means to systematically track the content: How does the Kremlin’s message in Germany differ from the ... more

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The Truth Between the Lines: Conceptualization of Trust in News Media in Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia

Ivanka Pjesivac, Katerina Spasovska, Iveta Imre

Mass Communication & Society, volume 19, issue 3 (2016), pp. 323-351

"This study explored, by comparative thematic analysis, the conceptualization of trust in news media in Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia - three countries of Eastern Europe where past oppressive regimes might have left a heritage of distrust in all institutions. The analysis of 61 in-depth interviews ... more

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Captured News Media: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro

Milka Tadic Mijovic, Marija Sajkas

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 16 pp.

"Political and business elites in the countries that are the subject of this report have acquired control over a large number of public and private media, mostly through non-transparent privatization, advertising and/or budgetary support to loyal media. Consequently, media freedoms and freedom of ex ... more

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Media Regulation in Russia: A Landscape Analysis of Laws and Trends

Thomson Reuters Foundation (2016), 49 pp.

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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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Polarisiert, politisiert und vielfältig: Polens Medien 27 Jahre nach dem Systemwechsel

Katarina Bader, Tomasz Zapart

Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 1-2 (2016), pp. 131-148

"Polens regierende Partei hat Ende 2015 im Eilverfahren den Rundfunkrat entmachtet. Anschließend begann die PiS, wichtige Posten im öffentlichen Rundfunk neu zu besetzen. Kritiker in Polen und anderen EU-Staaten sprechen vom „Ende eines unabhängigen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in Polen“ ... more

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Auf Linie gebracht: Polens öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk unter PiS-Kuratel

Agnieszka Kublik

Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 1-2 (2016), pp. 153-159

"Die Partei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (PiS) änderte nach ihrem Sieg bei den polnischen Parlamentswahlen im Herbst 2015 innerhalb weniger Wochen das Mediengesetz und besetzte die Spitzenpositionen im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk neu. Neues Personal gibt es auch bei den Nachrichtensendungen, die be ... more

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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.

"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more

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Kirche - Medien - Öffentliche Meinung: 18. Internationaler Kongress Renovabis, 3.-5. September 2014 in Freising

Freising: Renovabis (2016), 267 pp.

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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