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Interpretive Communities and Opinion Leaders of Active Catholics: Formation of Attitudes to Church and Social Developments in Engaged Young Catholics in Slovakia

Terézia Roncáková

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"The paper presents results of the research focused on opinion leaders and interpretive communities of young active Catholics in Slovakia in connection with contemporary ecclesial-societal issues. The author pays a special attention to the Church opinion leaders and the sources of the opinion leader ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.

"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec ... more

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Fake News: The Narrative Battle Over the Ukrainian Conflict

irina Khaldarova, Mervi Pantti

Journalism Practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 891-901

"The crisis in Ukraine has accentuated the position of Russian television as the government’s strongest asset in its information warfare. The internet, however, allows other players to challenge the Kremlin’s narrative by providing counter-narratives and debunking distorted information and fake ... more

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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A Companion to Russian Cinema

Birgit Beumers (ed.)

Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 656 pp.

"A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and ... more

Media Sustainability Index 2016: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and EurAsia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2016), xxii, 318 pp.

"The three countries that this year experienced a decrease in overall score—Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan—were ones last year that had showed small but unexpected increases. Last year’s Executive Summary indicated that such increases were unlikely to be part of a larger upward trend; pan ... more

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Journalists in Albania

Jonila Godole

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"Albanian journalists believe their most important professional role is reporting things as they are, being detached observers and providing the kind of news that attracts the largest audience. These functions contrast with the dominant perceived role of journalists in the early 1990s as missionarie ... more

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Überwachen und Strafen: Die Verschärfung der Internetkontrolle in Russland

Andrej Soldatov

Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 11-12 (2016), pp. 3-14

"Das Internet war in Russland lange ein Zufluchtsort der kritischen Öffentlichkeit. Hier gab es unabhängige Berichterstattung, als Zeitungen und Fernsehsender schon weitgehend auf Linie gebracht waren. Der Arabische Frühling und die Protestbewegung in Russland 2011/12 änderten dies. Das Putin-Re ... more

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Discourse in Danger: Attacks on Free Expression in Putin's Russia

PEN American Center (2016), 44 pp.

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Medien, Geld und Freiheit

Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, volume 43, issue 10 (2015), pp. 1-27

"Das Fazit der Beiträge in diesem Heft bringt Snežana Milivojevic nüchtern auf den Punkt: „Der Glaube, dass ein freier Markt gleichbedeutend mit freien Medien ist, hat sich in den Transformationsländern als Illusion erwiesen.“ Die größte Gefahr für unabhängigen Journalismus liegt dort ni ... more

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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.

"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more

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The BRICS Journalist: Profession and Practice in the Age of Digital Media

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-138

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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era

Moses Shumow (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.

"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co ... more

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Freedom of the Media - Freedom Through Media?

Ralf Hohlfeld, Ralph Kendlbacher, Oliver Hahn (eds.)

Bochum; Freiburg: Projektverlag (2015), 384 pp.

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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion

Kim J. Andreasson (ed.)

Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.

"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu ... more

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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels

Carolene Ayaka, Ian Hague (eds.)

New York, London: Routledge (2015), xiii, 269 pp.

"This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Ro ... more

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

Budapest: WeCAN Communications (2015), 196 pp.

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