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Die katholischen Ostkirchen: Herkunft - Geschichte - Gegenwart

Christian Lange, Dietmar W. Winkler, Karl Pinggéra, Hacik R. Gazer (eds.)
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2024), 363 pp.
"Am 21. November 1964 wurde das Ostkirchendekret des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils, Orientalium Ecclesiarum, in Rom promulgiert. Mit ihm erfuhr das reiche ostkirchliche Erbe innerhalb der katholischen Kirche eine besondere Wertschätzung. Internationale Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler nehme ... more
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Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, kollektiv orangotango (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 356 pp.
"Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuo ... more
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Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg et al.
Political Communication, volume 41, issue 1 (2024), pp. 129-151
"Most scholars focus on the prevalence and democratic effects of (partisan) news exposure. This focus misses large parts of online activities of a majority of politically disinterested citizens. Although political content also appears outside of news outlets and may profoundly shape public opinion, ... more
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Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation

Andrew Wilson
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2024), xii, 486 pp.
"Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consu ... more
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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it

Bernd Hirschberger, Katja Voges (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 263 pp.
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Threats to press freedom and journalists' safety: A comparative study of Greece, Slovakia, and Spain

Mária Žuffová, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Jaume Suau Martinez
In: Media Pluralism in the Digital Era
Elda Brogi, Iva Nenadic, Pier Luigi Parcu (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 49-63
"Free journalism is indispensable for monitoring the actions of political representation, holding it accountable, exposing the misuse of power, and defending public interests. Fulfilling these roles assumes that journalists can do their job and pursue public-interest stories to the best of their abi ... more
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Media pluralism in selected Black Sea countries: The influence of European standards

Andrei Richter
Strasbourg: European Audiovisual Observatory; Council of Europe (2024), 35 pp.
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Mapping and analysis of ODA to media and the information environment
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Laure-Hélène Piron
Paris: OECD; OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (2024), 101 pp.
"Laure-Hélène Piron (The Policy Practice Director) undertook an analysis of official development assistance to media and the information environment for the Governance Network of the OECD Development Assistance Committee which was published in June 2024. The report shows that the rhetoric of gover ... more
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Mapping of media assistance and journalism support programmes in the Western Balkans region

Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2024), 7 pp.
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Bulgarian Media Since 1989: From Instrumentalization to Capture

Ivo Indzhov
Central European Journal of Communication, volume 2, issue 36 (2024), pp. 185-203
"In the second decade of the 21st century, Bulgaria earned the unsavory reputation of having the least media freedom in the EU’s (Reporters Without Borders). This paper examines the current state of Bulgarian media based on two research concepts: for instrumentalization, respectively the capture o ... more
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Watching the watchdogs: Spyware surveillance of journalists in Europe and the ongoing fight for accountability

Jamie Wiseman, Szabolcs Panyi, Konstantina Maltepioti, Thodoris Chondrogiannos
Potsdam; Vienna: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; International Press Institute (IPI) (2024), 18 pp.
"The surveillance of journalists, including using spyware technology, poses a fundamental threat to media freedom, the digital safety of journalists, and source protection within the European Union. The agreement on the European Media Freedom Act in December 2023 offers some further protections agai ... more
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Russian Bans on ‘Fake News’ about the war in Ukraine: Conditional truth and unconditional loyalty

Elena Sherstoboeva
International Communication Gazette, volume 86, issue 1 (2024), pp. 36-54
"This article examines Russia’s practice of the ban introduced by the so-called ‘fake news laws’ during the war against Ukraine. It blends doctrinal legal with discourse analysis to study how and why Russian courts have applied the laws, which epistemology of knowledge they have constructed wh ... more
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Safety, reactions, and organizational support: Estonian journalists' experiences with hostility

Ivask Signe
In: Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
Dhiman Chattopadhyay (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 40-52
"This chapter concludes multiyear research on journalists’ safety and well-being in Estonia and focuses on summarizing journalist experiences with and reactions to hostility. In addition to categorizing and describing the problems, the chapter also provides insight into what journalists expect fro ... more
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“Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Mujahideen”: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis of the Militarist Discourse in a Turkish Cypriot Children's Magazine

Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3668-3687
"This research offers a discourse-theoretical analysis of the construction of the militarist discourse in Turkish Cypriot children’s magazines, with a specific focus on the magazine Tuncer. The selected data for analysis consist of 14 issues published between January 1967 and December 1968. The ch ... more
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Les étudiants face à la guerre russe en Ukraine : Perception et interprétation des informations

Carole Grimaud
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 136 pp.
"Carole Grimaud propose une plongée au cour de la complexité des processus de réception médiatique dans un contexte où la perception et l'interprétation des informations sont soumises à une incertitude palpable. À travers une approche interdisciplinaire, cet ouvrage explore les dynamiques so ... more
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Search Engines as “Globalizing Machines”: International News Flow Through Google During the 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election

Daria Kravets
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2577-2597
"News is increasingly consumed via search engines. Yet, there is little research on foreign news consumption through search engines. This study thus focuses on the presence of foreign news in political search results in a peripheral country that is at the focal point of the international conflict be ... more
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Russia's Legislative Minefield: Tripwires for Civil Society Since 2020

Human Rights Watch (2024), 205 pp.
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A fragile narrative: Transformations and consistency in the Russian representation of the war in Ukraine

Intigam Mamedov
Media, War & Conflict (2024), 17 pp.
"In February 2022, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The relevant narrative articulated by Vladimir Putin presented it as a short-term mission of military professionals. However, as the war continued, the situation at the front required complicated decisions that the initial narrative w ... more
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Local media: Surviving and thriving in a news desert Lessons learned from Local Media for Democracy
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Iryna Vidanava, Clare Cook
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS); Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) (2024), 59 pp.
"The Local Media for Democracy (LM4D) programme was conceived and designed to achieve exactly that: to recognise and strengthen local media operating in news deserts and to provide local communities with the timely, accurate, and relevant information they need to make informed decisions about what m ... more
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Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine in den deutschen Medien: Kritik des Maßstabs „ausgewogene Bewertung“ in Inhaltsanalysen

Christoph Neuberger, Ralf Hohlfeld
Publizistik, volume 69 (2024), pp. 455-493
"Inhaltsanalysen über die Darstellung von Konflikten in den Medien werden häufig durchgeführt, um den Vorwurf der Einseitigkeit empirisch zu überprüfen. Dies wirft die normative Frage auf, wie die Forderung nach einer ausgewogenen Bewertung, d. h. einer Gleichverteilung positiver und negativer ... more