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"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Latvia

Janis Juzefovics

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 99 pp.

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Mapping Digital Media: Lithuania

Arturas Racas, Liutauras Ulevicius, Dziugas Parsonis

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 88 pp.

"The explosion of digital media and their impact on journalism and democracy in Lithuania coincided with the country's second decade of independence and with the economic crisis of 2009-2010. With the rapid growth of internet penetration, websites dedicated to news appeared and traditional media wen ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Moldova

Victor Gotisan et al.

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2011), 117 pp.

"In Moldova, the combination of digitization and political change has increased the diversity of media outlets and their news, the plurality of opinions, and the transparency of public institutions, while it has diminished political interference in the media. Yet the lack of independence of regulato ... more

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National Studies on Assessing the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 392 pp.

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Introducing State-Distant Public Broadcasting in Ukraine

Olexiy Khabyuk

Cologne: Institut für Rundfunkökonomie an der Universität zu Köln (2011), 39 pp.

"The majority of political elites still consider media as a central instrument for manipulating public opinion [...] Fortunately, long-standing debates illustrate that the critical attitude of journalists and civil society organisations has increased through new media developments. The demands for p ... more

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Audience Research in Extremis: Cold War Broadcasting to the USSR

R. Eugene Parta

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 104-131

"How could Western broadcasters during the Cold War learn about their audiences in the USSR when they were denied the possibility of conducting surveys within the country? In response to this quandary, second-best approaches were developed at Radio Liberty employing interviews with travellers outsid ... more

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Gut informiert - verantwortungsvoll handeln: Das weltweite Medienprogramm der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 42 pp.

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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.

"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more

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Media Systems and Political Systems: Dimensions of Comparison

Sven Engesser, Annika Franzetti

International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 4 (2011), pp. 273-301

"In social sciences, the interdependence between media systems and political systems is generally not in doubt. However, empirical knowledge about the relation between the two types of systems is rare. A deeper understanding can be gained by an international comparison of media and political systems ... more

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Pilgrimage Phenomenon in the New Context of Post-Communist Romanian Media

Mihaela-Simona Apostol

ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 8 (2011), pp. 127-143

"Twenty years after the fall of communism in Romania, there are two main pilgrimages that dominate the Orthodox religious environment: the pilgrimage to Saint Parascheva of Iasi and the pilgrimage to Saint Dumitru cel Nou, Basarabov in Bucharest. These two pilgrimages are practiced in old sacred cen ... more

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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals

Birgit Beumers, Stephen C. Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova (eds.)

New York, NY: Routledge (2011), xv, 245 pp.

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‘A Sleeping Mechanism’ for the Time Being? Media Accountability Online in Bulgaria

Michal Glowacki

Tampere: University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre (2011), 24 pp.

"There is not much debate on the development of media accountability (MA) systems in Bulgaria and even less relate to online media. This is due to the early stage of introduction of self-regulatory mechanisms on the Internet as well as the users’ behavior since priority is still given to tradition ... more

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From one transformation to another: Towards an understanding of challenges for media accountability online in Serbia

Michal Glowacki, Michal Kus

Tampere: University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre (2011), 22 pp.

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Poland: Waiting for the Citizens to Demand Online Media Accountability

Michal Kus

Tampere: University of Tampere, Journalism Research and Development Centre (2011), 19 pp.

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Russian Mass Media and Changing Values

Kaarle Nordenstreng, Arja Rosenholm, Elena Trubina (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2011), xii, 237 pp.

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Human Rights and Media

Diana Papademas (ed.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2011), xiv, 223 pp.

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Children and the Media: A Survey of the Children and Young People’s Opinion on Their Use and Trust in Media

Tirana: Albanian Media Institute;UNICEF (2011), 48 pp.

"This material summarizes the main results and trends of a survey carried out with children and young people aged 13-18 in Tirana. The material focuses on the preference of this age group regarding different media, on the trends of opinions, suggestions for improvement, especially regarding the port ... more