"The objective of this document is to outline a framework for a communication policy (content regulation) that can tackle portrayal and representation issues. The main obstacle in the way to do sensible content regulation concerning stereotyped representations is that these portrayals perform their
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effect in a longitudinal and cumulative way – features that make these phenomena as social facts easy to analyze for social scientists, but make it rather difficult to be addressed by media regulators, because content restrictions –on human dignity, privacy, and professional standards– seek to address content issues through the portrayed individual’s right to appropriate media treatment. This discrepancy results in serious moral and justice-related concerns especially in the case of the portrayal of economically disadvantaged groups by television factual entertainment programs, such as current affair entertainment and human interest magazines, confessional chat shows, police magazines, crime buster shows, docusoaps, ambulance and hospital reality programs, etc; programs which have occupied solid positions in commercial stations’ prime time program." (Results of content and production analysis, page 3)
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"The survey analyses the reporting on violence in Slovene print and television programmes. The results have shown that POP TV programming contains a significantly greater share of violent content and content depicting accidents than the programming of SLO 1, reflecting an obvious difference in the e
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ditorial policies. Slovenske novice, the highest selling Slovene daily, shows a 19 per cent share of violence in its content. Disregarding the supplements, the content of which is virtually always neutral or non-violent, violence makes for 29 per cent of the entire content of Slovenske novice. The front pages of Slovenske novice show an astonishing 66,7 per cent share of violent content. Comparatively, Dnevnik contains 8,6 per cent of violent content, while Delo contains 3,1 per cent. Even though the survey has shown an overwhelming amount of violence in the Slovene media, the author feels it inappropriate to resort to censorship, seeing that in a world, interwoven with electronic systems and networks, it is impossible to dam the flow of information." (Summary, page 79
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"In these two volumes, readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the press systems of 232 countries and/or territories. World Press Encyclopedia (WPE) is unique and valuable to users because, in addition to essays on each country’s press system, WPE also contains custommade graphs and stat
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istical tables, as well as regional maps, useful appendices, and an extensive index. This comprehensive, authoritative source of information allows for easy comparison between essays with a standard format or set of “rubrics” used whenever possible (see section titled “Essay Components”). Each essay also features basic data information—such as official country name, literacy rate, language(s), and number of daily newspapers—clearly marked with headings at the beginning of each entry. Additionally, WPE’s contributors include scholars, professionals, and educators from across the United States and around the world; each essay has a byline. Although this is the second edition, WPE has been completely reconceptualized and 100 percent revised from the first edition, which was published in 1982." (Introduction)
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"Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and a
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lternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement." (Publisher description)
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"Presents case studies from 12 countries and lists 69 organisations working with media as conflict prevention and/or peacebuilding tool." (commbox)
"Gesellschaftswandel kann - egal, ob er Politik, Wirtschaft oder Kultur betrifft - ohne die Berücksichtigung von Medien und ihrer Rolle in der Geschichte kaum mehr angemessen verstanden werden [...] Die Publikation gibt einen Überblick über Voraussetzungen der Erforschung der Rolle der Medien im
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Kontext von Kultur- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte sowie über wichtige Fragen, Forschungen und Problemstellungen zur Thematik." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"VideoCulture war ein internationales, medienethnographisches Praxis- und Forschungsprojekt, das von 1997 bis 2000 an der PH Ludwigsburg in Kooperation mit Kollegen aus London, Los Angeles, New York, Budapest und Prag durchgeführt wurde. Jugendliche zwischen 14 und 19 Jahren aus unterschiedlichen s
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oziokulturellen Milieus produzierten insgesamt 36 eigene Videofilme. Das Buch dokumentiert das Projekt, und eine begleitende CD-ROM enthält Videofilme und Projektmaterialien." (commbox)
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"Personal account of the manifold problems faced by the author in converting state broadcasting in Kosovo into a public service broadcaster. The author was foreign relations coordinator of the German public boradcaster ARD from 1965 to 1996." (commbox)