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Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich
Konstanz:
UVK
(2013) 2nd ed., 378 pp., index
Post-2015 MDGs: freedom of expression and the media
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle DW Akademie
(2013), 6 pp.
"Access to information, freedom of expression and an independent media are important for a sustainable future. They should be explicitly included in a future framework describing UN development goals for the years beyond 2015. We discuss two options: firstly, integration of “information access and...
Transformations in Egyptian journalism
London; Oxford:
Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
(2013), xviii, 109 pp., chronol. p.xi-xiii, bibliogr. p.106-108
ISBN 978-1-78076-589-1
"Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of actio...
Freedom of expression and the internet
Strasbourg:
Council of Europe
(2013), 190 pp., bibliogr. p.173-190
ISBN 978-92-871-7702-5
Other Editions: Updated and revised 2nd edition 2020, 240 p.
"This book sets out to answer essential questions regarding the extent and limits of freedom of expression online. It seeks to shed light on the often obscure landscape of what we are allowed to say online and how our ideas, and the process of imparting and receiving information, are protected. It s...
Broadcasting in Sri Lanka
In: World radio TV handbook: the directory of global broadcasting 2014
Oxford:
WRTH Publications
(2013), pp. 26-29
Overview of corruption in the media in developing countries
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre; Transparency International; Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI)
(2013), 10 pp.
"In developing countries, the media is often confronted by a combination of factors that create fertile grounds for corruption, such as lack of training and technical skills, low professional standards, limited financial resources, opaque or government controlled ownership structures, inadequate and...
Transnationale Kommunikation: eine Einführung
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS
(2012), xviii, 215 pp., bibliogr. p.197-215
ISBN 978-3-531-94190-5 (ebook); 978-3-531-15008-6 (pbk)
"Mit dem Begriff der transnationalen Kommunikation nimmt dieser Band Formen medienvermittelter öffentlicher Kommunikation in den Blick, die sich jenseits von und quer zu nationalstaatlichen Grenzen entwickeln. Doch transnationale Kommunikation kann nur verstehen, wer zugleich die Beharrungskräfte ...
The Media Map project: Cambodia. Case study on donor support to independent media, 1990-2010
Washington, DC:
Internews; World Bank Institute
(2012), 66 pp., illustr., abbrev. p.4-5, bibliogr. p.41-44
"Donor funded media development is a relatively new phenomenon, resulting in minimal impact. Modest gains have been made: technical improvements in television production, some better skilled journalists, development of journalists’ associations and a code of ethics, and greater citizen engagement....
Die Unentbehrlichen: zur konstruktiven Rolle von Medien und Journalisten im Peacebuilding
Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, volume 1, issue 1 (2012), pp. 106-140
"Die Rolle von Medien und media assistance im praktischen peacebuilding kritisch untersuchend, erläutert der vorliegende Artikel Aspekte für eine erfolgreiche und konstruktive Konflikttransformation. Anhand von Erfahrungen aus Kolumbien werden allerdings auch jene gesellschaftspolitischen Determin...
Responses to peace journalism
Journalism, volume 14, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1041-1058
"This article presents and discusses the results of an experiment, which gathered audience responses to television news coded as war journalism and peace journalism respectively, in two countries, Australia and the Philippines. From the peace journalism model, evaluative criteria were first derived ...
Internationalising a media studies degree in Arab higher education: a case study arising from an agreement between New Zealand and Oman
In: Arab cultural studies: mapping the field
Tarik Sabry (ed.)
London; New York:
Tauris
(2012), pp. 297-313
"For a project of its size, duration and complexity, the reversioning of the New Zealand media studies degree of Oman has been remarkably successful. Given the inherent problems in developing curricula for 'others', the writing team has been extremely productive and constantly inventive ... it has a...
The Media Map project: Kenya. Case study snapshot of donor support to ICTs and media, 2011
Washington, DC:
Internews; World Bank Institute
(2012), 39 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.30-33
"For the media in Kenya to improve further, the following recommendations emerge from the study: Provide clear regulation that liberates the media at all levels, including in the editorial process; invest in practical training of media professionals to cope with the dynamic media sector and the new...
The Media Map project: Ukraine. Case study on donor support to independent media, 1990-2010
Washington, DC:
Internews; World Bank Institute
(2012), 61 pp.
"Western donor interventions to establish and develop an independent media landscape in Ukraine have been successful overall. Multiple Western donors have helped to support the development of civil society in Ukraine and the development of its independent media system. The political landscape, speci...
The Media Map project: Peru. Case study on donor support to independent media, 1990-2010
Washington, DC:
Internews; World Bank Institute
(2012), 53 pp., illustr., abbrev. p.4, bibliogr. p.42-45
"Peru’s media development landscape is uniquely characterized by prolonged funding of community radios by the Catholic Church, beginning in the 1960s and continuing until today. This activity appears to redress to some degree the lack of balanced development between Lima and the provinces. The 199...
Raising the civil dead: prisoners and community radio
New York:
Peter Lang
(2012), 275 pp.
ISBN 978-3-0343-1045-1 (pbk)
"Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far. Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media, connecting d...
Community radio for social development: the case of Jimma community radio
Addis Ababa:
Master Thesis Graduate School of Journalism and Communication Addis Ababa University
(2012), 118 pp., bibliogr. p.91-100
"The findings of the study show that the Jimma community radio produces different entertainment and education programs with the social development messages. It also produces programs that promote the local language and culture through local music, and narration. Moreover, the study reveals that the ...
Spanish cooperation in culture and communication: an overview of a decade of exchanges with Ibero-America
Global media and communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2012), pp. 65-80
Other Editions: Spanish ed.: Cultura y communicación: la cooperación española e Iberoamérica. In: C. del Valle, F. J. Moreno, F. Sierra Caballero (eds.): Políticas de comunicación y ciudadanía cultural iberoamericana. Barcelona: Gedisa, 345-360
"The article presents the main results of the investigation, ‘Current Situation and Prospects of Spanish Cooperation in Culture and Communication with the Rest of Ibero-America, 1997–2007’. The text offers an overview of the initiatives which took place during the period studied, by country, c...
The content and context of hate speech: rethinking regulation and responses
Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge University Press
(2012), xxiv, 544 pp., illustr., index
"The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from...
Palestine online: transnationalism, the internet and the construction of identity
London; New York:
Tauris
(2012) new paperback ed., xix, 272 pp., 18 illustr., 7 tables, bibliogr. p.249-264, index
ISBN 978-1-84885-364-5 (print); 978-0-7556-0788-4 (online)
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2011
"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban...
The three alternative journalisms of Africa
International communication gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe...
