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Why access to information is essential for democratic elections in Africa
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
(2021), 5 pp.
"Among the various forms of online censorship, internet shutdowns are some of the most invasive and blunt. Unlike traditional forms of censorship like blocking internet pages or certain content, these disruptions to digital communications are architectural and affect a preliminary condition in the i...
Internet shutdowns and elections handbook: a guide for election observers, embassies, activists, and journalists
Access Now; KeepItOn
(2021), 10 pp.
"This handbook explains how internet shutdowns undermine democractic elections and provides tips and recommendations for key actors to navigate shutdowns and understand and assess the extent to which an election taking place under a shutdown is free and fair. It is aimed at election observers, peopl...
Cubrimiento electoral y libertad de prensa
Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP)
(2019), 42 pp.
"Este manual busca ser una herramienta para que los(as) periodistas tengan mayor información acerca de sus derechos y de cómo pueden protegerlos antes, durante y después de los comicios. Asimismo, pretende dar a conocer diferentes temáticas relevantes en el ambiente electoral, como la Agenda 203...
Violence against women in elections online: a social media analysis tool
Washington, DC:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES); USAID
(2019), 72 pp.
"Around the world, women frequently experience harassment and violence when they decide to exercise their civil and political rights. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new vehicles for violence against women in elections (VAWIE), including violence that takes place on so...
The instrumentalisation of mass media in electoral authoritarian regimes: evidence from Russia's presidential election campaigns of 2000 and 2008
Stuttgart:
ibidem-Verlag
(2017), viii, 283 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8382-1013-1
Other Editions: Universität Bremen, Doctoral Thesis, 2016: Effect of media manipulation strategies on news content in electoral authoritarian regimes: the case of Russia
"Which instruments and approaches do incumbent elites employ to skew media coverage in favour of their preferred candidate in a presidential election? What effects do these strategies have on news content? Based on two case studies of the presidential election campaigns in Russia in 2000 and in 2008...
Comunicación política y elecciones en México 2015
Puebla:
Instituto de Ciencias de Gobierno y Desarrollo Estratégico Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
(2016), 258 pp.
ISBN 978-607-525-216-2 (pdf); 978-607-525-217-9 (print)
CC BY-NC-ND
"El estudio de los fenómenos comunicativos en las elecciones de México de 2015 constituye el punto de análisis en el presente volumen. En el marco normativo de un órgano electoral nuevo, el Instituto Nacional Electoral, las variaciones del tratamiento informativo y la presencia de estrategias me...
Media guidelines for reporting on accessible elections
General Election Network for Disability Access (AGENDA)
(2015), 55 pp., illustr., tables, glossary p.37-40, directory p.41-50
"For the last couple of years, there were more reporting on disability in the media but most of them only reporting and portraying the ‘uniqueness’ of disability. In the election news reporting, media only portray the Persons with Disabilities on the voting process but the news still did not hav...
Social media and elections in Asia-Pacific: the growing power of the youth vote
Singapore:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
(2013), 164 pp., tables
"Undoubtedly, politicians have awoken to the political power of social media and it will be increasingly adopted as a mainstream means of information distribution and communications as voters and young people are becoming more politically active in a number of the jurisdictions surveyed in this book...
Évaluation de l’appui aux médias en période électorale en Afrique subsaharienne. Synthèse du rapport
Inspiring practice
teswt, volume 0 (2013)
"L’appui à la couverture médiatique du scrutin vise trois objectifs : offrir une information suffisante au citoyen pour que son choix électoral soit posé en connaissance de cause ; garantir le pluralisme à travers la visibilité octroyée aux différentes forces en présence ; crédibiliser l...
Elections and the media in postconflict Africa: votes and voices for peace?
London; New York:
Zed Books
(2011), xiv, 289 pp., abbrev. p.ix-xi, bibliogr. 276-279, index
ISBN 978-1-78032-019-9 (hbk); 978-1-78032-018-2 (pbk)
"In democracies with adjectives, the freedom of press also comes with adjectives." If the political regime is situated between a pure democracy and despotism, the freedom of press is also stuck in an in-between-situation. This statement sums up the results of Marie Soleil Frères empirical analysis ...
