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Censura y autocensura periodística en Bolivia: Una perspectiva desde la profesión misma

Virginie Poyetton

La Paz: Fundación UNIR (2012), 80 pp.

"A partir de una encuesta anónima y grupos focales en las tres ciudades del eje, La Paz, Santa Cruz y Cochabamba, se buscó analizar la problemática desde la profesión misma. El propósito de la investigación fue conocer la percepción y evaluar el grado de (auto) censura de los periodistas al r ... more

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Censorship in Lebanon: Law and Practice

Nizar Saghieh, Rana Saghieh, Nayla Geagea

Beirut: Marsad al-Raqaba The Censorship Observatory;Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2012), 149 pp.

"This study aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of censorship in Lebanon which will hopefully allow the many local artistic and cultural actors the opportunity to lobby for the most appropriate legislative amendments to the current censorship regulations which are currently not conducive to t ... more

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Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace

Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.; Ottawa et al.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2012), xv, 414 pp.

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Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China

Ying Jiang

Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press (2012), xi, 141 pp.

"The prevailing consumerism in Chinese cyberspace is a growing element of Chinese culture and an important aspect of this book. Chinese bloggers, who have strongly embraced consumerism and tend to be apathetic about politics, have nonetheless demonstrated political passion over issues such as the We ... more

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L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale francophone. RD Congo: Sous pretexte de la guerre

Donat M'Baya Tshimanga

Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED) (2012), 100 pp.

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Internet Enemies Report 2012

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 72 pp.

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Media Freedom and Independence in 14 European Countries: A Comparative Perspective

European Commission; Mediadem (2012), 188 pp.

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Tunisie: La protection de la liberté d’expression et la liberté de l’information dans la nouvelle constitution

London: Free World Centre (2012), 43 pp.

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Factually True, Legally Untrue: Political Media Ownership in Kenya

Othieno Nyanjom

Internews (2012), 83 pp.

"This report finds that while media ownership is sometimes obvious, media owners often use their spouse, parents or trusted friends to register their media outlets, making it difficult to obtain clear data on media ownership. For instance, the researcher notes that the connection of presidential can ... more

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Responding to an Activist Public: Hangzhou Press Office Rethinks its Role

Hugo de Burgh, Zengole Rong, Mi Miao

Media, Culture & Society, volume 34, issue 8 (2012), pp. 1013-1027

"In China as elsewhere, netizens have made new demands upon government and challenged conventional media to respond to popular concerns. Established approaches to controlling the media may be otiose; Party leaders are stressing the value of cooperation rather than confrontation and calling for a new ... more

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Investigative Journalism: Challenges, Perils, Rewards in Seven Pacific Island Countries

Shailendra Singh

Pacific Journalism Review, volume 18, issue 1 (2012), pp. 83-104

"This article appraises the general state of investigative journalism in seven Pacific Island countries—Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu—and asserts that the trend is not encouraging. Journalism in general, and investigative journalism in particular ... more

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Radio Progreso: Historias cabales, picantes y catrachas

José Ignacio López Vigil

El Progreso (HN): Editorial Guaymuras; Radio Progreso (2012), 84 pp.

"De Honduras se habla poco, salvo cuando hay huracanes o golpes de Estado. Y de las emisoras populares hondureñas se habla menos, se conoce nada. Por eso, cuando las compañeras y compañeros de Radio Progreso me invitaron a relatar lo que vivieron aquel trágico 28 de junio 2009, no dudé en acept ... more

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Old Tricks in a New Era: Self-Censorship in Indonesian Journalism

Ross Tapsell

Asian Studies Review, volume 36, issue 2 (2012), pp. 227-245

"Even though Indonesia has entered a new era of democracy and press freedom, self-censorship still exists in the professional practice of many Indonesian newspaper journalists. Indonesia has a long history of censorship, particularly pressure from the government encouraging journalists to self-censo ... more

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So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2011

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2012), 214 pp.

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Internet und Demokratie

Frederik Holst, Wolfram Schaffar (eds.)

Wien: Mandelbaum (2012), 124 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.

"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more

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Dangerous Work: Violence Against Mexico’s Journalists and Lessons from Colombia

Douglas Farah

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 32 pp.

"Turning the tide on the killing of journalists involves several steps, but primarily it is a matter of having the political will to acknowledge the issue as important and ending the impunity for those responsible for the violence. These steps include: following through on making attacks on the medi ... more

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National Web Studies: Mapping Iran Online

Richard Rogers, Esther Weltevrede, Sabine Niederer, Erik Borra

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 25 pp.

"Instead of defining a priori the types of websites to be included in a national web, the approach put forward here makes use of web devices (platforms and engines) that purport to provide (ranked) lists of URLs relevant to a particular country. Once gathered in such a manner, the websites are studi ... more

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Getting Away with Murder: CPJ’s 2012 Impunity Index

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2012), 13 pp.

"Deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index. The global index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage ... more

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Satellite Jamming in Iran: A War Over Airwaves

Small Media (2012), 71 pp.

"This report has established that the jamming of Persian-language satellite TV channels is endemic in Iran, and is having adverse effects on both broadcasters and viewers alike. In Iran, satellite television is one of the few sources of news, entertainment, and commentary not controlled by the count ... more