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Media, Militarization, and Human Rights: Comparing Media Reform in the Philippines and Burma

Lisa Brooten

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 229-249

"Those working to develop and reform media often draw on human rights discourse, especially in areas of political violence. Yet discourse reflecting globally dominant conceptions of individually based human rights can have detrimental effects. This study illustrates how militarization and this disco ... more

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Negotiating Communication Rights: Case Studies from India

Pradip Ninan Thomas

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2011), xxi, 252 pp.

"This book, through five case studies in India, explores communication rights movements here. It encompasses pivotal areas of movements, such as, Right to Information, Free and Open Source Software, Women and Media, and Community Radio and Citizen Journalism. The complexity of specific agendas in In ... more

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La televisión privada comercial en Uruguay: Caracterización de la concentración de la propiedad, las audiencias y la facturación

Edison Lanza, Gustavo Buquet

Montevideo: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 35 pp.

"Según la información relevada, los grupos titulares respectivamente de las frecuencias de los canales 4, 10 y 12 de Montevideo, en adelante los «tres grandes», mantienen un oligopolio audiovisual basado en una red de medios de comunicación integrados mediante la propiedad directa (tanto indivi ... more

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Confronting the News: The State of Independent Media in Latin America

Douglas Farah

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 38 pp.

"Over time the governments of Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador have shown a growing willingness to shrug off even the harshest criticism from usually friendly forums such as the OAS and UNESCO. As the media is forced into silence and the independence of the judiciary is weakened, there are ... more

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The No-Nonsense Guide to ... The Great Internet Grab: Who Wins, Who Loses?

Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2011), 6 pp.

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La paradoja informacional de América Latina: Estructura y concentración de las industrias culturales en el siglo XXI

In: Cultura latina y revolución digital: matrices para pensar el espacio iberoamericano de comunicación

Carlos del Valle, Francisco Javier Moreno, Francisco Sierra Caballero (eds.)

Barcelona: Gedisa (2011), pp. 131-161

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The Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law

William Horsley

London: Working Conference “Safety and Protection of Journalists: A Responsibility for the World” (2011), 28 pp.

"The Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law is a global project of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) at the University of Sheffield and the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism (CLJJ) at City University, London. Our aims are to provide an independent platform to assess the effectivene ... more

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The African Charter on Broadcasting: A Review of its Impact in West Africa

Dakar: Panos West Africa (2011), 230 pp.

"This study assesses the impact of the African Charter on Broadcasting, a blueprint for broadcasting reform in Africa, approved in 2001 at a conference of media practitioners and freedom of expression advocates held in Windhoek, Namibia. The geographical focus of this study is five countries in West ... more

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Attacks on the Press in 2010: A Worldwide Survey

Bill Sweeney (ed.)

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2011), 431 pp.

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The Fences of Silence: Systematic Repression of Freedom of the Press, Opinion and Expression in Sudan. A Report on Press Freedom in Sudan in the Interim Period (5 July, 2005 - July 9, 2011)

Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir

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Internetzensur in China: Aufbau und Grenzen des Chinesischen Kontrollsystems

Kim-Björn Becker

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2011), 246 pp.

"Eine Serie von Fallstudien – unter anderem zur Funktion von Blogs und Microblogs als „bottom- up journalism“ und zu Aktivitätsfeldern des chinesischen „hacktivism“ – verdeutlicht, welches Potenzial politischer Mobilisierung auch im chinesischen Kontext in der internetbasierten Kommunik ... more

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So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2010

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 218 pp.

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Online Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Survey of Perceptions, Knowledge, and Practice

Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, Rebekah Heacock, Ethan Zuckerman, Urs Gasser

Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2011), 15 pp.

"In this report we describe the results of a survey of 98 bloggers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) carried out in May 2011 in order to study bloggers’ perceptions of online risk and the actions they take to address digital communications security, including both Internet and cell phone ... more

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Media Policy Paradigm Shift in Turkey: Rethinking Neo-Authoritarian Media Systems in the Age of Neo Liberalism

Serhat Ahmet Kaymas

Acta Universitatis Danubius. Communicatio, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 40-69

"This article has aimed to open a discussion on the rethinking a neo authoritarian media system in the age of neo liberalism as a case of Turkey’s media experiences. In this context, this study deals with the media policy paradigm shift in the Republic of Turkey since 1980s. According to a recent ... report of the European Journalism Centre (2010:4); although in the wake of a recent democratization wave in the country, there have been some positive elements in the media such as sporadic emergence of some critical perspectives even in some notoriously biased media outlets, which may change this bleak picture, the structural factors which shape the media practices (ownership concentration, working conditions of the journalist, etc) are too rigid and therefore it is too early to become optimistic. In this context, some aspects of these democratization processes are taken from the candidacy of European Union. Despite these positive developments in the doorstep of the European Union, Turkey’s media experience is heavily based on ownership structure and journalistic routines are far away from the democratic media system. Therefore, Turkey’s media experiences are characterised as a sample of neo authoritarian media system with ongoing media policy transformations, for instance privatization of media companies as much as possible, breaking monopolies and the fundamental change of the public broadcasting service is in the context of media policy. This observable change depends on the two overlapping development in Turkey’s democracy. On the one hand, the landscape of national media spaces has been affected by the political and economical conditions; especially after the two financial crashes (in 2000 and 2001) Turkey’s media has followed a re-structure by means of ownership and control. On the other hand, Turkey’s media experiences have been affected by governmental changes. Before the economic crises Turkey’s democracy was governed by a coalition and after the economic crises Turkey’s government changed by the national elections in 2002. Thus this article seeks to answer two interrelated questions: Where does press freedom stand in Turkey decades after the Justice and Development Party’s policies began? And what does Turkey’s media transformation tell us about our understanding of mass political media systems? In this study by using comparative analysis, and incorporating political science literature that offers typologies of non democratic systems of governance, this article demonstrates that contemporary Turkey’s media find much in common with authoritarian regimes across the world and are not sui generis as some have argued." (Abstract) more

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Frontiers of Censorship: North Korea Investigation Report

Benjamin Ismail

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2011), 14 pp.

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Monitoring and Measuring Press Freedom on a Global Scale: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Freedom House Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar

In: On Media Monitoring: The Media and Their Contribution to Democracy

Josef Trappel, Werner A. Meier (eds.)

New York; Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 25-36

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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.

"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more

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The Scars of Oppression Run Deep: Assessing the Critical Requirements for Freedom of Expression in Tunisia’s Democratic Transition

Andrew Heslop et al.

IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG) (2011), 34 pp.

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A Book is Not a Bomb! Media and Justice in Turkey, Mistrust and Repression

Johann Bihr, Jean-François Julliard

Reporters Without Borders (2011), 20 pp.

"Turkey has made important reforms over the past decade and the military’s influence on the media is now much less. Genuine progress has been made but a legislative straitjacket continues to stifle journalists. Reporting of some topics is still routinely punished by the courts. Journalists are arr ... more

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No News is Good News: Abuses Against Journalists by Palestinian Security Forces

New York et al.: Human Rights Watch (2011), 35 pp.

"Severe harassment by Palestinian Authority and Hamas security forces of Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza has had a pronounced chilling effect on freedom of expression. This report documents cases in which Palestinian security forces tortured, beat, and arbitrarily detained journali ... more