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Medienpolitik: Grundlagen für Wissenschaft und Praxis
München:
UVK
(2023) 3., vollständig überarb. und erw. Aufl., 366 pp., 24 tables, 17 illustr., abbrev., bibliogr. p.327-361, index
ISBN 978-3-8252-4378-4 (print); 978-3-8385-4378-9 (pdf)
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2007
"Digitalisierung, Transnationalisierung und Kommerzialisierung stellen die Medienpolitik vor große Herausforderungen. Wie kann sichergestellt werden, dass Medien und Plattformen ihre wichtige Funktion in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft erfüllen? In diese Thematik führt Manuel Puppis systematisc...
Media reform in Tunisia: a volatile process
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 25 pp.
"The halting progress of the Tunisian media reform reflects the uncertainty and vulnerability of the political reform. As Professor of Communication and Democracy Katrin Voltmer contends, emerging media systems are unique types that are a blend of inherited structures, the constraints of the transit...
Mapping of legal framework and responses by actors to address harmful content online in Kenya
Build Up
(2022), iv, 47 pp.
CC BY-SA
"Although hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation have likely always existed in our societies, social media platforms have added a new dimension to the spread and access of harmful speech. This report details the legal framework / rule of law tools in place, and responses by the government, ...
Digital platform regulation: global perspectives on internet governance
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022), xvii, 319 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-030-95220-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-95219-8 (print)
CC BY
"Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has in recent years moved to the forefront of policy debate. In the wake of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the global 'techlash' against digital monopolies, platform studies are undergoing a ...
Media governance: a cosmopolitan critique
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022), xv, 318 pp., index
ISBN 978-3-031-05020-6 (ebook); 978-3-031-05022-0 (pbk)
"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap...
Navigating copyright for libraries: purpose and scope
Berlin; Boston:
De Gruyter Saur
(2022), vii, 547 pp., illustr.
ISBN 978-3-11-073715-8 (print); 978-3-11-073200-9 (pdf)
CC BY
"This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the sign...
Media reform during Ethiopia’s political transition
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 25 pp.
"The media reform process in Ethiopia’s political transition has made significant improvements to the policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks. If institutionalized and implemented with robust stakeholder engagement, the reform could help build a sustainable, vibrant, independent, and viable media...
Human rights online in India: joint stakeholder report. Universal Periodic review, 41st session - India
Access Now; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF)
(2022), 19 pp.
"This joint stakeholder report focuses on key issues relating to human rights online in India, including internet shutdowns, digital exclusion, freedom of speech and expression online, online harassment and hate speech, privacy, surveillance and data protection. The report draws on extensive and ong...
Gender equality and media regulation study: Bangladesh
Dhaka:
Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI)
(2022), 108 pp.
ISBN 978-984-35-2469-0
"This study seeks to provide new knowledge and analysis about gender-equality related provisions in regulations, self-regulatory frameworks and policies concerning media in Bangladesh. It also explores their implementation and monitoring aspects. It seeks to provide clear recommendations and cite be...
Sudan’s brief, fragile reform window (2019–2021)
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 32 pp.
Media reform during Ethiopia’s political transition
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"For most of its modern history, the news media in Ethiopia have been a tool for government control. But 2018 brought a wave of optimism to Africa’s second most populous nation. Anti-government protests forced the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to undertake majo...
Media reform in Tunisia: a volatile process
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"President Saied’s moves to undermine constitutional governance and Tunisia’s parliament pose a major challenge for further media reforms. Yet, should the political environment prove enabling, foreign donors, media assistance organizations, and other stakeholders should prioritize working with l...
Indicadores para evaluar la rendición de cuentas en los medios de comunicación
Cuadernos.info, volume , issue 51 (2022), pp. 1-27
CC BY-SA
"Esta investigación tiene como objetivo determinar indicadores clave para evaluar la capacidad de transparencia, autorregulación y participación de los usuarios, las tres dimensiones de la accountability. Se adoptó un triple punto de partida metodológico: revisión sistemática de literatura so...
Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung: Analysen und Empfehlungen zum Schutz der Grundrechte in der digitalen Welt
Springer Vieweg
(2022), xxiii, 304 pp.
ISBN 978-3-658-35262-2 (print); 978-3-658-35263-9 (ebook)
CC BY
"Die in diesem Open-Access-Buch zusammengeführten interdisziplinären Untersuchungen des „Forums Privatheit“ gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Verwirklichungsbedingungen von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung durch die Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche radikal ändern. Nahezu jede Lebensregung...
Digital rights are human rights: an introduction to the state of affairs and challenges in Africa
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
(2022), 7 pp.
ISBN 978-99945-77-95-8
"In sub-Saharan Africa, 495 million people (46 percent of the population) subscribed to mobile phones in 2020, however, the cost of accessing the internet is very high and many African Governments are renowned for restricting access to the internet to limit critics and their opposition through inter...
Media assistance in Burma’s reform decade
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 35 pp.
"Using the coup as a vantage point, interviewees for this report were asked to reflect on three main questions: What have we learned about past media reform efforts? With hindsight, what are the legacies, best practices, and lessons learned? With a view to the future, what does the media’s respons...
Long-term investments pay dividends in Ukraine
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 27 pp.
"International assistance actors have played an important role in supporting media reforms in Ukraine. Their long-term, continuous efforts planted the seeds for groundbreaking media environment changes during Ukraine’s democratic transition. International donors’ sustained engagement in Ukraine ...
Long-term investments pay dividends in Ukraine
Washington, DC:
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
(2022), 8 pp.
"Since gaining independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine has lurched along an unsteady path toward accountable democratic governance. Yet despite the country's volatile politics and the escalating conflict with Russia leading up to the full.scale invasion of Ukraine in ...
The law of global digitality
London; New York:
Routledge
(2022), xiii, 258 pp.
ISBN 978-1-032-07369-9 (hbk); 978-1-032-25550-7 (pbk); 978-1-003-28388-1 (ebook)
CC BY-NC-ND
"The book compares six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, fnancial markets, criminal activity and intellectual property law. Comparing how these very different areas of law have evolv...
Unlocking the investigative potential of Freedom of Information Acts
Oxford:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
(2021), 27 pp.
"Experts say having a law for access to public information is important to enhance public transparency, but it’s only the starting point in the battle against state secrecy. How can journalists benefit from such laws and why should the news media care about it? This paper is divided into four part...
