Filter
16
Topics
Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
3
Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
2
Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
2
Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
2
Framing
2
Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
1
Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
1
Media Advocacy, Media Activism
1
Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
1
Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
1
Computational Content Analysis
1
Content Analysis (Research Method)
1
Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
1
Twitter & Microblogs
1
Local History & Memory
1
Media Assistance: Journalism Education & Training
1
Journalistic Practices & Routines
1
Journalists
1
Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
1
Informal Communication Channels, Networks & Structures
1
Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
1
Fragile / Post-Conflict States
1
Agenda Setting
1
Democracy / Democratization and Media
1
Quantitative Analysis
1
Civil Society
1
Non-Western Communication Approaches
1
Language
Document type
Countries / Regions
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Methods applied
Output Type
Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2017), 26 pp.
"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S
...
Communications, Power and Governance in Democratisation Conflicts
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2017), 37 pp.
"This paper explores the role of digital and traditional media in shaping formal and informal leaders’ interactions with their own constituencies and a broader audience, by both advancing their messages and narratives and manoeuvring to steer a specific political agenda. It specifically considers
...
Structural Working Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists Reporting on Democratisation Conflicts
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2017), 21 pp.
"The structural conditions of journalism are shaped by legacies of the past (marked by non-democratic regimes and sometimes colonial rule) and persisting power structures. The state and powerful political actors are perceived to play an important role in the media sector, mirrored in different forms
...
Communication and Conflict in Transitional Societies: Integrating Media and Communication in Development Cooperation
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2017), 17 pp.
"Effective development cooperation that is sensitive to conflict contexts has to integrate media and communication into their overall strategy by taking into account the communicative needs of societies faced with democratization conflicts. In view of this policy problem, empirical evidence gathered
...
Civil Society, Political Activism and Communications in Democratisation Conflicts: A Literature Review
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2016), 35 pp.
"Given that the nature of civil society in different countries is different, and also often shifting in response to political changes, examining the relationship between civil society and media production (mainstream and alternative) in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa involves being sensitive
...
"Instead of seeking to provide an objective definition of hate speech, the paper’s empirical approach highlights that context matters. More specifically, analysis of the political and socio-economic context in which the speech act occurs and consideration of the nature of the speaker and audience
...
Supporting Journalism in Conflict Societies
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2016), 23 pp.
"Media development organisations regard polarisation and a lack of ethical standards as the main problems in conflict societies. Our interviews with both Europe-based and local media development actors show that their support programmes address journalists as enablers of an inclusive public discours
...
Comparative Analysis of Civil Society, Media and Conflict
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2016), 52 pp.
"This paper explores how Egyptian, Kenyan, Serbian and South African civil society organisations (CSOs) use communication and relationships with media to engage in democratic contestation. Individual interviews were conducted with 91 CSO members who participated in the various democratisation confli
...
Journalistic Practices, Role Perceptions and Ethics in Democratisation Conflicts: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2016), 82 pp.
"This report provides an overview of core comparative findings from MeCoDEM interviews with journalists in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa. It investigates the role of journalistic actors in transitional societies across a set of comparable democratisation conflicts and themes of inquiry: jour
...
Mapping Structural Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2016), 124 pp.
"Structural conditions are to be understood as the totality of (formal and informal) orders and structures that characterise media and journalism in a certain space, most commonly, a country. Eleven interrelated and interdependent dimensions of structural conditions relevant to media and journalism
...
"The paper presents: A discussion of the methods used in memory studies, explaining how attention to questions of methodology has been limited in memory studies because much research has been more concerned with theoretical issues. The paper reflects on the methods from oral history, as well as othe
...
"Mecodify is an open-source tool created as part of the Media Conflict and Democratization Project (http://mecodem.eu) to help gather, analyse and visualise Twitter data for use by social science scholars. The name describes what it does, i.e., Message Codification by converting messages to systemat
...
Literature Review: Research Findings About Organisations Engaging in Media Assistance in the Fields of Journalism Training, Civil Society Support, and Good Governance
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2015), 31 pp.
"The literature emphasizes the importance of accounting for specific needs when it comes to media assistance in conflict-ridden contexts. The reviewed recommendations boil down to establishing communication between different actors (such as oppositional players or media and public professionals) and
...
Review: Journalistic Ethics and Practices in Conflict Societies
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2015), 74 pp.
"This paper provides a critical review of literature on journalism in conflict societies (‘conflict journalism’), by investigating principal theories, concepts and arguments, as well as empirical research findings concerning journalism and its role in democratisation processes and conflicts [...
...
Media Framing of Political Conflict: A Review of the Literature
Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) Media (2015), 35 pp.
"This paper provides a critical overview of the literature on media and conflict by focusing on the ways in which contemporary media frame different types of political conflict. It reveals a fractured field. There is an extensive literature on how media report on wars, on election campaigns and popu
...
"This paper outlines the main debates surrounding De-Westernisation, which addresses global imbalances in the creation and distribution of academic knowledge. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of the field, the working paper suggests further steps in order to enrich a global set of p
...
