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Impacts of Social Media on Public Policy Development in pre-Taliban Afghanistan

Hazrat Bahar

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 13, issue 2 (2023), 19 pp.

"The impacts of media, mainly social media, have attracted greater scholarly attention. However, their effects on public policy development and the decision-making procedure of a government have not been examined so far. Thus, this study examines such effects in pre-Taliban Afghanistan before August ... more

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Media Manipulation in Young Democracies: Evidence From the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election

Alexsandros Cavgias, Raphael Corbi, Luis Meloni, Lucas M. Novaes

Comparative Political Studies, volume 57, issue 2 (2023), pp. 221-253

"We investigate how dominant media networks can manipulate voters in young democracies. During the first presidential election after the democratic transition in Brazil, TV Globo, the largest and most-watched network in the country, unexpectedly manipulated the news coverage of the last debate 2 day ... more

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Effectiveness of the Sanctions on Russian State-Affiliated Media in the European Union: An Investigation Into Website Traffic and Possible Circumvention Methods

Kata Balint, Jordan Wildon, Francesca Arcostanzo, Kevin D. Reyes

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 20 pp.

"The purpose of this research is two-fold: first, to assess the effectiveness of the restrictions placed on Russian state-affiliated media by the European Union after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine; second, to unearth potential circumvention methods and their success in enabling pro-Kr ... more

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Hungarian Capital in Foreign Media: Three Strategic Models of Influencing the Neighbourhood

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2022), 38 pp.

"This series of articles produced by local journalists follows the Hungarian money invested in media abroad, and also offers an insight into the influence exercised by the Hungarian government." (Introduction)

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The Smiling Dragon – China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia: Implications for Germany and the EU

Céline-Agathe Caro (ed.)

Bangkok: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), ix, 149 pp.

"This publication aims to analyse China’s soft power strategies in selected ASEAN countries and issue recommendations for Germany and the European Union (EU) in this field. The subject of China’s grow ing influence on a global scale is of the highest importance for decision-makers and interested ... more

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Coronelismo e a propriedade dos meios de comunicação: A influência da mídia no poder político

Vinicius Holanda Melo, Gustavo Raposo Pereira Feitosa

Videre, volume 13, issue 28 (2021), pp. 385-412

"O presente artigo visa investigar os usos políticos das concessões de rádio para titulares de mandatos eletivos após a redemocratização, tendo como eixo analítico o conceito de coronelismo e sua potencial renovação para o chamado “coronelismo eletrônico". Inicia-se a pesquisa analisando ... more

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Medienwirkungen auf Einstellungen zu politischen Themen und Akteuren

Markus Maurer

In: Handbuch Politische Kommunikation

Isabelle Borucki; Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw; Stefan Marschall; Thomas Zerback (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer (2020), 14 pp.

"Massenmedien sind für die meisten Menschen die bei weitem wichtigste Quelle politischer Informationen. Sie bilden das politische Geschehen nicht einfach ab, sondern haben durch ihre Selektionskriterien und Deutungsmuster eigenständige Einflüsse auf die politischen Einstellungen der Rezipienten. ... more

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Surprising News: How the Media Affect - and Do Not Affect - Politics

Kenneth Newton

Boulder; London: Rienner (2019), x, 277 pp.

"In chapter 2, the book lays down its foundations with a review of a large body of experimental psychology research on how and why individuals can preserve their beliefs, sometimes in the face of all evidence, logic, and argument to the contrary. The second part of the chapter shows that millions of ... people do the same in the real world outside the laboratories, whatever the media say [...] Chapter 3 considers political partisanship and party identification - that is, strong attachments to political ideas, values, and organizations. Experiments show that people are likely to engage in belief preservation where partisan opinions are concerned, and the same seems to be true of partisans in the outside world [...] Chapter 4 broadens the scope of inquiry to examine how non-partisanship and non-party political beliefs and values can influence the ways the majoritiy of individuals receive and process news reports and draw conclusions from them [...] The first eight chapters deal mainly with the micro, demand side of the equation - but there is also the macro, supply side of news media systems. Supply and demand are often analyzed separately, although understanding media effects requires examining the interaction between them [...] Chapter 9 compares commercial and public service broadcasting, showing that they have different effects on political knowledge, trust, participation, and democratic support. Chapter 10 turns to the classic theory of news media pluralism as a cornerstone of modern democracy [...] The research strategy of this book involves comparing and contrasting a large number of studies of media effects on political attitudes and behavior in order to compare and contrast the conclusions they reach. The book does not merely traingulate in order to reach reliabe conclusions, but it polyangulates, using many different studies written by sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, and economists who employ a variety of methods to investigate many possible media effects on politics. American and British research is used in the main, but single-country research on Russia, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, and Belgium is included, as are comparative studies of European Union member states." (Chapter 1, page 2-5) more

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Polarisation and the News Media in Europe

Richard Fletcher, Joy Jenkins

European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2019), 49 pp.

"Across Europe there is as yet little evidence to support the idea that increased exposure to news featuring like-minded or opposing views leads to the widespread polarisation of attitudes. Although some studies have found that both can strengthen the attitudes of a minority who already hold strong ... more

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Von Game of Thrones bis House of Cards: Politische Perspektiven in Fernsehserien

Anja Besand (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), vi, 236 pp.

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Media Leaks and Corruption in Brazil: The Infostorm of Impeachment and the Lava-Jato Scandal

Mads Bjelke Damgaard

London et al.: Routledge (2018), 222 pp.

"Analyzing the political consequences of the most extensive corruption investigation in recent Latin American history, Operação Lava-Jato, this book answers two central questions about the contradictory effects news media has on political systems. First, how can political actors in a seemingly wel ... more

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First Level Agenda-Setting: A Study of Press Vs. Public Opinion in Kenya

Kioko Ireri, Eannes Ongus, Edna Laboso, Kangai Mwiti, Jared Onsongo

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 26-49

"The present research examines media agenda setting effects in a Kenyan context in 2013 and 2014. Specifically, focusing on the first level of agenda setting, the study investigates whether two national daily newspapers influenced public opinion on six issues of national importance: corruption, devo ... more

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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
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Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Robb Wood

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Harris Interactive (2017), 139 pp.

"Compared to five years ago, internet penetration rose in all six countries surveyed and most dramatically in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Smartphone ownership tracks closely with internet use in the six surveyed countries. Nearly all nationals in Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE own a sma ... more

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Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies

Adrian Hadland

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 261 pp.

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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Devra C. Moehler

Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587

"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media ... more

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Media, Participation and Constitution-Making in Ethiopia

Nicole Stremlau

Journal of African Law, volume 58, issue 2 (2014), pp. 231-249

"In the early 1990s, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), drafted one of Africa’s most ambitious constitutions, allowing for ethnic federalism, decentralization and democratic reforms. The constitution has been highly controversial and many of ... more

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Measuring Media Impact: Taking the Long Term View, Supporting Media Independence

Anya Schiffrin

Columbia Unversity, School of International and Public Affairs (2014), 50 pp.

"The question of when and how the media can bring about social and political change is a perennial one. We know more about what does not work than what does. Even so, donors increasingly ask for proof of media impact and they often hope that data will provide the answer. New tools can provide inform ... more

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Is There a Link Between Digital Media and Good Governance? What the Academics Say

Mary Myers

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 38 pp.

"From this short survey of some key thinkers, can we conclude that there is a causal link between digital media and good governance? The sum of the arguments and cases presented here do not point to a causal link, but they certainly show that digital technology is shaping social movements and politi ... more

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Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey

Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Robb Wood

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.

"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept ... more

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How Do Political Debate Programmes Influence Political Participation? A Case Study from Nepal

Chris Larkin, Rhian Were

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 56 pp.

"This report focuses on the role of factual debate and discussion programming, defined for the purposes of this review as “dialogic formats”, on political participation, knowledge and efficacy [...] The review of the existing evidence base is followed by an in-depth look at the relationship betw ... more

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