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Communication and democracy in Brazil and Germany: Media accountability, public service media, internet access and right to information
São Paulo: Cultura Acadêmica (2025), 304 pp.
Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil
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Determinants of watchdog journalism: A global empirical approach
International Communication Gazette (2024), ?? pp.
"This article introduces and examines a hierarchical model of influences that identifies the variables affecting the watchdog role of journalists at three levels: the societal (press freedom and democracy), the organizational (media ownership), and the individual (editorial autonomy and perceived in
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La información como bien público fundamental para la democracia: Desafíos para el periodismo y los productores de contenidos informativos de interés público
Proyecto Antonio Nariño (2024), 35 pp.
Media and Politics in Post-Authoritarian Mexico: The Continuing Struggle for Democracy
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 286 pp.
"This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance o
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Media and Democracy in the Middle East
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 176 pp.
"Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the ‘Arab Uprisings’ in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East region have dramatically changed. The initial hope for democratic change and governance quality improvements has faded, as several regimes in the Middle East ha
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Automating Democracy: Generative AI, Journalism, and the Future of Democracy
Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute (BII);Balliol College;Institute for Ethics in AI;Oxford Internet Institute (2023), 21 pp.
Empowering Voices: The Role of Community Radio in Strengthening Democracy and Fostering Inclusive Development in India
Journal of Communication and Management, volume 2, issue 3 (2023), pp. 16-21
"Community media is widely recognized as a tool to give voice to the voiceless. This study investigates the transformative potential of community media in India as a vehicle for promoting inclusive development and enhancing democracy. The research aims to examine the distinctive ways that community
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Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: A deliberative systems approach
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 3 (2023), pp. 637-655
"Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of data visualisations has thus far received minimal attention. This article
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Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), 176 pp.
"Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy uses the perceptions of journalists in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya to examine mediascapes at varying stages of development and democracy-building—Rwanda, which experienced a genocide in 1994, is in relatively early (though fast-paced) stages of
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Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 295 pp.
"Who owns the media and communications in Africa today and with what implications? The book elegantly answers this urgent question by unpacking multiple dimensions of media ownership through rare and authoritative perspectives, including both historical and contemporary digital developments. It trac
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Protecting journalists from harassment: Comparing existing protection mechanisms and the effects on democracy
In: Success and failure in news media performance: Comparative analysis in the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021
Josef Trappel; Tales Tomaz (eds.)
Gothenburg: Nordicom (2022), pp. 59-77
"There is a quickly increasing body of studies and reports on harassment and intimidation of journalists around the world. These series of acts have a chilling effect on media freedom and journalists’ freedom of expression. The research literature on the topic has mostly focused on intimidation an
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Welche Öffentlichkeit brauchen wir? Zur Zukunft des Journalismus und demokratischer Medien
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2022), 236 pp.
"Die elf Beiträge der Autor:innen aus Medienwissenschaft und -praxis untersuchen Finanzierung, Produktion und Distribution medialer Öffentlichkeiten sowie Themen, Formate und Rezeption auf ihre Defizite und ihr progressives Potential. Die Analysen und Essays argumentieren unter anderem für die Ve
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How We Know Journalism is Good for Democracy
Democracy Fund (2022)
"Since 2018, we’ve been tracking academic studies that show in stark terms the impact journalism has on our democracy. This research review has become a critical guide for funders, policymakers, communities, and journalists who care about creating a healthier democracy. In 2022, we overhauled this
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Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
Top Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 347 pp.
"This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different
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Determinants of Journalists' Autonomy and Safety: Evidence from the Worlds of Journalism Study
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 8 (2022), pp. 1715-1735
"The present study is an attempt to examine how objective structural political forces and subjective perception of political influences determine journalists' autonomy and safety. The evidence is based on responses representing journalists from 65 countries, which adds to the cross-cultural robustne
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Success and Failure in News Media Performance: Comparative Analysis in the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021
Gothenburg: Nordicom;University of Gothenburg (2022), 360 pp.
"The Media for Democracy Monitor (MDM) assesses the performance of leading news media in mature democracies with regard to the three core dimensions of democracy: freedom, equality, and control. After monitoring 10 countries in 2011, the MDM project expanded to cover the leading news media of 18 dem
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News Media Access for Civil Society Actors During Democratisation Processes: The Case of the Transitional Justice Campaign in Uruguay
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 16 (2022), pp. 2038-2056
"Theoretical scholarship on media democratisation neglects the role of representing groups in civil society, which in new democracies emerging from authoritarian regimes are frequently marginalised. These groups may also contest the form of democracy that has been implemented, and the way in which i
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Media and Democratic Backsliding: Lessons from the Turkish Case
Athens; Berlin: Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP);Centre for Applied Turkey Studies (CATS) (2022), 7 pp.
"In Turkey, the AKP came to power in 2002 at a time marked by a relatively pro-European Union and pluralistic outlook in politics. The democratic backsliding in Turkey has been more obvious since 2007 and the start of the AKP’s second term in power. It deepened especially after the 2016 coup attem
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