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Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism

Maria Repnikova

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xiii, 271 pp.

"Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than merely a passive mouthpiece or a dissident voice, the media in China also plays a critical oversight role, one more frequently associated with liberal democracies than with autho ... more

Negotiating the Boundaries of News Reporting: Journalists’ Strategies to Access and Report Political Information in China

Xianwen Kuang

MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 35-51

"As Chinese politicians hold the power to control the dissemination of political information, beat journalists must guard their relationship with the authorities to expand the boundaries of news reporting; that is, to gain more access to political information and report more sensitive news. What rem ... more

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Malditos medios: Periodismo y dictadura

Florencia Saintout, Josefina Bolis

Oficios Terrestres, issue 34 (2016), pp. 8-23

"En el artículo se analiza cómo se conformó un entramado de cooperación entre el periodismo, los medios y la Dictadura para construir un orden represivo en el período 1976-1982. La prensa hegemónica ha realizado un trabajo articulado y sistemático para hacer posible el exterminio de un grupo ... more

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Information and Civil Unrest in Dictatorships

Elizabeth Ann Stein

Oxford University Press (2016)

"This is a broad overview of the role of information in various forms for key actors in dictatorships, including members of the regime, dissident leaders, and the general public. The existing literature implies that information is crucial to the dynamic interactions among these actors, particularly ... more

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Wandel im Journalismus autoritärer Regime: Das Beispiel Jordanien

Judith Pies

Bielefeld: transcript (2015), 415 pp.

"Wie verändert sich Journalismus in autoritären Regimen angesichts technischer, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Entwicklungen? Inwieweit können Medienakteure Wandel anstoßen? Mit welchen Mitteln versucht das Regime, steuernd einzugreifen? Judith Pies beantwortet diese Fragen anhand einer detail ... more

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Three Waves of Media Repression in Zimbabwe

Everette Ndlovua

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 25-44

"This article seeks to highlight how the media – especially radio – have always been used in Zimbabwe to consolidate the power of the government. This invariably led to oppositional media emerging from outside the country, giving the populace access to alternative discourses from those churned o ... more

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Mossul Journalists Are Dying Amid Resounding Silence

Reporters Without Borders (2015), 13 pp.

"Since the group calling itself “the Islamic State” (or “Islamic State of Iraq and AlSham”, ISIS) took control of Mosul in June 2014, this Iraqi city turned into a death trap for journalists, especially after the jihadist militant group seized all local media, getting hold of the full lists ... more

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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

Timothy Havens, Anikó Imre, Katalin Lustyik (eds.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 285 pp.

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Filtering revolution: Reporting bias in international newspaper coverage of the Libyan civil war

Matthew A. Baum, Yuri M. Zhukov

Journal of Peace Research, volume 52, issue 3 (2015), pp. 384-400

"Reporting bias – the media's tendency to systematically underreport or overreport certain types of events – is a persistent problem for participants and observers of armed conflict. We argue that the nature of reporting bias depends on how news organizations navigate the political context in wh ... more

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Media Control, Colonialism and the Making of an Authoritarian Postcolonial African State: The Case of Botswana

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 45-58

"Observing the emergence of public service broadcasting on the eve of colonialism in Botswana (early 60s to early 2000s), the central thesis of the article is that the roots of control of the media in contemporary Botswana can be traced to British anxieties about the possibility of a nationalist rev ... more

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Literatur in Nordkorea

Yong Sun Jeon

In: Länderbericht Korea

Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 612-621

"Das Material für die nordkoreanische Literatur schöpft sich zum allergrößten Teil aus Kim Il Sungs bewaffnetem Revolutionskampf gegen Japan. Schriftsteller und Künstler lassen die Schauplätze der antijapanischen Revolution wiederauferstehen und deren Geist wiederaufleben [...] Dabei hat der I ... more

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Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes

Don Podesta

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.

"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and even at times exposing official corr ... more

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A Gesture of Compliance: Media Convergence in China

Liangen Yin, Xiaoyan Liu

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 5 (2014), pp. 561-577

"This study aims to examine journalistic convergence in China. Using qualitative data drawn from the case study of Shenzhen Press Group in Guangdong, South China, we argue that the media's response to the Chinese government's push for media convergence is simply a gesture of compliance. While media ... more

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Libya Media Assessment

Matt Abud, Ben Moran

Washington, DC; London: Internews (2011), 43 pp.

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Civil Society 2.0? How the Internet Changes State-Society Relations in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Cuba

Bert Hoffmann

Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2011), 31 pp.

Buch und Lesen in der DDR: Ein literatursoziologischer Rückblick

Dietrich Löffler

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 440 pp.

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Central and Eastern European Media Under Dictatorial Rule and in the Early Cold War

Olaf Mertelsmann (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang (2011), 233 pp.

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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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Journalism in Central Asia: A Victim of Politics, Economics, and Widespread Self-censorship

Timothy Kenny, Peter Gross

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 13, issue 4 (2008), pp. 515-525

"Significant efforts to develop an independent journalism have stumbled badly in Central Asia, where politics, economics and the unforeseen consequence of widespread self-censorship have derailed development of a Western-style media and the democracy it serves. What is worse, from Kazakhstan to Uzbe ... more

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