"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation
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alen Medienentwicklungszusammenarbeit (MEZ) kritisch in den Blick genommen. Mit dem gescheiterten Putsch im Jahr 2015 hat das Mediensystem in Burundi einen grundlegenden Wandel erlebt: Medienhäuser wurden vollständig zerstört, Hunderte von Journalisten leben im Exil und die Meinungsfreiheit wurde begraben." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"News media played a prominent role in perpetuating the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Since then, Rwanda has undergone impressive social and economic growth, but the media landscape during this redevelopment remains understudied. Qualitative interviews with Rwandan journalists reveal that reporters censor
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themselves to promote peace and reunification. Short-term, prioritizing social good over media rights might help unify the country, but ultimately it could limit development and reinforce existing authoritarian power structures. Findings suggest that McQuail’s development media theory and Hachten’s developmental concept maintain relevance but point to the need for a new or revised media development paradigm." (Abstract)
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"Reúne los relatos sobre el devenir de la investigación en comunicación en América Latina que se presentaron en el coloquio homónimo el cual, dirigido a participantes del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, se realizó en la UNAM en octubre de
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2016. En palabras de su coordinadora Delia Crovi Druetta, se trata de un tejido común "armado a partir de fibras particulares, de experiencias diversas, de condiciones histórico-sociales disímiles, en las que a pesar de todo existen rasgos y retos comunes [...] Identificamos similitudes y diferencias, pero emerge la necesidad de seguir invirtiendo esfuerzos conjuntos sobre el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la investigación en comunicación en América Latina, su organización, sus protagonistas y los temas que interesan o preocupan". (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her
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zegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia undertook a range of media reforms to conform with accession requirements of the European Union and the standards of the Council of Europe, among others. The essays explore the nexus between the democratic transformation of the media and international media assistance. The cross-national analysis concludes that the effects of international assistance are highly constrained by the local context. From today's vantage point it becomes obvious, that scaling media assistance does not necessarily improve outcomes. The experiences in the region suggest that imported solutions have not been very cognitive in all aspects of local conditions but international strategies tend to be rather schematic and lacked strategic approaches to promote media policy stability, credible media reform and implementation. The book offers valuable insights into the nature and effects of media assistance and the strategies deployed by international aid agencies, local political forces, media professionals, civil society organizations and other actors." (Publisher description)
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"This mapping of the Myanmar media development sector is informed by three activities: a status update of the recommendations in the 2016 Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar report based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators, an online survey conducted in March and April 2018, and a seri
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es of key informant interviews and focus group discussions. The two Top 10 lists of priority areas – the first for the Union Government and the second for media donors and implementers – are informed by the research findings." (Executive summary)
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"Technology plays an important role for news media distribution in Bulgaria: 88% of Bulgarians get their news online, first and foremost on the online platforms of popular television channels and their social network pages. Bulgarians are some of the most active social media users in the EU (ranked
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6th among all EU Member States), and use Facebook overwhelmingly more than all other platforms – among other purposes, for news consumption. Because of its astounding popularity, Facebook is the most popular online platform for news media, and the audiences of news outlets attract on their Facebook pages often surpass in numbers those of their own websites. For the same reasons, the platform is notable for its major role in promoting fake news in Bulgaria, which had a particularly strong impact on voters before the last parliamentary election in March 2017.
Google is another international technology company with a dominant position in the market for digital media distribution. Google occupies an overwhelming share of the search engine market across all platforms, and its YouTube is ranked as the second most popular social media platform in the country. On the other hand, Google is the sole international technology company that has contributed finances to the local journalism in Bulgaria: its Digital News Innovation (DNI) Fund has awarded €450,000 in funding to journalistic projects in Bulgaria since its launch in 2015. The fund’s overall influence in the Bulgarian media is insignificant for now, but it did help multiple innovative projects get off the ground.
While the digital news distribution market overall is dominated by the international tech giants Facebook and Google, there are local digital media platforms in Bulgaria, too. The most notable one is Netinfo, the largest digital media company in the country, covering 85% of the users with a wide range of information, communication and entertainment services." (Page 4)
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"Tendo como pressuposto inicial a afirmação de que o ato de compra de um livro indica uma demanda cultural por parte do comprador ou do potencial leitor, e assumindo a correlata afirmação de que os títulos mais difundidos em determinada sociedade em dada época podem indicar suas dominantes cul
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turais, o livro Mercado Editorial Brasileiro analisa os livros de autores nacionais mais vendidos no Brasil nas décadas de 1960, 1970 e 1980. Para traçar as linhas gerais do perfil temático das escolhas voluntárias de aquisição de livros de 1960 a 1990 o trabalho utiliza três instrumentos: 1) dados quantitativos gerais sobre o mercado editorial brasileiro; 2) listagens anuais de livros mais vendidos publicadas em jornais e revistas- utilizados como vagos indicadores das temáticas e preocupações dominantes no setor da população que tem acesso a livro; 3) dados históricos e conjunturais que ajudam a esclarecer os dados de vendagem. O resultado é uma abordagem analítica das preferências dos leitores e suas correlações com os contextos social, político e cultural do pais entre 1960 e 1990." (Resumo)
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