"Im ersten Teil der Broschüre geht es um übergreifende Themen wie die Verwobenheit der Diversitätsdimensionen, die Möglichkeit, Diversität durch Binnenpluralität herzustellen, den Zusammenhang von Bildkomposition und Hierarchien und um die Besonderheiten des Mediums Video. Der zweite Teil beha
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ndelt die Darstellung verschiedener Diversitätsdimensionen in den Medien: Ethnizität und „Hautfarbe“, Geschlecht und Gender, Behinderung, Alter sowie die Repräsentation von Familien. Im dritten Teil schließlich werden Tipps für die Bildrecherche gegeben, das Diversitätsrad als Mittel für einen Schnellcheck vorgestellt und die wichtigsten Punkte in Kürze zusammengefasst. Der Fokus dieser Handlungsempfehlungen liegt auf Bildern. In den nächsten Jahren wird das Gleichstellungsbüro der Goethe-Universität weiterhin einen Leitfaden erarbeiten, der sich mit (Text-)Sprache beschäftigt. Um Zusammenhänge zu verdeutlichen, wurden zahlreiche Fotos und andere Bilder als Anschauungsmaterial verwendet. Bilder, die – im Zuge des Fokus, den das jeweilige Kapitel setzt – als Positivbeispiele dienen, sind mit einem dunkelgrauen Balken und einem Häkchen gekennzeichnet. Für Fotos, die aus der Perspektive des Schwerpunktes eines Kapitels kritisch zu betrachten sind, wurde ein hellgrauer Grund benutzt. Dies bedeutet nicht, dass diese Fotos per se schlecht sind, sondern nur, dass sie in dem besprochenen Kontext für sich alleine oder in Kombination mit anderen Bildern als negativ zu betrachtende Schlussfolgerungen nahelegen." (Seite 10)
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"Personalized recommendations in search engines, social media and also in more traditional media increasingly raise concerns over potentially negative consequences for diversity and the quality of public discourse. The algorithmic filtering and adaption of online content to personal preferences and
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interests is often associated with a decrease in the diversity of information to which users are exposed. Notwithstanding the question of whether these claims are correct or not, this article discusses whether and how recommendations can also be designed to stimulate more diverse exposure to information and to break potential ‘filter bubbles’ rather than create them. Combining insights from democratic theory, computer science and law, the article makes suggestions for design principles and explores the potential and possible limits of ‘diversity sensitive design’." (Abstract)
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"This chapter explores the South African experience in attempting to achieve a more diverse and representative media that articulate the aspirations of the country, after decades of apartheid which skewed the media towards white people. South Africa has not developed a diversity measurement tool, su
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ch as the one developed for the European Commission to assess risks to media plurality in member states.1 A key problem the country faces in tracking the extent of concentration and diversity is that it has no ‘objective’2 means of assessing the extent of diversity, which up to this point has simply been ‘read off’ the number of existing media outlets. While a plurality of outlets may arguably be a necessary condition for diversity, it is by no means a sufficient condition." (Abstract)
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"Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media plur
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alism." (Publisher description)
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"Recommendations revolve around five building blocks of a co-ordinated strategy that calls for: 1. A regional news hub for the Russian language that embodies the values of fairness, accuracy and watchdog reporting, and builds a network of partners to leverage high-quality news content to wider audie
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nces across platforms [...] 2. A content sharing platform (“content factory”) to encourage the production and distribution of highquality programming on television and online, with particular emphasis on content that reflects local issues and local lives [...] 3. A centre for media excellence in the Russian language that co-ordinates the work of governments, NGOs and educational institutions in ongoing market research and media monitoring, media literacy programmes, professional training and peer-to-peer exchanges. 4. Alongside the three main building blocks, a basket fund should be established to provide a critical mass of funding for the building blocks [...] 5. On top of the three main building blocks should sit a multimedia distribution platform that guarantees a degree of “buy in” and ensures content generated by the news exchange and content factory reaches the widest possible audience." (Page 4)
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"The European Union's dedication to freedom the media is articulated in different parts of its acquis and the European Union supports media freedom by funding member counties and enlargement countries. This study underlines the freedom of expression as a fundamental human right before the European U
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nion and will reveals the close relationship between freedom of expression and free media. In addition, the challenges against freedom of expression in media throughout enlargement countries of the European Union will be outlined and also the European Union supports to media freedom as an instrument to solve problems in front of freedom of expression will be analyzed. Throughout this study, Turkey among the enlargement countries will be attached particular attention." (Abstract)
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"The overarching global trend with respect to media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists over the past several years is that of disruption and change brought on by technology, and to a lesser extent, the global financial crisis. These trends have impacted traditional econom
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ic and organizational structures in the news media, legal and regulatory frameworks, journalism practices, and media consumption and production habits. Technological convergence has expanded the number of and access to media platforms as well as the potential for expression. It has enabled the emergence of citizen journalism and spaces for independent media, while at the same time fundamentally reconfiguring journalistic practices and the business of news. The broad global patterns identified in this report are accompanied by extensive unevenness within the whole. The trends summarized above, therefore, go hand in hand with substantial variations between and within regions as well as countries." (Executive summary, page 7)
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