"To summarize a very expansive set of standards and concomitant strategies, it can be said that the three main prongs to the Council of Europe's approach to countering "hate speech" are: (1) the prevention / prohibition / punishment of certain types of expression (e.g., incitement to hatred, racist
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expression); (2) the facilitation and creation of expressive and communicative opportunities for minorities; and relatedly, (3) the promotion of tolerance, understanding, and integroup / intercultural dialogue. By virtue of their agenda-setting and forum-providing capacities, the media are specifically implicated in many of the strategies employed, but in a way that is deferential to their operational autonomy." (Conclusion, page 497)
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"There is a need to encourage cultural sensitivity in the production and consumption of communication and information contents, thereby facilitating access, empowerment and participation. To this end, action should be taken to: a. Support the production and distribution of innovative and diversified
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audiovisual materials, taking account of local needs, contents and actors, and having recourse as appropriate to public-private partnerships. b. Assess the impact of ICT-driven changes on cultural diversity, with a view to highlighting good practices of multilingual access to written and audiovisual productions. c. Promote media and information literacy for all age groups in order to increase the ability of media users to critically evaluate communication and cultural contents." (Recommendations 5, page 151)
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"This article examines Deutsche Welle's Arabic television programming to evaluate its goal of promoting intercultural dialogue. Framed around the concept of media-promoted intercultural dialogue, the paper presents the results of a comparative content analysis of Deutsche Welle and two pan-Arab sate
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llite channels, al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya. Taking the results as a starting point, I propose suggestions for how to improve the performance of government-sponsored international broadcasting to overcome cultural divides." (Introduction)
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"Der Sammelband dokumentiert die Beiträge und die Diskussion eines Symposions des Forschungs- und Studienprojekts der Rottendorf-Stiftung. Jörg Becker analysiert in seinem Beitrag die globalen Kommunikationsstrukturen aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Sicht und charakterisiert die globale Medie
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nlandschaft als neue Form des Imperialismus. Dieter Kramer untersucht die kulturellen Implikationen der weltweiten Kommunikation am Beispiel der Weltliteratur, der interkulturellen Philosophie, der Kunst, der Musik und der Konsumgüter. Kulturelle Vielfalt, so Kramer, erlaubt eine Vernetzung, aus der heraus ein Dialog der Kulturen entstehen kann. Dies setzt aber eine neue Form des Dialogs im Kommunikations- und Informationsbereich voraus. Rüdiger Frank analysiert in seinem Beitrag, ob und gegebenenfalls wie globale Solidarität in der Kommunikation und den Medien von Bedeutung ist. Er fordert eine berufsethische Reflexion für Medienschaffende und eine Publikumsethik für Konsumenten. Konkret erläutert er seine Vorstellungen am Beispiel des "Public Journalist" und des Mitleidsmotivs in der Werbung. Hans J. Kleinsteuber liefert den politikwissenschaftlichen Beitrag zum Thema. Er unterscheidet interkulturelle und transkulturelle Kommunikation. Erstere will den transnationalen Markt erschließen. Die interkulturelle Kommunikation thematisiert Anknüpfungspunkte und Missverständnisse im Dialog der Kulturen, während die transkulturelle Kommunikation außerhalb staatlicher Grenzen vor allem im Internet verläuft. Kleinsteuber zeigt am Beispiel der Deutschen Welle die Konsequenzen aus dieser Entwicklung. In einem abschließenden Beitrag stellen Stefanie Landgraf und Johannes Gulde einen Film über die Partnerschaft zwischen einer deutschen und einer ruandischen Schulklasse vor, die miteinander Videobriefe austauschen." (Website Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen,10.3.2003)
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"The most striking impression is the fact that little research exists. Our review touched studies and discussions of many kinds, all with some relation to the central question, "What are the effects of cross-cultural broadcasting?" Much of what we found is based on fear or undue optimism. The lack o
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f studies firmly rooted in data: this is the overriding fact about this inquiry. While the image of cross-cultural broadcasting may be one of the ''cultural'' interchange, the reality is that of the marketplace. Commercial values are the rule; non-commercial broadcasting is not a major competitor to commercial programming. Programmes intended for any type of social improvement are rare. If they exist at all, they can be found on radio much more than on television or in films. General entertainment programming has a definite social value, but most observers would hope for programming more explicitly geared to the social needs of their diverse audiences. Furthermore, imported entertainment programmes produced for foreign audiences penetrate the host culture in ways that are not understood. Lack of understanding generates uneasiness and fear." (Implications of this report, 40)
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