"Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, mainly due to political, criminal, and terrorist forces that sought to co-opt or silence the media in their struggle for power (Freedom House, 2016). As of 2015, only one in seven people around the world lived in a country that
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had a free media system, a country in which the coverage of news was robust, and the safety of journalists guaranteed. The rest have been living in countries whose press was either “partly free” or “not free” (Freedom House, 2016). As one of the most dangerous places in a world that has seen a recent upswing in violence against journalists, in Mexico, for example, even a car crash is not a simple car crash. “You have to call somebody to make sure you can write about it,” one journalist said, “because it might actually not be an accident but a purposeful vehicular homicide organized by the cartel” (Priest, 2015). And while journalists are aware of how the government and cartels are controlling news stories, self-censoring has become a common tactic. The situation of journalists in Mexico is the rule rather than the exception. Journalists in Russia, China, Turkey, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, and many other countries from around the world work also under severe and difcult circumstances." (Abstract)
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"Der arabische Frühling war nicht nur der Beginn eines gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umwälzungsprozesses in Nordafrika, sondern auch der Startpunkt einer neuen außenpolitischen Ära im Zeichen / Web 2.0. Auch wenn die Bedeutung der Mobiltelefone und sozialen Medien, mit der die Oppositionell
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en die ganze Welt an ihren Aktivitäten in Echtzeit teilhaben ließen, zuweilen überschätzt wird, so ist es doch unumstritten, dass sich für diese Instrumente neue Wege eröffnen, grenzüberschreitend zu kommunizieren. Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus für die Außenpolitik? Was sind die Chancen und Risiken virtueller Demokratieförderung in autoritären Staaten? Welche Rolle kann der Auslandsrundfunk im Zeitalter / Web 2.0 übernehmen? Wissenschaftler, Journalisten und Social-Media-Aktivisten aus der ganzen Welt nehmen Stellung zu Themen wie Partizipation 2.0, Kriegsführung im Cyberspace und digitale Sicherheitspolitik, journalistische Verantwortung in der digitalen Gesellschaft, soziale Medien in der auswärtigen Kultur- und Bildungspolitik und den Hype um die Facebook-Revolution." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the e
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ffects of ownership in terms of impacts on media freedom; 3) the various dimensions of the relationship between mass media and political systems in a comparative perspective; 4) professionalization of journalism in different political cultures—autonomy of journalists, professional norms and practices, political instrumentalization and the commercialization of the media; 5) the role of state intervention in media systems." (Publisher description)
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