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A Companion to Russian Cinema

Birgit Beumers (ed.)

Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 656 pp.

"A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and ... more

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Polarisiert, politisiert und vielfältig: Polens Medien 27 Jahre nach dem Systemwechsel

Katarina Bader, Tomasz Zapart

Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 1-2 (2016), pp. 131-148

"Polens regierende Partei hat Ende 2015 im Eilverfahren den Rundfunkrat entmachtet. Anschließend begann die PiS, wichtige Posten im öffentlichen Rundfunk neu zu besetzen. Kritiker in Polen und anderen EU-Staaten sprechen vom „Ende eines unabhängigen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in Polen“ ... more

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, paperback ed. (2016), xxxi, 477 pp.

"Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. ... more

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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson (eds.)

Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.

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Media Sustainability Index 2016: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and EurAsia

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2016), xxii, 318 pp.

"The three countries that this year experienced a decrease in overall score—Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan—were ones last year that had showed small but unexpected increases. Last year’s Executive Summary indicated that such increases were unlikely to be part of a larger upward trend; pan ... more

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.

"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more

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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Testing and Implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2015

Elda Brogi, Lisa Ginsborg, Alina Ostling, Pier Luigi Parcu, Maja Simunjak

European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (2016), 75 pp.

"The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool for assessing the risks for media pluralism in a given country. The Monitor aims to help policymakers, researchers, and civil society to understand the threat to media pluralism in different media systems through research, analysis and the provision of co ... more

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Performance Evaluation of the Ukraine Media Project, 2011–2015

Katerina Tsetsura, Lyubov Palyvoda, Dariya Orlova

Washington, DC: USAID (2016), xi, 161 pp.

"The current five-year Ukraine Media Project (U-Media) runs from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2016 and is implemented by Internews. U-Media builds on the previous eight years of the Strengthening Independent Media in Ukraine Project, also known as U-Media and also implemented by Internews. The p ... more

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Kirche - Medien - Öffentliche Meinung: 18. Internationaler Kongress Renovabis, 3.-5. September 2014 in Freising

Freising: Renovabis (2016), 267 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.

"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more

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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.

"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.

"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Ukraine

Reporters Without Borders (2016), 611 pp.

"Ukrainian mass media outlets are mostly driven by their owners’ individual interests and thus serve as instruments to securing political and economic power. Corruption and lack of financial transparency further inhibit the healthiness of the country’s media landscape. The Media Ownership Monito ... more

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The Coverage of the Conflict in the East by the Ukrainian Media: Investigating the Values, Guidelines, and Practices of the Journalists

Dariya Orlova

Kyiv: Detector Media NGO (2016), 19 pp.

"Ukrainian journalists find it hard to remain neutral and independent when covering the conflict in their country. Many are torn between feelings of patriotism and their role as detached observers, new research has found. Of the 47 Ukrainian journalists, representing 42 different media outlets, inte ... more

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Mapping of Media Literacy Practices and Actions in EU-28
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Strasbourg: European Audiovisual Observatory (2016), 452 pp.

"Of the 939 identified main media literacy stakeholders, over a third were categorised as “civil society” (305), followed by “public authorities” (175) and “academia” (161). Over two-thirds of them do not have a statutory responsibility in this area and base their involvement on a differ ... more

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Gender in the Belarusian Media Landscape

Elena Jerzdeva

Stockholm: Fojo Media Institute (2016), 45 pp.

"In Belarus more than 70 percent of those working in the media are women. The number of women producing media content is increasing. Women are well represented in middle management positions, but men still dominate positions at the highest level, with the highest wages. Journalism is a low-income pr ... more

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Journalists in the Czech Republic

Alice Nemcová Tejkalová, Filip Láb

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"The differences between the most and least important roles according to Czech journalists are very big. While almost 100 percent of journalists viewed their role to “report things as they are” as very or even the most important, only 1.4 percent of interviewed journalists perceived “support o ... more

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CANnual Report 2016: A New Constellation in the Advertising Industry of Central and Eastern Europe

Budapest: WeCAN Communications (2016), 214 pp.

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Digital News Report 2016

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.

"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and ... more

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Overcoming Barriers: Media in Covering Conflict-Sensitive Issues

Maryna Bezkorovaina, Daria Orlova, Roman Shutov, Yevhen Zaslavskyi

Kyiv: OSCE;Detector Media (2016), 45 pp.

Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World Top Insights

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Mapping of Media Literacy Practices and Actions in EU-28
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