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Ethnic Media, Conflict, and the Nation-State: Kurdish Broadcasting in Turkey and Europe and Mediated Nationhood

Kevin Smets

Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2016), pp. 738-754

"Drawing on fieldwork among Kurdish broadcasters in Turkey and Europe, this article shows how ethnic media mediate nationhood in a conflict context. Despite rising interest in the media-nationhood nexus, and the expansion of studies on ethnic media, little is known about ethnic media in conflicts in ... more

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Pulverfass Kaukasus: Nationale Konflikte und islamistische Gefahren am Rande Europas

Manfred Quiring

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 219 pp.

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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.

"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more

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State of Emergency in Turkey: The Impact on Freedom of the Media

London: Article 19 (2016), 23 pp.

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Media Ownership Monitor Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (2016)

"While the Turkish media market looks diverse from the outside because of the large numbers of outlets, it is increasingly concentrated in terms of opinion. The Media Ownership Monitor Turkey, carried out with IPS Communication Foundation/ bianet between July and October 2016, shows that the governm ... more

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Regional Assessment on Access to and Quality of Information on Environmental Issues for Internews Project “Media for Improved Reporting on Environment and Natural Resources in Central Asia” Funded by the European Union

Bishkek: Internews;SIAR Research&Consulting (2016), 73 pp.

"The main objective of this research project was to develop a baseline around quantity and quality information on environment and natural resources in Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan in order to inform Internews’ Central Asia project, specifically capacity buil ... more

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Social Media and Social Movements: The Transformation of Communication Patterns

Bars Çoban

Lanham; Boulder: Lexington Books (2016), xix, 252 pp.

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Silencing Turkey’s Media: The Government’s Deepening Assault on Critical Journalism

Human Rights Watch (2016), 74 pp.

"Following the abortive July coup in Turkey, the government has accelerated and intensified a crackdown on independent media which had already been underway for more than a year. Under the state of emergency declared in the aftermath of the coup attempt, the government has closed down independent me ... more

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Executive Summary: Advertising Expenditure Forecasts March 2016

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 10 pp.

"ZenithOptimedia predicts global ad expenditure will grow 4.6% in 2016, reaching US$579 billion by the end of the year. This will be a 0.7 percentage point improvement on 2015: 2016 is a ‘quadrennial’ year, when ad expenditure is boosted by the Summer Olympics, the US presidential election and t ... more

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Strategic Communication for Non-Profit Organisations: Challenges and Alternative Approaches

Evandro Oliveira, Ana Duarte Melo, Gisela Gonçalves (eds.)

Wilmington, Delaware; Malaga: Vernon Press (2016), 308 pp.

"The aim of the present book is to offer an overview and report on Strategic Communication for Non-Profit-Organisations and the Challenges and Alternative Approaches. Considering the assumption that a key principle of strategic communication is the achievement of organisational goals, the majority o ... more

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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)

Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.

"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more

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Blasphemy Law in Muslim-Majority Countries: Religion-State Relationship and Rights Based Approaches in Pakistan, Indonesia and Turkey

Haidar Adam

Budapest: Central European University, Master Thesis (2015), iii, 61 pp.

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Media Consumption Forecasts 2015

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2015), 192 pp.

"This report surveys the changing patterns of media consumption in 65 countries across the world, and forecasts how the amount of time people allocate to different media will change between 2014 and 2017. It measures the amount of time spent reading newspapers and magazines, watching television, lis ... more

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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.

"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... urnalism is a tool routinely used by politicians at election time. The same is true in India. In other countries, including Nigeria, Philippines, and Colombia the precarious working conditions of news staff provide fertile conditions for corruption and “brown envelopes” or under-the-table cash payments to reporters and editors which are a routine feature of journalistic work. The struggles facing journalists in settled democracies, such as the United Kingdom and Denmark, are less brazen, but no less challenging and in a range of countries across the Western Balkans with a shared and painful history, media corruption hinders aspirations to break free from the legacy of war, censorship and political control during decades of communist rule. The story is of an uphill struggle. Everywhere there is a crisis of confidence inside newsrooms caused by crumbling levels of commitment to ethics, a lowering of the status of journalistic work and a pervasive lack of transparency over advertising, ownership and corporate and political affiliations. Government control over lucrative state advertising, which is often allocated to media according to their political bias, remains widespread. At the same time, the elimination in most countries of the invisible wall separating editorial and advertising has created a surge of so-called “native advertising,” hidden advertorials and paid-for journalism. It was this conflict of interest that plunged the crisis-prone UK press into a new bout of handwringing in February 2015 when Peter Oborne, a leading political journalist, quit his job at the Daily Telegraph accusing the management of censoring stories about HSBC bank, a leading advertiser caught up in a tax scandal. These reports tell essentially the same story of deep cuts in editorial investment, undue pressure on newsrooms, and media increasingly dependent upon atypical models of ownership in which media have become the trophy possessions of powerful figures and institutions in pursuit of wider corporate and political objectives." (Introduction, page iii-iv) more

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Zwischen Aufklärung und Propaganda: Medien im Südkaukasus

Silvia Stöber

Osteuropa, volume 65, issue 7-10 (2015), pp. 211-229

"Die Medienlandschaften der südkaukasischen Staaten sind so unterschiedlich wie die Länder. In Georgien gibt es eine lebendige Medienszene, in Armenien ist der Markt von politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kartellen geprägt. In Aserbaidschan unterdrückt das autoritäre Regime die unabhängigen Medi ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more

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Baseline Assessment of the “Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in the Enlargement Countries 2014-20”

Pam van de Bunt, Davor Glavas, Tihomir Loza, Enton Dimni, Dijan Albayrak

European Commission;Particip (2015), 99, 173 pp.

"For this assessment more than 390 surveys were made in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey [...] In addition to the survey a further 150 in-depth interviews were held, complemented by a Focus Group in each country, which ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

Bill Sweeney (ed.)

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Wiley (2015), 256 pp.

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Public Perceptions of the Christian Minority in Turkey

London: Screen Changers (2015), 55 pp.

"The report reveals that for most respondents, Christianity is a concept that is foreign to Turkish culture. Whilst this situation is a consequence of the low numbers of Christians, it is also influenced by educational content and the media. Despite the rich history of Christianity in Turkey, the ex ... more

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Transnationalization of Turkish Dramas: Exploring the Convergence of Local and Global Market Imperatives

Bilge Yesil

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 43-60

"Since the mid-2000s, an ever-increasing number of Turkish dramas have been exported to several markets and commanded high prices and ratings. To explain the transnationalization of Turkish dramas, this article explores the political economic imperatives as opposed to the commonly cited cultural pro ... more

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