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Satellite Ministries: The rise of Christian television in the Middle East
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Febe Armanios

New York: Oxford University Press (2025), 368 pp.

"Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categori ... more

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Southern European press challenges in a time of crisis: A cross-national study of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Malta

Lada Trifonova Price, Marilyn Clark, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Theodora A. Maniou

Journalism, volume 25, issue 11 (2024), pp. 2420-2439

"The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for newsrooms across the world range from severe economic hardship to increased threats to press freedom. The “perfect storm” that engulfed the media and journalists globally has threatened and continues to challenge their existence, and the core of the ... more

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“Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Mujahideen”: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis of the Militarist Discourse in a Turkish Cypriot Children's Magazine

Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3668-3687

"This research offers a discourse-theoretical analysis of the construction of the militarist discourse in Turkish Cypriot children’s magazines, with a specific focus on the magazine Tuncer. The selected data for analysis consist of 14 issues published between January 1967 and December 1968. The ch ... more

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You are the agenda: The pursuit of personal significance in social media contexts

Philemon Bantimaraudis, Theodora A. Maniou, Thanasis Ziogas

Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 4 (2023), pp. 608-629

"This paper draws evidence from a national survey conducted in the Republic of Cyprus. Respondents provided evidence about their own self-promotion on social media while assessing other users’ personal salience online. Furthermore, they provided evidence about their own reactions toward other peop ... more

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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.

"The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise sign ... more

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Constructing Silence: Processes of Journalistic (Self-)Censorship during Memoranda in Greece, Cyprus, and Spain

Sofia Iordanidou, Emmanouil Takas, Leonidas Vatikiotis, Pedro García

Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 15-26

"What are to be considered as threats against journalism? Whereas the literature on safety of journalists mainly discusses threats as part of armed conflicts, this article studies how other kinds of conflicts such as economic strangulation and the viability threat represent threats against journalis ... more

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Media and Social Representations of Otherness: Psycho-Social-Cultural Implications

Terri Mannarini, Giuseppe A. Veltri, Sergio Salvatore (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2020), xiv, 148 pp.

"This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of "otherness" in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000-2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that c ... more

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Words That Matter: A Glossary for Journalism in Cyprus

Nikosia: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2018), xxvii, 56 pp.

"This publication is a glossary of alternatives to negative words and phrases, and draws upon the experiences and expertise of both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot journalists. It aims to encourage sensitive communications, to promote the sharing of stories and experiences, and, eventually, to hel ... more

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Mapping Community Media Organisations in Cyprus: A Methodological Reflection

Chris Voniati, Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2018), pp. 17-32

"Identifying grassroots or ‘below-the-radar’ organisations, such as community media organisations, is a challenging task that is not always supported sufficiently by methodological literature. The objective of this article is to address this challenge by proposing a structured approach to mappin ... more

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Journalists in Cyprus

Dimitra L. Milioni

Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 5 pp.

"With regards to professional role orientations, Cypriot journalists found it most important to report things as they are, to provide analysis of current affairs, and, to a lesser extent, to be a detached observer (see Table 1). The relevance of these “classic” roles was fairly undisputed among ... more

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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study

Scott Griffen

Barbara Trionfi (ed.)

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.

"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat ... more

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Peace Journalism: A Practical Handbook for Journalists in Cyprus

Vasvi Çiftcioglu

Naci Talat Vakfi;IKME (2017), 29 pp.

"This book constitutes a milestone in journalism for both Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot editors and journalists across the island as it offers alternatives to the dominant “war journalism” approach that Cyprus journalism (as part of a global pattern of contemporary journalism), has become ha ... 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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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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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.

"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more

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Community Media for Reconciliation: A Cypriot Case Study

Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki

Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 7, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434

"Community media studies have often neglected how community media can contribute in areas ridden with conflict to more peaceful ways of cohabitation. This article aims to look in detail at how the Cyprus Community Media Centre (CCMC) has developed conflict resolution strategies to reduce the antagon ... more

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The Transparency of Media Ownership in the European Union and Neighbouring States

Rachael Craufurd Smith, Yolande Stolte

Access Info Europe;Open Society Program on Independent Journalism (2014), 28 pp.

"Despite the importance of media ownership transparency for both the individual and the state, only two of the surveyed countries—Italy and Romania—address media transparency directly in their constitutions but in both cases the focus is on transparency of fi nancial sources not ownership. In th ... more

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The Media Landscape in 54 Countries: Country Profiles from the 2011 and 2012 UIS Pilot Surveys

Paris: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 155 pp.

"The current UIS Questionnaire on Media Statistics provides information for three UNESCO frameworks, namely the Media and Information Literacy Framework, the Media Development Indicators Framework and the Framework for Cultural Statistics. The questionnaire collects data for reporting global progres ... more