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Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries
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Rebecca MacKinnon, Elonnai Hickok, Allon Barr, Hae-in Lim

Paris: UNESCO (2014), 210 pp.

"The research showed that internet intermediaries are heavily influenced by the legal and policy environments of states, but they do have leeway over many areas of policy and practice affecting online expression and privacy. The findings also highlighted the challenge where many state policies, laws ... more

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Informe anual de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos 2013, vol. II: Informe de la relatoría especial para la libertad de expresión

Catalina Botero Marino

Washington, DC: Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) (2014), vii, 634 pp.

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The “politicization” of Turkish Television Dramas

Kumru Berfin Emre Cetin

International Journal of Communication, volume 8 (2014), pp. 2462-2483

"Turkish television has undergone a distinctive transformation since the early 2000s in which new regulations, rapid market growth, and political pressures have interacted with and transformed each other. As Turkey set new records in 2013 for the highest number of journalists arrested worldwide, tel ... more

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Briefing Note Series: Freedom of Expression

Halifax; Copenhagen: Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD); International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 50 pp.

"This series of Briefing Notes is designed to give readers an understanding of the key international legal standards that apply in the context of freedom of expression. They are aimed at an audience which does not necessarily have a deep understanding of freedom of expression issues, but they also a ... more

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Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions

Victoria Nash

In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

William H. Dutton (ed.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 441-463

"it is clear that technological innovation will not necessarily enhance freedom of expression; indeed, research from across the many disciplines covered by Internet studies suggests that such fundamental freedoms will be diminished unless we pay more attention to the full array of policy 'games' tha ... more

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Freedom of the Media in the Western Balkans

Elda Brogi, Alina Dobreva, Pier Luigi Parcu et al.

Brussels: European Union, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, Policy Department (2014), 88 pp.

"The study analyses media freedom and pluralism in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia) in light of the EU enlargement policy. Despite the different stages of their EU accession paths, these countries share si ... more

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El derecho a comunicar: Los conflictos en torno a la libertad de expresión en las sociedades contemporáneas

Damián Loreti, Luis Lozano

Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores (2014), 286 pp.

"Los autores revisan las distintas escuelas y enfoques acerca de la libertad de expresiön, se preguntan si el rol del Estado es solo abstenerse de censurar o si le corresponde además garantizar condiciones de equidad en la comunicación social, exponen los vaivenes de la censura desde una perspect ... more

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New Media and the Developmental State in Ethiopia

Iginio Gagliardone

African Affairs, volume 113, issue 451 (2014), pp. 279-299

"The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has developed one of the most restrictive systems for the regulation of new media in Africa. So far, most discussion has focused on the measures employed by the EPRDF to prevent the Internet and mobile p ... more

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Somaliland Press Freedom: Opportunities and Challenges

Social Research and Development Institute (SORADI); Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2014), 139 pp.

"Somaliland needs legal, policy and institutional reforms in order to avoid arbitrary and politically motivated interference with the dissemination of information and opinions to the public. This is the conclusion of one of the papers presented at the 4th Annual Conference organized by the Social Re ... more

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Control remoto: De cómo el gobierno de Evo Morales creó una red de medios paraestatales y un plan para acosar a la prensa independiente

Raúl Peñaranda

[author], 6ta ed. (2014), 196 pp.

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Poder y medios en Centroamérica: Construyendo políticas públicas ciudadanas

Oscar Pérez (ed.)

San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos; AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2014), viii, 175 pp.

"El libro que ahora tienen entre sus manos, resultado de meses de ardua coordinación e investigación en Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua y El Salvador, recoge con mucha preocupación la firme tendencia que existe en Centroamérica hacia una mayor concentración de la propiedad de los medios de comun ... more

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Media Outlets and Their Moguls: Why Concentrated Individual or Family Ownership is Bad for Editorial Independence

Chris Hanretty

European Journal of Communication, volume 29, issue 3 (2014), pp. 335-350

"This article investigates the levels of owner influence in 211 different print and broadcast outlets in 32 different European media markets. Drawing on the literature from industrial organization, it sets out reasons why we should expect greater levels of influence where ownership of individual out ... more

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Internet Freedom and Freedom of Expression in South Africa

Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI); Raith Foundation (2014), 31 pp.

"In a rapidly changing civil-political and socio-economic environment, the internet has emerged as one of the primary mechanisms that influence and continue to redefine the practice of democracy. Internet freedom is therefore an increasingly important safeguard towards advancing not only freedom of ... more

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The Main Challenges for the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media

Dunja Mijatovic

Security and Human Rights, volume 24 (2014), pp. 325-332

"This article focuses on the interdependence between security and human rights. The author advocates that freedom of expression and free media – two basic human rights – play increasingly important roles in fostering a meaningful debate on security issues and that they can help us to effectively ... more

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Singapore-Style Press Control? Not in Fiji

Marc Edge

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 3 (2014), pp. 255-274

"Constraints imposed on the press in Fiji under the 2010 Media Decree have been compared with the system of press control in Singapore. The two systems are, however, quite different. The type of hegemonic control that has been achieved in Singapore is unlikely to be replicated in Fiji. The press in ... more

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Internet in Chains: The Front Line of State Repression in Iran

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (2014), 49 pp.

"Censorship and state control over the Internet in Iran is changing: it is becoming more systemic and less detectable, posing an ever-greater threat to Iranian users. Increasingly, the state is focusing on developing the technological infrastructure to effectively control access to the Internet insi ... more

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Honduras: Periodismo a la sombra de la impunidad

Kaitlin Owens

London: PEN International (2014), 96 pp.

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Silencing Mexico: A Study of Influences on Journalists in the Northern States

Jeannine E. Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2014), pp. 108-131

"During President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s administration, the military was called on to confront organized crime, and dozens of journalists were killed in Mexico. Attacks on journalists have continued under the new administration. This study focuses on the erosion of the democratic institution ... more

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The Greedy Giants: Centralized Television in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Ade Armando

International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 390-406

"This article essentially shows how the development of commercial television in Indonesia has conflicted with the country’s media democratization, as illustrated by the growth of local media in the past 15 years. Compared to print media and radio, which are decentralized, Indonesia’s television ... more

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"Offiziell haben wir Meinungsfreiheit"

Kirsten Herrmann

Message, issue 4 (2014), pp. 76-79

"Farida Nekzad leitet die Nachrichtenagentur Wakht in Afghanistan. Im Message-Interview erklärt sie, unter welchen Gefahr Journalistinnen in ihrem Land arbeiten und welche Medien Warlords bevorzugen." (Einleitung)

Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries Top Insights

Fostering Freedom Online: The Role of Internet Intermediaries
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