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Handbook of Media and Communication Governance

Manuel Puppis, Robin Mansell, Hilde Van den Bulck (eds.)

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2024), 630 pp.

"This state-of-the-art Handbook provides unique insights into the governance practices and institutions shaping digitalized public spheres. Focusing on the power relations involved, it presents diverse approaches to key debates in media and communication governance, showcasing groundbreaking advance ... more

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Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment
Key Guidance

Paris: OECD (2024), 15 pp.

"The below principles seek to reinvigorate international support to media and the information environment. They aspire to encourage current development co-operation providers to increase levels of financial and other forms of assistance and to improve the relevance and effectiveness of their existin ... g support to preserve, protect, and promote public interest media and information integrity. Official development assistance (ODA) can be essential to address the major challenges facing the global information environment. The principles presented here may guide development co-operation providers’ endeavours to respond to the challenges laid out in the preamble. The principles are supported by a non-exhaustive, indicative list of practical, concrete ways to operationalise each principle. The first principle on ‘do no harm to public interest media’, is intended as a minimum standard which all development co-operation providers are expected to respect. The other principles are more ambitious, seeking to function as a guide and an inspiration to development co-operation providers to increase the relevance and effectiveness of their support. 1. Ensure that assistance does no harm to public interest media [...] 2. Increase financial and other forms of support to public interest media and the information environment, in order to strengthen democratic resilience [...] 3. Take a whole of system perspective on supporting the media and information environment to make support more relevant, effective and sustainable. Consider the media and information environment as a development sector in itself, a critical part of efforts to promote and protect democracy, human rights, gender equality and development as well as a sector which can support implementation of other development goals [...] 4. Strengthen local leadership and ownership, empowering media partners as well as other actors in the information environment such as civil society organisations and online content creators to meaningfully participate in policies and programmes [...] 5. Improve co-ordination of support to the media and information environment, both among donor agencies and between development and diplomatic efforts to support media freedom, especially in contexts of crisis [...] 6. Invest in knowledge, research, and learning [...]" (Page 8-11) more

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Social media and online hostility: Experiences of women in Irish journalism

Dawn Wheatley

Dublin: Irish Research Council; Dublin City University (2023), 60 pp.

"The public’s increased access to journalists via social networks is arguably the defining shift in audience-media relations over the past two decades. While some laud this potential for dialogue, the reality is that many journalists face targeted hostility, with women often subjected to particula ... more

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International Media Development Cooperation: Journalism Education in Myanmar (2011-2021)

AHM Abdul Hai

Berlin: regiospectra Verlag (2023), xxi, 331 pp.

"Is it necessary for journalists to seek refuge with foreign agencies to escape national governmental and policy restrictions? Should journalism education rely on international support, or is it feasible to detach it from foreign development collab ... more

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Internet Radio and Podcasts as Alternative to the Public Service and Commercial Mainstream Media in Poland: The Cases of Radio Nowy Swiat, Radio 357, and Raport O Stanie Swiata

Urszula Doliwa

Profesional de la Información, volume 31, issue 5: e310506 (2022), 13 pp.

"The aim of this article is to show to what extent alternative audio media can be built online, not only by amateurs but also as a combination of the energy and involvement of professional journalists and the community of listeners who are ready to support them [...] The podcast Raport o stanie swia ... more

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Council Conclusions on Media Literacy in an Ever-Changing World

Council of the European Union

Official Journal of the European Union, issue C193 (2020), pp. 23-28

"The Council of the European Union [...] invites the Commission and member states, within their areas of competence and in due compliance with the principle of subsidiarity, to: 42. continue and undertake further efforts in terms of a systematic, c ... more

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Disinformation Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe

Kyiv: Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” (Prismua); Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center) (2018), 335 pp.

"This research is aimed at assessing national vulnerabilities and preparedness to counteract foreign-led disinformation in 14 countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The Visegrad states (Czech Re ... more

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European and International Media Law

Jan Oster

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), lxx, 583 pp.

"This book is the first to incorporate current academic literature on European, transnational, and international media law into a comprehensive overview intended primarily for students. It introduces the legal framework for globalised communication via mass media, and considers the transformative ef ... more

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Working with the Media: A Best Practice Guide

Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (2015), 28 pp.

"Communicating research findings to potential users outside the academic community, whether in government, business, Third Sector or the general public, has, or at least should become, an essential element in most social scientists’ working lives ... more

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Watchdogs and News Hounds: Holding the Media to Account. Mechanisms, Principles and Practices from Around the World

Libby Lloyd

Windhoek: fesmedia Africa; Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) (2011), 32 pp.

"The issue of media accountability mechanisms has been brought into the spotlight in South Africa following the release by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of a discussion paper entitled ‘Media Transformation, Ownership and Diversity’ ... more

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South Africa Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Lucy Neville et al.

London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 35 pp.

"Between August and October 2009, the BBC World Service Trust’s Research and Learning Group, funded by the British Council, conducted research ... more

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Improving Democracy Assisstance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research

Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assisstance Programs, National Research Council

Washington, DC: National Academies Press (2008), xiii, 277 pp.

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National Survey Into the Reading & Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans

Bellville: Print Industries Cluster Council; South African Book Development Council (2007), 74 pp.

"Presents the baseline data of quantitative research undertaken into the reading, book reading, and book buying habits of South Africans from the age of 16. The survey was commissioned by the South African Department of Arts and Culture through the ... more

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Perfect Match? Qualitative Audience Research and the Community Media Sector

Michael Meadows, Susan Forde, Jacqui Ewart, Kerrie Foxwell

3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication, issue 1 (2005), pp. 13-24

"Griffith University researchers in 2002 presented the final results of a national survey of community radio stations. The final report ‘Culture Commitment Community – The Australian Community Radio Sector’ contained a wealth of information o ... more

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The Role of the Church in Advocacy: Case Studies from Southern and Eastern Africa

Sara Gibbs, Ajulu, Deborah

INTRAC (1999), 101 pp.

"The primary objective of this research has been to review the experiences and analyse the role of the mainline churches in advocacy in support of human rights, democracy and poverty alleviation in Africa. It has set out to identify what is the par ... more

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Conference on Textbook Provision and Library Development in Africa

Manchester: British Council (1992), 27 pp.

"The proceedings of a British Council hosted conference held in Manchester in October 1991, which was the first international conference to examine all the issues raised by the African book sector studies commissioned by the World Bank and the UK� ... more

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Sierra Leone: Developing the Textbook Industry and the National Book Development Council

S. A. Amu Djoleto

Paris: UNESCO (1982), 43 pp.

"A UNESCO mission report whose purpose was to assist the Sierra Leone Ministry of Education in the review of existing facilities for the preparation, production, printing and distribution of textbooks in Sierra Leone (particularly those for primary schools); identify any inherent weaknesses and reco ... more

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Cinematographic Institutions

International Film and Television Council (IFTC)

Paris: UNESCO (1973), 98 pp.

"Primarily "a study of institutions of the public or public utility character whose purpose is to promote the art and technique of the cinema and their applications in education, science and culture." Thus, film and trade associations and trade union types of associations are not dealt with. It uses ... more

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Communications and Political Development

Lucien W. Pye (ed.)

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1963), xiv, 381 pp.

"Analysis of the contributions of major specialists in the mass media (more especially in the developing countries): Schramm, Schils, de Sola Pool, Lerner. This work constitutes the first volume of a series of 6 works entitled "Studies in political development", published under the patronage of the ... more

Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment Key Guidance

Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment
Key Guidance