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District Thailand: Identification, Spectatorship, and The Hunger Games in Thailand

Simon Turner

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 88-107

"On May 22nd 2014, The Kingdom of Thailand experienced its latest successful military coup. A few months later, in November 2014, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was released in Thai cinemas sparking new protests using symbols from the series. With this article, I seek to examine the reception o ... more

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In Repressive Countries, Citizens Go 'dark' to Share Independent News

Kate Musgrave

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017)

"CIMA’s analysis of audience data from nearly 40 countries yields a statistically significant correlation between freedom of the press and reliance on dark social sharing: the more repressive the media environment, the more likely the audience is to access news through dark social. Even more illus ... more

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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic

Annabelle Sreberny, Massoumeh Torfeh (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.

"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive ... more

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Anticipating the Struggle against Everyday Impunity in Myanmar through Accounts from Bangladesh and Thailand

Nick Cheesman, Bina D'Costa, T. Haberkorn

Asia & The Pacific Policy Studies, volume 3, issue 1 (2016), pp. 48-61

"Work done internationally to address impunity concentrates on removing blanket amnesties and establishing commissions of inquiry into past atrocities. Everyday impunity—the impossibility of bringing state officers to account for routinized violent crimes against other individuals—gets less atte ... more

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Malditos medios: Periodismo y dictadura

Florencia Saintout, Josefina Bolis

Oficios Terrestres, issue 34 (2016), pp. 8-23

"En el artículo se analiza cómo se conformó un entramado de cooperación entre el periodismo, los medios y la Dictadura para construir un orden represivo en el período 1976-1982. La prensa hegemónica ha realizado un trabajo articulado y sistemático para hacer posible el exterminio de un grupo ... more

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Fragile Finance: The Revenue Models of Oppositional News Outlets in Repressive Regimes
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Clare E. Cook

International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 6 (2016), pp. 514-535

"For journalists promoting the free flow of information in repressive or restrictive media environments, the issue of financial sustainability is complex. Both media in exile (out-of-country news outlets feeding independent information into the country of origin) and news outlets in restrictive news ... more

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An Opposition Newspaper Under an Oppressive Regime: A Critical Analysis of the Daily News

Pedzisai Ruhanya

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 1 (2016), pp. 128-140

"This study focuses on the unprecedented ways in which newspaper journalism helped the cause of democratisation at the height of the economic and political governance crisis, also known as the ‘Zimbabwe Crisis’, from 1997 to 2010. The research is designed as a qualitative case study of The Daily ... more

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Voces en las sombras: Una historia de las radios clandestinas

Luis Zaragoza

Madrid: Cátedra (2016), 439 pp.

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Money Under Fire: The Ethics of Revenue Generation for Oppositional News Outlets

Clare Cook

Ethical Space: the International Journal of Communication Ethics, volume 13, issue 2-3 (2016), pp. 66-80

"This paper critically assesses the ethical challenges not-for-profit oppositional news outlets face when generating revenues. Both media in exile (out-of-country news outlets feeding independent information into the country of origin) and those in restrictive environments (in-country providing coun ... more

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Beyond Islamists & Autocrats: Saudi Arabia’s Virtual Quest for Citizenship and Identity

Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), 9 pp.

"The state’s attempts, in the last few years in particular, to intimidate activists have largely succeeded in slowing the pace of reforms and narrowing their boundaries. However, the intensified Saudi state conflicts with regional and international allies, coupled with reduced oil revenues and inc ... more

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Information and Civil Unrest in Dictatorships

Elizabeth Ann Stein

In: Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Politics

Oxford University Press (2016), 51 pp.

"This is a broad overview of the role of information in various forms for key actors in dictatorships, including members of the regime, dissident leaders, and the general public. The existing literature implies that information is crucial to the dynamic interactions among these actors, particularly ... more

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Syria’s Post-Uprising Media Outlets: Challenges and Opportunities in Syrian Radio Startups

Rima Marrouch

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 31 pp.

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Three Waves of Media Repression in Zimbabwe

Everette Ndlovua

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 25-44

"This article seeks to highlight how the media – especially radio – have always been used in Zimbabwe to consolidate the power of the government. This invariably led to oppositional media emerging from outside the country, giving the populace access to alternative discourses from those churned o ... more

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Literatur in Nordkorea

Yong Sun Jeon

In: Länderbericht Korea

Eun-Jeung Lee (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), pp. 612-621

"Das Material für die nordkoreanische Literatur schöpft sich zum allergrößten Teil aus Kim Il Sungs bewaffnetem Revolutionskampf gegen Japan. Schriftsteller und Künstler lassen die Schauplätze der antijapanischen Revolution wiederauferstehen und deren Geist wiederaufleben [...] Dabei hat der I ... more

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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism

Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov (eds.)

Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.

"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West ... more

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Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasts

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 508-515

"Clandestine broadcasts are politically-motivated broadcasts produced by groups opposed to the government of the target country. Other target broadcasts can be produced by either governmental or non-governmental organisations and are targetted at zones of regional or local conflict." (Page 508)

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Media Control, Colonialism and the Making of an Authoritarian Postcolonial African State: The Case of Botswana

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 45-58

"Observing the emergence of public service broadcasting on the eve of colonialism in Botswana (early 60s to early 2000s), the central thesis of the article is that the roots of control of the media in contemporary Botswana can be traced to British anxieties about the possibility of a nationalist rev ... more

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt

Sherif Mansour

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.

"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many ... more

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Media Oversight in Non-Democratic Regimes: The Perspectives of Officials and Journalists in China

Maria Repnikova

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2015), 24 pp.

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED); International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.

"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more

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