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From Mouthpiece to Public Service: Donor Support to Radio Broadcasters in New Democracies
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 491-503
"State-run broadcasting organisations in the South are usually ill-prepared for their public-service role in new democracies. They are often poorly funded compared to their new, commercial rivals and often still bound by the same ‘rules of the game’ that governed them prior to the democratic era
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Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent
Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet & Society (2009), 62 pp.
"This study explores the structure and content of the Arabic blogosphere using link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of individual blogs. We identified a base network of approximately 35,000 active Arabic language blogs (about half as many as we found in a previous study of the Pe
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Africa’s Media: Between Professional Ethics and Cultural Belonging
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 25 pp.
Uneven Performances by the Private Press in Ethiopia: An Analysis of 18 Years of Press Freedom
Journal of Communication & Language Arts, volume 3, issue 1 (2009), pp. 44-59
"It is generally said that an independent press is vital for any democracy. However, the case in many African countries is that the independent or private press is weak and lacks credibility, although its assumed role as a cornerstone of young democracies is repeatedly stressed by commentators and p
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A Suggested Framework for Assessing Electronic Government Readiness in Egypt
Electronic Journal of e-Government, volume 7, issue 1 (2009), pp. 11-27
"Electronic Government (e-Government) is becoming a global phenomenon that is increasingly attracting the attention of community citizens including politicians, economists, decision and policy makers amongst others. Once only regarded as a means for modernizing the public sector and increasing gover
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The Role of New Media in the 2009 Iranian Elections
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2009), 7 pp.
Afrikas Medien: Im Spannungsfeld von Meinungsfreiheit, Boulevardisierung und Repression
Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2009), 7 pp.
"Obwohl der Mediensektor liberalisiert wurde, besitzen die staatlich kontrollierten Rundfunkanstalten – das wichtigste Informationsmedium für die Bevölkerungsmehrheit – in den meisten Ländern noch ein flächendeckendes Monopol; nur in den Städten und einigen kleinen ländlichen Regionen gibt
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"This report explores issues of media policy during post-election violence. We examine the case of Kenya, where 1,133 people were killed after the 2007 elections, to distill lessons for Somaliland’s upcoming elections. There are indications the elections in Somaliland will be highly contentious an
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"Democracy Redefined: Leading authoritarian regimes are working to reshape the public understanding of democracy. A redefined and heavily distorted version of the concept is communicated to domestic audiences through state-dominated media. Especially on television, these regimes put forth a dual mes
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A Study on Media Influence on Public Policy in Bangladesh: Investment Climate Perspective
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2009), 36 pp.
"This paper has tried to find out whether newspapers in Bangladesh have any influence on policy formulation, revision and improvement in respect to investment climate. Reviewing two Bangla and two English newspapers for three fiscal years, we found that newspapers have strong interest in policy rela
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Hezbollah's Media: Political History in Outline
Deep Insights
Global Media and Communication, volume 5, issue 3 (2009), pp. 353-367
"Since 1985, the Lebanese Hezbollah has developed a centralized communications apparatus which was a major instrument in building its leadership in the Shiite community. My contribution intends to explore the main media of this party as both cognitive and political resources for mobilization and as
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Médias et démocratie: Le grand malentendu
Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec (2009), 290 pp.
The Politics of Corruption and the Media in Africa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 1 (2009), pp. 155-171
"This paper explores the linkages between debates about corruption and the role of the media in Africa. It advances arguments about how citizens in Africa encounter corruption – both grand and petty – and how they perceive it, as well as factors that may contribute to the development of corrupt
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Golpe de radio: Los 3 días que transmitimos peligrosamente
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER), 2nd ed. (2009), 114 pp.
China's Propaganda and Influence Operations, its Intelligence Activities That Target the United States, and the Resulting Impacts on U.S. National Security: Hearing Before the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Washington, DC: United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (2009), vii, 176 pp.
The Power of Communication: Changes and Challenges in African Media
Oslo: Oslo Academic Press (2009), 362 pp.
"This book examines how the media in different parts of Africa plays an important role in the continent's political and social processes of change. The perspective of the book is comparative. It contains overviews of the role of communication, as well as case studies, of the situation in individual
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Independent Study on Indicators for Media Pluralism in the Member States: Towards a Risk-Based Approach
Leuven: KU Leuven, ICRI; Central European University, CMCS; Jönköping International Business School, MMTC (2009), x, 155 pp.
"The outcome of this study is a prototype for a European Media Pluralism Monitor – a riskbased, holistic, user-friendly and evolving monitoring tool that includes indicators of a legal, economic and socio-demographic nature. In order to account for the multi-faceted character of media pluralism, t
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