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"Against the backdrop of a highly precarious situation for journalists, a severe economic crisis is unfolding within Afghan media houses, according to a survey on the current state of the media sector in Afghanistan conducted by DW Akademie and partner organizations. Data were collected in February
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Belarus Media Landscape Guide
CDAC Network (2022), 21 pp.
"This Media Landscape Guide was produced in January 2022. It provides a snapshot of the media at this time in Belarus. It provides an analysis of the recent shocks to the media landscape and an overview of the different types of media and information sources available for Belarusians: digital media
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"The media situation in Belarus has never been easy. With Aliaksandr Lukashenka being elected president of the country for the first time in 1994, the necessary reforms to provide media freedom have never materialised. Instead, over the years various laws have lessened the rights of independent jour
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Arab Media Systems
Deep Insights
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), xliv, 345 pp.
"This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country's media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contribu
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The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
New York, NY: Harper Business (2021), xiv, 351 pp.
"China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data
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Media, Development and Democracy
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), xviii, 141 pp.
"[...] this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct va
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El periodismo en tiempos de dictadura: Las experiences de Prensa, Apertura y ANF
La Paz: Plural Editores (2021), 120 pp.
"Este libro no solo recuerda, como sus autores califican, «aventuras periodísticas» que se impulsaron en momentos difíciles y convulsionados en el país. Este libro es el retrato de una generación de valerosos y extraordinarios periodistas que ejercieron, de manera apasionada, este oficio en la
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.
"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o
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Les transformations postsoviétiques des médias et du journalisme russes
Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 232 pp.
"Existe-t-il un chemin particulier d’ouverture d’un système médiatique à l’économie, aussi épineux soit-il ? C’est justement le fil rouge de cette monographie, qui examine, sur la base de données empiriques et théoriques, les processus de transformation du journalisme et des médias d
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The Handbook of Journalism Studies
Deep Insights
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2020), xix, 573 pp.
"This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and
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Communication, Development and Social Participation in China
Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
I Know What You Mean: Information Compensation in an Authoritarian Country
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 26, issue 3 (2020), pp. 587-608
"How do people address information deficiency caused by rigid control of information in authoritarian regimes? We argue that there exists an internally oriented information compensation approach through which people can glean extra information from official messages domestically. This approach does
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Counterpublics, Attitudes, and Social Change in Authoritarian Regimes: An Analysis of Digital Communities on Russian YouTube
Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) (2020), 31 pp.
"By examining Russian YouTube, this article has attempted to show how in this particular digital environment a shift in social attitudes and the emergence of counterpublics are likely to occur, thus advancing a bottom-up approach to social change. The paper has proceeded in three steps. The first se
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Rationalizing the Gap: How Journalists in a Nondemocratic Regime Make Sense of Their Professional Work
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 4781-4802
"This article investigates how news professionals in a nondemocratic regime rationalize their institutional roles and daily reporting practices, negotiate boundaries of their work, and make sense of their professional activities. This study used qualitative interviewing to explore personal experienc
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The Public Sphere in Russia Between Authoritarianism and Liberation
Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 1 (2020), pp. 2-96
Conveying Truth: Independent Media in Putin’s Russia
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2020), 39 pp.
"This study examines the evolution of independent Russian media, from the glasnost era to the pandemic. It describes some of the pandemic coverage and identifies several of the newsrooms that gave Russians reliable, accountability journalism throughout the early months of the crisis. It may seem obv
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Charitable Crowdfunding in China: An Emergent Channel for Setting Policy Agendas?
China Quarterly, issue 240 (2019), pp. 936-966
"Social media in China has not only become a popular means of communication, but also expanded the interaction between the government and online citizens. Why have some charitable crowdfunding campaigns had agenda-setting influence on public policy, while others have had limited or no impact? Based
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Between the White House and the Kremlin: A Comparative Analysis of Afghan and Tajik Media
International Journal of Communication, volume 13 (2019), pp. 619-641
"In their postwar, postindependence, and post-Soviet moments, why did two neighbors, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, who share cultural, linguistic, and historical similarities, take radically divergent paths in the development of their mass media, public sphere, and democracy? In this article, I argue
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The Need for a New US Information Strategy for North Korea
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 19 pp.
"Drawing on relevant literature, analysis of North Korean media and information control techniques, and interviews with refugees and defectors, this report argues that a new US information strategy is needed to alleviate the social isolation of the North Korean people and improve their long-term wel
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