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The Media of Pakistan: Fostering Inclusion in a Fragile Democracy?
London: BBC Media Action (2013), 31 pp.
"The Pakistani media’s democratising function is constrained by its historic role as a state-building tool. The media remains vulnerable amid on-going threats to media professionals and the limitations imposed by the industry’s financial model, which must rely heavily on advertising revenue. The
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Zapping TV: El paisaje de la tele latina
Deep Insights
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Centro de Competencia en Comunicación para América Latina (2013), 331 pp.
Media Laws and Regulations of the GCC Countries: Summary, Analysis and Recommendations
Doha: Doha Centre for Media Freedom (2013), 73 pp.
"This report represents an effort to help with the process of evaluating media laws in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. As governments consider what policies to set up to deal with new realities, this research should help provide an understanding of the current landscape. When examining
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National Broadcasting and State Policy in Arab Countries
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xii, 221 pp.
"A state-of-the-art analysis of the situation of national television in Arab countries, addressing what Arab national broadcastings today say about public policy and political opening. The essays deal with the reforms of public broadcasting organizations and the evolution, perspectives and issues of
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Mapping Digital Media: Uruguay
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 91 pp.
Die Rolle der Medien im Demokratisierungsprozess Kenias
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), 332 pp.
Barometre des Médias Africains: Repúblique du Congo
Windhoek; Yaoundé: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 122 pp.
The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 233 pp.
"Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture – the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a glob
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Libya Media Transition: Heading to the Unknown
London: Polis, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communications (media@LSE) (2013), 74 pp.
"Libyan media’s deficiencies are vast and cover all facets of production. For one, the media industry’s decades-long isolation from the Arab and international markets poses a particular challenge to its reconstruction by comparison to the transitional media industries in Egypt and Tunisia. Media
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"This report has eight core sections. In the first three sections we outline the overall purpose of the study, the methodological approach and the overarching insights that emerged from the study. This is followed by a section on key citizen information needs and sources. The fifth section discusses
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Television News Channels in Europe
European Audiovisual Observatory; Council of Europe (2013), 99 pp.
"Almost 300 news channels are currently available in Europe, of which more than 170 are established in the European Union. Private channels dominate the national TV news landscape with more than 80% owned by private companies. The pan-European channels with the widest distribution in Europe are CNN
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Access to Information in Africa: Examining Progress Since the APAI Declaration
Windhoek: African Platform on Access to Information (APAI); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 91 pp.
"Out of the twelve countries surveyed, only four have specific access to information laws. These countries are: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. However, a significant indication of the shifting tide on the continent is that six of the countries surveyed have some form of specific access to
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Mapping Digital Media: Kenya
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 94 pp.
"In online journalism, the virtues associated with ethics—accuracy, honesty, truth, impartiality, fairness, balance, respect for autonomy of ordinary people—are barely respected, largely because there is no effective way of policing this, and there are no legal penalties. Concentration of owners
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Media Sustainability Index 2012: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2013), xix, 455 pp.
"The 2nd Conference on Media Development in Myanmar took place from May 20-21 2013 in Yangon. With over 300 participants, the conference marked another significant milestone in Myanmar’s media reform process. This report is a summary of the presentations held at this conference. Under the theme
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Comunicación, información y poder en El Salvador: Claves para la democratización
San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos (2013), 199 pp.
Media&Makers: Juba 2012 Open Knowledge and Sustainable Media Forum
Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2013), 26 pp.
"The conference, held in Mid-December, was funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and UNESCO South Sudan. It consisted of two streams. One focussed on media and sustainability, the other on open data and open knowledge models. Rather than just holding lectures, the event saw working groups
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Mapping Digital Media: Brazil
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 134 pp.
"Digitization has had profound effects in Brazil. In journalism, information flows faster than ever, and from a greater number of sources; journalists have to adapt to an environment that demands immediate coverage of events, sometimes privileging speed over content. The internet has become the seco
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Mapa de medios digitales de Ecuador 2012
Quito: CIESPAL (2013), 75 pp.
"El objetivo del estudio es conocer cuántos medios digitales tiene el Ecuador y determinar los niveles de actualización, secciones, hipertextualidad, multimedialidad, interactividad, redes sociales y herramientas multimedia que están empleando; esto permite comprender los procesos y lógicas de t
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