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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E
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Media Sustainability Index 2011: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xxiii, 321 pp.
"With three notable exceptions—Belarus, Russia, and Uzbekistan—the media sector in the countries included in the first edition of the MSI in 2001 have over time either improved overall or stayed more or less the same. But, a review of overall MSI scores is just one way to use the MSI to see how
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2010), xxi, 287 pp.
The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.
"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar
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Nicht frei, aber lebendig? Massenmedien und Journalismus in Kasachstan
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 30 (2010), pp. 2-9
"Als in diesem Jahr der OSZE vorstehendes Land sollten für Kasachstan ganz besondere Anforderungen auch in Hinblick auf seine Pressefreiheit gelten. Die internationalen Rankings kommen allerdings zu einem äußert kritischen Urteil. Die Realität scheint komplizierter. Aus ihrer langjährigen Erfah
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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2010), xvi, 617 pp.
"Internet censorship and surveillance becomes more sophisticated. The first-generation controls like China's "Great Firewall" are being replaced by techniques that include strategically timed distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, targeted malware, take-down notices and stringent terms-of-usa
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Media Sustainability Index 2009: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 285 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on
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The Examples of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Political Extremism, Terrorism, and Media in Central Asia
Copenhagen; Almaty; Bishkek: International Media Support (IMS); Adil Soz; Public Association "Journalists" (2008), 38 pp.
"This study furnishes the media, the civil society organisations, the public authorities and international organisations in the region with a point of reference in context to the rising debate about extremism, especially Islamic fundamentalism, and terrorism. It provides insight into how the mass me
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Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2008), xxi, 276 pp.
Community Media: International Perspectives
Deep Insights
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), xiii, 258 pp.
"This collection of writing on community media describes attempts at local media development and case studies of functioning projects. It presents a range of perspectives on grassroots media originating from community groups; research representing participant observation; hands-on community involvem
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Media Sustainability Index 2005: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2005), 275 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2004: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2005), 275 pp.
Media Sustainability Index 2003: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2004), xxi, 277 pp.