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Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin
London; New York: Routledge (2017), viii, 363 pp.
"This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachev’s glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured,
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"In 2016, television broadcasts were watched by 80 percent of the population, Slovak citizens did watch more programmes in their non-mother tongue than in other EU countries." (https://medialandscapes.org)
Media in Process: Transformation and Democratic Transition
Milton Park; New York: Routledge (2017), viii, 184 pp.
"The integration of traditionally isolated Central/ Eastern Europe into larger, worldwide trends has fundamentally changed the way we look at the media in this region. This volume proposes to address the transition of the media and communication industries in the contemporary period. The contributio
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Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), 267 pp.
"This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In doing so, it offers a broad, comparative overview of the compliance of OSCE participating States’ legislat
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Journalism and Media Privilege
Strasbourg: European Audiovisual Observatory; Council of Europe (2017), 106 pp.
"The report provides an overview of the most recent rules, case law and policies across Europe with regard to the privileges that are given to journalists when exercising their activities. As a rule, when identifying the relevant legal aspects, three features are taken into account: the correspondin
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Global Media Giants
Deep Insights
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.
"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C
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In Repressive Countries, Citizens Go 'dark' to Share Independent News
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
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Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression: Comparative, Theoretical and Historical Reflections After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2017), xix, 740 pp.
"The tension between blasphemy laws and the freedom of expression in modern times is a key area of debate within legal academia and beyond. With contributions by leading scholars, this volume compares blasphemy laws within a number of Western liberal democracies and debates the legitimacy of these l
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Media Sustainability Index 2017: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2017), xx, 290 pp.
"While a few much-needed improvements can be reported for the 2017 Europe & Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI), overall there are signs of continued and worsening challenges facing those who wish to create and support a vibrant information system in the 21 countries studied in this volume [...
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Journalists in Latvia
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.
"When it comes to professional role orientation, Latvian journalists are almost unanimous that journalists should report things as they are and act as detached observers. Interviewed journalists also found it important to provide analysis of current affairs, to educate the audience, to let people ex
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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.
Gegen Propaganda und Lüge: StopFake.org. Prinzipien und Perspektiven
Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 6-7 (2016), pp. 205-213
"Als Russland die Krim annektierte und den Krieg in der Ostukraine führte, setzte es gleichzeitig eine Propagandakampagne in Gang. Zur Bekämpfung von Desinformation und Falschmeldungen gründeten Dozenten und Studenten der Mohyla-Journalistenschule in Kiew im März 2014 das Informationsportal Stop
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Monitoring Media Pluralism in Europe: Testing and Implementation of the Media Pluralism Monitor 2015
"The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) is a tool for assessing the risks for media pluralism in a given country. The Monitor aims to help policymakers, researchers, and civil society to understand the threat to media pluralism in different media systems through research, analysis and the provision of co
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Countering Russian Propaganda
Per Concordiam: Journal of European Security and Defense Issues, issue special issue (2016), 38 pp.
"In this issue we discuss some of the arguments and debates related to the highly charged and topical issue of Russia’s strategic narrative and how it is disseminated. Propaganda, in numerous forms, creates a barrier to more constructive engagement and dialogue. This issue’s contributors find th
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r
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Journalists in Estonia
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 7 pp.
"Four “classic” roles: to report things as they are, to be a detached observer, to educate the audience and provide news that attracts the largest audience are fairly unanimously seen as the most important among Estonian journalists, as the relatively low standard deviations suggest. Especially
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A Companion to Russian Cinema
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 656 pp.
"A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and
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