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In the Beginning Was the Image: The Omnipresence of Pictures. Time, Truth, Tradition

András Benedek, Ágnes Veszelszki (eds.)
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang (2016), 190 pp.
"The authors outline the topic of visuality in the 21st century in a trans- and interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy. As some scholars of visual communication state, there is a significant link between the downgrading ... more
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t ... more
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Media Consumption Survey - Ukraine 2016

Internews (2016), 42 pp.
"The Internews annual media consumption survey shows more Ukrainians searching for news online and fewer getting their news from television. Trust in Ukrainian online media is also up, matching the trend in greater consumption. The survey also shows that Ukrainians are consuming Russian media far le ... more
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Public Perception of False and Distorted Information Covered by the Media: Republic of Moldova

Doru Petru, Viorica Zatic
Institute of Marketing, Analysis, Surveys and Investments (IMAS); Association of Independent Press (API); Independent Journalism Center (IJC); Association of Independent TV Journalists (ATVJI) (2016), 49 pp.
"Only 8% of respondents stated that the media in Moldova exhibit, to a very large extent, a responsible behavior toward their audiences. The majority of respondents or 56% stated they were dissatisfied with the lack of responsibility of the national media. One in ten respondents considered him/herse ... more
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The Truth Between the Lines: Conceptualization of Trust in News Media in Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia

Ivanka Pjesivac, Katerina Spasovska, Iveta Imre
Mass Communication & Society, volume 19, issue 3 (2016), pp. 323-351
"This study explored, by comparative thematic analysis, the conceptualization of trust in news media in Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia - three countries of Eastern Europe where past oppressive regimes might have left a heritage of distrust in all institutions. The analysis of 61 in-depth interviews ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.
"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more
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Winning the Information War: Techniques and Counter-Strategies to Russian Propaganda in Central and Eastern Europe

Edward Lucas, Peter Pomeranzev
Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2016), 64 pp.
"Currently, no dedicated agency or systematic effort analyzes the effect of Russian (or any other) disinformation. Who really watches Russia Today? Where? For how long? And why? Nor do we have the means to systematically track the content: How does the Kremlin’s message in Germany differ from the ... more
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Medienfreiheit unter Druck: Medienregulierung und Medienpolitik in Ungarn

Bernd Holznagel, Polyák Gábor (eds.)
Berlin: Siebenhaar Verlag (2016), 183 pp.
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Journalists in Romania

Mihai Coman, Antonia Matei, Natalia Milewski, Rodica Melinda Sutu
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"Romanian journalists said that objectivity is the most important attribute of their work. They strongly believe that their job is to report events exactly the way they happened, without any external or internal intervention. The low standard deviations in these cases indicate that there is a high l ... more
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Pulverfass Kaukasus: Nationale Konflikte und islamistische Gefahren am Rande Europas

Manfred Quiring
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 219 pp.
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Media Ownership Monitor Ukraine

Reporters Without Borders (2016), 611 pp.
"Ukrainian mass media outlets are mostly driven by their owners’ individual interests and thus serve as instruments to securing political and economic power. Corruption and lack of financial transparency further inhibit the healthiness of the country’s media landscape. The Media Ownership Monito ... more
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Gendering War and Peace Reporting: Some Insights – Some Missing Links

Berit von der Lippe, Rune Ottosen (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 278 pp.
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Comparative Analysis of Civil Society, Media and Conflict

Rebecca Pointer, Tanja Bosch, Wallace Chuma, Herman Wasserman
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 52 pp.
"This paper explores how Egyptian, Kenyan, Serbian and South African civil society organisations (CSOs) use communication and relationships with media to engage in democratic contestation. Individual interviews were conducted with 91 CSO members who participated in the various democratisation confli ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2016: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and EurAsia

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2016), xxii, 318 pp.
"The three countries that this year experienced a decrease in overall score—Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan—were ones last year that had showed small but unexpected increases. Last year’s Executive Summary indicated that such increases were unlikely to be part of a larger upward trend; pan ... more
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Civil Society, Political Activism and Communications in Democratisation Conflicts: A Literature Review

Rebecca Pointer, Tanja Bosch, Wallace Chuma, Herman Wasserman
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 35 pp.
"Given that the nature of civil society in different countries is different, and also often shifting in response to political changes, examining the relationship between civil society and media production (mainstream and alternative) in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa involves being sensitive ... more
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Auf Linie gebracht: Polens öffentlich-rechtlicher Rundfunk unter PiS-Kuratel

Agnieszka Kublik
Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 1-2 (2016), pp. 153-159
"Die Partei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (PiS) änderte nach ihrem Sieg bei den polnischen Parlamentswahlen im Herbst 2015 innerhalb weniger Wochen das Mediengesetz und besetzte die Spitzenpositionen im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk neu. Neues Personal gibt es auch bei den Nachrichtensendungen, die be ... more
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Facing Reality After the Euromaidan: The Situation of Journalists and Media in Ukraine

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2016), 51 pp.
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Überwachen und Strafen: Die Verschärfung der Internetkontrolle in Russland

Andrej Soldatov
Osteuropa, volume 66, issue 11-12 (2016), pp. 3-14
"Das Internet war in Russland lange ein Zufluchtsort der kritischen Öffentlichkeit. Hier gab es unabhängige Berichterstattung, als Zeitungen und Fernsehsender schon weitgehend auf Linie gebracht waren. Der Arabische Frühling und die Protestbewegung in Russland 2011/12 änderten dies. Das Putin-Re ... more
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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)
Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.
"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more
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Reporting International Affairs in Albanian Media

Rrapo Zguri
Tirana: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Albanian Media Institute (2016), 63 pp.
"The study confirms that after the fall of communism and the establishment of pluralistic democracy in the country, the conditions were created for the emergence and development of free, independent and pluralistic media. This led to a multiplication of the capacities and space also for internationa ... more