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Journalists in the Czech Republic

Alice Nemcová Tejkalová, Filip Láb
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"The differences between the most and least important roles according to Czech journalists are very big. While almost 100 percent of journalists viewed their role to “report things as they are” as very or even the most important, only 1.4 percent of interviewed journalists perceived “support o ... more
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Performance Evaluation of the Ukraine Media Project, 2011–2015

Katerina Tsetsura, Lyubov Palyvoda, Dariya Orlova
Washington, DC: USAID (2016), xi, 161 pp.
"The current five-year Ukraine Media Project (U-Media) runs from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2016 and is implemented by Internews. U-Media builds on the previous eight years of the Strengthening Independent Media in Ukraine Project, also known as U-Media and also implemented by Internews. The p ... more
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How to Ensure Independence of Public Service Media and Regulatory Bodies

Bent Nørby Bonde
Media Progress (2016), 14 pp.
"Independent media institutions are crucial for genuine democracies. The most important institutions are national and regional public service media and regulatory bodies that are responsible for the allocation of frequencies and licenses to private media, media market regulation, and protection of m ... more
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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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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor

Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson (eds.)
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.
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Wie Staaten schwach werden: Fragilität von Staaten als internationale Herausforderung

Kai Hirschmann
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 264 pp.
"Der Zerfall von Staaten ist eine wesentliche Bedrohung für die Bürger der betroffenen Länder und für die internationale Sicherheit. Wenn ein Staat seine essenziellen Aufgaben nicht mehr erfüllen kann, versuchen andere Akteure diese Lücken zu schließen. Aber wie kommt es dazu, dass Nationalst ... more
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Communicating Citizens' Protests, Requiring Public Accountability: Case Studies from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia

Sanela Hodžic, Mojca Pajnik (eds.)
Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2016), 384 pp.
"In the recent years, we have witnessed several protests, initiatives and social uprisings in the SEE region, through which the citizens demanded for government accountability, suggested better policy solutions and promoted better citizen participation. Regional research “Communicating citizens' p ... more
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Gegen Propaganda und Lüge: StopFake.org. Prinzipien und Perspektiven

Jevhen Fedcenko, Viktorija Romanjuk, Marija Ždanova
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 ... more
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Citizen Media and Public Spaces: Diverse Expressions of Citizenship and Dissent

Mona Baker, Bolette Blaagaard (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 250 pp.
"Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes o ... more
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The Role of the Internet in Trafficking for Labour Exploitation

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); FINE TUNE - Labour Trafficking: Fighting New Trends, Understanding New Elements, developing new responses and partnerships; EU Prevention of and Fight against Crime Program (ISEC) 2011 (2015), 21 pp.
"The report examines what role the internet plays in trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation. It considers in particular methods of online job recruitment and looks at cases studies from several EU Member States – Czech Republic, UK, Ireland, and Romania – and discusses to what exten ... more
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Video Games Around the World
Deep Insights

Mark J. P. Wolf (ed.)
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2015), xiv, 697 pp.
"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur ... more
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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
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Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism

Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov (eds.)
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.
"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West ... more
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Collective Memory as a Resource in Russian Information Warfare Against Latvia

Janis Krekis
Journalism Research (Žurnalistikos tyrimai, engl. edition), issue 8 (2015), pp. 92-115
"The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th c ... more
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Media Propaganda and Human Rights Issues: What Can be Learnt from the Former Yugoslavia’s Experience in Relation to the Current Developments in the Arab Spring Countries?

Renaud de la Brosse, Nouri Lajmi, Annelie Ekelin
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 8, issue 1 (2015), pp. 21-36
"Recent history has proven that media propaganda can impact severely on human rights issues. This article aims at exploring what can be learnt from previous lessons in order to avoid the same mistakes happening again and/or to fight them more efficiently. It questions the experience of the former Yu ... more
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The Cyberspace War: Propaganda and Trolling as Warfare Tools

Jessika Aro
European View, volume 15, issue 1 (2015), pp. 121-132
"Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime has taken control of the traditional media in Russia: TV, radio and newspapers. As Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has stated, the Kremlin sees the mass media as a ‘weapon’. Now Russia’s leadership is trying to take control of social media to ... more
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Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance

Alex Flynn, Jonas Tinius (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiv, 368 pp.
"The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performanc ... more
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Orthodoxes Fernsehen in Russland

Xenia Loutchenko
Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, issue 10 (2015), pp. 11-13
"Seit August 2015 ist der Fernsehsender Spas des Moskauer Patriarchats in fast allen Haushalten Russlands zu empfangen. Seine bewegte Vorgeschichte, Gerüchte über Verbindungen zu US-amerikanischen konservativen Kreisen sowie ein neues Nachrichtenprogramm legen enge Verbindungen mit dem "orthodoxen ... more
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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.
"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more
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Mediatization of Religion: Historical and Functional Perspectives

Victor M. Khroul (ed.)
Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism (2015), 242 pp.