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The Relationship of Young Slovak Catholics to the Media

Terézia Roncáková
Communication Today, volume 6, issue 2 (2015), pp. 62-76
"The article discusses the relationship of young engaged Catholics in Slovakia to the various media outlets which they follow. It attempts to reveal which media outlets are considered to be inspiring and thought-provoking and how are they perceived and evaluated by their followers. The author draws ... more
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Open Data Readiness Assessment Ukraine

Artem Serenok, Daniel Dietrich et al.
Kyiv: UNDP (2015), 90 pp.
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From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

Maja Kominko (ed.)
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide ... more
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Journalists' Perceptions of Nomenklatura Networks and Media Ownership in Post-Communist Bulgaria

Lada Trifonova Price
Medijske Studije / Media Studies, volume 6, issue 11 (2015), pp. 19-33
"This article discusses the role of the former communist party elite (the nomenklatura) in the Bulgarian post-communist media landscape in relation to media ownership and the origin of media outlets’ capital. The spotlight is on Bulgarian journalists’ perceptions examined through semi-structured ... more
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State-Media Financial Relations in Albania: Nurturing Client-Based Media Practices

Ilda Londo
Ljubljana: Peace Institute; South East European Media Observatory (2015), 19 pp.
"The transparency of media market in Albania continues to be low, including both commercial operations and the state funding, despite of the existing databases. The involvement of new actors, such as advertising agencies, and sister companies of media outlets, makes it even more difficult to track s ... more
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Benchmarking Public Demand: Russia's Appetite for Internet Control

Erik C. Nisbet
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS); Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) (2015), 26 pp.
"Almost half (49%) of all Russians believe that information on the Internet needs to be censored; a plurality (42%) of Russians believe foreign countries are using the Internet against Russia and its interests. About one-quarter of Russians think the Internet threatens political stability (24%); abo ... more
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more
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Employment Conditions of Journalists in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia - Regional Report

Radomir Cholakov
Bucureçti (RO): Center for Independent Journalism; South-East European Partnership for Media Development (2015), 23 pp.
"A crowded and rather poor media market, unable to secure the sustainability of media operations, a high level of job insecurity making the journalists vulnerable to political and economic pressures and – more often than not – leading to self-censorship – are some of the conclusions [...] The ... 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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Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives

Lenuta Giukin, Janina Falkowska, David Desser (eds.)
Lanham: Lexington Books (2015), xxiv, 294 pp.
"Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities. ... more
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Study of Media Development's Condition in Ukraine. Audience: General Public

Internews; InMind (2015), 63 pp.
"TV remains the main news source for the majority of population – 85% of respondents say they have watched TV news during last 30 days. For the last year TV audience has slightly decreased (-8%), and, though in general other sources of information are much less popular, for people under age of 35 ... more
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Video Games Around the World
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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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Social Media and Their Use by Albanian Media

Tirana: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Albanian Media Institute (2015), 52 pp.
"This study takes it upon itself to present a general overview of the development of online media and social media in Albania, focusing particularly on how professional media outlets use social media. The empirical research focused on monitoring the most widely used social media in Albania, such as ... more
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Media Ownership and Finances in Kosovo: Legal Vacuum and Lack of Transparency

Isuf Berisha
Ljubljana: Peace Institute; South East European Media Observatory (2015), 23 pp.
"Media ownership and media financing, although both crucially influence the ability of the media in Kosovo to play democratic role and demonstrate integrity of their journalism and business operations, have not been properly addressed through the media legislation in Kosovo. Lack of transparency mad ... more
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Von Helden, Bösewichten und Herrschern: Der sowjetische Märchenfilm zwischen Folkloretradition und Entstehungswirklichkeit. Mit einer umfangreichen Materialdokumentation sämtlicher in der Sowjetunion von 1938-1989 entstandenen Märchenlangspielfilme

Sebastian Hoferer
Freiburg im Breisgau: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 500 pp.
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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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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 in South East Europe and their dealing with the past

Dobrina Trifonova
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (2015), 2 pp.
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Bulgarians Feel Badly Informed by Media and Politicians

Christian Spahr
Sofia: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Program South East Europe (2015), 4 pp.
"59 percent of the population of Bulgaria do not consider the media to be independent. Many are undecided and only 17 percent believe reporting is free. The crisis of confidence in the media is continuing, according to a study on behalf of the KAS Media Program South East Europe. Citizens also feel ... more
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Baseline Assessment of the “Guidelines for EU Support to Media Freedom and Media Integrity in the Enlargement Countries 2014-20”

Pam van de Bunt, Davor Glavas, Tihomir Loza, Enton Dimni, Dijan Albayrak
European Commission; Particip (2015), 99, 173 pp.
"For this assessment more than 390 surveys were made in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey [...] In addition to the survey a further 150 in-depth interviews were held, complemented by a Focus Group in each country, which ... more