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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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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
Deep Insights
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp.
"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas,
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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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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2010), xxi, 287 pp.
The Internet in South Caucasus
Caucasus Analytical Digest, issue 15 (2010), pp. 2-13
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.
Media on the Move: Migrants and Minorities and the Media. 4th Symposium Forum Medien Und Entwicklung (FoME)
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2009), 84 pp.
"The symposium focused in three sections on migration and ethnic minority media coverage within Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and South-Eastern Europe. Special attention was paid to concrete experiences regarding the strengthening of ethnic and diversity media and the potentials as we
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Media, Democracy and Freedom: The Post-Communist Experience
Bern et al.: Peter Lang (2009), 246 pp.
Governance Reform Under Real World Conditions: Citizens, Stakeholders, and Voice
Washington, DC: World Bank (2008), xxi, 525 pp.
"This book is a contribution to efforts to improve governance systems around the world, particularly in developing countries. It offers a range of innovative approaches and techniques for dealing with the most important nontechnical challenges that prevent many of those efforts from being successful
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Covering Religion-Related News and Conflicts in the Caucasus: A Case Study of a Western “Christian Initiative” News Service
Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences, volume 1, issue 1 (2008), pp. 150-175
"This study examines how a Christian-oriented Western press organization [Forum 18 News Service, Norway] covers religion-related news in the Caucasus. Coverage in 2005 overwhelmingly focused on Christianity. Although governmental sources are more likely to be cited than religiously affiliated source
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The KAS Democracy Report 2008: Media and Democracy, Vol. 2
Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2008), 228 pp.
"Die Bergregion zwischen Russland, Iran und Türkei ist von größtem geostrategischem Interesse, nicht zuletzt wegen ihrer Ölvorkommen. Seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion beschäftigen deshalb die Konflikte im Kaukasus, der Heimat uralter christlicher und islamischer Kulturen, die Welt. Tschetschenien
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Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2008), xxi, 276 pp.
Donors and Media Development: Reports from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
New York: Open Society Institute (2007), 140 pp.
The Business of Media: Third South Caucasus Media Conference, Tbilisi 2 November 2006
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2007), 75 pp.
I. CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR THE PRIVATISED AND PUBLIC MEDIA IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Media business changes journalists’ attitude to their rights / Oleg Panfilov, 7
The fate of the state media and the situation of the private media in Georgia / Zviad Koridze, 11
The newspaper business in Armen
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"Aiding and training journalists and media managers, along with civil society groups, paid off in Georgia. The American and Western investment helped to generate the Rose Revolution, and resulted in a potentially more democratic, open and Western-leaning society. It was a comparatively economical, a
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