Measuring Global Media Freedom

by Laura Schneider

Author	: Laura Schneider
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 258
Release	: 2019-10-09
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 3658280956

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The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool to assess free and independent media across the world. The existing press freedom rankings are frequently criticized for being arbitrary and having a Western bias. This book tackles this very problem. In times of widespread populism, disinformation and mistrust in the media, it is vitally important to have an assessment tool that is accepted across cultures.

Historical Guide to World Media Freedom

by Jenifer Whitten-Woodring

Author	: Jenifer Whitten-Woodring
Publisher	: CQ Press
Total Pages	: 1023
Release	: 2014-05-29
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1483359867

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Scholars of international relations and international communications view the extent of media freedom from country to country as a key comparative indicator either by itself or in correlation with other indices of national political and economic development. This indicator serves as a bellwether for gauging the health and spread of democracy. Historical Guide to World Media Freedom brings together comprehensive historical data on media freedom since World War II, providing consistent and comparable measures of media freedom in all independent countries for the years 1948 to the present. The work also includes country-by country summaries, analyses of historical and regional trends in media freedom, and extensive reliability analyses of media freedom measures. The book’s detailed information helps researchers connect historical measures of media freedom to Freedom House’s annual Freedom of the Press survey release, enabling them to extend their studies back before the 1980s when Freedom House began compiling global press freedom measures. Key Features: A-to-Z, country-by-country summaries of the ebb and flow of media freedom are paired with national media freedom measures over time. Introductory chapters discuss such topics as the theoretical premises behind the nature and importance of media freedom, historical trends, and the challenges of coding for media freedom in a way that ensures consistency for comparison. Concluding material covers the historical patterns in media freedom, how media freedom tracks with other cross-national indicators, and more. Accessible to students and scholars alike, this groundbreaking reference is essential to collections in political science, international studies, and journalism and communications.

Press Freedom and Global Politics

by Douglas A. Van Belle

Author	: Douglas A. Van Belle
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages	: 182
Release	: 2000-04-30
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 0313002630

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Van Belle provides the first systematic analysis of the effects that press freedom has on the conduct of international politics. The institutionalization of press freedoms within a state and the free flow of information between the free presses of different nations creates a foreign policy decision making environment that systematically limits policy options, generates domestic political imperatives, and provides specific benefits to a leader. This shapes some aspects of foreign policy in a consistent and empirically identifiable manner, most notably by limiting international conflicts. When social-psychological propositions regarding dehumanization and the acceptance of killing in war are introduced to Van Belle's model, shared press freedom is shown to provide a mechanism that prevents lethal conflicts. The effects of press freedom on international conflict, particularly on hypotheses related to escalating conflicts beyond the threshold of casualties, are quite robust. However, Van Belle indicates there is no evidence of a complimentary effect on cooperation. The combination of findings from the empirical analyses suggest that the key to the effects of press freedom center on the creation of images, such as the dehumanized image of an enemy. A thoughtful analysis that scholars and researchers of foreign policy and international relations as well as journalism and mass communication will find particularly useful.

Global Journalism

by Daniela V. Dimitrova

Author	: Daniela V. Dimitrova
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages	: 258
Release	: 2021-08-10
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 153814686X

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Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as technological change across media industries, the book offers an up-to-date, thorough overview of media developments in all world regions embedded in their unique political, cultural and economic context. Covering theoretical foundations of global journalism, from the classic Four Theories of the Press to more nuanced media models, this text proposes a framework for studying world media systems. Contributed chapters cover a wide range of topics, including media freedom, global news cultures, professional ethics and responsibilities, and education of global journalists, as well as the role of technology and issues such as fake news, soft power and public diplomacy, foreign news reporting and international news flow. Visit Globaljournalism.org to access additional class materials, case studies, and multimedia.

Media and the Dissemination of Fear

by Nelson Ribeiro

Author	: Nelson Ribeiro
Publisher	: Springer Nature
Total Pages	: 312
Release	: 2021-12-03
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 3030849899

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This book offers a diachronical and inter-/transmedia approach to the relationship of media and fear in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. This allows for an in-depth understanding of the media’s role in pandemics, wars and other crises, as well as in political intimidation. The book assembles chapters from a variety of authors, focusing on the relation between media and fear in the West, the Middle East, the Arab World and China. Besides its geographical and cultural diversity, the volume also takes a long-term perspective, bringing together cases from transforming media environments which span over a century. The book establishes a strong and historically persistent nexus between media and fear, which finds ever-new forms with new media but always follows similar logics.

The Global Handbook of Media Accountability

by Susanne Fengler

Author	: Susanne Fengler
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 643
Release	: 2021-12-30
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1000504948

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The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to de-Westernize the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in 43 countries worldwide, it offers a theoretically informed comparative analysis of accountability regimes of different varieties. As such, it constitutes the first interdisciplinary academic framework comparing structures of media accountability across all continents and creates an invaluable basis for further research and policymaking. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of media studies and journalism, mass communication, sociology, and political science, as well as policymakers and practitioners.

Freedom of the Press 2003

by Freedom House (U.S.)

Author	: Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages	: 180
Release	: 2003
Genre	: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN	: 9780742528741

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The annual Freedom of the Press, which tracks trends in media freedom worldwide, appears for the first time as an expanded book. Covering 192 countries, the survey provides numerical ratings of the level of press freedom in each country. The Freedom House survey team also assesses the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. Essays include a 25-year retrospective of press freedom and a timely analysis of the upcoming World Summits on the Information Society (2003 and 2005). Academics in several disciplines, governments, the news media, and the World Bank employ Freedom of the Press as a standard reference.

World trends in freedom of expression and media development

by UNESCO

Author	: UNESCO
Publisher	: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages	: 201
Release	: 2018-02-05
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 9231002422

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In the face of such challenges, this new volume in the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development series offers a critical analysis of new trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists.

Handbook of Research Methods in International Relations

by Huddleston, R. J.

Author	: Huddleston, R. J.
Publisher	: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages	: 801
Release	: 2022-08-05
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 1839101016

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Drawing together international experts on research methods in International Relations (IR), this Handbook answers the complex practical questions for those approaching a new research topic for the first time. Innovative in its approach, it considers the art of IR research as well as the science, offering diverse perspectives on current research methods and emerging developments in the field.