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[ecrea] International Media Assistance: Experiences & Prospects

Wed Jan 21 05:58:33 GMT 2015




*Global Media Journal (German Edition), vol. 4 (2014), Nr. 2:
Special Issue "International Media Assistance: Experiences and Prospects"*
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Guest Editors: Mary Myers (Communication Consultant, United Kingdom), Marie-Soleil Frère (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) and Christoph Dietz (CAMECO, Germany).

Read the 14 contributions to this topic at http://www.globalmediajournal.de/current-issue/.

Three examples:

*Media development with Chinese characteristics
*Von Iginio Gagliardone
http://www.globalmediajournal.de/2015/01/16/media-development-with-chinese-characteristics
"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya this article explains to which extent China’s entrance in the media and telecommunication sector actually challenges the dominant, Western-driven approaches to media development, promoting a state centred vision of the information society."

*Evaluating the impacts of media assistance: problems and principles
*Von Jessica Noske-Turner
http://www.globalmediajournal.de/2015/01/16/evaluating-the-impacts-of-media-assistance-problems-and-principles/
"This paper suggests that the problem of impact evaluation of media assistance is understood to be more than a simple issue of methods, and outlines three underlying tensions and challenges that stifle implementation of effective practices in media assistance evaluation. First, there are serious conceptual ambiguities that affect evaluation design. Second, bureaucratic systems and imperatives often drive evaluation practices, which reduces their utility and richness. Third, the search for the ultimate method or toolkit of methods for media assistance evaluation tends to overlook the complex epistemological and political undercurrents in the evaluation discipline, which can lead to methods being used without consideration of the ontological implications. Only if these contextual factors are known and understood can effective evaluations be designed that meets all stakeholders’ needs."
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*Windows of opportunity: the transformation of state media to public service media in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Moldova and Serbia *Von Jan Lublinski, Erik Albrecht, Petra Berner, Laura Schneider, Merjam Wakili & Jackie Wilson http://www.globalmediajournal.de/2015/01/16/windows-of-opportunity-–-the-transformation-of-state-media-to-public-service-media-in-kyrgyzstan-mongolia-moldova-and-serbia-2/ <http://www.globalmediajournal.de/2015/01/16/windows-of-opportunity-%E2%80%93-the-transformation-of-state-media-to-public-service-media-in-kyrgyzstan-mongolia-moldova-and-serbia-2/> "A differentiation between 'Public service media in initial transformation' and 'Public service media in advanced transformation' is suggested. In all cases studied, different actors successfully used windows of opportunity: general political agendas to reform the media, a specific engagement from the management as well as support from the population and civil society. Media development actors here helped to advance the processes of change in different ways. Recommendations for future media development include strategic planning, inclusion of local actors, the pooling of legal expertise as well as structured processes of organizational development and capacity building."

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Dr. Christoph Dietz
CAMECO
Postfach 10 21 04
D-52021 Aachen, Germany
Tel.: 0049 - 241 - 70 13 12 14
Fax: 0049 - 241 - 70 13 12 33
(christoph.dietz /at/ cameco.org)
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