[ecrea] International Media Assistance: Experiences & Prospects

*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
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D-52021 Aachen, Germany
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