Historical Guide to World Media Freedom: A Country-by-Country Analysis

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CQ Press, 29 mag 2014 - 592 pagine

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.


 

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Sommario

INTRODUCTION
1
DEFINING AND MEASURING MEDIA FREEDOM
7
THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORRELATES OF MEDIA FREEDOM
25
INTRODUCTION
37
CONCLUSION CHALLENGES TO MEDIA FREEDOM AND PATTERNS IN ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION
515
MEDIA FREEDOM REGION BY REGION
521
THE GLOBAL MEDIA FREEDOM DATASET DATA GATHERING METHODS GUIDELINES FOR USING THE DATA AND MERGING THE D...
555
INDEX
557
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Informazioni sull'autore (2014)

Jenifer Whitten-Woodring is an Assistant Professor of Political Science Department at University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her research focuses on the causes and effects of media freedom and the role of media in repression and dissent. Her articles have been published in The Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Communication. Prior to becoming a political scientist, Whitten-Woodring worked as a journalist in print and broadcast media and received five first place awards from the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association. She became particularly interested in media freedom and the relationship between media and politics when she was a journalism instructor and student newspaper adviser, first at Cedar Crest College and then at California State University at San Marcos. To pursue these research interests, she went back to school and completed her PhD in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southern California in 2010. She also has a master’s degree in Radio, Television, and Film from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School.

Douglas A. Van Belle is a senior lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His most recent research focuses on the role of the media in the adoption of disaster risk reduction policies, but his publications range from dynamic models of rational choice in revolutionary collective actions to the critical comparison of the concept of science as applied in political science and paleontology. Other areas of research include media freedom, foreign aid, popular culture and politics, and the social dynamics of science as applied to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloHistorical Guide to World Media Freedom: A Country-by-Country Analysis
AutoriJenifer Whitten-Woodring, Douglas A. Van Belle
EditoreCQ Press, 2014
ISBN1452234213, 9781452234212
Lunghezza592 pagine
  
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