[FoME] International Media Assistance - Themenausgabe des Global Media Journal

[Christoph Dietz]

Liebe Mitglieder der FoME-Liste,

soeben ist die Themenausgabe "International Media Assistance:
Experiences and Prospects" des Global Media Journal (German Edition)
erschienen. Gastherausgeber sind Mary Myers (Communication Consultant,
Salisbury, United Kingdom), Marie-Soleil Frère (Université Libre de
Bruxelles) und Christoph Dietz (CAMECO, Aachen).

Die 14 Beiträge zu diesem Thema sind online zugänglich auf
http://www.globalmediajournal.de/current-issue/.

Hier drei Beispiele:

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."

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.db-thueringen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-31131/GMJ8_Lublinski_et_al_final.pdf
"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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