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Mapping Digital Media
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. There is a strong appetite for digital media in Turkey. The reach of the internet-both fixed line and mobile-has expanded dramatically in recent years, connecting nearly half the population, although broadband access lags some way behind. Digital broadcasting is limited to the dominant satellite platform, whilst progress towards digital terrestrial services has been negligible. Switch-over is due to be completed by 2014 but the process has been obstructed by a lack of transparency, public consultation, or a convergent regulatory framework. Television remains by far the dominant news medium and newspapers are still an important source of news. The most significant threat to news diversity and quality remains the repressive legal restrictions under which journalists operate. If anything, this has intensified in response to the rise of digital media. Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, makes it illegal to insult Turkey and national identity and has been used as a cover for internet censorship This report calls for a host of measures aimed at depoliticizing the policy process with respect to digitization, strengthening legislative protections against digital censorship, and enhancing the transparency and accountability of regulatory institutions.
Mapping Digital Media
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2013
Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Digital media categories.
Mapping Digital Media China
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Mapping Digital Media China written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. The story of media digitization in China is inseparable from the country's recent modernization. Probably nowhere else have so many other things been changing at the same time as the technological advances with which this study is concerned. And probably nowhere else has digitization flourished on such a scale in such a closed media environment. As a result, digitization has transformed the diversity of information and public opinion for many millions of people. As of December 2011, there were 513 million internet users, 155 million broadband subscribers, and over 1 billion mobile phone users in China. At the same time, the internet is still beyond the reach of 800 million Chinese who rely almost exclusively on television for their information and entertainment, in particular the mammoth state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). But a sign of the profound changes taking place is that this year (2012) the time people spend on the internet is set to overtake that which they spend watching television. Although China is already the world's biggest media market, there are still hundreds of millions of people with little knowledge or understanding of how the media are used and how they might use the media. A nationwide media literacy campaign would help educate people to participate in public life so that the opportunities which digitization brings can be more widely enjoyed.
Mapping Digital Media
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Media debate in Hungary has been dominated since mid-2010 by a new and far-reaching package of media laws, referred to collectively as the 2010 media regulation. Ostensibly enacted to bring the country's legal framework into line with the needs of the digital era, these media laws have profound implications for nearly all aspects of this report ranging from the conditions and timetable for the digital switch-over, to the availability of unbiased and diverse information, to journalists working practices. Adding to the uncertainty generated by these laws are their frequent modifications; several websites and at least one organization have been created solely for the purpose of monitoring and recording the amendments. One of the most significant and far-reaching changes introduced by the regulation is an overhaul of the public broadcasting system. Three separate public broadcasters have been consolidated into a single structure, creating a new supervisory body, the Media Service Support and Asset Management Fund, which took overall the broadcasters' assets and most of their staff, and is responsible for producing public service programs. The directors of the broadcasters and of the fund are appointed by the Media Council. All forms of expression are threatened by the new regulation's broadening of all content provisions and applying these to printed press materials (including written products of daily print and online news portals), where spectrum scarcity does not exist to justify any content provisions beyond the bare minimum consistent with international norms. Among the recommendations suggested by this report are the introduction of a new set of media laws, informed by extensive public consultation; reforming spectrum allocation policy to establish specific and transparent criteria; making the tender applications public; and taking spectrum allocation out of the hands of the media authority. Further recommendations include the abolition of the registry of online media outlets introduced by the 2010 law, and a full provision on source protection, significantly broadening the December 2011 ruling by the Constitutional Court.
Mapping Digital Media United Kingdom
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Mapping Digital Media United Kingdom written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Research shows that near-universal digital media access in the United Kingdom has yielded broad benefits for citizenship and democracy. But key areas of concern have emerged that continue to pose threats to independence and diversity. These include sustained financial crises within regional and local media, public service broadcasting, and the press sector at large; acute sites of cross-media concentration; and persistent digital divides in terms of access to quality output. This report calls on policymakers to consider new funding options and structures to safeguard the future of public-interest oriented news. It also argues for establishing a Media Commission to research and make recommendations on the future of the news media in the UK.
Mapping Digital Media Sweden
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Mapping Digital Media Sweden written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Sweden's media system is based on the dominance of public service broadcasters and high newspaper penetration. However, while press circulation figures are still among the highest in the world, the overall consumption of broadcast media has decreased slightly over the last five years. At the same time, levels of internet penetration and computer use are among the highest in the world. Digitization seems to have affected general media preferences much more than news media preferences. The battles over entertainment (movies, sport and drama) seem largely to be lost to commercial media, but public service radio and TV have maintained their position as trustworthy and reliable news providers. Television news still reaches 83 percent of the population every day, and SVT and Sveriges Radio (Radio of Sweden) are still the most trusted outlets, along with TV4, the largest private channel. In terms of media ownership: concentration at the national level is the dominant trend in the newspaper and television markets. (Sweden has no law against media ownership concentration.) This presents a threat to independent news media. Looking ahead, the core challenge facing public service broadcasting is the transition to public service media. Politicians have generally been supportive of the expansion of public service onto new platforms, and there is a social consensus that public service media remain important.
Mapping Digital Media
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Author : Marius Dragomir
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Mapping Digital Media written by Marius Dragomir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. Before the 1990s, the culture of media in Morocco was authoritarian, administrative, and partisan. This changed during the political liberalization and democratization that marked the second half of the 1990s. All sectors -- print, broadcast, and digital -- witnessed significant growth during this period. However, the new openness has strict limits. There have been setbacks in both media freedom and human rights in the last three years. While the pluralism and diversity of Moroccoʹs media are unprecedented in the Arab world, the authorities continue to use legal and financial penalties to keep the most critical outlets in line. In the context of the rise of the internet and mobile phones, the media will undergo a very particular process that can be described as the marginalization of mainstream media and the mainstreaming of marginal media. Citizen journalists, bloggers, and social media communicators will receive attention and audiences, whereas the impact of the mainstream media will likely be constrained. -- Description from http://www.soros.org (Feb. 10, 2012).
Mapping Digital Media Spain
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Mapping Digital Media Spain written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Digital media categories.
Mapping Digital Media
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2011
Mapping Digital Media written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Digital media categories.
The Mapping Digital Media project examines the global opportunities and risks created by the transition from traditional to digital media. Covering 60 countries, the project examines how these changes affect the core democratic service that any media system should provide: news about political, economic, and social affairs. On November 25, 2008, Germany completed the transition from analog to digital terrestrial television transmission. In 2012, all analog satellite reception will cease. Digitization of broadcasting has increased the choice of both public and private television channels and has led to an increasing acceptance of terrestrial transmission overall, which had been declining. German society is famously supportive of public service broadcasting, which is seen not as a service of or for the state, but as a public service. The latest research suggests that public broadcasters are seen as more informal, modern, and entertaining than before, without having lost their traditional reputation for quality. Younger people agree that public broadcasters have more credibility, but they think that private broadcasters are more likeable. There have been no digitization-based amendments to media concentration laws. The effects of digitization on the practice of journalism are ambiguous. On the one hand, journalists have many more sources, can investigate issues faster and in much more detail, and interact with their audience. On the other hand, journalism faces new, nonprofessional or semiprofessional competitors, has lost its gatekeeper monopoly, and can no longer rely on its traditional business model. Looking ahead, digitization will continue to deliver greater plurality and diversity as traditional media lose their dominant market positions in news selection and interpretation. Meanwhile, the strong consensus in support of public service media and support for quality journalism should offset the negative effects of the digital revolution on journalism standards. This puts Germany in a fortunate position, not just by global standards but by European standards.
Mapping Digital Media France
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Author : Open Society Foundations
language : en
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Release Date : 2013
Mapping Digital Media France written by Open Society Foundations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Digital media categories.
In France, the digital switch-over for television proceeded in a relatively timely and uncontested fashion, with appropriate support for disadvantaged households and an effective public awareness campaign. Digital licensing has also proved largely responsive and adequate to the challenges of digitization. However, the new government faces a plethora of loose ends in digital media policy. It remains to be seen whether public subsidies aimed at regenerating good-quality journalism in both print and online sectors have been effective; there is a significant shortfall in the funding of public service media as a result of their reduced advertising quotas, and the European Commission's rejection of a planned levy on telecoms; political support for traditional media in their plight against online giants such as Google may backfire if the latter carries out its threat to exclude their content; and public trust in the media is unlikely to be restored so long as entrenched links between political and media elites are maintained.