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Event datasets on political violence, which are comprised of coded collected news reports, have enjoyed a renaissance within the academic community. The inclusion of civilian fatalities within these datasets is a promising and welcomed advancement regarding the availability of data on one-sided violence. However, these datasets are often criticised due to their heavy reliance on media records, which may be tainted by biases. So far, little attention has been paid to the specific problems that arise in the coding procedure with respect to one-sided violence. This article addresses such difficulties by discussing particular challenges presented by media biases and by providing empirical evidence from coding one-sided violence. Furthermore, solutions and strategies are offered to the issues that could affect the coding process, including increased transparency, definition-adaptation, and the use of appropriate statistical models.

In seeking to explain why Shanghai, China's economic capital, has a more timid media system than its sibling cities, we examine the political economy of the Shanghai media from the perspective of clientelism in the post-Communist and cultural milieus of what we call 'party-market corporatism.' Through field work we analyze four aspects of clientelism, including media conglomeration, elite circulation, resource allocation, and (lack of) media professionalism. We conclude that Shanghai is at once a 'big city' and yet a 'small place:' a resource-rich city governed by one layer of power authority, hence the distance from the epicenter of power to various media organizations is so short and direct as to make media control through clientelism very effective and powerful. Clientelism represents one of the three major patterns of party-market corporatism in China's media sector. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2007 by the President and the Fellows of Harvard College.]

Democratization of communication, is the starting point of mass media in promoting the achievement of a prosperous information society. But the problem, is not easy to build a democratic ideal. Because a number of people within the government still puts power in response to the message - the message conveyed by the media. On the other hand, there are still investors who interpret that identic democracy with freedom of action which is detrimental to the business is run. But democracy barriers associated with reporting transparency could have emerged from people who prefer introversion past due jargon about harmony and alignment.

Research on sex roles in the mass media : toward a critical approach / Noreene Z. Janus -- Women's depiction by the mass media / Gaye Tuchman -- What do people do all day? Class and gender in images of women / Jo Spence -- Rethinking stereotypes / T.E. Perkins -- Woman is an island : femininity and colonisation / Judith Williamson -- Feminism/Oedipus/postmodernism : the case of MTV / E. Ann Kaplan -- "Material girl" : the effacements of postmodern culture / Susan Bordo -- Women's genres / Annette Kuhn -- A women's space / Christine Geraghty -- Roseanne : unruly woman as domestic goddess / Kathleen K. Rowe -- A critical analysis of women's magazines / Ros Ballaster ... [et al.] -- The cover : window to the future self / Ellen McCracken -- The rhythms of reception : daytime television and women's work / Tania Modleski -- Housewives and the mass media / Dorothy Hobson -- Behind closed doors : video recorders in the home / Ann Gray -- Teenage girls reading Jackie / Elizabeth Frazer -- "Don't treat us like we're so stupid and naive" : towards an ethnography of soap opera viewers / Ellen Seiter ... [et al.] -- Viewdata : the television viewing habits of young black women in London / Evelyn Cauleta Reid -- Identity in feminist television criticism / Charlotte Brunsdon -- Black feminism and media criticism / Jacqueline Bobo and Ellen Seiter -- Firing a broadside : a feminist intervention into mainstream TV / Helen Baehr and Angela Spindler-Brown -- Fruitful investigations : the case of the successful lesbian text / Hilary Hinds -- When a woman reads the news / Patricia Holland -- Women on the air : community radio as a tool for feminist messages / Birgitte Jallov -- Ideology, gender and popular radio : a discourse analytic approach / Rosalind Gill

This book examines the role of media and culture in shaping contemporary conditions of violence. It argues that the collective pursuit and expression of our economic, sexual, social and political desires has catalyzed significant social transformations in human history.

This study measures the relationship between media freedom and corruption, accounting for elements of vertical accountability (electoral competitiveness, civil society, and voter turnout) and horizontal accountability (judicial independence and political system). Results suggest a strong association between media freedom and corruption that runs from high levels of media freedom to low levels of corruption. This study also implies that media freedom might have a stronger indirect effect on corruption when coupled with powerful institutions of horizontal accountability. The data suggest that the association between media freedom and corruption is strongest in countries with parliamentary systems than in those with presidential systems, and that this impact amplifies as the judiciary independence increases. [Reprinted by permission; copyright Sage Publications Inc.]

This collection of essays will give students an opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the best literature in media technology impact in emerging African democracies with relevant concentration on information and communication technology (ICT). Inclusion of several social science disciplines gives students, professionals, and government agencies an interdisciplinary perspective

Cover -- Series -- Gender, Media, and Organization -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: WOMEN EXECUTIVES -- CHAPTER 1: Is She Really Into It? -- CHAPTER 2: Who's That Girl -- CHAPTER 3: A Fairytale Career -- CHAPTER 4: Pulling a Chair Up to the Table -- CHAPTER 5: "There's Never Been a Better Time to Be a Woman" -- PART II: WOMEN PROFESSIONALS AND LEADERS -- CHAPTER 6: Dress and the Female Professional -- CHAPTER 7: In the Name of the Other -- CHAPTER 8: Caveman Meritocracy -- CHAPTER 9: Wynne Some, Lose Some -- PART III: WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION -- CHAPTER 10: The "Gogglebox" and Gender -- CHAPTER 11: Mediating the Future -- CHAPTER 12: The Runway-Ready Ringleader and Other Media Myths -- CHAPTER 13: Working in ShondaLand -- CHAPTER 14: The Margin as a Space of Resistance -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.

The paper presents data on party platforms, political communication and public opinion in the 1996 Italian election campaign. It is shown that the electoral platforms of the two major coalitions were largely overlapping, except for some economic and social issues. The centre-right coalition seemed more inclined to adopt pro-market policies, while the platform of the Ulivo coalition was more oriented toward a social partnership approach. In the month before the elections, policy issues were discussed on television more extensively than political issues. Public and private networks covered the 1996 election campaign at the same level as in 1994 and to some extent with the same bias. Voting intentions seem to have remained stable prior to and during the electoral campaign. (European Journal of Political Research / FUB)

Articulation -- Audience -- Broadcasting -- Capitalism -- Communication(s) -- Convergence -- Criticism/critique -- Cultural form -- Culture -- Culture industry -- Cyberculture -- Deconstruction -- Digital -- Discourse -- Embodiment -- Encoding/decoding -- Freedom of communication -- Genre -- Globalization -- Hegemony -- Ideology -- Identity -- Image -- Influence -- Information society -- Interactivity -- Mass -- Media effects -- Media/medium -- Mobile privatization -- Modern -- Moral panic -- Network (society) -- News values -- Popular/populist -- Postmodernism -- Public sphere -- Regulation -- Ritual -- Sign -- Simulacra -- Tabloidization -- Technoculture -- Technological determinism -- Time-space compression