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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480137603321

Autore

Whitten-Woodring Jenifer

Titolo

Historical guide to world media freedom : a country-by-country analysis / / Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Douglas A. Van Belle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles : , : SAGE Reference/CQ Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-4833-5986-7

1-78402-546-1

1-4522-3422-1

1-4522-3421-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (593 p.)

Disciplina

323.44/5

Soggetti

Freedom of the press

Government and the press

Mass media - Censorship

Censorship

Freedom of expression

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

HISTORICAL GUIDE TO WORLD MEDIA FREEDOM-FRONT COVER; HISTORICAL GUIDE TO WORLD MEDIA FREEDOM; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2: DEFINING AND MEASURING MEDIA FREEDOM; CHAPTER 3: THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORRELATES OF MEDIA FREEDOM; CHAPTER 4. THE EVOLUTION (AND DEVOLUTION) OF MEDIA FREEDOM SINCE WORLD WAR II: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION: CHALLENGES TO MEDIA FREEDOM AND PATTERNS IN ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVOLUTION; APPENDIX A: MEDIA FREEDOM REGION BY REGION

APPENDIX B: THE GLOBAL MEDIA FREEDOM DATASET: DATA GATHERING METHODS, GUIDELINES FOR USING THE DATA, AND MERGING THE DATA WITH FREEDOM HOUSE DATAINDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 book provides consistent and comparable measures of media freedom in all independent countries for the years 1948 to the present.