Measures of press freedom and media contributions to development
Subtitle: evaluating the evaluators
By: edited by Monroe E. Price, Susan Abbott, Libby Morgan
Series: Mass communication and journalism -- v. 4
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781433112898; 9781433112904
Subjects: Freedom of the press; Mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Press freedom measures: an introduction / by Monroe Price; title: Examining existing measures of press freedom and media sustainability: a critical look at indicators and methodologies of measurement. Conceptualizing and measuring characteristics of media systems / by Lee Becker and Tudor Vlad; title: When theory meets practice: critical reflections from the field on press freedom indicators / by Gerry Power, Anna Godfrey, and Patrick McCurdy; title: Examining and critiquing existing measures of media development / by Andrew Puddephatt; title: What are we measuring? a critical review of media development assessment tools / by Fackson Banda; title: Questioning the assumptions of press freedom rankings: regional perspectives. Press freedom and transnational online activism in China / by Guobin Yang; title: Freedom of the press : is a worldwide comparison possible and what is it good for? / by Christina Holtz-Bacha; title: Post-Soviet perspective on censorship and freedom of the media / by Andrei Richter; title: Cybersieves / by Derek Bambauer; title: Towards a new approach to evaluation / Nicole Stremlau; title: From press freedom indices to evaluating media development. What works? the problem of program evaluation / by Craig LaMay; title: Good but how good? monitoring and evaluation of media assistance projects / by Andy Mosher; title: Measuring the impact of media assistance programs: a road map for collaboration among media researchers and media development organizations / by Susan Abbott and Maureen Taylor; title: Making the case for how media matters: linkages between media and democratic and economic development. Measuring the media: examining the interdisciplinary approach / by Shanthi Kalathil; title: Indicators of citizen voice for assessing media development: a communicative action approach / by Tom Jacobson, Lingling Pan,  and Seung Joon Jun; title: Beyond borders: is media freedom contagious? /  by Russell S. Sobel,  Nabamita Dutta, and Sanjukta Roy; title: The global promotion of media diversity: models and bureaucratic imperatives in international media assistance / by Silvio Waisbord.