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Digital Capabilities is a first-of-its-kind exploration of the capabilities that communities in positions of inequality in Israel and the West Bank seek to realize by utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT), the opportunities they have to communicate, and the way ICTs serve their desire to do so. It is the outcome of an eight-year research project in which the nine authors of this book, some of whom came from within the studied communities, conducted their work among the studied populations over an extended period of time. The capabilities approach, much discussed theoretically, takes on a life in this project and is presented as an empirically observable phenomenon for assessing whether ICTs are serving actual needs, whether communication resources are justly allocated and distributed and whether they serve the goal of a universally accessible right to communicate.

Mass communications --- sociale media --- Digital media. --- Internet --- Mass media --- Digital and New Media. --- Internet Studies. --- Media Policy and Politics. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects.

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This book considers the production of political media content from the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the ranks of voices charged with informing the public. The work draws on the authors’ first-hand experience and relationships with media reporters, managers, producers, and academics offering their expertise to a wide array of media outlets to understand and report on the dynamics shaping how the academic voice in political news may be at its most useful. Featured prominently in the book is the trade-off between a conventional form of political punditry, which is often characterized by partisan rancour, and a more analytical, theoretical, and/or policy-based approach to explaining politics to both general and diverse audiences. Along the way, the work draws on original survey, in-depth interview, and experimental data to garner insights on what academics in media, reporters, and media managers perceive are the appropriate roles for academics featured in political media. This book also contains relevant technical tips for effective media communication by academics. Brian R. Calfano is Professor of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Valerie Martinez-Ebers is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, USA. Aida Ramusovic is a Doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, USA. .

Mass media --- Political aspects. --- Communication in politics --- Mass media Political aspects --- Political aspects --- America --- Communication in politics. --- Journalism. --- American Politics. --- Media Policy and Politics. --- Political Communication. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Political communication --- Political science --- Politics and government.

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This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe. Scholars from twenty parts of the world specialized in political and government communication analyze initiatives and methods of various governments' communicative responses to the pandemic. In their contributions to this volume, they examine a wide range of distinct attitudes and reactions facing the crisis. Today’s omnidirectional contact allowed by social media, with its load of contradictory rumors and fake news, often obliterates the citizens' ability to comprehend reality. The book frames a broad canvas on how government communication may deal with that and manage similar crises — bound to happen as climate changes and war menaces are generating more and more worries about the future of humanity. This makes this volume a must-read for scholars and students of political communication, health policies and communication, crisis marketing and communication. It will also be of utmost interest for practitioners and policy-makers from these fields willing to better understand government communication and its answer to global crises.

Political systems --- Politics --- Public administration --- Mass communications --- communicatie --- massamedia --- overheid --- politiek --- Communication in politics. --- Comparative government. --- Political science. --- Mass media --- Political Communication. --- Comparative Politics. --- Governance and Government. --- Media Policy and Politics. --- Political aspects.

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This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe. Scholars from twenty parts of the world specialized in political and government communication analyze initiatives and methods of various governments' communicative responses to the pandemic. In their contributions to this volume, they examine a wide range of distinct attitudes and reactions facing the crisis. Today’s omnidirectional contact allowed by social media, with its load of contradictory rumors and fake news, often obliterates the citizens' ability to comprehend reality. The book frames a broad canvas on how government communication may deal with that and manage similar crises — bound to happen as climate changes and war menaces are generating more and more worries about the future of humanity. This makes this volume a must-read for scholars and students of political communication, health policies and communication, crisis marketing and communication. It will also be of utmost interest for practitioners and policy-makers from these fields willing to better understand government communication and its answer to global crises.

Communication in politics. --- Government policy. --- Political communication --- Political science --- Comparative government. --- Political science. --- Mass media --- Political Communication. --- Comparative Politics. --- Governance and Government. --- Media Policy and Politics. --- Political aspects. --- Mass media Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Communication in politics --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative

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This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these emerging democracies, the policy goals and objectives of the reforms have not been achieved. Consequently, the inherent socio-cultural, economic and political factors, coupled with the historical antecedents of these countries, have also affected the reform process. Drawing from policy documents, analyses and interviews Ufuoma Akpojivi argues that the lack of citizens’ active participation in policy processes has led to neo-liberalization and the continued universalization of Western ideologies such as democracy, media freedom and independence. Akpojivi posits that the recognition of socio-cultural, political and economic factors inherent to these emerging democracies, coupled with the communal participation of citizens, will facilitate true media reform processes and development of these countries. Ufuoma Akpojivi is Senior Lecturer in the Media Studies Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests cut across media policy, democratization and new media and citizens’ engagement. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa rated researcher and a fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Democracy --- Communication. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Mass media—Political aspects. --- Africa-Politics and government. --- Development Communication. --- African Culture. --- Media Policy. --- African Politics. --- Media and Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Africa—Politics and government. --- Communication in economic development. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Mass media --- Africa --- Media Policy and Politics. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Economic development --- Mass media Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Communication in politics --- Africa. --- Political aspects. --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects