This paper provides a critical overview of the literature on media and conflict by focusing on
the ways in which contemporary media frame different types of political conflict. It reveals a …

We review the research conducted to date on media events and media spectacles. We posit
that the main phenomena challenging the current conceptualizations of media event and …

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe,
and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a …

Since the early 1990s a growing number of constitution building processes in countries
transitioning from authoritarian rule or recovering from war or severe institutional crisis have …

In the Arab region, unexpected political changes have influenced the media scene; political
and commercial pressures exercised over media entities have affected their credibility and …

The Franco regime promoted a memory of the war full of distortions and omissions. The
silenced existence of mass graves with Republican civilians executed by Francoists was …

The media are assumed to play a key role in democratization. Much of the available
evidence on the media's role in democratic transitions is based on a comparative and global …

This study evaluates the impact of campaign propaganda on both the outcome of the 2015
presidential poll and post-election governance in Nigeria. It specifically analyses how ethno …

This comparative multi-sited study examines how, why and when politically engaged youths
in distinctive national and social movement contexts use Facebook to facilitate political …

Since 1989, many of the former communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
have made the dramatic change from communist regimes to democratic nations that are …