Water crisis in São Paulo: news coverage, public perception and the right to information by Laura Alves Martirani, Isabela Kojin Peres

“…It appears that major media outlets embraced 'news' frameworks, while smaller and independent media adopted 'interpretative' frameworks. …”
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Collaborative Online Media: a new way of making TV by Mara Cecilia Maciel Cavalcante, Alessandra dos Santos

“…<span id="docs-internal-guid-94e53909-01b3-bf92-440d-a9c2ec337b95"><p dir="ltr">The paper discusses the role of independent media,which became apparent during the June 2013protests in Brazil, by analyzing the format ofcollaborative, participatory, online and uncutjournalism, shared via social networking on theInternet. …”
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Joint programme Council of Europe / European Union "Pro- moting freedom, professionalism and pluralism of the media in the South Caucasus and Moldova" by Elisabeth Cadoux

“…<span class='abs_content'>While free and independent media, sometimes qualified as the "forth estate", is a pillar of civil society, the European Union (EU) is rather absent from media development in democratizing countries. …”
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Control of the public authorities as a necessary condition for the existence of a democratic state by С. А. Косінов

“…Emphasized that the important factors in the implementation of social control in a democratic state are such elements as elections, referendums, public movements and organizations, political parties, independent media, public opinion, various forms of social protest. …”
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Presseförderung als Mittel gegen Medienkonzentration und für die publizistische Vielfalt? Quasi-experimentelle Untersuchung der Schweiz im Vergleich zu Belgien, Österreich, Irland... by Steffen Kolb, Mathias Oertel

“…Mostly economically driven processes of media concentration endanger media diversity by decreasing the amount of independent media companies most probably causing less diverse media content. …”

Images of Nature as Designs for Czech Post-Socialist Society by Birgit Müller

“…The environmental conflict about the construction of a large cement factory in Tmaň, a small town South of Prague, bordering the nature protected area of the Česky Kras, embodies some of the central features of post-socialist society: the privatisation of state-owned firms by foreign capital, the emergence of citizen initiatives, the formation of new democratic structures on the local level, and the creation of a public sphere through independent media. Nature conservation and limited resource use entered as new elements into the debates of opposing political fractions that had previously turned around concepts of planned and market economy. …”
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A review of the communications and multimedia act 1998 in achieving media pluralism / Mazlina Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor and Zaiton Hamin by Mohamad Mansor @ Mansoor, Mazlina, Hamin, Zaiton

“…It establishes the tenets of having different independent media owners with the availability of a variety range of contents regardless of patterns of demand (Doyle, 2002). …”
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Camouflaged propaganda: A survey experiment on political native advertising by Yaoyao Dai, Luwei Luqiu

“…We examine a new form of propaganda, political native advertising , in which political actors, including foreign governments, buy space in independent media outlets to publish advertisements that are camouflaged as standard news stories. …”
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Kondycja zawodu dziennikarza w Rosji by Agata Krzywdzińska

“…Current Russian journalism is weak, we can observe a very negative tendencies like increasing state control over media, buying up nearly all independent media and increasing self‑censorship. An analytical function of media as well as critical view has moved to marginal position. …”
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Promoting media literacy: Lithuanian students' experience by Gražina Čiuladienė, Gintarė Gulevičiūtė, Rūta Latinytė, Arvydas Guogis

“…Media literacy education aims to help young people who are active media consumers improve their interpreting and judging skills and become independent media producers, as well as develop a critical understanding and active participation (Aydemir, Demirkan, 2021). …”
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Datafied Societies: Digital Infrastructures, Data Power, and Regulations by Raul Ferrer-Conill, Helle Sjøvaag, Ragnhild Kr. Olsen

“…This thematic issue presents a collection of articles that tackle the political economy of datafication from three main perspectives: (a) digital media infrastructures and its actors, data structures, and markets; (b) the articulation of data power, public access to information, data privacy, and the risks of citizens in a datafied society; and (c) the policies and regulations for effective, independent media institutions and data sovereignty. It concludes with a reflection on the role of media and communication scholarship when studying sociotechnical processes controlled by giant technological companies.…”
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INFORMATIONAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE USA DURING THE “TULIP REVOLUTION” IN KYRGYZSTAN by Lina Yuryevna Medovkina

“…It is noted that in 2004 the US State Department awarded grants to non-governmental organizations of Kyrgyzstan as help for the independent media and for dissemination of propaganda information. …”
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Konstruksi wacana dan realitas portal berita online by Mochammad Irfan Achfandhy

“…However, the inconsistency of the news has shown the assumption of a shift in the media as a source of information into the media as a space for the existence and contestation of a group. the recommendation is that media repositioning is needed to open a wider space so that the media can again become a source of information for the community that is free of elements or independent media.…”
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Bureaucratism as a phenomenon of rational bureaucracy: the reasons of appearance and the ways of overcoming by V. D. Bodnarchuk

“…The reasons of the bureaucratism’s appearance in the system of public administration are analyzed, namely: the low professional and moral level of civil servants, the excessive politicization of public and administrative apparatus, the insufficient development of civil society institutions, including independent media, and the general low level of public consciousness and activity. …”
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Post-Communist Institution-Building and Media Control by Natalya Ryabinska

“…The approach is applied to analyze two cases of post-communist media change, both problematic to explain within the framework of media studies alone: the case of incomplete media transformation in a hybrid regime (Ukraine) and the incident of backsliding in independent media in an advanced new democracy (Hungary). …”
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere by Yazan Badran

“…The most recognisable examples of these new independent media actors include Enab Baladi in Syria, Mada Masr in Egypt, and Inkyfada in Tunisia. …”
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Serpica Naro and the Others. The Media Sociali Experience in Italian Struggles Against Precarity by Alice Mattoni

“…In doing so, the paper presents different ways of interpreting political conflict in contemporary Italian social movements and argues that the media sociali are an interesting attempt to overcome both mainstream and independent media in the construction of precarious workers’ imagery and political socialization. …”
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Comparing Digital Protest Media Imaginaries: Anti-Austerity Movements in Greece, Italy & Spain by Emiliano Treré, Sandra Jeppesen, Alice Mattoni

“…Drawing on 60 semi­structured interviews with activists and independent media producers involved in the 2011 wave of contention, we bring together social movement and communications theoretical frameworks to present a comparative critical analysis of digital protest media imaginaries. …”
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From Pacific Scoop to Asia Pacific Report: A case study in an independent campus-industry media partnership by David Robie

“…Selecting two New Zealand-based complementary and pioneering Pacific digital news and analysis publications, Pacific Scoop (founded 2009) and Asia-Pacific Report (2016), produced by a journalism school programme in partnership with established independent media as a combined case study, this article will demonstrate how academia-based gatewatching media can effectively challenge mainstream gatekeeping media. …”
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Public Deliberation in Russia: Deliberative Quality, Rationality and Interactivity of the Online Media Discussions by Olga Filatova, Yury Kabanov, Yuri Misnikov

“…On the other hand, discourses on independent media are distinctively against the government policy of food destruction. …”
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