Measures of Press Freedom and Media Contributions to Development: Evaluating the Evaluators (Hardcover, 2)

Contents: Monroe E. Price: Press Freedom Measures: An Introduction ? Lee B. Becker/Tudor Vlad: The Conceptualization and Operationalization of Country-Level Measures of Media Freedom ? Patrick McCurdy/Gerry Power/Anna Godfrey: When Theory Meets Practice: Critical Reflections from the Field on Press Freedom Indices ? Andrew Puddephatt: Examining and Critiquing Existing Measures of Media Development ? Fackson Banda: What Are We Measuring? A Critical Review of Media Development Assessment Tools ? Guobin Yang: Press Freedom and Transnational Online Activism in China ? Christina Holtz-Bacha: Freedom of the Press: Is a Worldwide Comparison Possible and What is it Good For? ? Andrei Richter: Post-Soviet Perspective on Evaluating Censorship and Freedom of the Media ? Derek E. Bambauer: Comparing Cybersieves ? Nicole Stremlau: Towards a New Approach to Evaluation ? Craig L. LaMay: What Works? The Problem of Program Evaluation ? Andy Mosher: Good, But How Good? Monitoring and Evaluation of Media Assistance Projects ? Susan Abbott/Maureen Taylor: Measuring the Impact of Media Assistance Programs: Perspectives on Research-Practitioner Collaboration ? Shanthi Kalathil: Measuring the Media: Examining the Interdisciplinary Approach ? Thomas Jacobson/Lingling Pan/ Seung Joon Jun: Indicators of Citizen Voice for Assessing Media Development: A Communicative Action Approach ? Russell S. Sobel/Nabamita Dutta/Sanjukta Roy: Beyond Borders: Is Media Freedom Contagious? ? Silvio Waisbord: The Global Promotion of Media Diversity: Revisiting Operational Models and Bureaucratic Imperatives.