000K utf8 1100 2015$c2015-01-16 1500 ger 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:547-201400686 3000 Myers, Mary 3010 Dietz, Christoph 3010 Frère, Marie-Soleil 4000 International Media Assistance [Myers, Mary] 4060 7 Seiten 4209 As an introduction to this special issue this article deals firstly with defining and clarifying terms and concepts which are used in the context of international media assistance. Secondly, the themes of the different articles in this collection are enumerated: these are broadly the how to of media assistance, evaluation and the ongoing debate about proving impact of media assistance project; negotiating the tensions between the state and the media and finally, the fundamental question of why and to what purpose is assistance to the media sector given in the first place. The first two of these themes are developed in slightly more depth. The piece is rounded off with some further reflections on the history both of the idea of media assistance and of the way it has been practiced in recent decades. It finally looks at the ways research in this field may develop in the future. 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:547-201400686$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00025428 5051 070 5550 evaluation 5550 ICT 5550 impact assessment 5550 international aid 5550 media and democratization 5550 media and development 5550 media assistance 5550 Western bias