Essachess

Sommaire:
◊ Adapting Concepts of Media Freedom to a Changing Media Environment: Incorporating New Media and Citizen Journalism into the Freedom of the Press
◊ Apercu sur l'Index de Reporters sans Frontieres : historique, methodologie et perspectives
◊ In Measuring Press Freedom and Media Sector Performance: How Social Media have Affected the Media Sustainability
◊ The Relevance of People's Attitudes Towards Freedom of Expression in a Changing Media Environment
◊ Medias, technologies et droits humains : notions concurrentes. Cas canadiens et internationaux
◊ Challenges to Freedom of Expression in the Digital World: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring
◊ Social Media and the Freedom of the Press: a long-term Perspective from within International News Agencies
◊ Les aleas de la libre circulation de l'information dans les nouveaux medias en Tunisie
◊ Presse et revolution en Tunisie : role, enjeux et perspectives
◊ La mobilisation sociale a l'ere des reseaux sociaux. Cas du Maroc
◊ Τhe Impact of Social Media on Press Freedom in Greece: Benefits, Challenges and Limitations
◊ Les reseaux sociaux comme outil d'isolation politique en Russie
◊ Notes de lecture et parutions

Coordination du numero: Tudor Vlad et Lee B. Becker, James M. Cox Jr., Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, University of Georgia, USA

Historically, evaluations of media freedom and assessment of the role of media in the process of democratization have focused on print and broadcast media. More recently, researchers have brought the Internet into the equation. The Arab Spring in particular has suggested that social media might have a crucial role in informing and mobilizing audiences, especially in countries with limited press freedom.
This issue of ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies has had the ambitious goal of investigating new trends in press freedom evaluation and in assessing the role of the press in the process of democratization in the context of the changes that the new media have brought to the field of mass communication.
ESSACHESS has brought together contributions from Freedom House, Reporters sans Frontieres and from International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). The first two of these have the broadest range of countries studies. The Media Sustainability Index has expanded in recent years to cover a broader sweep of countries.

Contributions:
Eleeza V. Agopian; Abderrahmane Amsidder; Fathallah Daghmi; Zouha Dahmen-Jarrin; Arne Hintz; Karin Deutsch Karlekar; Ilya Kiriya; Norman Landry; Gilles Lordet; Leon Morse; Teresa Naab; Jeremie Nicey; Michael Palmer; Courtney C. Radsch; Katerina Serafeim; Zeineb Touati; Farid Toumi.