Christoph Schmidt Books

Kenya’s 2010 Constitution guarantees press freedom in a way the country has never previously seen. However, the concentration of media ownership and pending consensus on new media legislation are tarnishing the triumphs of Kenya’s media liberalization and development. Regulation of news content, including hate speech and political bias, as well as journalistic standards are also issues provoking discussion and sullying the image of Kenya as a role model for other East African countries. On May 21, 2014, international scholars gathered in Bonn to discuss their research under the heading “Kenya’s Media Landscape: A Success Story with Serious Structural Challenges”. This publication provides a supplement to the presentations and discussions held at the fifth annual DW Media Dialogue.

Training and educating of journalists around the world with the aim of enhancing free and independent media has been a major field of media development cooperation for decades. Nevertheless, the state of scientific research in this area remains limited, specifically with regard to the status quo of journalism education in developing countries. The academic research project on International Journalism Education Standards (IJES) was initiated by Deutsche Welle Akademie’s International Media Studies program with the goal to help close this gap. This publication contains the research results of the IJES research poject´s comparative study about the standards of journalism education in four developing countries: Colombia, Kenya, Myanmar and Egypt.

Media development cooperation is based on the assumption that free and independent media are a precondition for good governance and thus the effective functioning of democratic societies. In order to holistically approach the area of media development a concept that combines media sustainability and journalistic quality is needed – this call laid the foundation for the concept of media viability. This publication is one of the firsts that reveals general characteristics that shape, enhance and restrict media viability of online news organizations in developing countries and economies in transition. Further, the comparative approach serves to highlight the challenges and chances alternative online news media face with regard to media viability in the developing world and thus is a first step in the search for clues on how to best promote media viability. This analysis focuses on five countries within different world regions: Ecuador, Uganda, Cambodia, Ukraine and Tunisia.

Focusing on the experiential approach to consumption, this essay evaluates how products and services create need- or want-satisfying experiences within the framework of experiential marketing. It explores whether all products inherently offer services that enhance consumer experiences, providing insights into the interplay between marketing strategies and consumer behavior. The analysis is rooted in business economics, emphasizing the significance of experiential marketing in contemporary markets.

After the so-called 'Twitter Revolutions' in Moldova and Iran, the international media coined the term 'Facebook Revolution' to depict the most popular, world-wide, social media platform as a condition sine qua non for the Arab revolutions. There is little doubt that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as content sharing platforms such as YouTube and Flickr, played a signicant role in countries with severe restrictions on freedom of expression. However, the implications of new tools like these for media systems and political landscapes of individual countries and entire regions remain uncertain and can only be determined through systematic research and analysis. On May 16, 2012 international and German scholars from various disciplines and institutes came together in Bonn to discuss their research results. This third annual DW Akademie Media Dialogue focused on 'The Role of Media in the Arab World's Transformation Process'.--Publisher description.

In Russland dominiert der Kreml mittlerweile alle Massenmedien, direkt oder indirekt. Wenn es um die Pressefreiheit geht, belegt das Land seit Jahren hintere Plätze auf den internationalen Ranglisten. Zugleich befindet sich die russische Medienbranche seit einigen Jahren im Aufschwung. Deutlich zugelegt haben etwa der Werbemarkt und Medien mit unterhaltungsorientierten Angeboten. Ökonomisch wenig erfolgreich sind dagegen Programme mit politischen Inhalten. 'Russland – Medien zwischen Staatslenkung und Kommerzialisierung' war der Titel des ersten Deutsche Welle Mediendialogs, der im April 2010 im Funkhaus des deutschen Auslandsrundfunks in Bonn stattfand. Experten aus Wissenschaft und Medienpraxis zeichneten ein vielschichtiges Bild der russischen Medienlandschaft zwischen staatlicher Einflussnahme und wirtschaftlichem Erfolg. Dieses Buch knüpft mit vertiefenden Beiträgen an die Veranstaltung an und gibt damit einen umfassenden Überblick über Struktur und aktuelle Entwicklungen des russischen Medienmarktes.

This book explores how agile development practices, in particular pair programming, code review and automated testing, help software development teams to perform better. Agile software engineering has become the standard software development paradigm over the last decade, and the insights provided here are taken from a large-scale survey of 80 professional software development teams working at SAP SE in Germany. In addition, the book introduces a novel measurement tool for assessing the performance of software development teams. No previous study has researched this topic with a similar data set comprising insights from more than 450 professional software engineers.