Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance
Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance
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叙利亚媒体发展：外援的两面性
DOI：
10.1080/01436597.2017.1333420
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发表时间：
2017
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2
通讯作者：
B. Brownlee
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作者：
B. Brownlee
摘要本文旨在通过探索一种新的研究途径--媒体发展援助--来回答有关叙利亚起义的形成和转变的许多悬而未决的问题。大多数学术界的兴趣都集中在新媒体在起义期间所起的作用上；相比之下，在起义之前的几年里，人们对该部门的发展兴趣不足。这篇文章揭示的是，在2011年起义爆发之前的几年里，叙利亚的媒体格局得到了国际发展援助的大力支持。本文通过观察媒体援助架构的复杂结构，并调查一些有代表性的组织实施的做法和计划，反思了媒体发展领域作为西方(特别是欧盟和美国)通过替代和非附带的、自下而上的支持来促进民主的一种新的运作方式。
Abstract This article intends to provide responses to some of the many unanswered questions about the making and the transformation of the uprising in Syria by exploring a new avenue of research: media development aid. Most academic interest has been oriented towards the role that the new media played at the time of the uprising; insufficient interest, by contrast, has been directed to the development of the sector in the years predating it. What emerges from this article is that the Syrian media landscape was strongly supported by international development aid during the years prior to the outbreak of the uprising of 2011. By looking at the complex structure of media aid architecture and investigating the practices and programmes implemented by some representative organisations, this article reflects on the field of media development as a new modus operandi of the West (the EU and US especially), to promote democracy through alternative and non-collateral, bottom-up support.