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Toward a Framework for Studying Democratic Media Development and “Media Capture”: The Iraqi Kurdistan Case

Jeannine E. Relly

Margaret Zanger

Paola Banchero

Media, Development and Democracy

ISBN: 978-1-80043-493-6, eISBN: 978-1-80043-492-9

Publication date: 8 December 2021

Abstract

This qualitative study examines the influence of media development in Iraqi Kurdistan after nearly a decade and a half of donor country-funded professional journalism training in a period following an oil boom and bust, influence of a transnational terror organization, and a recent vote to secede from the rest of Iraq. The study builds out a typology of economic, political, bureaucratic, legal, cultural, and societal capture, and applies it in an analysis of data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews that were conducted in the two largest cities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Acknowledgments

Funding from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the School of Journalism at The University of Arizona was utilized for fieldwork and transcription of the audio interviews.

Citation

Relly, J.E., Zanger, M. and Banchero, P. (2021), "Toward a Framework for Studying Democratic Media Development and “Media Capture”: The Iraqi Kurdistan Case", Pait, H. and Laet, J. (Ed.) Media, Development and Democracy (Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 22), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 45-69. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020210000022006

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Emerald Publishing Limited