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ICT Policies
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Music Industries & Markets
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Journalism
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Asian Languages
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Digital News Initiative (Digital Journalism Assistance Programme, Google)
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Information Ecosystems
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Media & Communication Policies
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Human Rights Violations
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Regulatory Bodies
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Governance
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Human Security
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Rohingya
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Dalits
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Open Source Software
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Technological Change, Technological Developments, Technological Progress
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Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologies
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Cable Television
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests
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China’s New Media Dilemma: The Profit in Online Dissent
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 24 pp.
"Drawing from often overlooked sources of evidence, this report shows that China’s homegrown social media platforms have responded to market incentives by subtly shielding users from certain forms of online censorship and repression. Meanwhile, the party confronts rising costs—both economicall
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Global Justice 4.0: The Impacts of Digitalisation on the Global South
Top Insights
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2019), 74 pp.
"This publication discusses the extent to which digital technology can help tackle poverty and social inequality. Does it increase or restrict the opportunities for social and economic participation open to disadvantaged people? We analyse the history of e-commerce in the light of this question. We
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Jenseits der "Big three": Alternative Plattformen für Hassrede online
sCAN-Projektkonsortium (2019), 16 pp.
A Constitutional Moment: How We Might Reimagine Platform Governance
Computer Law & Security Review, volume 36, issue 105381 (2019), 4 pp.
"We are at a constitutional moment for the future of the internet. Nation states around the world are launching major new initiatives to regulate the internet, both directly against users and by regulating the companies that provide access to telecommunications infras- tructure and content services.
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Self-regulation and ‘hate speech’ on social media platforms
London: Article 19 (2018), 31 pp.
"A number of recent legislative initiatives on ‘hate speech’, including most prominently the 2017 German NetzDG law on social media, make reference to some forms of self-regulation. Voluntary mechanisms between digital companies and various public bodies addressing ‘hate speech’ and other is
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Facebook News Feed Changes: Impact and Actions
New York; Prague: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2018), 27 pp.
"An MDIF analysis of the impact of Facebook’s Q4 2017 “Explore” News Feed test showed a steep decrease in traffic for test market publishers versus traffic changes for publishers in nearby regional markets. This report will explore the impact of the Explore changes in emerging markets, discuss
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Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar
BSR (2018), 60 pp.
"Facebook commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the company’s presence in Myanmar. BSR undertook this HRIA between May and September 2018, using a methodology based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This assessment identifies and
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Hateful Commenting Online: Control Strategies for Newsrooms
Vistas Verlag (2018), 30 pp.
A Rights-Respecting Model of Online Content Regulation by Platforms
Global Partners Digital (2018), 34 pp.
Media Influence Matrix: Bulgaria. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism
Budapest: Data and Society (CMDS) Center for Media (2018), 24 pp.
"Technology plays an important role for news media distribution in Bulgaria: 88% of Bulgarians get their news online, first and foremost on the online platforms of popular television channels and their social network pages. Bulgarians are some of the most active social media users in the EU (ranked
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Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2018), xiv, 516 pp.
"Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what should be left to the market and
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Ascendant India, Digital India: How Net Neutrality Advocates Defeated Facebook’s Free Basics
Media, Culture & Society, volume 40, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-431
"This article analyzes the 2015 campaign by net neutrality advocates against Facebook’s Free Basics service in India, and argues that their victory can be best understood by analyzing their privileged place in an India that imagines itself high tech and global. The advocates, predominantly tech wo
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Handbuch Soziale Medien
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2017), x, 407 pp.
Global Media Giants
Top Insights
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xiii, 496 pp.
"Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News C
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m
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Die Macht der Informationsintermediäre: Erscheinungsformen, Strukturen und Regulierungsoptionen
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2016), 96 pp.
"Zunehmend ist es nämlich nicht mehr die Frage „Was wird verbreitet?“, sondern die Frage „Was wird gefunden und kann verarbeitet werden?“, die über die Vielfalt der von uns wahrgenommenen Inhalte entscheidet. Vordergründig ist die Zahl der zur Verfügung stehenden Informationen ins Unerme
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Social Web
Konstanz, München: UVK, 3., überarb. Aufl. (2016), 335 pp.
"Ausgehend von der Geschichte des Internets und einer Definition des »Social Webs« werden zunächst dessen Erscheinungsformen vorgestellt, verglichen und eingeordnet. Darauf folgt eine Beschreibung der technischen Grundlagen sowie der auftretenden Gruppenprozesse und der gesellschaftlichen Bedeutu
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Social Media: Enduring Principles
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xviii, 302 pp.
Facets of Facebook: Use and Users
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2016), x, 328 pp.
"The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook. Facebook has many facets, and we just look forward above all to the use and users. The facet
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Geopolitics of Search: Google Versus China?
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 4 (2016), pp. 591-605
"This article focuses on the case of Google, the newly emerged US Internet industry and global geographical market expansion. Google's struggles in China, where Chinese domestic Internet firm, Baidu, controls the market, have been commonly presented in the Western mainstream media in terms of a stru
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