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Algorithms & Big Data
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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Search Engines
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TikTok
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YouTube
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Digital News Initiative (Digital Journalism Assistance Programme, Google)
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Media Assistance Donors: Corporate Donors
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Accountability & Transparency
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Access to Media & Information
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Advertising Markets & Industries
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Digital Advertising, Online Advertising
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Internet Shutdowns
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Digital Media Markets
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Online News
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
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Telegram
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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WhatsApp
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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Uyghurs, Uighurs
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Health Disinformation & Misinformation
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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COVID-19 Communication
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Foreign News, International News
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Journalism
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Election Reporting
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Media Assistance: Criticism, Ideological Backgrounds, Vested Interests
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Consumer Protection
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Financing Media, Financial Media Management
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Capitalism
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Fundamentalisms (Religious)
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Impacto de programas de apoyo de grandes plataformas digitales a medios de comunicación en América Latina: Los casos Google News Initiative y Meta for Media
Montevideo: Observacom (2025), 43 pp.
"1. Los apoyos, herramientas y recursos económicos analizados no son ni cercanamente suficientes para reducir los daños que su capacidad de control genera en los medios ni en la actividad periodística.
2. El impacto cuantitativo es relativamente menor; esto sucede tanto en lo económico como en
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Search Engines as “Globalizing Machines”: International News Flow Through Google During the 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2577-2597
"News is increasingly consumed via search engines. Yet, there is little research on foreign news consumption through search engines. This study thus focuses on the presence of foreign news in political search results in a peripheral country that is at the focal point of the international conflict be
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See No Evil: Loopholes in Google’s Data Safety Labels Keep Companies in the Clear and Consumers in the Dark
*Privacy Not Included; Mozilla (2023), 20 pp.
The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 246 pp.
"In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on disp
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The Trust Gap: How and Why News on Digital Platforms is Viewed More Sceptically Versus News in General
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 71 pp.
"Drawing on an original dataset of survey responses collected in the summer of 2022 across four countries - Brazil, India, the UK, and the US - they examine the relationship between trust in news and how people think about news on digital platforms, especially Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and YouTube
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Born in the Fire: What We Can Learn from How Digital Publishers in the Global South Approach Platforms
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 33 pp.
"Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, the authors of this report analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global South countries approach digital platforms: both big platform companies such as Google and Meta; rapidly
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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World
ProPublica (2022)
"The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable." (Introduction)
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2021), xv, 423 pp.
"China's 'Great Firewall' has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. Update
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Social Media Usage by Digital Finance Consumers: Analysis of Consumer Complaints in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. July 2019 - July 2020
Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa) (2021), 36 pp.
"Digital feedback has large potential for consumer protection. The customer experiences shared in the different social media channels have proven to be a rich source of information with the potential of answering a large number of questions. Who will make use of this data and methods going forward,
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Google, the Media Patron: How the Digital Giant Ensnares Journalism
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2020), 124 pp.
"The study shows that the data giant’s rise to become a patron of the media began in France, where, responding to political pressure, it set up a 60-million-euro fund to support press publishers’ innovation projects in 2013. The French fund was the blueprint for the Digital News Initiative (DNI)
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Rendición de cuentas de Google y otros negocios en Colombia: La protección de datos personales en la era digital
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2019), 117 pp.
Accountability of Google and Other Businesses in Colombia: Personal Data Protection in the Digital Age
Bogotá: Dejusticia (2019), 104 pp.
Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th
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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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The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering
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Kid Gloves at the Keyboard: Defamation Charges Threaten Freedom of Speech in Asia
KAS International Reports, issue 8 (2012), pp. 118-134
"Concerns are growing in Asia about offensive and extremist material on the internet. New laws have been passed to remedy this, but they have collided with the ways that search engines, social networks and internet cafes run their operations. These service providers have therefore been resisting cal
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Deep Search: Politik des Suchens jenseits von Google
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 240 pp.
"Suchmaschinen wie Google stehen im Zentrum unseres digitalen Lebens. Hinter ihrem einfachen Interface verbirgt sich jedoch eine politische Philosophie in Form von komplexen digitalen Codes. Auf dem Spiel steht nichts weniger als die Frage, wie wir individuell und kollektiv etwas über die Welt in E
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