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Breaking the Silence: Digital Media and the Struggle for LGBTQ Rights in Iran

James Marchant et al.
Small Media (2018), 118 pp.
"In this report, we highlight the incredible resilience, bravery and ingenuity of Iran’s LGBTQ citizens in the face of sustained state persecution and continued societal hostility. We map out the urgent media development needs of the LGBTQ community, share examples of existing community initiative ... more
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Who Speaks for the Past? Social Media, Social Memory, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Contemporary China

Jun Liu
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 1675-1695
"This study explores the influence of social media on the (re)formation of social memory and the production of historical knowledge in society. It takes several contested debates over historical events and figures on Weibo, one of the most widely used social media, as the case to investigate how soc ... more
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Youth and Radicalization in Mombasa, Kenya: A Lexicon of Violent Extremist Language on Social Media

Lauren Van Metre
Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab; Media Monitoring Africa (2018), 36 pp.
"Though it’s well-known that extremist groups like al-Shabaab use social media to spread fear and recruit susceptible youth, there’s very little evidence-based research that details how at-risk youth use social media and how language is weaponized online by extremists to radicalize and recruit t ... more
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When Facts Don't Matter: How to Communicate More Effectively About Immigration's Costs and Benefits

Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan
Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute (MPI) (2018), 25 pp.
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Schulbuchinhalte inklusiv gestalten: Religion, Gender und Kultur im Fokus

Paris; Braunschweig: UNESCO; Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung (2018), 29 pp.
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Glaubwürdigkeit in Politik, Medien und Gesellschaft: 10 Bausteine für die schulische und außerschulische politische Bildung

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 112 pp.
"Auf Glaubwürdigkeit und Vertrauen, auch auf die Allgemeingültigkeit grundlegender und verbindlicher Wertvorstellungen, gründet sich allerdings das Zusammenleben in der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Wo verbreitet Misstrauen herrscht, ist ein konstruktives Miteinander kaum noch möglich. Wenn Misstra ... more
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The Oral History Manual

Barbara W. Sommer, Mary Kay Quinlan
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2018), viii, 145 pp.
"The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – t ... more
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Disability in the Media: Examining Stigma and Identity

Tracy R. Worrell
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2018), xv, 125 pp.
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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”

Susan Wyche, Jennifer Olson
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w ... more
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Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda, Bruce Mutsvairo, Gerard Goggin (eds.)
Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.
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Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing by and About Indigenous Peoples

Gregory Younging
Edmonton, Alberta: Brush Education (2018), xiv, 150 pp.
"Elements of Indigenous Style provides guidelines to help writers, editors, and publishers produce material that reflects indigenous people in an appropriate and respectful manner. Gregory Younging, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, has been the managing editor of Theytus ... more
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Accounting for Youth Audiences’ Resistances to HIV and AIDS Messages in the Television Drama Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, volume 15, issue 1 (2018), pp. 20-30
"Using cultural studies as its conceptual framework and reception analysis as its methodology, this study investigated and accounted for the oppositional readings that subaltern black South African youths negotiate from Tsha Tsha, an E-E television drama on HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Results from ... more
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Safe Sisters: A Common Sense Guide to Digital Safety for Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa

Internews; Defend Defenders (2018), 10 pp.
"We wrote this booklet to help our sisters learn about problems that we can run into on the internet (like leaked or stolen personal photos, viruses, and scams), how we can make informed decisions every day to protect ourselves, and to help make the internet a safe space for ourselves, our families, ... more
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Ugandan Women Online: A Quantitative Survey on Digital Literacy in Uganda

Pollicy; Internews (2018), 21 pp.
"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal ... more
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Formen des Vergessens

Aleida Assmann
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 224 pp.
"Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Dominanz der Auseinandersetzung mit Erinnerung haben wir das Vergessen anscheinend vergessen. Tatsächlich ist aber nicht das Erinnern, sondern das Vergessen der Grundmodus menschlichen und gesellschaftlichen Lebens. Für das Erinnern bedarf es einer aktiven Anstrengun ... more
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Youth Mobile 2018 Report: Empowering the Next Generation

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 16 pp.
"The UNESCO YouthMobile Initiative leverages the widespread availability of mobile phones to empower youth through digital skills training. Young people are introduced to coding as both a resource to solve local issues and a tool to develop complex learning skills. Through YouthMobile training, stud ... more
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Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 225-241
"In this chapter we have offered an interpretation of the first twenty years of mobile telephony in marginal zones in Africa. With case-studies from central Mali, anglophone Cameroon and south-east Angola, we focused on the changes in both communication and mobility patterns, specifically in connect ... more
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Kollektives Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen: Eine Einführung

Astrid Erll
Stuttgart: Metzler, 3., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2017), xi, 231 pp.
"Gedächtnis' und ‚Erinnerung' sind Leitthemen in der Wissenschaft und im gesellschaftlich-politischen Diskurs. - Dieser Band bündelt die verschiedenen Theorien, Terminologien und Methoden aus der Forschung zum individuellen und kollektiven Gedächtnis und geht insbesondere den folgenden Fragen n ... more
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Ensemble, les femmes journalistes du Mali renforcent la paix !

Search for Common Ground (2017), 36 pp.
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The Trauma Graphic Novel

Andrés Romero-Jódar
New York; London: Routledge (2017), x, 179 pp.
"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s ... more