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Online Toxicity Against Syrians in Turkish Twitter: Analysis and Implications

Hala Mulki, Samir Alabdullah, Ahmed Halil, Nawari Al-Ali, Maria Kyriakidou, Ludek Stavinoha
International Journal of Communication, volume 18, issue 24 (2024), pp. 191-218
"This study examines the portrayal of Syrians on Turkish Twitter between January and August 2021 through a big data analysis of more than 30,000 tweets. We employ the concept of online toxicity to differentiate between disinformation and hate speech and explore how they are embedded in the negative ... more
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Asking for solidarity: Embodied feminist practices in digital space

Heba Sigurdardottin, Majid Imani, Zahra Edalati
Gender & Development, volume 32, issue 1-2 (2024), pp. 523-545
"The Woman, Life, Freedom movement, beginning in September 2022, is a key chapter in the ongoing process of women’s rights activism in Iran. Social media has constituted a significant arena for asking for global solidarity with women in Iran since the initial days of this movement. The overall aim ... more
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Code & Vorurteil: Über Künstliche Intelligenz, Rassismus und Antisemitismus

Marie-Sophie Adeoso, Eva Berendsen, Leo Fischer, Deborah Schnabel (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 231 pp.
"Was bedeutet die zunehmende Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz für die Demokratie, für Offenheit und Vielfalt in der Gesellschaft? Wie gerecht entscheiden Algorithmen? Vielfach zeigt sich, dass KI-Anwendungen strukturelle Ungleichheit und bestehende Diskriminierungsmuster reproduzieren können. Den ... more
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Tragische Einzelfälle? Trendreport zur Berichterstattung über Gewalt gegen Frauen

Christine E. Meltzer
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2024), 96 pp.
"Unser Trendreport zeigt zum einen, wie in regionalen und überregionalen Tageszeitungen, in Boulevardmedien sowie in den Meldungen der dpa und auf Spiegel Online über Gewalt gegen Frauen berichtet wird. Im Fokus der Analyse steht die Darstellung von Tat, Tätern und Opfern sowie die Verwendung von ... more
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Parler de la société à la société avec les proverbes, les contes, les chansons et les tambours: Une approche socio-anthropologique de la communication sociale en Afrique traditionnelle

Benoît Kouakou Oi Kouakou
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 264 pp.
"Les proverbes, les contes, les chansons et les tambours-parleurs sont, dans les sociétés traditionnelles africaines, l’espace où se tient le discours sur la vie sociale, ou plus exactement, le discours de la vie sociale, c’est-à-dire le discours que produit la société elle-même à ses in ... more
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Gender-Based Violence and Digital Media in South Africa

Millie Mayiziveyi Phiri
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xi, 124 pp.
"This book presents a new paradigm for attending to gender-based violence (GBV) social media discourse among marginalised black women in South Africa. Focusing on the intersections of television and social media, the study charts the morphing and merging of the "inside" of the soap opera and the "ou ... more
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The Influence of Media Trust and Normative Role Expectations on the Credibility of Fact Checkers

Florian Primig
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 5 (2024), pp. 1137-1157
"Fact-checking has been granted a pivotal role in mitigating the effects of online disinformation, but its effectiveness has nonetheless been questioned. Like any persuasive communication, fact checkers depend on their recipients perceiving both their messages and them as credible. This study invest ... more
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Promoting Social Cohesion or an Enabler of Tribalism? A Closer Look at Community Radio Language Policies in Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Malamulele FM and Vuwani FM

Freddy Chauke, Prinola Govenden
Communicatio (2024), 21 pp.
"Tribalism is a social phenomenon polarising South Africa along ethnic lines and undermining democratic efforts for social cohesion in the newly reconfigured inclusive territorial zones. Community radio is expected to play a social cohesion role of uniting cohabiting disparate ethnic groups within t ... more
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Voces de la Amazonía: Diagnóstico Ambiental – Comunicacional de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana, Brasileña y Colombiana

Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER); Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador (CORAPE); Grupo Comunicarte; Rede de Notícias da Amazônia (RNA); World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2024), 47 pp.
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Vulnerabilidad y comunicación social: Fragilidad humana en la esfera pública
Deep Insights

Hugo Aznar, Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges (eds.)
Madrid: Tecnos (2024), 423 pp.
"Este manual es una obra colectiva escrita por numerosos profesionales del periodismo, cada uno espeaializado en una materia, que tratan de explicar la mejor manera de comunicar temas de gran actualidad. En esta ocasión tratan el tema de la vulnerabilidad de distintos grupos, como puede ser la vuln ... more
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Recommendations: Combating Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Ethiopia

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) (2024), 9 pp.
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Emergent Forms and Patterns of Online Harassment of Women Journalists in African countries

Blessing Makwambeni, Patricia Rudo Makwambeni
In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga, Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 49-66
"The internet and digital platforms have contributed to the democratisation of the public sphere. A number of studies have shown how the internet and new digital platforms have brought subaltern voices into the mainstream. However, recent studies show that on the flip side, the cybersphere also prom ... more
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Audience research methods: A resource pack

John Mills
International Media Support (IMS); Journalismfund Europe; EUI Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom; European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) (2024), 27 pp.
"This concise introduction and guide to audience research methods is designed for publishers and editorial teams, especially those of small media outlets. Based on capacity development at IMS, it helps media outlets to make informed decisions about which approaches can provide the most relevant info ... more
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Ethiopians support free media holding government accountable

Mulu Teka, Daniel Iberi
Afrobarometer (2024), 11 pp.
"A large majority (71%) of Ethiopians "agree" or "strongly agree" that the media should "constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption." About six in 10 citizens (59%) endorse the principle that the media "should have the right to publish any views and ideas without governm ... more
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Gendered Threats and Attacks in and outside the Newsroom: Nigerian Female Journalists' Experiences with Harassment

Moyosore Omowonuola Alade
In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga, Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 67-87
"This chapter explores Nigerian female journalists’ lived experiences with harassment in and outside the newsroom. Using a qualitative approach, 12 in-depth interviews were conducted with female journalists in broadcast media houses in Nigeria, and themes that emerged from the data obtained via in ... more
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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 1 (2024), pp. 42–67
"With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcasters have taken advantage of media convergence to disseminate text as implant on radio. A qualitative ... more
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Parenting With Chinese Characteristics in the Digital Age: Chinese Parents’ Perspectives and Parental Mediation of Children’s Media Use

Cecillia Yuxi Zhou
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3292-3311
"This study explores parental views of early adolescents’ media use and parental mediation among urban middle-class families in mainland China through a sociocultural perspective. By interviewing 18 Chinese parents, this research found that parents’ concerns with media, such as children’s eyes ... more
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Children's digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad

Kiran Vinod Bhatia
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 175 pp.
"This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children's social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, ci ... more
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Next gen news: Understanding the audiences of 2030

Aliya Itzkowitz, Ben Whitelaw, Daisy Donald et al.
FT Strategies; Knight Lab (2024), 84 pp.
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Image-centrism in Africa’s political communication: A social semiotic analysis of self-presentation practices by women political candidates in Kenya’s social media space

Nancy Gakahu
Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1687-1711
"This study explores self-visual presentation practices by female political candidates on Facebook during Kenya’s political campaigns that culminated in the national elections of 2022. The unit of analysis is the Facebook profile image of the women leaders. Image-centrism is operationalized as the ... more