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Online Caste-Hate Speech: Pervasive Discrimination and Humiliation on Social Media

Damni Kain, Shivangi Narayan, Torsha Sarkar, Gurshabad Grover
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) (2021), 32 pp.
"In India, religious texts, social customs, rituals, and everyday cultural practices legitimise the use of hate speech against marginalised caste groups. Notions of "purity" of “upper-caste” groups, and conversely of "pollution" of “lower-caste” groups, have made the latter subject to discri ... more
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Promoting Smart Policy Options in Closing the Gender Digital Divide in Uganda

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET); Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA) (2021), 11 pp.
"Although the internet facilitates connection, participation, and engagement, there is a need for new and innovative strategies for closing the gender digital divide in Uganda. A socio-economic, political, and robustic legal approach is needed to close the gender digital divide. This requires regula ... more
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Youth and Independent Media in Morocco: Focus Group Findings

Metn (LB): Samir Kassir Foundation (2021), 6 pp.
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African Language Media: Development, Economics and Management
Deep Insights

Abiodun Salawu (ed.)
London: Routledge (2021), 309 pp.
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Ma Shet Ne: Evaluation Report. Phase 1: 2020-2021

BBC Media Action (2021), 51 slides
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Women & Web Content Creation Guidebook

Mwende Ngao, Rayhab Gachango
Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTAnet); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 54 pp.
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Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence

Krishanti Dharmaraj
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Thomson Reuters Foundation (2021), 45 pp.
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Maria Ressa: Fighting an Onslaught of Online Violence. A Big Data Analysis

Julie Posetti, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2021), 44 pp.
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Liberians Want a Free Media – Within Limits – and Unrestricted Access to Social Media

Maame Akua Amoah Twum
Afrobarometer (2021), 12 pp.
"Radio is the dominant news source in Liberia, tuned in “every day” or “a few times a week” by 87% of adults. Almost four in 10 citizens (38%) say they regularly get news from the Internet and social media, while only about one in five are regular consumers of news via television (21%) and n ... more
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Screen generation: Riesgos y oportunidades para los adolescentes latinoamericanos

Aldo López
Roma: Universidad Pontificia Salesiana, Facultad de Ciencias de las Comunicaciones Sociales, Licenciate Thesis (2021), 161 pp.
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Barriers to Women Journalists in Rwanda

Yemisi Akinbobola, Rachel-Ann Charles-Hatt
Fojo Media Institute (2021), 44 pp.
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Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Laws and Regulations to Media Literacy

Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Assane Diagne, Alan Finlay, Sahite Gaye, Wallace Gichunge, Chido Onumah, Cornia Pretorius, Anya Schiffrin
London: University of Westminster Press (2021), 220 pp.
"The volume first examines the teaching of media literacy in state-run schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries as of mid-2020, as relates to misinformation. It explains the limited elements of broad media and information literacy (MIL) included in the curricula in the seven countries studied ... more
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Konzept zur Förderung von Barrierefreiheit: „Leichte Sprache“ als Aufgabe für die Medien

Hanna Puffer
Media Perspektiven, issue 2 (2021), pp. 117-124
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Sexual Violence and the News Media: Issues, Challenges, and Guidelines for Journalists in India

Chindu Sreedharan, Einar Thorsen
New Delhi: UNESCO (2021), 96 pp.
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Connected Education for Refugees: Addressing the Digital Divide

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UNHCR (2021), 22 pp.
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The Regulation of Internet Pornography: What a Survey of Under-18s Tells Us About the Necessity for and Potential Efficacy of Emerging Legislative Approaches

Neil Thurman, Fabian Obster
Policy & Internet, issue 13 (2021), pp. 415-432
"In 2017, the UK Parliament passed an Act requiring legal pornographic websites to implement 'robust' age verification checks. Although the Act inspired lawmakers elsewhere to propose similar legislation, it was never enacted, in part because it did not cover social media platforms. Instead, the UK ... more
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Assessing the Barriers to Accessing ICT by People with Disability in Kenya

Kampala: CIPESA (2021), 24 pp.
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Media Literacy
Key Guides

W. James Potter
Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 10th ed. (2021), xxiv, 477 pp.
"[This book] teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in today’s media-saturated world. Drawing from thousands of media research studies, author W. James Potter explores key components to understanding the fascinating world of mass media. Potter presents ... more