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Understanding the Laws Relating to "Fake News" in Russia
Thomson Reuters Foundation; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2022), 16 pp.
"This guide is intended to provide user-friendly, practical guidance for journalists and newsrooms seeking to understand the Russian “fake news” laws, and how they’ve been applied to local and international press." (Page 1)
The Informational Dictator's Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship and Control in Russia and Belarus
PONARS Eurasia (2022), 9 pp.
"The findings described in this memo strongly suggest that "softer" strategies of media cooptation are more effective than harsher, more coercive approaches to media control. In Russia, where the Kremlin has-until very recently-used a combination of commercial pressure and political influence to pus
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Independent Media Under Pressure: Evidence from Russia
Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 38, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-174
"Existing literature recognizes growing threats to press freedom around the world and documents changes in the tools used to stifle the independent press. However, few studies investigate how independent media respond to state pressure in an autocracy, documenting the impact of tactics that stop sho
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"The media situation in Belarus has never been easy. With Aliaksandr Lukashenka being elected president of the country for the first time in 1994, the necessary reforms to provide media freedom have never materialised. Instead, over the years various laws have lessened the rights of independent jour
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Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach: The Global Scale and Scope of Transnational Repression
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2021), 74 pp.
"This report is the product of an effort to understand the scale and scope of “transnational repression,” in which governments reach across national borders to silence dissent among their diaspora and exile communities. Freedom House assembled cases of transnational repression from public source
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The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
New York, NY: Harper Business (2021), xiv, 351 pp.
"China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a choice. But the battle for tomorrow will require America and its allies to take daring risks in uncertain political terrain. Unchecked, China will reshape global flows of data
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"This piece interrogates the challenges of advancing media reform initiatives within authoritarian contexts. Based on a case study of the EU-funded Support to Media in Jordan Project—launched in the wake of the Arab Spring—it reveals how the local mediation of internationally sponsored reform ef
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Myanmar’s Military Struggles to Control the Virtual Battlefield
Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), 37 pp.
"Since the 1 February coup d’état in Myanmar, the online space has become a parallel battlefield on which the country’s military and its opponents try to rally supporters, share information and control the narrative around events unfolding in the country. This virtual struggle has been vitally
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El periodismo en tiempos de dictadura: Las experiences de Prensa, Apertura y ANF
La Paz: Plural Editores (2021), 120 pp.
"Este libro no solo recuerda, como sus autores califican, «aventuras periodísticas» que se impulsaron en momentos difíciles y convulsionados en el país. Este libro es el retrato de una generación de valerosos y extraordinarios periodistas que ejercieron, de manera apasionada, este oficio en la
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Finding China’s Edge: Engineering Influence Operations within the Limits of Social Media Platform Rules
Zürich: Center for Security Studies (CSS) (2021), 48 pp.
"To arrive at a careful evaluation of impact, this report concentrates on how the tactics of China’s influence operations have evolved during the first year of the pandemic. Looking at China’s key priority of information control, the first section conceptualizes the adaptation of influence opera
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Ecological Civilisation Discourse in Xinhua’s African Newswires: Towards a Greener Agency?
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 3 (2021), pp. 67-81
"How does Chinese central media represent Africa through its environmental news? This article argues that the way in which Chinese central media organisations have reported environmental issues across the African continent has altered from a reactive “charm defensive” towards the promotion of a
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Digital Media and Investigative Journalism in China
Media Asia, volume 48, issue 3 (2021), pp. 158-174
"Since 2014, “plot twist news” as a controversial news phenomenon has appeared extensively in Chinese digital communication. In the context of journalism, this refers to news facts provided in follow-up reporting that contradict the facts provided in the initial reporting. Based on interviews wi
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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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The Press-safety Paradox of Democracies: Regime-type Duration and Journalist Killings
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 17, issue 1, oraa007 (2021), [no pag.]
"Previous research finds that journalist killings are more likely to occur in democracies rather than non-democracies. While these results provide an important first step in exploring regime type's effect on journalist's safety, they assume no variation in how long countries have remained a regime t
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The Performance of Participation in Russian Alternative Media: Discourse, Materiality and Affect in Grassroots Media Production in Contemporary Russia
Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, Doctoral Thesis (2021), 200 pp.
"This doctoral dissertation analyzes participation in alternative media, taking the reader to the Russia of the late 2010s. Bringing together discourse theory, media and communication studies and political theory, it approaches participation in media production through the lens of performativity. Th
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Simplifying Success: An Ecosystem Initiative for Improving the Financial Sustainability of Independent Digital News Media in Restricted Markets
Internews (2021), 24 pp.
"This report aims to progress the media development sector’s work towards the financial sustainability of independent news media. It proposes a new ecosystem-level framework for categorising media outlets, measuring their performance and making them more resilient to their obstacles in reaching an
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Post-Mortem: Russian and Chinese Covid-19 Information Operations
Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2021), 72 pp.
"Russia recycled previous narratives and exacerbated tensions in Western society while attempting some propaganda about Russian scientific prowess. Russia’s approach evolved little; it recycled previous narratives, spreading a broad range of COVID-19 disinformation. Evidence supports the theory th
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Communication, Development and Social Participation in China
Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
Advocacy in restricted spaces: A toolkit for civil society organizations
Key Guides
Lifeline Fund for Embattled CSOs; Freedom House (2020), 46 pp.
"There are many valuable resources on how to conduct advocacy that provide a detailed, step-by-step approach. These approaches include best practices for identifying stakeholders, developing a message, or planning a timeline. We will not go deeply into these topics, but we do want to provide an intr
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Chinese Independent Animation: Renegotiating Identity in Modern China
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xii, 222 pp.
"This study of 'independent' animation opens up a quietly subversive and vibrant dimension of contemporary Chinese culture which, hitherto, has not received as much attention as dissident art or political activism. Scholarly interest in Chinese animation has increased over the last decade, with atte
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