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"Among the various forms of online censorship, internet shutdowns are some of the most invasive and blunt. Unlike traditional forms of censorship like blocking internet pages or certain content, these disruptions to digital communications are architectural and affect a preliminary condition in the i
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Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
Deep Insights
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xxiv, 409 pp.
"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a
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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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Online Intimidation: Controlling the Narrative in the Balkans. Annual Digital Rights Report 2021
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) (2021), 64 pp.
"From August 2020 until August this summer, we recorded almost 800 cases of digital rights violations in eight countries of south-eastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia. Violations took place not just on TikTok, but also on F
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Taming Big Tech: A Pro-Competitive Solution to Protect Free Expression
London: Article 19 (2021), 42 pp.
"In this policy, ARTICLE 19 outlines how open markets, competition, and users’ empowerment can help address current freedom of expression challenges in online content curation. We offer practical solutions on how to achieve these objectives through a pro-competitive instrument: the unbundling of t
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10 Facts to Counter Encryption Myths
Access Now (2021), 23 pp.
"There is no question that we must address the issues of child safety, disinformation, national security, and criminal activity in the digital age. However, even if the stated end goal for mandating encryption backdoors is legitimate, the means must be necessary and proportionate. Deliberately intro
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Freedom in Tatters
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Journalists Association (2021), 45 pp.
The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021), xxiii, 584 pp.
"The liberty to speak freely is often questioned; what is the relationship between this freedom and other rights and values, how far does this freedom extend, and how is it applied to contemporary challenges? This handbook seeks to answer these and other pressing questions. It provides a critical an
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Spyware: An Unregulated and Escalating Threat to Independent Media
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2021), 20 pp.
"Spyware is increasingly used by governments around the world to silence independent media. The use of spyware poses safety risks to journalists and their sources, encourages self-censorship, and creates new financial and operational strains for news outlets. Media advocates, news outlets, and polic
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Medienguru: Meinungsfreiheit spielerisch vermitteln. Spiele und Übungen für Trainerinnen, Pädagogen und Jugendliche ab 14 Jahren
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 115 pp.
"Wie steht es um die Meinungsfreiheit in der Welt? Wie wirkt sich Zensur auf die Medienlandschaft eines Landes aus? Was muss man beim Teilen von Nachrichten auf Social Media beachten? Und was hat es mit Desinformation und Hate Speech auf sich? Vor allem für junge Menschen gewinnen diese Fragen imme
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Timor Leste: Internet Freedoms under Threat
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 26 pp.
The Concept of Chilling Effect: Its Untapped Potential to Better Protect Democracy, the Rule of Law, and Fundamental Rights in the EU
Open Society Foundations (2021), 33 pp.
"From a legal point of view, chilling effect may be defined as the negative effect any state action has on natural and/or legal persons, and which results in pre-emptively dissuading them from exercising their rights or fulfilling their professional obligations, for fear of being subject to formal s
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"Infodemic" and SDGs: Internet Freedoms in Southeast Asia
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 46 pp.
The politics of impunity: A study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319
"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based
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Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century
Austin: University of Texas Press (2021), xiv, 288 pp.
"Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Today the country is one of the most dangerous in the world in which to be a reporter. In Surviving Mexico, Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly examine the networks of political power, business interests, and organi
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"This Situation Report on the “Impact of COVID-19 on Media Freedom, Media Business Viability, and the Safety of Journalists in Southeast Asia” offers an insight into the key impacts of the pandemic on the media across nine countries. The report proposes recommendations for enabling sustainable a
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"This report explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses foreign social media influencers to shape and push messages domestically and internationally about Xinjiang that are aligned with its own preferred narratives. Our research has found key instances in which Chinese state entities have s
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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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