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Koloniales Denken weit verbreitet: "Afrika" in den deutschen Medien
Forum Weltkirche, volume 139, issue 4 (2020), pp. 12-17
"Ein Blick in die Archive zeigt: die Berichterstattung in deutschen Medien über das südliche Afrika während der Apartheid wurde fast zwei Jahrzehnte lang von der südafrikanischen Propaganda gesteuert. Das verstärkte ein koloniales Afrikabild und hat Folgen bis heute." (Seite 12)
“Anything That Causes Chaos”: The Organizational Behavior of Russia Today (RT)
Journal of Communication, volume 70, issue 5 (2020), pp. 623-645
"RT (formerly, Russia Today) is one of the most important organizations in the global political economy of disinformation. It is the most richly funded, well-staffed, formal organization in the world producing, disseminating, and marketing news in the service of the Kremlin. It is an agency accused
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Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2020), xxviii, 454 pp.
"Brings together diverse issues and expert perspectives of twenty-two notable and accomplished communication scholars, representing eight countries around the world. Together they discuss international communication, public relations and advertising, cultural implications of globalization, internati
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African Narratives: A Gloomy Picture, with Some Emerging Positive Trends. Literature Review of Academic Writing on African Narratives
Africa No Filter (2020), 12 pp.
"In 2018 the fictional country Wakanda from the film Black Panther was the fourth most mentioned African country on Twitter, after Egypt, South Africa and Kenya. The fact that Africa’s 4th most talked about country doesn’t exist tells us two things: pop culture is a powerful tool for narrative w
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Suffering in Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2019
Care International (2020), 19 pp.
"With CARE’s fourth global 'Suffering In Silence' report, we are starting to see a trend of certain countries annually remaining on the list of the most under-reported crises. While we expanded the analysis in 2019 by including Spanish and Arabic online media coverage (in addition to English, Fren
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Fear and Lying in the EU: Fighting Disinformation on Migration with Alternative Narratives
Key Guides
Brussels: European Policy Centre (2020), 51 pp.
"This Issue Paper examines nearly 1,500 news articles from four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic) published between May 2019 and July 2020. It shows that disinformation narratives about migration seek to exploit readers’ fears to polarise public opinion, manufacture d
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Stronger and Safer Together: Motivations for and Challenges of (Trans)National Collaboration in Investigative Reporting in Latin America
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 2 (2020), pp. 196-214
"Despite the growing scholarship on investigative journalism in Latin America, very few studies have addressed collaboration across newsrooms in the region. By analyzing the responses of 251 journalists who work for investigative units in Latin American news outlets, this study explores a) the reaso
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"This collections of case-studies, best practices and learnings provided by cross-border practitioners of Europe wants to help everyone who is interested in the cross-border method, who wants to start cross-border projects or wants to gain more cross-border skills." (Publisher description)
Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 25, issue 4 (2020), pp. 607-631
"How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a com
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COVID-19 Foreign Influence Campaigns: Europe and the Global Battle of Narratives
Brussels: European Parliament (2020), 8 pp.
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initially concealed information about the spread of the virus. Research suggests that they thereby delayed measures to alleviate the spread of the disease. At the same time, the CCP launched far-reaching efforts to silence domestic criticism. The CCP's efforts to r
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Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2020), 317 pp.
"The mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and artworks gathered in Moving Images i
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Syrian Independent Exile Media
Deep Insights
International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 64 pp.
"The Syrian independent exile media as a sector is at the core of this study. To understand the unique nature of this sector, the study contextualises the issues pertaining to the Syrian independent exile media in the wider framework of exile media globally, and donors’ approaches to media develop
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Neutral Press, Negative Opinions: Development Cooperation and the Dutch Media
Development in Practice, volume 30, issue 6 (2020), pp. 825-836
"Recent high-profile scandals raise concerns about how development cooperation is represented. This article examines how the subject gets in the media, examining the tone of voice and framing in newspaper articles and NGO advertisements in the Netherlands. It reveals a remarkable difference between
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Assessing China's Digital Silk Road Initiative: A Transformative Approach to Technology Financing or a Danger to Freedoms?
Council on Foreign Relations (2020)
"As part of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the biggest infrastructure undertaking in the world, Beijing has launched the Digital Silk Road (DSR). Announced in 2015 with a loose mandate, the DSR has become a significant part of Beijing’s overall BRI strategy, under which China pr
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Digital Neo-Colonialism: The Chinese Model of Internet Sovereignty in Africa
African Human Rights Law Journal, volume 20, issue 1 (2020), pp. 125-146
"China is making a sustained effort to become a ‘cyber superpower’. An integral part of this effort is the propagation by Beijing of the notion of ‘internet sovereignty’ – China’s supreme right to govern the internet within its borders and keep it under rigid control. Chinese companies w
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Lateinamerikaberichterstattung der deutschen Presse: Struktur und Entstehungsbedingungen
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xxix, 619 pp.
"Die Studie basiert auf 21.929 Beiträgen, von denen mithilfe einer geschichteten Stichprobe 4.164 in die Analyse einbezogen, ausgewertet und mit Korrespondenten-Interviews kombiniert wurden. Sie beleuchtet die Auswahlkriterien und Mechanismen der Berichterstattung zu Lateinamerika und füllte eine
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China’s Digital Silk Road: Strategic Implications for the EU and India
New Delhi: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper offers a big-picture analysis of the Chinese Digital Silk Road’s (DSR) three most strategically pressing implications for the EU and India. It does so by analysing the DSR’s global progress and specific impacts in Europe and South Asia. The three implications are: a) the creation of
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Media Coverage of Migration Based on International Law and Evidence: Journalist Guide
Key Guides
Tunis: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2020), 237 pp.
"In recognition of the need to improve the media’s practitioner's to report on migration issues, this guide aims to be a resource for journalists to run interactive workshops, principally aimed at other journalists reporting on migration. The training will give participants an understanding of the
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‘Picturing Afghan Women’ for Western audiences: The Afghan perspective
Journalism, volume 21, issue 6 (2020), pp. 800-820
"As the United States engages with the Taliban in a peace process that might return them to influence within Afghanistan, concerns are rising regarding the future status of Afghan women. In this background, this article returns to the much studied subject of the portrayal of Afghan women in Western
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Behind the News: Inside China Global Television Network
Sydney: Lowy Institute for International Policy (2020), 24 pp.
"China’s efforts to use state media as a means to increase its soft power around the world have raised concerns in many quarters. With much fanfare in late 2016, China relaunched its global television network, formerly known as China Central Television, as a new global media brand, the China Globa
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