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Democratising AI through Culture: Making Generative AI Participatory and Intersectional Through an AI of the Commons
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 72 pp.
"This research proposes a participatory, decolonial and feminist approach to AI through the concept of “AI as commons”, offering a practical approach for cultural practitioners to decolonise existing AI systems. Conducted in Seoul, South Korea, the study combines critical theory with practical i
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African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
Oxford; New York: Routledge (2025), 380 pp.
"This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an A
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Inclusive and Secure Artificial Intelligence: A Global Perspective on Policy and Technical Developments
Deep Insights
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 84 pp.
"As AI systems are developed and deployed, they often reflect and reinforce dominant cultural norms, marginalizing non-Western languages, epistemologies, and communities. This report explores the systemic risks associated with algorithmic bias, digital colonialism, and cultural homogenization, while
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"To foster a multifaceted perspective on AI ethics, a pluriversal approach needs to be employed. This two-day workshop “AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate Through Decolonial Lenses” offers a forum to discuss alternatives to the status quo of AI ethics. Hosted by
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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.
"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 260 pp.
"This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice. Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can b
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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8, issue 1 (2024), pp. 145-167
"The Wayusa is a community ritual that is part of the exercise of political imagination among the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku, in Ecuador. In this article it will be discussed as a case study arguing towards a circular theory of communication, emerging from the works of Paulo Freire and cal
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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.
"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain
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Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2024), pp. 303-320
"Drawing insights from decolonial theory and Ubuntu ethics, this article examines coloniality practices embedded in conflict journalism in Zimbabwe. It uses election violence reporting between 2000 and 2013 as a lens for gaining insights into how reporting conflicts perpetuates coloniality. How colo
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Digital Coloniality: An Ubuntu perspective
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, volume 36, issue 2 (2024), pp. 175-216
"[...] How does the sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu bring the concept of digital coloniality to light? The main aim of the article is to define the concepts of digital colonialism and digital coloniality, to provide clear examples thereof and to provide some guidelines for corrective interv
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Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies: Languages of the Global South
Oxford: Routledge (2024), xvi, 210 pp.
"The book provides valuable insights on decolonising the digital media landscape and the indigenisation of participatory epistemologies to continue the legacies of indigenous languages in the global South. It is one of its kind as it climaxes that the construction phase of self-determining and redef
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“Polite Watchdog”: Kompas and Watchdog Journalism in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 3 (2024), pp. 628-645
"Many studies have argued that watchdog journalism cannot flourish under authoritarianism. However, the effect of the democratization of previously authoritarian regimes on watchdog journalism is still poorly understood. This article aims to fill this knowledge gap by using Kompas, Indonesia’s old
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Analisando as perspectivas climáticas decoloniais: O caso da região da Amazônia Legal brasileira
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 79 pp.
"Este estudo é realizado dentro da estrutura do Programa de Pesquisa do ifa „Cultura e Política Externa“, no qual especialistas analisam tópicos atuais das relações culturais internacionais e desenvolvem recomendações para futuras medidas de política cultural externa. Ele discute o poten
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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History
Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 287 pp.
"The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communicatio
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Papa Francisco e o pensamento decolonial: Uma voz do Sul do mundo
Teologia y Vida, volume 64, issue 3 (2023), pp. 299-320
"Este artículo estudia el magisterio del papa Francisco en confrontación con el pensamiento decolonial latinoamericano. A partir de las bases epistemológicas que emergen del contexto latinoamericano, a través de pensadores como Educardo Restrepo, Axel Rojas, Erick Torrico Villanueva y Catherine
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Media and Communication Theory in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxii, 340 pp.
"This contributed volume explores theories of media and communication and focuses on providing African perspectives on global conversations. Using broad cases relating to media and communication theories, this book explores socio-cultural issues affecting most modern African societies, providing a c
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A Decolonial Approach to Open-Access Repositories: How to Set Up a Subject Repository for Documents on International Cultural Relations
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 78 pp.
"This study is based on desk research, supplemented by a three-month open commenting period and a public workshop whose participants have substantial experience in the technologies and practices analysed, or are members of the communities of practice, amongst them experts who work in “Global South
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Different Global Journalisms: Cultures and Contexts
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvi, 205 pp.
"This edited collection seeks to better understand how journalism across cultures differs, presenting an in-depth exploration of global practices that departs from the typical Western-centric approach. Journalists across the world are trained, generally speaking, within Western models of reporting a
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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.
"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global
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