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Russian Collective Identity Construction in State Media During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 1 (2024), 20 pp.
"In the evolving landscape of communication technology, the interplay between media and collective identity becomes crucial due to its ability to shape the socio-political dynamics of nations. This article aims to address the role of collective identity construction in Russian state media, arguing t
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Mitigating the Risks of Political Microtargeting: Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation
Deep Insights
Key Guides
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2024), 63 pp.
"Digital technology has revolutionized how political ads are delivered and consumed, giving political campaigns increased possibilities to target and tailor their messaging to specific audiences—a practice known as political microtargeting (PMT). While PMT has potential benefits for society, it al
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Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiii, 257 pp.
"Drawing on a broad range of case studies across the continent, the volume considers what constitutes communication rights in Africa, who should protect them, against whom, and how communication rights relate to broader human rights. While the case studies highlight the variation in communicative ri
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Journalists' safety before the 2024 elections
Tbilisi: Center for Media Information and Social Research; DW Akademie (2024), 21 pp.
Trends in political communication on air: Implications for democratic consolidation in Ghana
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1 24338505 (2024), 14 pp.
"The role of media in democratic governance is pivotal, yet its impact on democratic consolidation remains debated. This study investigates the relationship between radio activism and democratic consolidation in Ghana, focusing on the influence of political news production and communication strategi
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Vilify, ridicule, disinform: Political communication and media trust in the age of generative AI
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2024), 23 pp.
"This report examines political communication and media trust in the age of generative artificial intelligence systems (AI). Firstly, it provides a brief explainer of generative AI tools and techniques, looking separately at systems that generate text and those that generate or manipulate images, vi
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Discourses on Electoral Law Reform in Tanzania’s Social Media: A Case of Two Selected Twitter(X) Accounts, JamiiForums and Maria Sarungi
Nyegezi-Malimbe: St Augustine University of Tanzania, Master Thesis (2024), vii, v, 185 pp.
"This research examines the political discourse surrounding electoral law and constitutional reforms in Tanzania, utilizing Jürgen Habermas's Public Sphere Theory as the theoretical lens. Employing critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study analyzes social media discussions, particularly on Twitt
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Unveiling Disinformation: Mapping Attacks on Brazil’s Electoral System and the Response of the Superior Electoral Court (2018–2023)
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3551-3575
"Falsehoods targeting political parties and candidates have long been entrenched in Brazilian politics and monitored by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). Since the rise of the far right in Brazil, the TSE has itself become a disinformation target. This study aims to unveil disinformation that has
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Collective victimhood narratives in far-right communities on Telegram
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1407-1424
"Feelings of collective victimhood have been demonstrated to have a strong effect on ingroup bias, outgroup hostility and support for violence. The use of narratives stirring these feelings in far-right communications is especially concerning given their inclusion in the manifestos of several mass k
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Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts: A critical review and conceptual framework
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 22 pp.
"While the digital turn in communication research offers novel opportunities to study polarization at scale, it also adds complexity to a challenging concept. Ambiguities surrounding the conceptual understanding of polarization in different fields lead to problems in advancing the research in the di
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Jair Bolsonaro’s Populist Communication on Brazilian Television: An Analysis of Television Newscasts on Globo and Record during the COVID-19 Pandemic
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1830-1850
"News media continue to play a central role in promoting public debate and the visibility of populist messages. This study discusses how Brazilian television journalism reacted to the populism of Jair Bolsonaro during the COVID-19 crisis. We adopted a content analysis and a framing analysis to ident
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"Das DiskursGlossar ist ein Online-Lexikon zur strategischen Kommunikation. Auf Basis aktueller Forschung bietet es kompakte und anschauliche Informationen zu Phänomenen diskursiver Kämpfe, wie wir sie in Medien, Politik, Recht und Zivilgesellschaft beobachten können. Das Glossar soll dazu beitra
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Checking verifications during the 2022 Brazilian run-off election: How fact-checking organizations exposed falsehoods and contributed to the accuracy of the public debate
Journalism, volume 25, issue 10 (2024), pp. 2022-2043
"This study observes content-related indicators of the editorial decisions made by factcheckers during the 2022 Brazilian run-off election. Specifically, it aims to investigate factcheckers’ outputs regarding verification genres, scrutinized actors, types of verified falsehoods, and inspected plat
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Alternative Media, Repression and the Crisis State: Towards a Political Economy of Alternative Media in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 59, issue 1 (2024), pp. 172-186
"Zimbabwe has a tainted media history under Mugabe replete with examples of state orchestrated repression, draconian legislation, harassment of journalists and violation of their work premises. The post-November 2017 coup period is a critical reference point to understand the political economy of al
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Why media freedom matters: Evidence for the value of media freedom to health, the economy, democracy, peace and the environment
Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) (2024), 33 pp.
"[...] Why and how does media freedom matter against the backdrop of these political, technological and economic upheavals? How has the role of free media evolved and what are we learning about its impact? The following scan of the empirical literature seeks to make a contribution to answering these
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Media and Politics in Post-Authoritarian Mexico: The Continuing Struggle for Democracy
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 286 pp.
"This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance o
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