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Mapping Study on Cyberviolence
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2018), 151 pp.
"While cyberviolence may be targeted at any individual or group and may entail a wide range of acts, this mapping study focuses in particular on children and women, who are often the victims of cyberviolence. The experience and solutions with regard to these victims should modus modendi be applicabl
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Gender Equality and Big Data: Making Gender Data Visible
UN Women (2018), 25 pp.
"This report provides background context on how big data can be used to facilitate and assess progress towards the SDGs, and focuses in particular on SDG 5 – “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. It examines successes and challenges in the use of big data to improve the li
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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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"This handbook has been produced by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) to help media managers successfully manage diverse teams, with a focus on gender diversity. It is hoped that it will assist managers to be more gender 'aware' in their day to day management decisio
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Hacks de vida: Consejos prácticos para la atención a personas que enfrentan violencias de género en línea en América Latina
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 52 pp.
"Al reconocer que estructural y socialmente la enunciación y la sistematización de los saberes comunes y comunitarios es contestatario y disruptivo, apelamos a la sabiduría ancestral y la infalible innovación contemporánea de las colectivas, de las mujeres tecnólogas, de las ciberfeministas y
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Unbeatable? Debates and Divides in Gender and Video Game Research
Communication Research Trends, volume 37, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-29
"In this review essay, I will chart the history of video game technology, the emergence of game studies as a field, provide an overview of the key aspects of gender and video game research, and highlight key debates in gender and video games research." (Page 5)
Changing Forms and Platforms of Misogyny: Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists on Twitter
Media Watch, volume 9, issue 3 (2018), pp. 472-485
"Across time, in a variety of forms and spaces -from homes and workplaces to digital domains of social media- women have become victims of male dominance. So also are the other vulnerable sections that suffer multi-layered abuse, and endure sexual harassment in social media. Yet, this phenomenon is
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Women's Rights: Forbidden Subject
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2018), 31 pp.
"Covering women’s issues does not come without danger. A female editor was murdered for denouncing a sexist policy. A reporter was imprisoned for interviewing a rape victim. A woman reporter was physically attacked for defending access to tampons, while a female blogger was threatened online for c
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Women in Israeli Journalism Israel Affairs
Israel Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2018), pp. 500-518
"This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two in
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Universal Service and Access Funds: An Untapped Resource to Close the Gender Digital Divide
Washington, DC: World Wide Web Foundation (2018), 19 pp.
"Over 68% of countries in Africa have a Universal Service and Access Fund (USAF) in place; 62% of these funds are active. Just 3 of the 37 countries with USAFs have universal access policies that explicitly aim to connect women and girls through the fund. Just 23 African countries openly publish det
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Guide Note to Gender Sensitive Communication
UNDP Lebanon (2018), 6 pp.
"Bias free-language is important because language reflects on the attitude in communication. Words and audiovisual selection have also a critical role in achieving greater gender equality. Therefore, messages should be carefully examined based on the six following principles: 1. Ensure that women an
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"The study found that overall, journalism in Somalia falls far short of the fifth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The study demonstrates that if the current conditions for women in Somalia’s media remain unaddressed, the country wi
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Making Textbook Content Inclusive: A Focus on Religion, Gender, and Culture
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 27 pp.
Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp.
"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a
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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
Deep Insights
London: GSMA (2018), 28 pp.
"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi
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The Status of Women Journalists at Jordan’s Media Institutions
International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 35 pp.
"The study concluded that women have faced and are still facing hindrances driven by gender-based discrimination that have limited their number, dimined their role as journalists and restricted their prospects of professional development. The percentage of women at media organisations is less than 2
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Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press (2018), 325 pp.
"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely ackno
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