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Indic Voice Technologies for an Inclusive Digital India: Toolkit for Developers

Nihar Desai, Sujith P., Harleen Kaur, Dona Mathew, Jyotsna Jayaram, Padmavathi Prasad, Thomas Vallianeth

Bhashini; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All (2026), 70 pp.

"This toolkit sets out a layered, lifecycle-oriented approach to building inclusive and robust speech artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It brings together strategies for diverse and representative data collection, linguistically informed model training, rigorous quality control, and deployment o ... more

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Handbook of Global Oral History
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Mark Cave, Selma Leydesdorff (eds.)

Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Oral History inspires the reader to be more open in their conception of what oral history is and how it is applied within a variety of disciplines to unlock meaning in human experience. The book brings together scholars from around the world in the areas ranging from memory s ... more

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Learning from Indigenous Journalism: A Case for Standpoint Journalism

Gisele Souza Neuls, Ava Francesca Battocchio, Marcos Paulo da Silva

Journalism Studies, volume 27, issue 4 (2026), pp. 439-459

"This essay examines the similarities and differences between the values underpinning Indigenous and Western journalism. It contributes to broader conversations about the conception and study of journalism through three key contributions. Theoretically, it bridges feminist standpoint and Indigenous ... more

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Poranga marandúa: Manual de redação do jornalismo indígena

Ronda Alta - Terra Indígena Serrinha, RS: Articulação Brasileira de Indígenas Jornalistas (Abrinjor); Instituto Kaingáng (INKA) (2026), 117 pp.

"Trazemos, neste documento, muito além do conhecimento técnico profissional no jornalismo. Compreendemos que a universidade nos forma tecnicamente para atuação no jornalismo, porém o território – principal objetivo de luta dos povos indígenas – também é uma universidade, nos formando co ... mo sujeitos etnicamente posicionados nos espaços da vida social. Portanto, este manual de redação de jornalismo indígena emerge com o objetivo de contribuir para: (1) nos colocar, enquanto coletividade organizada, dentro do campo de disputa da comunicação como agentes especializados na temática que diz respeito aos nossos povos; (2) orientar os não indígenas sobre práticas, conceitos e abordagens ao cobrir ou dirimir sobre temática indígena no espaço da imprensa e da mídia como um todo. Este manual se insere como um dos principais produtos elaborados pela Articulação Brasileira de Indígenas Jornalistas (Abrinjor), composta por mais de 60 indígenas de mais de 40 povos. A Abrinjor tem a missão de fortalecer a presença dos indígenas jornalistas no campo da comunicação para enfrentar o racismo, a invisibilidade e a representação inadequada dos povos indígenas e para ampliar nossa participação, valorização e respeito no mercado de trabalho, nos espaços universitários, governamentais e de decisão do jornalismo brasileiro, construindo uma rede qualificada de profissionais, vinculada ao movimento indígena, que assegurem uma comunicação livre de visões coloniais e comprometida com as pautas dos nossos povos. [...] Cabe ressaltar, por fim, que o documento está organizado em dois grandes blocos: um histórico-conceitual e outro orientador-recomendativo, os quais se desdobram em seis partes. Nas seções (1), (2), (3) e (4), que compõem o bloco histórico-conceitual, são abordados a organização social do movimento indígena brasileiro, a distinção, a relevância e os marcos históricos da comunicação nesse contexto, culminando no detalhamento da compreensão do jornalismo indígena no Brasil, concebido sobretudo a partir dessa rede de profissionais. Já nas seções (5) e (6), correspondentes ao bloco orientador-recomendativo, apresentam-se diretrizes para a condução de trabalhos jornalísticos junto aos povos e territórios indígenas, além de um conjunto de verbetes que orientam quanto à forma adequada de tratamento das pautas relacionadas aos povos indígenas." (Apresentação, páginas 20-22) more

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Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalized Voices

Chimwemwe Chavinda, Victor Chikaipa, Jimmy Kainja, Japhet Mchakulu, Yamikani Ndasauka

London; New York: Routledge (2026), xiv, 234 pp.

"Communication for Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Amplifying the Marginalised Voices examines how communication serves as a catalyst for transformative change across the continent. It demonstrates how dialogue, storytelling, and media can motivate action and promote progress towards more equit ... more

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Relational Futures: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Bronwyn Carlson, Tamika Worrell

Macquarie University (2026), 30 pp.

"Artificial intelligence must be governed as a relational and institutional force, not simply a technical system. Effective policy requires Indigenous leadership, enforceable standards, and a commitment to sovereignty, accountability, and community wellbeing. Failure to act risks embedding inequalit ... more

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Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2025), 184 pp.

"Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures, and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge. It is an offering to anyone curious about the relationship between culture, language, and media. By focusing on African ... more

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Digital Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio, Pigga Keskitalo, Rosa Maria Ballardini, Melanie Sarantou (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiii, 373 pp.

"The digitising of Indigenous cultural heritage (CH) is not often debated in international research. A topical gap in research-based knowledge on the legal and ethical practices of various fields of Indigenous CH exists, for example, regarding digitisation, education, law, social processes, and crea ... more

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The world needs to learn from indigenous wisdom

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 9 (2025), pp. 25-52

"Indigenous communities are the descendants of a country’s first peoples. Their stories are often marked by colonisation, oppression and the loss of culture and land. Today, they are fighting worldwide to preserve their identities and ways of life, which continue to be threatened by land grabbing, ... more

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Manual para una comunicación amazónica

Oscar Felipe Tellez (coord.)

Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM); Grupo Comunicarte; Instituto de Promoción Social Amazónica (IPSA); Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2025), 59 pp.

"[...] A lo largo de los módulos que componen este material nos sumergiremos en una serie de conceptos básicos y actividades que nos permitirán brindar el impulso para que los medios comunitarios y las propias comunidades amazónicas ejerzan su derecho a una comunicación liberadora, participativ ... more

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Voice of the Indigenous Community Nudging Development: Case of Asur Community Radio

Swetabh Pandey, Munmun Ghosh

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 1 (2025), pp. 6-23

"This research explores the significance of local radio in preserving and assisting indigenous communities and languages in the tribal region of Jharkhand, India. The study highlights the involvement and engagements of “Asur Radio,” a community radio in the interest of the tribal community named ... more

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Climate Disinformation in India: Subverting Indigenous Peoples’ Identity

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2025), viii, 55 pp.

"The report makes three key contributions: it identifies the main forms of climate disinformation in India, examines their specific impacts on indigenous peoples (IP) communities and sets out targeted policy recommendations for national and international stakeholders. First, four forms of climate di ... sinformation circulating in the media landscape in India are identified: one-sided coverage, where the media circulate disinformation by the state, by highlighting false ecological progress while omitting data on biodiversity loss, environmental impacts and displacement; promoting false climate solutions, like afforestation and green credit programmes, which are dubbed as climate action despite their harmful ecological impacts and effects on IPs; attributing environmental disasters to climate change, where state authorities deflect accountability for disasters arising from governance failures and poor infrastructure to climate change; denialism of climate change and its causes, which relies on the suppression of scientific data, promotion of anti-renewable myths and the institutional erasure of climate-linked mortality, thereby sowing doubt and enabling the deflection of accountability. Second, the report shows that the deliberate circulation of climate disinformation in the media subverts IPs’ rights and legal safeguards in favour of state and corporate interests in five critical ways: bypassing IPs’ rights to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) by deliberately spreading distorted information effectively marginalising IP voices from environmental decision-making; restricting traditional practices by promoting false state initiatives while claiming environmental legitimacy, thereby worsening climate adaptation and livelihoods; undermining IPs’ forest conservation efforts, through the reframing of unsustainable top-down conservation efforts as climate action, thus enabling the loss of biocultural diversity; forced evictions and deterritorialisation, often enabled by the misrepresentation of environmental data in judicial rulings under the guise of ecological progress; legal persecution, Intimidation and physical violence, where IPs and environmental defenders are subjected to both online harassment and militarised control in order to suppress resistance to state or corporate projects. Third, this report outlines a set of recommendations for action: United Nations (UN) bodies should conduct an audit of India's compliance with IPs’ rights, investigate how state and corporate disinformation facilitates violations and support the ratification of relevant international laws and conventions; the government should strengthen legal safeguards for IPs by providing greater technical and administrative support to effectively implement the Forest Rights Act, ensuring robust FPIC protocols in all climate and development projects; international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) should support Indigenous-led audits of government programmes, submit evidence of digital surveillance to UN bodies, and help establish rapid-response legal networks and community fact-checking hubs in IP languages; civil society organisations (CSOs) should establish a national database for eco-development displacements, offer mobile legal clinics for land rights and advocate for policies requiring IPs’ representation in environmental bodies; the media sector should expose data manipulation in official forest reports, establish Indigenous-language fact-checking and leverage public broadcasting to boost digital literacy and amplify community voices; technology companies should develop tools to detect disinformation targeting IPs, conduct transparent audits of algorithmic bias on their platforms and partner with CSOs to provide digital literacy and secure communication tools; IP communities should continue to document land-use violations using community mapping, file collective petitions to audit projects violating their rights and build alliances to establish Indigenous-owned media platforms to control narratives." (Executive summary, pages vi-vii) more

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The Political Economy of Indigenous Local Media for Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: A Case of Lyeja FM Community Radio

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe

Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 60, issue 1 (2025), pp. 5-17

"This article analyses the political economy of indigenous language media for minority ethnolinguistic groups in Zimbabwe. Using political economy as theory, the study engaged members of Lyeja-Nyai Development Trust to analyse socio-cultural and political challenges for Lyeja FM community radio of t ... more

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Rainforest Radio: Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Georgia C. Ennis

Tucson: University of Arizona Press (2025), xi, 280 pp.

"Napo Kichwa communities in the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon find themselves doubly marginalized by settler colonialism and well-intentioned language revitalization projects. In Rainforest Radio Georgia C. Ennis provides a comprehensive ethnographic exploration of Amazonian Kichwa community media, offeri ... more

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Climate Disinformation in Thailand: Negating Indigenous Peoples’ Identity

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2025), viii, 60 pp.

"This report examines how climate disinformation reinforces the systemic negation of Indigenous People's (IP) identity, undermining traditional practices, weakening advocacy for rights and obstructing inclusive climate and forest governance by making three key contributions. First, it identifies fou ... r distinct forms of climate disinformation in Thailand: one-sided reporting, where the media spotlights government and corporate initiatives while omitting their social and environmental harms, whether due to political pressure or economic incentives; greenwashing, where corporations exaggerate or misrepresent their sustainability practices to obscure their ongoing environmentally destructive activities; false climate solutions promoted as climate action which fails to address the root causes of climate change while leaving IP communities socially and economically disadvantaged; scapegoating of IPs where Indigenous communities are falsely portrayed as primary drivers of deforestation, legitimising displacement and marginalisation. Second, it demonstrates four ways in which climate disinformation harms IPs, each reinforcing the negation of their identities: exclusion from decision-making: by either barring their participation outright or dismissing their inputs in decision-making processes, IPs’ Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is removed thereby negating their identities as owners and stewards of their land; criminalisation: the strategic misuse of “climate change” laws to negate IP identity and erase the legitimacy of IPs’ traditions and practices in environmental stewardship; and the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) intimidate advocates for challenging climate disinformation; forced evictions: conservation and development narratives justify deterritorialisation that severs spiritual, cultural and economic ties to ancestral lands which forms the core of IPs’ identities; intimidation and violence: harassment, threats and attacks undermining the capacity of IPs to resist projects and actions that harm them, their environment and their way of life. Third, to address climate disinformation and safeguard Indigenous Peoples’ (IPs) rights and identities in Thailand, this report outlines a list of multi-stakeholder recommendations: UN bodies should integrate climate disinformation into their human rights monitoring and climate action frameworks and provide guidance to Thailand on implementing its international obligations; the Thai government should embed safeguards against climate disinformation into national climate and environmental policies, strengthen legal protections for IPs, ensure meaningful participation of IP communities in decision-making and improve transparency and accountability in environmental governance; international NGOs (INGOs) should collaborate with IP organisations to map, document and respond to climate disinformation, provide sustained technical capacity-building and funding, and support advocacy and litigation to defend IP rights; civil society organisations (CSOs) should monitor disinformation targeting IPs, co-develop counter-narratives with IP communities and educational content to empower both IPs and the broader public and expand legal aid support; the media sector should prioritise constructive and investigative journalism on climate, environmental, and IP issues; expand coverage in Indigenous languages and culturally appropriate formats; collaborate with IP organisations on fact-checking and monitoring disinformation; and amplify Indigenous perspectives through both national and international outlets; technology companies should strengthen content moderation against climate disinformation, flag misleading project information and invest in digital literacy and connectivity initiatives for rural and Indigenous communities; indigenous communities and organisations should build monitoring networks to identify and counter disinformation, strengthen alliances with independent and Indigenous media, conduct and participate in capacity-building workshops and use digital tools to amplify their voices and safeguard knowledge." (Executive summary, pages vi-vii) more

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Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity
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Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 262 pp.

"This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic realities of African radio reflec ... more

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Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film

Lucy R. McNair, Yahya Laayouni (eds.)

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: University of Regina Press (2025), xix, 325 pp.

"Amazigh Cinema: An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film is a groundbreaking edited volume that exemplifies the current resurgence of scholarly interest in minority and indigenous cultural production through decolonial and cultural studies lenses. As the first Englishlanguage study of Amaz ... more

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Opportunities, Challenges and the Mitigation Strategies of the Young Indigenous Social Media Users of the Chitagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

Ishmam Bin Rofi et al.

Yokohama, Japan: CHI ’25, April 26–May 01, 2025 (2025), 22 pp.

"The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh is home to numerous Indigenous ethnic communities, and their languages, rituals, and values are distinct from those of the mainstream population. These diferences, coupled with the past eight decades of turbulent political history, have contributed to ... more

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African Radio and Minority Languages: Participation and Representation

Limukani Mathe

London; New York: Routledge (2025), 96 pp.

"Within Africa, radio provides an important platform for accommodating diverse linguistic groups and enabling speakers to express themselves in their own local languages. This book investigates how radio broadcasting across the continent provides a platform for the cultural participation and the rep ... more

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