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Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health an Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Data & Society Research Institute (2018), 40 pp.
"The study reveals key aspects of digital connectivity in the lives of refugees at the Ritsona camp in Greece in January 2017. Of the approximately 750 residents of the camp, 135 adults were sampled and interviewed [...] Mobile phone access is 'important' to over 80% of refugees in this study. Women
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Journalists covering the refugee and migration crisis are affected by moral injury not PTSD
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Open, volume 9, issue 3 (2018), pp. 1-7
"Objective: To explore the emotional health of journalists covering the migrations of refugees across Europe. Design: Descriptive. A secure website was established and participants were given their unique identifying number and password to access the site. Setting: Newsrooms and in the field. Partic
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Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue. Prix Jeunesse International, Munich. Workshop Briefing 3: Drama, Storytelling, Empathy
London: King's College (2018), 26 pp.
"This briefing summarises the proceedings of the third workshop in a project to stimulate dialogue between European and Arab stakeholders about European screen content for young children of Arab heritage who are living in Europe through forced migration." (Page 28)
The European media discourse on immigration and its effects: A literature review
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 42, issue 3 (2018), pp. 207-223
"To understand public opinion about immigration in Europe, one has to understand the media’s role in it. We present a literature review on research on media discourse on immigration and their effects. Despite differences in the way immigration and migrant groups are represented in European media,
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Migrants, Refugees and the Media: The New Reality of Open Societies
London; New York: Routledge (2018), viii, 223 pp.
"The large-scale movement of refugees and economic migrants from conflict zones to more stable societies has resulted in challenges both for new entrants and their hosts. This fascinating volume brings together a collection of media analysis focused on immigration issues to examine how migration has
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Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2018), xxii, 281 pp.
"Today's global refugee crisis has mobilized humanitarian efforts to help those fleeing persecution and armed conflict at all stages of their journey. Aid organizations are increasingly employing new information technologies in their mission, taking advantage of proliferating mobile phones, remote s
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Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 pp.
ISolezwe’s Coverage of the May 2008 Xenophobic Riots: An Irresolute Start and an Ambivalent End
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 297-315
"IsiZulu is one of South Africa’s Lingua francas and has two successful news publications, iLanga and iSolezwe, both written in isiZulu but vastly different in how they convey, craft and package news. This article aims to examine how iSolezwe, an isiZulu-language tabloid, used two editorials to sh
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Covering Refugee Stories
Al Jazeera Media Institute (2018), 34 pp.
Physical Fences and Digital Divides: A Global Detention Project Investigation Into the Role of Social Media in the Context of Migration Control. Part I: Exposing the "Crisis"
Geneva: Global Detention Project (2018), 29 pp.
"This Global Detention Project Special Report is aimed at improving our understanding of how people use social media during their migration journeys, with a special emphasis on their use in the context of detention and migration control in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Part I, “Exposing the
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Media Across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Global Influence
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xiii, 267 pp.
Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific: Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media
London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2018), xxv, 216 pp.
"This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across
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Five Questions for Digital Migration Studies: Learning From Digital Connectivity and Forced Migration In(to) Europe
Social Media + Society, volume 4, issue 1 (2018), 11 pp.
"Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media offer a relatively cheap, easily accessible, and media-rich means of communication, their use is not without challenges
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Violence Against Women Within the Rohingya Refugee Community: Prevalence, Reasons and Implications for Communication
London: BBC Media Action (2018), 16 pp.
"To inform the development of a new radio drama for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, BBC Media Action carried out a small scale qualitative research study that sought to understand more about Rohingya men and womens’ understanding and attitudes towards child marriage, intimate partner violence
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