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Transformative Archive: Ansätze und Perspektiven für die (historisch-)politische Bildung

Iris Rajanayagam, Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2025), 211 pp.

"Inwieweit kann das Dokumentieren, Archivieren und Bereitstellen von marginalisiertem (Geschichts-)Wissen Räume eröffnen, in denen Neues gedacht werden kann und dekoloniale Optionen in der erinnerungspolitischen Landschaft Deutschlands und darüber hinaus besprechbar werden können? Welche Formen ... more

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The Media Diversity Index 2025: What the pilot index highlights about the UK

Peter Block, Naomi Sakr

Media Diversity Institute (2025), 18 pp.

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Das Diversity ABC

Ramzi Fatfouta

Offenbach: Gabal Verlag (2025), 33 pp.

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Solidarity Reporting on Marginalization: A Grounded Alternative to Monitorial Reporting’s Emphasis on Officials

Anita Varma

Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 1 (2025), 17 pp.

"A dominant monitorial reporting method means that journalism shines a spotlight on officials’ activities, plans, and statements. While this reporting method has brought official wrongdoing to light, monitorial reporting has also participated in amplifying, emphasizing, and normalizing problematic ... more

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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

Kwai Cheung Lo

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), xiii, 285 pp.

"Ethnic Minority Cinema in China's Nation-State Building investigates the convoluted relations between the cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China's nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-firs ... more

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Communication, Entertainment, and Messages of Social Justice

Richard West, Christina S. Beck

Abingdon: Routledge (2025), xix, 323 pp.

"This edited collection explores the contemporary interplay among three pivotal areas found in cultures around the world: communication, entertainment, and messages of social justice. Each chapter centralizes communication as instrumental in creating mediated messages pertaining to social justice, u ... more

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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China

Cara Wallis

New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.

"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou ... nd marginalized groups and communities, Cara Wallis gently shifts our attention away from the world of “social media influencers” and tech-centric discourses of entrepreneurial lives towards a decidedly ambivalent terrain of routine life practices. Social Media and Ordinary Life argues that understanding these individual experiences of the everyday enables greater insight into larger transformations taking place in contemporary China. Through long-term ethnographic fieldwork across China, Wallis foregrounds the entanglement of affect, emotion, ordinary ethical decisions, and desires connected to social media as it is used for self-expression, self-representation, fights for equality, maintenance of community, and economic livelihood. Four case studies show how social media is integrated into the articulation of affects by a wide variety of “ordinary” Chinese subjects: disadvantaged young creatives who migrate to Beijing from rural areas and use social media to cultivate their personal aesthetics; micro-entrepreneurs in rural Shandong province, especially women whose affective ties to the patriarchal family constrain their use of technology for economic enhancement; domestic workers, all women, in urban homes who use social media to build community and construct themselves as ethical subjects; and young feminists spread across China who engage in various types of cultural production and deploy social media in their fight for gender equality, often facing social and/or political marginalization in the process. Amid daunting forces—big data, artificial intelligence, massive surveillance—this book centers the “small,” showing how structural inequality, the urban/rural divide, patriarchal gender norms, and generational differences lead to contradictory or ambivalent outcomes of technology use. Even so, for these individuals and many others, social media is deeply intertwined with aspirations for a better future." (Publisher description) more

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State capture of Romani ethnic media in Hungary

Konrad Bleyer-Simon, Kata Benedek

European Journal of Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (2025), pp. 23-36

"The portrayal of ethnic communities in the media can have a significant impact on the everyday life of these groups – both in a positive and negative way. Often, the dominant depictions in mainstream media are created without the community's involvement and are dominated by stereotypes. To deal w ... more

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Practice Guide Series on Doing Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity: A Tool Kit for Practitioners

Kellogg Foundation (2024), vi, 91 pp.

"It has been almost two years since the 'Practice Guides on Doing Evaluation in Service of Racial Equity' were published. Since then, evaluators continue their commitment to advance racial equity through their practice as evident in the number of pre-conference workshops at the 2022 American Evaluat ... ion Association conference (almost one-third of total workshops), activities and publications by the Equitable Evaluation Initiative, and the growing network of culturally responsible equitable evaluation practitioners. Since the practice guides’ release, Community Science, with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, conducted many workshops and webinars about the information in the guides. Questions were collected as part of the registration and during the events. The questions shed light on the challenges we still face in supporting and doing evaluation in service of equity. In general, people are still working to get concrete about how to implement such evaluations and overcome the resistance — intentional or not — to engaging in courageous conversations about racial equity and shifting current practices in evaluation, community engagement, strategy development, and grantmaking. The questions reaffirm that evaluators alone cannot advance the practice of doing evaluation in service of racial equity. The guides discuss the importance of recognizing this point. The larger systemic issues at play contribute to racial inequity, and social injustice requires all of us in philanthropy, government, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors to work differently. Community Science compiled common questions from evaluators, funders, executive directors, and program staff, organized them into themes, and attempted to answer them in this tool kit. Some questions cannot be answered easily because the solutions aren’t the evaluation profession and evaluators’ responsibility alone. For instance, questions about the distribution of wealth, role of philanthropy in closing the wealth gap, levers of change to prioritize public and philanthropic investments in communities of color, ways to manage and disrupt power differences between foundations and organizations that receive funding, use of power and narratives to center equity and justice in philanthropy, and building leadership that isn’t resistant to racial equity. There were also questions about shifting power, engaging communities, creating space in federal agencies for discussions about community engagement and racial equity, and changing mindsets and behaviors of leadership. In addition, there were questions we can only answer through a broader dialogue with social scientists from different disciplines with various philosophical approaches to research and evaluation (e.g., is community-based participatory research equitable, how to stop relying on pre- and post-outcome data). This tool kit isn’t intended to repeat the original practice guides. It compiles new information in slide decks, tip sheets, and blogs. Some of the blogs have been written by Daniela Pineda and her colleagues at RTI International in support of the Practice Guides. This tool kit also doesn’t contain all the answers. We invite you to take the guidance farther and share your experiences. This tool kit, in our humble opinion, is merely another way to approach evaluation in service of racial equity and a starting place for people interested in this work." (Introduction) more

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Redes sociais evangélicas e música gospel no Brasil: Questões raciais nas margens do mundo religioso

Olivia Bandeira

Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024011 (2024), 31 pp.

"Nas últimas décadas, a utilização das mídias por igrejas evangélicas brasileiras se intensificou com a disseminação das redes sociais na internet. Viu-se também uma ampliação do mercado de bens culturais religiosos, sobretudo na área da música. Se essas múltiplas mediações comunicac ... more

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Challenging Journalistic Objectivity: How Journalists of Color Call for a Reckoning

Thomas R. Schmidt

Journalism, volume 25, issue 3 (2024), pp. 547-564

"This study explores how journalists in the United States advocated for a stronger affirmation of social justice in journalism following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Analyzing the metajournalistic discourse in trade publications (Niemanlab, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter) and on the web, ... more

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Mirrored Spaces: Social Inequality in the Digital Age

Jörg Scheffer

Wiesbaden: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 166 pp.

"Contrary to the prevailing narratives of "digital empowerment" and opportunities for every individual, this book argues that digitalisation massively curtails social advancement opportunities, consolidating existing social relations. From a spatial perspective, Scheffer demonstrates how socially di ... more

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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

Ousseina Alidou

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2024), xxi, 264 pp.

"Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social cha ... more

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BBC Creative Diversity Commitment: A report on the impact of the BBC’s £112 million Creative Diversity Commitment

Panayiota Tsatsou, Nina Robinson, Joanna Abeyie, Aurora Herrera

Birmingham: Birmingham City University; Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (2024), 72 pp.

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Exposure to Online Hateful Content and Users’ Engagement: A Silencing Effect

Nicoleta Corbu, Raluca Buturoiu, Oana Stefanita, Alexandru Dumitrache

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5629-5651

"Although there has been recent interest in the effects of exposure to online hate speech targeting ethnic minority groups, there are some underexplored areas. In a context dominated by debates over free and hateful speech across social media platforms, it has never been more pertinent to investigat ... more

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Geteilte Geschichte_n – Plurale Solidaritäten: Diskussionen zur Verbindung von verflechtungsgeschichtlichen Ansätzen und community-übergreifenden Unterstützungsstrukturen

Iris Rajanayagam (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2024), 163 pp.

"Im Sammelband werden Denkanstöße für Möglichkeiten der Pluralisierung und Demokratisierung von Erinnerung und Geschichte gegeben sowie hieran anknüpfende aktuelle Diskurse besprochen und reflektiert. In diesem Zusammenhang wird mit Beiträgen unterschiedlicher transdisziplinärer Autorinnen un ... more

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Annual Report 2023

Glasgow: International Network of Street Papers (INSP) (2024), 17 pp.

"The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) is the UK based charity and enterprise that represents all printed publications sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty to earn a dignified income. INSP mission is to support the global street paper network to alleviate poverty and buil ... more

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Ethical judgments of poverty depictions in the context of charity advertising?

Shannon M. Duncan, Emma E. Levine, Deborah A. Small

Cognition, volume 245, issue 105735 (2024), [no pag.]

"Aid organizations, activists, and the media often use graphic depictions of human suffering to elicit sympathy and aid. While effective, critics have condemned these practices as exploitative, objectifying, and deceptive, ultimately labeling them ‘poverty porn.’ This paper examines people's eth ... more

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“A Significant Impact on our Democracy”: Chilean Media Audiences’ Claims for Dignity

Mónica Humeres-Riquelme, Claudia Jordana-Contreras, Jorge Saavedra-Utman

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 432-451

"Chile’s largest social uprising in 30 years began in October 2019. Protests erupted throughout the country, inspired by a widespread belief that the state and powerful institutional actors, such as the media, had undermined the dignity of much of the population. In this article, we explore how an ... more

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Vulnerabilidad y comunicación social: Fragilidad humana en la esfera pública
Deep Insights

Hugo Aznar, Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges (eds.)

Madrid: Tecnos (2024), 423 pp.

"Este manual es una obra colectiva escrita por numerosos profesionales del periodismo, cada uno espeaializado en una materia, que tratan de explicar la mejor manera de comunicar temas de gran actualidad. En esta ocasión tratan el tema de la vulnerabilidad de distintos grupos, como puede ser la vuln ... more

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Vulnerabilidad y comunicación social: Fragilidad humana en la esfera pública
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