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A Survival Toolkit for Journalists: How to Protect Yourself Against Digital Surveillance
Internews; Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) (2022), 24 pp.
"Surveillance of journalists has become a very topical and controversial issue that now requires attention at a number of levels – the level of the state, CSOs, and journalism organisations themselves. The systematic and arbitrary harvesting of journalists’ information, tracking and targeting of
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The State of Press Freedom in Southern Africa 2020-2021
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2022), 75 pp.
"Privacy is necessary for journalists to communicate freely with sources, receive confidential information, investigate corruption, and guarantee their safety and that of their sources. Therefore, it is worrying that governments and big corporations are working to undermine the right to privacy by a
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Iron Net: Digital Repression in the Middle East and North Africa
London: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (2022), 25 pp.
"Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the leading exponents of digital authoritarianism in the Middle East. The two states have intensified their collaboration with China and Israel to gain greater access to advanced technologies. The EU has responded to concerns about the risks of new technologies with a r
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“We Have to act Like our Devices are Already Infected”: Investigative Journalists and Internet Surveillance
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1849-1866
"Internet surveillance has become a crucial issue for journalism. The “Snowden moment” has shed light on the risks that journalists and their sources face while communicating online and has shown how journalists themselves can be targets of surveillance operations or other forms of malicious dig
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Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition After 2011
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xv, 426 pp.
"This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and h
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Uncovering the Iceberg: The Digital Surveillance Crisis Wrought by States and the Private Sector
London: Amnesty International (2021), 21 pp.
"Technologists at Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab were able to identify traces of NSO’s “zero-click” attacks (malware infections that require no interaction with the target) through cutting edge forensic analysis, including by linking these new attacks to previously documented attacks on human r
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The Monitored Watchdogs: Journalists’ Surveillance and its Repercussions for their Professional and Personal Lives in Pakistan
Journalism Studies, volume 22, issue 7 (2021), pp. 878-895
"Journalists, across the world, are ever more at risk of surveillance from state and non-state antagonists. However, to work safely in a monitored environment is a substantial challenge for journalists. In such regimes, journalists and media organizations are often prone to attacks by the state auth
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10 Facts to Counter Encryption Myths
Access Now (2021), 23 pp.
"There is no question that we must address the issues of child safety, disinformation, national security, and criminal activity in the digital age. However, even if the stated end goal for mandating encryption backdoors is legitimate, the means must be necessary and proportionate. Deliberately intro
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"This report has documented the surveillance measures and practices in Kenya and Uganda during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key trends include poor oversight over COVID-19 data collection, the lack of independent data protection authorities, the use of telecommunications data to ‘t
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Netzpolitik: Eine feministische Einführung
Opladen; Berlin: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2021), 188 pp.
"Die Publikation führt in die Thematiken einer feministischen Netzpolitik ein und zeigt deren Potentiale auf. Zudem unternimmt sie den Versuch, einen neuen Gesellschaftsvertrag des Digitalen zu entwerfen. Anhand von zwei zentralen Themen- und Diskussionsfeldern, „Digitale Gewalt“ und „Überwa
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Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), viii, 210 pp.
"This book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship p
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Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks
Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.
"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense
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Arendt’s Algorithm: AI’s Disenfranchising Effect on Refugees as Examined Through China’s Uighur Population
[author] (2020), 23 pp.
"China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) operates in Xinjiang by collecting Big Data and alerting authorities to those it deems potentially harmful to the CCP regime. It does so through two major devices: the mobile phone, and the camera. These act as tools of disablement constraining
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Digital Surveillance and the Impact on Journalism in Russia
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 15 pp.
Red lines of journalism. Digital surveillance, safety risks and journalists’ self-censorship in Pakistan
"Drawing on Reese’s hierarchy of influences model, this study investigates the extent to which safety risks and digital surveillance result in journalists’ self-censorship in Pakistan. This study also explores the key areas of journalists’ self-censorship in the country and how it affects thei
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"The Chinese state has demonstrated a propensity for controlling and shaping the information environment of the Chinese diaspora—including via WeChat. The meteoric growth of TikTok has now put the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a position from which it can shape the information environment on a
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Online surveillance and the repressive Press Council Bill 2018. A two-pronged approach to media self-censorship in Nigeria
"This chapter examines the perceptions of Nigerian journalists towards the Nigerian Press Council Bill 2018 and the governments’ online surveillance. The study employs survey and interview methods: 217 Nigerian media practitioners selected from print and online media responded to the questionnaire
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