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Reporting on Poverty: News Media. Narratives and Third Sector Communications in Wales
Cardiff: Cardiff University Press (2020), xii, 137 pp.
The Role of Ghanaian News Media Organisations in Countering Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 186-213
"Journalist safety is vital to media freedom as it shows stakeholders' duties to protect the media from crime and to guard media freedom. The media have the power to combat problems via coverage, yet evidence submits that journalist insecurity persists in Ghana. So, the study aims to examine how the
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The Use of Telegram for Non-Consensual Dissemination of Intimate Images: Gendered Affordances and the Construction of Masculinities
Social Media + Society, volume 6, issue 4 (2020), 12 pp.
"This article analyses the role of Telegram in orienting, amplifying, and normalizing the non-consensual diffusion of intimate images (NCII). We focus on the sense of anonymity, the platform’s weak regulation, and the possibility of creating large male communities, arguing that these affordances a
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Social Media and Conflict in Sudan: A Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms
Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab; Andariya; Sudanese Development Initiative (SUDIA); Regional Center for Training and Development of Civil Society (RCDCS) (2020), 53 pp.
"PeaceTech Lab, in partnership with Andariya and the Sudan Development Initiative (SUDIA), intends this effort to contribute to understanding language and the context for potential conflict during the transition to civilian government and to eventual elections in Sudan. This project seeks to tackle
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Media Representation of Environmental Issues in Malaysia
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 26, issue 2 (2020), pp. 118-131
"This research investigates the types of environmental issues represented in Malaysian newspapers and Environmental Non-Government Organisation (ENGO) newsletters and examines the factors in the selection of stories by both social actors. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on 2050 environ
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Under the Surface: Covid-19 Vaccine Narratives, Misinformation and Data Deficits on Social Media
First Draft (2020), 95 pp.
"This research demonstrates the complexity of the vaccine information ecosystem, where a cacophony of voices and narratives have coalesced to create an environment of extreme uncertainty. Two topics are driving a large proportion of the current global vaccine discourse, especially around a Covid-19
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Role of Media in Delivering the SDGs: A Mapping Exercise on Bangladesh
Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (2020), 37 pp.
"The present paper identifies five key roles of media in contributing to the SDGs delivery. These include: channeling information flow, ensuring proper monitoring and accountability, acting as an enabler of a ‘culture of peace’, upholding marginalised voices and facilitating the localisation of
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Quality Assessment of Radio News in Afghanistan (BBC, Killid, Azadi, & Afghanistan)
Advances in Journalism and Communication, volume 8 (2020), pp. 97-116
"This study identifies and evaluates the quality assessment of radio news in the country. To conduct this research, the researcher first posed the questions and objectives of the research and then, according to the nature of the work, used exploratory and applied research. The researcher consulted w
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Ondas comunitarias que narran la paz en Colombia
Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás; Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano (2020), 238 pp.
"Este libro tiene como finalidad presentar los resultados del proceso de investigación que se llevó a cabo entre enero de 2018 y noviembre de 2019 por parte de un grupo de docentes-investigadores de los programas de Comunicación Social de la Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano
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Peace Journalism for Conflict Reporting: Insights from Pakistan
Journalism Practice, volume 14, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-16
"This study proposes a classification framework for conflict journalism with respect to its potential for conflict escalation and de-escalation in Pakistan—a country marred by a number of deadly conflicts. While building on the existing literature, the study proposes the varying levels of intensit
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Watchdog Role: How Malawi Media Utilise Question Time During Press Briefings
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores how Malawian media utilise question time during press briefings to fulfil its watchdog role. Using the concept of ‘journalistic interview’, which treats interviews between journalists and politicians as an encounter of two institutions, each making a claim on its legitimacy,
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Images of Immigrants and Refugees in Western Europe: Media Representations, Public Opinion, and Refugees' Experiences
Leuven: Leuven University Press (2019), 207 pp.
"This book examines the dynamic interplay between media representations of migrants and refugees on the one hand and the governmental and societal (re)actions to these on the other. Largely focusing on Belgium and Sweden, this collection of interdisciplinary research essays attempts to unravel the d
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Prime-Time Narcos: The Mafia and Gender in Colombian Television
Feminist Media Studies, volume 19, issue 3 (2019), pp. 348-363
"Through a content analysis of 532 programs screened on various national television networks in Colombia, this paper examines portrayals of women in the country’s narconovelas, fictional series derived from the telenovela genre that resonate forcefully with the public. We do so in order to gain a
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Reporting on the Evacuation of Kefraya and Fu’aa: Constructive Journalism Frames in the Coverage of Emerging Syrian Media
Free Press Unlimited (2019), 15 pp.
"This study presents a snapshot of the framing used in reporting on Syria. To ensure a diverse representation, the sample includes a selection of domestic (Syrian) and pan-Arab media organisations, whose alleged preferences towards the dominant parties in the Syrian conflict are mixed. The findings
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Recognition and Transformation: Beyond Media Discourses on the BRICS
Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 27-47
"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of
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Medien und Demokratie im Irak: Öffentlichkeit im Kontext von Transformation und bewaffneten Konflikten
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2019), x, 446 pp.
"Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, welche Rolle Massenmedien in der politischen Transformation im Irak nach 2003 gespielt haben. Dabei diskutiert Anja Wollenberg zunächst, ob und in welcher Weise politischer Wettbewerb, Partizipation, Kritik und Kontrolle von irakischen Rundfunkmedien ermöglicht
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Social Media, Discrimination and Intolerance in South Africa: A Lexicon of Hateful Terms
Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab; Media Monitoring Africa (2019), 36 pp.
"South Africa’s upcoming general election marks 25 years of multi-racial democracy: a milestone which has us reflecting on how far the country has come - and how far it has to go. Despite real and lasting achievements, problems of massive economic inequalities, disparities in land ownership, and h
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