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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu
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Télévisions et médias sociaux au Congo: Positionnement informationnel et espace public (1990-2018), tome 1
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 268 pp.
"Quel est l’impact du contexte socio-historique sur la production de l’information au Congo ? Quel est le positionnement informationnel des chaînes Télé-Congo et DRTV ? Qu’est-ce qui justifie cette médiation nationale ? Quels sont les types d’espaces publics en œuvre en contexte congola
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Visual Framing of Afghan Refugees in Global News Media
Visual Communication Quarterly, volume 31, issue 2 (2024), pp. 83-98
"This study content analyzed visual frames of Afghan refugees during the first six months of the Taliban’s second regime (from August 15, 2021, to February 15, 2022). A total of N = 1,948 images from the Associated Press were quantitatively analyzed for focal point, topic, tone, depiction, gender,
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Global Media Index for Africa 2024
Africa No Filter; Africa Center (2024), 46 pp.
"The Global Media Index for Africa assesses and ranks online news stories of the 20 leading news providers that offer primary coverage of Africa for the world. It is also a tool that aims to provide much needed regular 'health checks' on how Africa is framed in the media. The outlets selected are th
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Unearned prestige: How The Economist covers the war in Ukraine
Media Development (WACC), issue 4 (2024), pp. 24-30
"The newspaper’s sense of what the story is about influences who is considered qualified and appropriate to quote. Conversely, quotes are blocks that build and legitimize the narrative; they are all the more important in a journal, like The Economist (TE), not known for doing investigative journal
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The aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack: Religion, nationalism and exclusion in online news comment sections
Journal of International Communication, volume 30, issue 2 (2024), pp. 394-415
"This study analyses the Indian and Pakistani publics reactions of the extensive coverage of the Pulwama terror attack, through an analysis of the online comments appearing at the end of the news stories covering the attack from the two leading English newspapers: Times of India (TOI) (India), and D
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Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien
Deep Insights
Opladen et al.: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2024), 329 pp.
"Soziale Medien haben die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus revolutioniert. Algorithmisch verstärkt verbreitet sich Antisemitismus auf den Plattformen in Sekundenschnelle, kostenlos und global. Die daraus resultierende Gefahr für Jüdinnen*Juden ist eine große gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Das
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The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine
Third World Quarterly, volume 45, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-42
"A Saudi-led coalition of states initiated an on-going-armed conflict in Yemen on 26 March 2015. Meanwhile, Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Though no two armed conflicts are exactly alike, there is reason to compare US media coverage of the two because: (1) civilians have been victims of
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Understanding and Addressing Mis-/Disinformation in the Afghan Media Ecosystem
Internews (2024), 21 pp.
"This report summarizes Internews’ six-month social media monitoring research conducted in 2023 that aimed to better understand the online mis- and disinformation environment in Afghanistan. [...] The first phase of the study revealed key aspects of Afghanistan's digital information landscape. The
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"Homeless media refers to news outlets that initially distributed information solely through social media, with the majority of them now based on Instagram. Nowadays, as our findings suggest, homeless media outlets have emerged as an important source of local news, referred to for their quick update
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Is it about “them”? Leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 16 pp.
"The paper explores the potential of big data analytics for researching anti-immigrant discourse. We emphasize contextualization as an essential element of research and follow a hybrid approach inspired by best practices of computational content analysis, combining human hermeneutic expertise with s
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Tragische Einzelfälle? Trendreport zur Berichterstattung über Gewalt gegen Frauen
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2024), 96 pp.
"Unser Trendreport zeigt zum einen, wie in regionalen und überregionalen Tageszeitungen, in Boulevardmedien sowie in den Meldungen der dpa und auf Spiegel Online über Gewalt gegen Frauen berichtet wird. Im Fokus der Analyse steht die Darstellung von Tat, Tätern und Opfern sowie die Verwendung von
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Educomunicación para la preservación de la Amazonía: Estudio de caso Grupo Comunicarte, Colombia
Revista Española de Desarrollo y Cooperación, volume 51, issue 2 (2024), pp. 263-276
"La región amazónica enfrenta múltiples desafíos ambientales, socioeconómicos y humanitarios debido a la deforestación, minería ilegal y conflicto armado, afectando especialmente a comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes. Este estudio de caso utiliza análisi
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Janus-Faced Portrayal: News Representation of Migrant Workers in Malaysian Newspapers Amid COVID-19
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 299-319
"The global pandemic has adversely affected migrant workers psychologically and economically, leading to a poor quality of life. How the Malaysian media portrays this group during uncertainty remains unexplored. Aside from Eurocentric-focused scholarship, this study uniquely examines the representat
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Between Hagiography and Self-Trolling: Multimodal Analysis of Memes for Boric in the 2021 Chilean Presidential Election
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4935-4961
"We use the concept of hagiography to analyze the absurd content found in the memes that circulated after the first round of Chile’s 2021 presidential election. We examined 201 video and image memes to elucidate how the supporters of the then-candidate Gabriel Boric created a narrative of the poli
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Charity representations of distant others: An analysis of charity advertising supporting international causes in UK national newspapers
University of East Anglia, School of Global Development (2024), 32 pp.
"We are pleased that this project has provided evidence indicating an improvement in the representation of distant others in INGO adverts. On the whole, there is a marked difference in the organisation of cast and characters present in charity’s communications imagery and pitiful images are nearly
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News Narration, Local Visibility and Public Life in Chinese Short Videos
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 8 (2024), pp. 2108-2125
"Short videos are very popular in China. The provincial TV stations in China use short videos to disseminate information. Curiosity about the influence of short video news is the primary motivation of this study. This paper integrates theories of news and place, focuses on local visibility, explores
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Collective victimhood narratives in far-right communities on Telegram
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1407-1424
"Feelings of collective victimhood have been demonstrated to have a strong effect on ingroup bias, outgroup hostility and support for violence. The use of narratives stirring these feelings in far-right communications is especially concerning given their inclusion in the manifestos of several mass k
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Checking verifications during the 2022 Brazilian run-off election: How fact-checking organizations exposed falsehoods and contributed to the accuracy of the public debate
Journalism, volume 25, issue 10 (2024), pp. 2022-2043
"This study observes content-related indicators of the editorial decisions made by factcheckers during the 2022 Brazilian run-off election. Specifically, it aims to investigate factcheckers’ outputs regarding verification genres, scrutinized actors, types of verified falsehoods, and inspected plat
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