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Refugees on Film: Assessing the Political Strengths and Weaknesses of the Documentary Style
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 107-122
"The article considers one dominant tendency of independent filmmaking, and its impact on the treatment of the refugee (broadly conceived): the application of contemporary documentary methods to both fiction and nonfiction works. The goal is a preliminary exploration of the complex, context-sensitiv
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Media Framing Dynamics of the ‘European Refugee Crisis’: A Comparative Topic Modelling Approach
Journal of Refugee Studies, volume 32, issue 1 (2019), pp. 173-182
"The complexity and duration of the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’ created a climate of uncertainty, which left ample room for mass media to shape citizens’ understanding of what the arrival of these refugees meant for their respective country. This study analyses the national media disco
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GFMD Thematic Workshop “Narratives on Migration: Toward Evidence-Based Communication”, 4-5 July 2019, Mohammed VI International Conference Center, Skhirat, Morocco: Highlights of Proceedings
Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) (2019), 10 pp.
"As the Global Compact for for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) states in its guiding principles, "we also must provide all our citizens with access to objective, evidence-based, clear information about the benefits and challenges of migration, with a view to dispelling misleading narrative
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Seascapes of Solidarity: Refugee Cinema and the Representation of the Mediterranean
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 38-53
"Films about refugees have been embraced by accented cinema. Indeed, exilic filmmakers continue to test the boundaries of cinema, and specifically its strong bonds with nation and land. But not all exiles are refugees. This article offers that for Arab refugees the journeys across the sea define the
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Weaponised Information in Brazil: Digitising Hate
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 18 pp.
"In the last few years, the world information ecosystem has been flooded by the “fake news” phenomena, augmented by the widespread use of social media. The fragmentation and scale of the new communication tools help spread old ideologies, that uphold racism, homophobia, and oppression. This phen
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Anonymity and Representation: Everyday Practices of Ethical Documentary Filmmaking
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 175-182
"The five-minute film Mouth of a Shark (Isobel Blomfield, 2018) conveys a young woman’s experiences and precarious situation while she awaits an outcome on her refugee status determination in Australia. Aasiya (pseudonym) lives in community detention. Her interest in creating the film stemmed from
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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro
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e-Media Toolkit on Migration: Trainer's Manual
FRA – European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2019), 68 pp.
"This pilot toolkit has been devised by journalists and media trainers to help reporters and editors working on international migration. It will be the starting point of a broader project on how to cover news while maintaining respect for diversity and human rights. Its premise is that diversity and
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European Public Opinion and Migration: Achieving Common Progressive Narratives
Brussels; Budapest, Rome; Paris: Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Fondazione Pietro Nenni; Fondation Jean Jaurè (2019), 195 pp.
Media and Transformation in Germany and Indonesia: Asymmetrical Comparisons and Perspectives
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2019), 346 pp.
"Indonesia, the state with the largest Muslim population in the world, is in a process of continuous societal transformation. From the perspective of Media and Communication Studies, recent political developments towards an increasingly consolidated democratic system are of great interest. The compa
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Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019), x, 288 pp.
"The chapters in this collection offer original interrogations of the representation of humanitarian crisis and catastrophe, and the refraction of humanitarian intervention and action, from the mid-twentieth century to the present, across a diverse range of media forms: traditional and contemporary
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Zwischen „Flüchtlingskrise“ und „Migrationspakt“: Mediale Lernprozesse auf dem Prüfstand
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2019), 66 pp.
Refugee News, Refugee Politics: Journalism, Public Opinion and Policymaking in Europe
New York; London: Routledge (2019), xxiv, 228 pp.
"What is the role of the news media in telling the story of the 2010s refugee crisis at a time of deepening crisis for journalism, as “fake news” ran rampant amid an increasingly distrustful public? This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader original research and candid frontl
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Setting the Agenda for Research on Media and Migration: State-of-the-Art and Directions for Future Research
Mass Communication & Society, volume 22, issue 6 (2019), pp. 691-707
"This special issue includes seven studies that provide novel insights into the relationship between media and migration, both from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The articles cover both strands of literature discussed above and thus deal with the coverage of migration and migrants, as w
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Berichterstattung über Gewaltkriminalität: Wie häufig nennen Medien die Herkunft von Tatverdächtigen?
Hamburg: Hochschule Macromedia (2019), 15 pp.
"Wie unsere Langzeitanalyse zeigt, hat sich die Fernsehberichterstattung über Gewaltkriminalität gravierend verändert: Während die Herkunft von Tatverdächtigen 2014 praktisch keine Rolle spielte, wurde sie 2017 in jedem sechsten und 2019 in jedem dritten Beitrag erwähnt. In den untersuchten Ze
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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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