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Democratic Openings and Country Visibility: Media Attention and the Allocation of US Democracy Aid, 1975-2010

James M. Scott, Charles M. Rowling, Timothy M. Jones
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 16, issue 3 (2020), pp. 373-396
"Late in the twentieth century, the United States embraced democracy promotion as a foreign policy priority, a central component of which involved allocating democracy aid to governments, political parties, and nongovernmental organizations around the world to support and encourage democratization. ... more
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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

Andrew M. Guessa, Michael Lernerb, Benjamin Lyonsd, Jacob M. Montgomerye, Brendan Nyhanf, Jason Reiflerg, Neelanjan Sircarh
PNAS, volume 117, issue 27 (2020), 10 pp.
"Using data from preregistered survey experiments conducted around recent elections in the United States and India, we assess the effectiveness of an intervention modeled closely on the world’s largest media literacy campaign, which provided “tips” on how to spot false news to people in 14 cou ... more
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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
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Luba Kassova
Gates Foundation (2020), 101 pp.
"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an ... more
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Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment

William G. Christie, Belinha S. De Abreu (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2020), 338 pp.
"This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. T ... more
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Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Hyejung Ju
Lanham, MD et al.: Lexington Books (2020), vii, 131 pp.
"Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas' transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility. Ev ... more
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Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
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Peter Grant (ed.)
London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.
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JMR’s Participatory Journalism Playbook: A Field Guide to Listening and Reporting with Communities

Jesikah Maria Ross
Internews (2020), 26 pp.
"The guide aims to make what community engagement practitioners do visible and demonstrate why it matters. We’re not walking Rolodexes for reporters to tap, nor are we party planners or social media administrators. We create spaces and processes for the people we want to serve to articulate their ... more
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A digital scramble for Africa: US, EU and Chinese influences on internet regulation in Africa and their effects on freedom of expression and the right to privacy

David Fischer
Coimbra: University of Coimbra, European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Master Thesis (2020), 91 pp.
"Divisive Internet regulation is fragmenting the formerly worldwide web into numerous shards that follow their own rules. The US, the EU and China are influential in shaping regulation even beyond their own jurisdictions, with consequences for human rights, particularly in Africa. This paper argues ... more
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The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture

Peter M. Phillips
New York: Routledge (2020), 129 pp.
"This book [...] examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as it relates to Abby Day's concept of pe ... more
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Digital Inclusion Across the Americas and the Caribbean

Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Matías Dodel, Teresa Correa, Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla et al.
Social Inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 244-259
"This research brings together scholarship across the Americas and Caribbean to examine digital inclusion initiatives in the following countries: Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States, and Canada. Across the cases, several themes emerge that offer important indicator ... more
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Universalism in Public Service Media

Philip Savage, Mercedes Medina, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)
Nordicom (2020), 226 pp.
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How to lose the information war: Russia, fake news, and the future of conflict

Nina Jankowicz
London: Tauris (2020), xxvii, 259 pp.
"Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it? Central and Eastern European states, however, have be ... more
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Social Media and Youth Wellbeing: What We Know and Where We Could Go

Mizuko Ito, Candice Odgers, Stephen Schueller
Irvine, CA: Connected Learning Alliance (2020), 32 pp.
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Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change

Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Tanner Mirrlees (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2020), v, 338 pp.
"Media Imperialism: Continuity and Change advances applied theoretical research on 21st century media imperialism. The volume includes established and emerging researchers in international communications who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological and cultural dimensions of 21st century me ... more
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Talking Back: Journalists Defending Attacks Against Their Profession in the Trump Era

Michael Koliska, Kalyani Chadha, Alison Burns
Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 11 (2020), pp. 1496–1513
"According to neo-institutional theory, the survival of institutions in society is predicated on a cultural discourse. Dubbed “the institutional myth,” this discourse reflects the core values, practices and aspirations of an institution and legitimizes its existence to internal and external stak ... more
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There's an App for That: Headspace, Meditation, and the Shifting Religious Landscape of a Digital World

Darcy Isobel Cyr Groves
Bard College (2020), 50 pp.
"[This publication] is a senior project in Religious Studies that explores the conditions, both historical and clinical, which led to the popularity of the guided meditation app Headspace, and the cultural attitudes that surround mindfulness meditation in America." (Publisher description)
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Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
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Alan Finlay et al.
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2020), 268 pp.
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose ... more
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Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures

Liza Tsaliki, Despina Chronaki (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 426 pp.
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The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas

Wilfried Raussert, Giselle Liza Anatol, Sebastian Thies, Sarah Corona Berkin, José Carlos Lozano (eds.)
London et al.: Routledge (2020), xix, 493 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas charts the pervasive, asymmetrical flows of cultural products and capital and their importance in the development of the Americas. The volume offers a comprehensive understanding of how inter-American communication is constituted, fram ... more
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The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
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Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin, Beth A. Haller, Rosemary Curtis (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxvi, 423 pp.
"An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders. Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of c ... more