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Communication and Education: Promoting Peace and Democracy in Times of Crisis and Conflict

Mary John O'Hair, Philip A. Woods, H. Dan O'Hair (eds.)
Newark: Wiley (2024), xi, 299 pp.
"Examining the crucial role of crisis communication and education on a global scale, this research-based compendium covers a broad range of key topics, such as democratizing education, promoting peace through complexity science, understanding how factionalism threatens democracy, encouraging citizen ... more
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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South

Phillip Santos, Cleophas T. Muneri (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist ... more
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Constructing the Establishment – Foreign Enemy Conspiracies: A Comparative Analysis of the Media Framing in the USA and Egypt

Tamer Farag
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 1 (2024), 19 pp.
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Global Perspectives on Press Regulation. Volume 2: Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania

András Koltay, Paul Wragg
London: Hart Publishing (2024), 368 pp.
"In this ground-breaking two-volume set, world-leading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world's press, its freedom, and its limits. We want press freedom but we also want freedom from the press. A powerful press may expose corrupt government or aid it. It may champion citizens ... more
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Capturing News, Capturing Democracy: Trump and the Voice of America

Kate Wright, Martin Scott, Melanie Bunce
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), viii, 294 pp.
"How did the Trump administration capture one of the world’s most important public service news networks? This book uses rare interviews and an analysis of private correspondence and internal documents to explain why and how Voice of America (VOA) became intensely politicized from 2020 to 2021. It ... more
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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Heidi Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
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Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation

Andrew Wilson
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2024), xii, 486 pp.
"Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consu ... more
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The Global E-Waste Monitor 2024
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Cornelis P. Baldé, Ruediger Kuehr, Tales Yamamoto, Rosie McDonald, Elena D’Angelo et al.
Bonn; Geneva: United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); ITU (2024), 148 pp.
In 2022, a record 62 billion kg of e-waste was generated globally (equivalent to an average of 7.8 kg per capita per year); 22.3 per cent of this e-waste mass was documented as formally collected and recycled in an environmentally sound manner. In 2010, the world generated 34 billion kg of e-waste, ... more
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Reimagining Public Media: Strategic Leadership and Innovation in Local News

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Wyncote Foundation (2024), 20 pp.
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Non-News Websites Expose People to More Political Content Than News Websites: Evidence from Browsing Data in Three Countries

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Bernhard Clemm von Hohenberg et al.
Political Communication, volume 41, issue 1 (2024), pp. 129-151
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USAID Digital Policy 2024-2034

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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it

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The flood, the traitors, and the protectors: Affect and white identity in the Internet Research Agency’s Islamophobic propaganda on Twitter

Bharath Ganesh, Nicolò Faggiani
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Next gen news: Understanding the audiences of 2030

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FT Strategies; Knight Lab (2024), 84 pp.
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Press freedom under threat: Learn three ways USAID is ensuring free and independent media

Shannon Maguire
Medium; USAID (2024), 8 pp.
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Challenging Journalistic Objectivity: How Journalists of Color Call for a Reckoning

Thomas R. Schmidt
Journalism, volume 25, issue 3 (2024), pp. 547-564
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Countering Xenophobic Frames and Contextualizing Coverage Through North-South Cooperation: Collaborative Investigative Journalism Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

Kirsi Cheas
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Funding Journalism: A Guide for Canadian Philanthropy

Ana Sofía Hibon, April Lindgren, Sara Krynitzki
Inspirit Foundation; Local News Research Project at Toronto Metropolitan University; Philanthropic Foundations Canada (2024), 27 pp.
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Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Izabella Main (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 196 pp.
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New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

J. P. Messina (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2023), viii, 153 pp.
"This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explo ... more