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Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela

Saumava Mitra, Marte Høiby, Mariateresa Garrido
Journalism Practice, volume 5, issue 1 (2021), pp. 80-98
"Between 2012 and 2016, UNESCO registered 530 deaths of journalists. They also published a statistic showing that television journalists were the most killed, followed by print media, radio and online journalists. Hinted in this statistics is the need to understand the relationship between the mediu ... more
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How Information Disorder Affirms Authoritarianism and Destabilizes Democracy: Evidence, Trends, and Actionable Mitigation Strategies from Asia and the Pacific

Michael Buehler, Ed Schatz, Sameen Ali, Christopher Green, Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
Washington, DC: USAID; Integra Government Services International LLC; Asia Emerging Opportunities (AEO) Activity (2021), 130 pp.
"Section 2 of this report provides an overview of information disorder in Asia and the Pacific and describes how it destabilizes democracy and strengthens authoritarianism. After situating information disorder in Asia and the Pacific in its historical context, Section 2 examines which actors 1) spre ... more
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Reporting under fear and threats: The deadly cost of being a journalist in Pakistan and India

Sadia Jamil, Prabhjot Sohal
World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 2 (2021), pp. 5-33
"The journalists’ right to perform their watchdog role and to do their routine jobs without fear of being killed, kidnapped, harassed, and attacked is a topic of utmost importance for freedom of the media and freedom of expression. However, in the past decade, journalists’ killings across the gl ... more
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Increasing Women’s Digital Literacy in India: What Works

Alexandra Tyers, Catherine Highet, Sara Chamberlain, Arjun Khanna
London: BBC Media Action (2021), 12 pp.
"The results of this review clarify that increasing women’s digital literacy depends not just on digital skills training, but on increasing their digital access and use. This is not a simple, linear process, and not just a case of distributing devices and data plans to women. There are several con ... more
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Connecting Empowerment: How Social Network Expansion in Women’s Collectives Helps Bridge the Gender Digital Divide

Eric Rice, Sara Chamberlain
London: BBC Media Action (2021), 9 pp.
"This report, based on research conducted with women's empowerment collectives (self help groups, co-operatives, rights-based groups, trade unions) in India in late 2019, explores the relationship between the expansion of women's social networks in collectives, their growing empowerment, and their a ... more
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Policy Papers: Perspectives on Gendered Disinformation

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF); Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2021), 85 pp.
"Through these mediations on gendered disinformation, and the variety of perspectives that the authors bring, we call into question hegemonic structures of knowledge production. The anthology forces us to call into question the very idea of objectivity, blurring lines between 'truth' and 'lies'. The ... more
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Listening to What Trust in News Means to Users: Qualitative Evidence from Four Countries

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 50 pp.
"This report examines how people in Brazil, India, the UK, and the US view news media in their countries, the factors they use when determining whether sources are trustworthy, and what ‘trust in news’ ultimately means to them [...] While we note throughout the report areas of difference between ... more
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Restrictions on Online Freedom of Expression in China: The Domestic, Regional and International Implications of China’s Policies and Practices

Harriet Moynihan, Champa Patel
London: Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs (2021), 21 pp.
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Buchmarkt China 2021

Deutsches Buchinformationszentrum Peking (2021), 40 pp.
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Online Harassment of Female Journalists in Bangladesh: Forms, Reactions, and Consequences

Priyanka Kundu, Md. Mahbubul Haque Bhuiyan
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 143-166
"The online harassment of female journalists is a rising concern around the world and also in South Asia. Bangladesh, a South Asian country, recently, has experienced an increasing number of harassments against female journalists online. Various studies explored the online harassment, mostly from th ... more
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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities

Allison Hahn
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.
"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com ... more
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Status of Development Communication Research: An Examination of the Recent Trends in the Philippines

Marife R. De Torres, Emely M. Amoloza, Pamela A. Custodio, Anna Roffel O. Lozada, Marielle J. Pasuquin, Crina E. Tañongon
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 59-72
"This study is a response to the challenge of Development Communication (DevCom) scholar Felix Librero to analyse the status and trends in UP Los Baños DevCom research that may help in reinvigorating the research thrust of the college attuned to the needs of time. As a rejoinder to previous efforts ... more
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In Their Own Words: Afghan Women Journalists Speak

Annie Philip, Laxmi Murthy, Yirmiyan Arthur, Jane Worthington, John Troughton
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) (2021), 18 pp.
"Comprising several interviews with women journalists both inside and outside of Afghanistan, the report highlights the threats to life and livelihood imposed by the new regime. As the Taliban imposes new restrictions on the media, including a dress code on women journalists, there is continued resi ... more
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Chasing Justice. Maldives: Study on Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists

Maldives Journalist Association (2021), 31 pp.
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Ponto de Inflexão Internacional: Um estudo sobre impacto, inovação, ameaças e sustentabilidade dos empreendedores de mídia digital na América Latina, Sudeste Asiático e África
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SembraMedia (2021), 170 pp.
"Como era de se esperar, houve diferenças regionais entre os veículos jornalísticos digitais na África, Sudeste Asiático e América Latina que incluímos neste relatório. Mas o que mais nos impressionou ao analisarmos os dados foram as semelhanças que surgiram entre essas organizações jorna ... more
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Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective

Claudia Mellado (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2021), xix, 299 pp.
"The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe, ... more
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Situation Analysis Study on Religious Freedom and Tolerance in Greater Bogor, Bandung, and Solo

Search for Common Ground (2021), 3 pp.
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Six Stories of Resilience: Digital Technologies as Drivers of Development in the COVID-19 Era

Asia Foundation (2021), 32 pp.
"This white paper discusses how digital technologies are building COVID resilience, shaping and accelerating the recovery, and diffusing within Asia Pacific region (APAC) in ways that are likely to persist in a post-COVID world. Section 1 presents the role of digital technologies in the Sustainable ... more
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Pacific Crises: COVID, Climate Emergency and West Papua

Philip Cass, David Robie (eds.)
Pacific Journalism Review, volume 27, issue 1-2 (2021), pp. 1-174
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Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns

Asia Centre (2021), 15 pp.
"Asia Centre’s Briefing Note, Myanmar Coup and Internet Shutdowns, tracks the period 1 February to 31 March 2021. The Note provides a timeline of the shutdowns, reactions from protestors, technology companies and the international community, legal analysis of key laws and Myanmar’s international ... more