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Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia

Anas Ansar
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), x, 310 pp.
"Focusing on Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the contribution of historical legacies of exclusion, along with contemporary practices of marginalisation and otherisation to the transcendence of the precarity landscape. In light of ... more
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Mitigating loneliness and remediating solitude: Pandemic narratives from the Global South

Aditya Deshbandhu, Swatantra
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 19 pp.
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The State of Media Development: Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Giorgi Jangiani
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2025), 20 pp.
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Martin Echeverría Victoria, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Daniel C. Hallin (eds.)
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism

Bruce Mutsvairo, Kristin Skare Orgeret (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxi, 444 pp.
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Democratising AI through Culture: Making Generative AI Participatory and Intersectional Through an AI of the Commons

Seoyoung Choi, Miro Leon Bucher
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 72 pp.
"This research proposes a participatory, decolonial and feminist approach to AI through the concept of “AI as commons”, offering a practical approach for cultural practitioners to decolonise existing AI systems. Conducted in Seoul, South Korea, the study combines critical theory with practical i ... more
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State of digital development and trends in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and opportunities

Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 53 pp.
"[...] While mobile broadband covers over 95 per cent of the population, disparities persist. High-income economies lead in 5G deployment and innovation, while lower-income countries face infrastructure, affordability, and digital literacy gaps. The urban-rural divide remains, and women and marginal ... more
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Building AI-based advisory services for smallholder farmers: Technical learnings from the AIEP Initiative

Stewart Collis, Florence Kinyua, Vikram Kumar, Howard Lakougna, Christian Merz, Kirti Pandey, Christian Resch
AIEP Initiative; Gates Foundation; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internat (2025), 18 pp.
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Shuaishuai Wang
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Swetabh Pandey, Munmun Ghosh
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China and the Ukraine war: Global Times’ strategic narratives

Emilie Tran Sautedé, Fei Vincent Mo, Jiawei Tang
Global Media and Communication, volume 21, issue 1 (2025), pp. 65-89
"The study examines Global Times’ strategic narratives on the Russia-Ukraine War (2022–2024) by analysing 301 articles through issue, identity and systemic frameworks. It reveals China’s framing of the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, positioning itself as a neutral mediator advocating multi ... more
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The critical online diasporic infosphere and counter-public sustenance in an autocratizing society

Francis L. F. Lee, Chun Hong Tse
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1590-1607
"This article conceptualizes the critical online diasporic infosphere as an online space constituted by diasporic media, exile media, and overseas-based influencers who share an oppositional orientation toward the home state. The infosphere proffers a constant stream of critical information and pers ... more
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Strengthening Soft Power of Cyber Resilience against State-Based Disinformation Attacks: Insights from South and Southeast Asia

Sangeeta Mahapatra
Hamburg: GIGA (2025), 29 pp.
"This paper proposes a cyber resilience strategy that integrates cognitive resilience – namely, the individual and collective capacity to withstand informational and psychological manipulation campaigns intended to destabilise social and political systems. This integrated approach addresses threat ... more
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What is journalism for?

Jon Allsop
Bristol: Bristol University Press (2025), 180 pp.
"Journalism faces multiple threats today all over the world: economic decline, online disinformation, the rise of AI, authoritarian curbs on freedom of the press, and violence against journalists. In such a climate, it’s more urgent than ever to ask what journalism is for. Drawing on his experienc ... more
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Pakistani Women Journalists: Occupational Hazards in Their Intersectionalities of Gender, Culture and Profession

Haroon ur Rasheed Baloch, Amira Firdaus, Iffat Ali Aksar, Farrah Dina Yusop, Jiankun Gong, Humaira Sharif
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1986-2002
"Grounded in the intersections of culture, gender and occupation, this paper explores the challenges and barriers faced by “elite” Pakistani women working in a journalistic profession steeped in male dominance shaped by patriarchal values. One-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with nine ... more
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Disability Representation in Bangladeshi Media: A Study on Inclusion in Content and Organizational Practices

SoMaSHTe
UNESCO (2025), 26 pp.
"The study emphasizes the vital role of Bangladeshi media in promoting inclusion and equality for persons with disabilities (PWDs). While progress has been made, gaps in representation, accessibility, and workplace inclusion remain. Key priorities include adopting inclusive formats like sign languag ... more
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Afghanistan 2001-2021: Gewaltideologien und ein Hauch von offener Gesellschaft

Abbas Poya (ed.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 209 pp.
"Welchen Einfluss haben Gesinnungen der Gewalt auf die gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen in Afghanistan? Die internationalen Beiträger*innen richten ihren Blick auf linke, dschihadistische sowie talibanistische Ideologien und Praktiken in der jüngeren afghanischen Geschichte. Multiperspektivisch ze ... more
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Die Frau, die Frauen eine Stimme gibt

Katja Hanke
welt-sichten, issue 3 (2024), pp. 64-65
"Sie stammt aus einfachen Verhältnissen vom Land, doch heute ist die gerade mal 24 Jahre alte Noeun Sreynoch Moderatorin und Programmmacherin beim Sender „Women‘s Radio“ in Phnom Penh. In ihren Sendungen geht es vor allem um die Anliegen von Frauen und soziale Themen." (Einleitung)
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The Impact of Social Media in Afghanistan: A Multi-Disciplinary Study

Hedaya Ehsan et al.
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, volume 17 (2024), pp. 3121-3139
"This multi-disciplinary study aims to explore the diverse effects of social media on Afghan youth, focusing on usage patterns, mental health implications, entertainment-driven time allocation, financial expenditures, exposure to explicit content, and academic performance. Methods: A cross-sectional ... more
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Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined

Kees de Groot (ed.)
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2024), xii, 249 pp.
"This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of r ... more