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Understanding Internet Shutdowns: A Case Study from Pakistan

Benjamin Wagner
Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2022), pp. 3917-3938
"This article provides an overview of Internet shutdowns in Pakistan, which have become an increasingly common phenomenon, with 41 occurring between 2012 and 2017. It argues that to understand how shutdowns became normalized in Pakistan, it is necessary to look at the specific dynamics of how the sh ... more
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Policy Brief: Nine Steps to Protect Our Data and Privacy in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021

Jade Lyngdoh, Raman Jit Singh Chima, Namrata Maheshwari
Access Now (2022), 10 pp.
"This policy brief is an Access Now publication. It gives context about the Personal Data Protection Bill in the Parliament of Sri Lank, states the key areas of concerns in the present bill, and proposes nine (9) recommendations." (commbox)
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Global Study: Gender Equality and Media Regulation
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Sarah Macharia, Sarah Barata Mir et al.
Fojo Media Institute (2022), 75 pp.
"This study is unique in its attempt to map both law and policy (regulation and self-regulation) and identify measures to promote gender equality in the media and women’s freedom of expression. The study covers policy instruments adopted at international, regional, national, industry and media hou ... more
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Can Social Media Output Help Shift Perceptions About Informal Waste Pickers in Bengaluru, India?

BBC Media Action (2022), 4 pp.
"Bengaluru […] generates 5,757 metric tonnes of solid waste per day. Estimates suggest that approximately 20,000-30,000 people are engaged in waste picking in the city. BBC Media Action's 'A Pathway to Respect, Identity, Dignity and Empowerment' (PRIDE) project aims to shift negative perceptions a ... more
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The Unfreedom Monitor: India Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 28 pp.
"India’s “techade” does show signs of digital authoritarianism that can potentially have farreaching implications for politics, civil liberties and society. At the same time, these are not new challenges for the country. In the past, the Indian government has attempted to surveil, monitor, and ... more
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Toolkit for Digital Content Creators in Pakistan

Noor Waheed
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF); UNESCO (2022), 36 pp.
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Data Governance, Asian Alternatives: How India and Korea Are Creating New Models and Policies

Evan A. Feigenbaum, Michael R. Nelson (eds.)
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2022), 114 pp.
"This volume highlights some of the alternative models that have originated in two major Asian democracies, India and South Korea. It compares these two countries’ distinctive approaches through case studies that demonstrate just how much more complex the world will be than the common-place predic ... more
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Earthquake aftersongs: Music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public

Michael Hutt
Popular Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 42-59
"The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus, these videos’ representations of the earthquak ... more
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Brief No.1: Media Restrictions and the Implications for Gender Equality in Afghanistan

Michelle Gehrig
Kabul: UN Women (2022), 29 pp.
"After nearly 20 years of international investment and successful efforts to build a diverse media landscape and strengthen journalism standards, the Afghan media sector has fundamentally changed for the worse since the Taliban (also referred herein to as the de facto authorities) takeover on 15 Aug ... more
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Pakistan: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 7 pp.
"Overall, Pakistan experienced a shrinking of its space for free expression over the past four years, with censorship and restrictions increasing over time in the form of new stringent rules and regulations, along with intensifying threats and various types of attacks on journalists. Pakistan, who w ... more
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Using Markers for Digital Engagement and Social Change: Tracking Meaningful Narrative Exchange in Transmedia Edutainment with Text Analytics Techniques

Roel O. Lutkenhaus, Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal, Jeroen Jansz, Martine P. A. Bouman
Digital Health, volume 8 (2022), pp. 1-18
"While social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for orchestrating large-scale communication campaigns, it is often difficult to track audience responses on various digital platforms over time and to ascertain if their engagement is aligned with the original intention. In this article, we shar ... more
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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.
"The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise sign ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital Futures for a Post-Pandemic World

Alan Finlay et al.
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2022), 268 pp.
"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco ... more
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The Impact of a Direct to Beneficiary Mobile Communication Program on Reproductive and Child Health Outcomes: A Randomised Controlled Trial in India

Amnesty Elisabeth Lefevre, Neha Shah, Kerry Scott, Sara Chamberlain, Osama Ummer et al.
BMJ Global Health, issue 6: e008838 (2022), 21 pp.
"Kilkari is the largest direct-to-beneficiary mobile communication programme in the world and has reached over 10 million women and their families across 13 states in India. Our study is the first randomised controlled trial conducted to date of a beneficiary mobile communication programme at scale. ... more
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Policy Paper: Unpacking Content Moderation in Pashto and Dari

Shmyla Khan et al.
Meedan; Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2022), 25 pp.
"Content moderation at scale is an extremely complicated issue, however by looking at specific examples such as the case studies and data highlighted in this study, the conversation can start to take into account more diverse experiences and context that is normally overlooked. Emerging from these e ... more
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Countering Disinformation in Pakistan: Lessons and Recommendations for Digital Journalism

Waqas Naeem, Adnan Rehmat
Freedom Network; Digital Media Alliance of Pakistan (DigiMAP) (2022), 48 pp.
"The study finds that journalistic and fact-checking disinformation responses in the country have struggled due to lack of conceptual understanding of disinformation among journalists, monetization trends that incentivize sensationalist news and reduce the impact of capacity building initiatives, la ... more
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Gandhi, Advocacy Journalism, and the Media

David W. Bulla (ed.)
New York: Peter Lang (2022), 290 pp.
"This book documents the journalistic career of Mohandas K. Gandhi. Known as the Mahatma and the Father of India, Gandhi was also a journalist. However, he was a not a journalist in the same vein as those working for the New York Times or the BBC. Rather, Gandhi was what is called an advocacy journa ... more
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Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia

A. K. Enamul Haque, Pranab Mukhopadhyay, Mani Nepal, Md Rumi Shammin (eds.)
Singapore: Springer; South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE); International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) (2022), xxvii, 460 pp.
"Using a narrative style, this book draws on stories and examples from seven South Asian countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—to highlight how communities in South Asia are building resilience to climate change. A total of 58 authors have contributed to t ... more
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Responsible Reporting on Sexual Violence: A Review of Bangladeshi Print Media Practice

Shuprova Tasneem
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 25 pp.
"How did that impact the media's ability to tell this story? Did this period of protest have coverage that centred on survivors and the rights of women, or did the media fixate on voyeuristic representations of violence? Did the reports challenge rape myths and the culture of shame that demonstrator ... more
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Radio and Technology Adoption During India’s Green Revolution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Srinivasan Vasudevan
SSRN (2022), 39 pp.
"Adoption of innovative technologies is central to improving agricultural productivity. Farmers in developing countries rely heavily on social learning in adopting new technologies. Barriers to social learning such as heterogeneity or social fragmentation can therefore limit technology adoption and ... more