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Freedom of Expression

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 3 (2022), pp. 19-33
"Quality media are indispensable. People must be able to form opinions competently. They must also be free to express their views. At the same time, there must be limits to slander, fake-news propaganda and the spreading of conspiracy theories. The internet is proving to be ambivalent. On the one ha ... more
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Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling Through Race and Gender

Diana I. Rios, Carolyn A. Lin (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2022), ix, 320 pp.
"This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexua ... more
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Advancing Meaningful Connectivity: Towards Active and Participatory Digital Societies

Teddy Woodhouse
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 27 pp.
"This report advances the Meaningful Connectivity framework as a way to support more inclusive societies and strengthen digital economies. It measures the gap in the number of people with just basic internet access and those with meaningful connectivity and examines what this digital divide means fo ... more
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Freedom of Expression: A Myth or Reality? A Case of Pakistani Television Journalists

Awais Hameed, Tabassum Saba, Ali Haider Saeed
Journal of Media and Communication Studies, volume 2, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-16
"This study is aimed at investigating the impact of security threats on the freedom of expression of Pakistani Television (TV) journalists. It has been observed that a growing trend of curtailment of freedom of expression is becoming new normal in the country. One of the significant problems related ... more
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Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio

Sonya Surabhi Gupta (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 216 pp.
"This volume presents a comparative exploration of Dalit autobiographical writing from India and of Latin American testimonio as subaltern voices from two regions of the Global South. Offering frames for linking global subalternity today, the chapters address Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri; Muli's Life H ... more
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Lives of data: Essays on computational cultures from India

Sandeep Mertia (ed.)
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2022), 160 pp.
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Terrorism and the Performance of Journalists in Balochistan

Nauman Khan, Riffat Alam, Muhammad Junaid Ghauri
Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, volume 8, issue 2 (2022), pp. 459-468
"Freedom of speech and freedom of the press is generally attributed to an independent society where the basic rights of citizens are ensured. Balochistan, the western and resources rich province of Pakistan with its huge geopolitical importance has been under a strong wave of terrorism for the last ... 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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Community Radio and Empowerment: An empirical study on rural empowerment by community radio stations in Rajasthan

Lokesh Sharma
Manda Publishers (2022), 153 pp.
"The book is based on the empirical research study conducted by the researcher to explore and examine the role of community radio stations in empowering the rural communities of Rajasthan state of India. One of the classic and universally accepted definitions of community radio, given by Louie Tabin ... 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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Precariously Employed Climate Journalists: The Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia

Mushfique Wadud
Journalism Practice, issue 2-3 (2022), pp. 262-280
"Declines in the number of foreign correspondents and bureaus have caused media to rely on freelance journalists, particularly on coverage of complex and topical issues such as climate change. This study examines the challenges freelance climate journalists in South Asia face and how they negotiate ... more
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Handbook on Online Education in Commonwealth Asia

Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Phalachandra Bhandigadi (eds.)
New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2022), iii; 235 pp.
"This Handbook on Online Education in Commonwealth Asia aims to provide a snapshot of online education in the Commonwealth countries that CEMCA serves. It examines the country and institutional policy for online education and assesses online education strategies in the respective countries. It inclu ... more
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Snap Judgements: How Audiences Who Lack Trust in News Navigate Information on Digital Platforms

Amy Ross Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 43 pp.
"In this report, we qualitatively examine how audiences who lack trust in most news organisations in their countries navigate the digital information environment, especially how they make sense of the news they encounter while using social media, messaging applications, or search engines. Drawing on ... more
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Viabilidade da mídia: Consultas nacionais sobre soluções para promoção e preservação de sua independência. Brasil, El Salvador, Indonésia, Jamaica, Líbano, Namíbia, Nigéria, Paquistão, Senegal e Tunísia

Brasilia: UNESCO; Free Press Unlimited (2022), 32 pp.
"Este relatório fornece transcrições resumidas de consultas nacionais sobre a viabilidade da mídia com as partes interessadas no setor dos meios de comunicação. As consultas nacionais são baseadas nas trocas de conhecimento e pesquisas proporcionadas pela UNESCO e pela The Economist Intellige ... more
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“I Really Wanted Them to Have My Back, but They Didn’t”—Structural Barriers to Addressing Gendered Online Violence against Journalists

Annina Claesson
Digital Journalism, volume 11, issue 10 (2022), pp. 1809-1828
"Despite rising scholarly interest in online violence as an “occupational hazard” for journalists, we know little about the dynamics that shape the often-limited support given by media organizations to media workers affected by online violence. In this study, I explore how the working environmen ... more
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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Paulo Freire (honoured person)
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures; Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ ... more
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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India

Dante Donati, Victor Orozco-Olvera, Nandan Rao
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 53 pp.
"This paper experimentally tests the effectiveness of two short edutainment campaigns (under 25 minutes) delivered through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability of violence against women in India. Participants were randomly assigned to watch video clips with ... more
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Digital Skilling of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in the time of COVID-19

Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF); Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2021), 15 pp.
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Afghanistan Media Landscape: Key Results

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 1 p.
"TV is the most popular media platform. Majority of TV viewers and radio listeners watch and listen to those media weekly. Urban, educated and younger people watch TV more than rural, less educated and older people. Men listen to radio and use internet more than women [...] A nationally representati ... more
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Health and Safety Risks to Journalists During Pandemics

Sayyed Fawad Ali Shah, Faizullah Jan, Muhammad Ittefaq
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. 90-103
"Journalists play a critical role in the dissemination of health information to the public. This chapter explores the challenges created by COVID-19 for journalists in Pakistan. It also examines how the pandemic has shed light on the disparities and safety risks in the Pakistani journalism and expos ... more