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Digital tools and strategies in COVID-19 infodemic response: Case studies and discussion

Roman Chestnov et al.
Geneva: ITU (2021), 60 pp.
"Digital technology, while an important enabler of many COVID-19 mitigation measures, has also contributed to the rise of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the pandemic. The circulation of rumours, conspiracy theories, false claims and misconceptions about the novel coronavirus has had a ... more
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Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones

Max Schleser, Xiaoge Xu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 275 pp.
"This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation. With 18 original chapters, Schleser and Xu bring together intern ... more
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The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2021), 81 pp.
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Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
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Lee C. Bollinger, Agnès Callamard (eds.)
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xxiv, 409 pp.
"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a ... more
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China’s Digital Silk Road in Africa and the Future of Internet Governance

Henry Tugendhat, Julia Voo
Washington, DC: China Africa Research Initiative (CARI); Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) (2021), 4 pp.
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China’s 'Digital Silk Road' Enters the Western Balkans

Stefan Vladisavljev
Association for International Affairs (AMO) (2021), 30 pp.
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Freedom in Tatters

Chris Yeung, Charles Tang, Au Ka-Iun et al.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Journalists Association (2021), 45 pp.
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Archives and Human Rights

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the ... more
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Borrowing Mouths to Speak on Xinjiang

Fergus Ryan, Ariel Bogle, Nathan Ruser et al.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2021), 40 pp.
"This report explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses foreign social media influencers to shape and push messages domestically and internationally about Xinjiang that are aligned with its own preferred narratives. Our research has found key instances in which Chinese state entities have s ... more
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China's Projection of Soft Power in Terms of Constructive Journalism: A Media Content Analysis of Constructive News Coverage of South Africa by China Daily and South China Morning Post in 2015 and 2018

Franki Jenkins
Transcience, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), pp. 24-43
"China is an increasingly major player in the latest global economic configuration. As a formerly developing nation, China has the potential to view the world through a lens distinctive from current Western hegemonies in its news media and soft power strategies. China has already invested heavily in ... more
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Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment

London et al.: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (2021), 174 pp.
"This report sets out a new methodology for assessing cyber power, and then applies it to 15 states: Four members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance – the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; Three cyber-capable allies of the Five Eyes states – France, Israel and Japan; F ... more
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Finding China’s Edge: Engineering Influence Operations within the Limits of Social Media Platform Rules

Jakob Bund
Zürich: Center for Security Studies (CSS) (2021), 48 pp.
"To arrive at a careful evaluation of impact, this report concentrates on how the tactics of China’s influence operations have evolved during the first year of the pandemic. Looking at China’s key priority of information control, the first section conceptualizes the adaptation of influence opera ... more
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Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for Elections and Beyond
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Daniel Arnaudo, Samantha Bradshaw, Hui Hui Ooi, Kaleigh Schwalbe, Amy Studdart, Vera Zakem, Amanda Zink
National Democratic Institute (NDI); International Republican Institute (IRI); Stanford Internet Observatory (2021), 59 pp.
"The playbook approach consists of how to (1) identify ongoing information manipulation campaigns; (2) develop real-time and short-term responses; and (3) build long-term resilience to information manipulation. While we outline three distinct steps in this playbook, the process for combating informa ... more
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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises

Bianca Herlo, Daniel Irrgang, Gesche Joost, Andreas Unteidig (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 430 pp.
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers sc ... more
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Die China-Berichterstattung in deutschen Medien im Kontext der Corona-Krise

Jia Changbao, Mechthild Leutner, Xiao Minxing
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2021), 61 pp.
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Digital Authoritarianism and Nonviolent Action: Challenging the Digital Counterrevolution

Matthew Cebul, Jonathan Pinckney
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2021), 23 pp.
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Digital News Report 2021

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 163 pp.
"This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time. The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption a ... more
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Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Hyejung Ju
Lanham, MD et al.: Lexington Books (2020), vii, 131 pp.
"Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas' transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility. Ev ... more
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De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures: Perspectives from the Global South

Thomas Herdin, Maria Faust, Guo-Ming Chen (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... more
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TikTok and WeChat: Curating and Controlling Global Information Flows

Fergus Ryan, Audrey Fritz, Daria Impiombato
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 68 pp.
"The Chinese state has demonstrated a propensity for controlling and shaping the information environment of the Chinese diaspora—including via WeChat. The meteoric growth of TikTok has now put the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a position from which it can shape the information environment on a ... more