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COVID-19 and the Right to Privacy: An Analysis of South Korean Experiences

Byoung-il Oh, Yeokyung Chang, SeonHwa Jeong
Korean Progressive Network 'Jinbonet' (2020), 52 pp.
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Rethinking China’s Global ‘Propaganda’ Blitz

Falk Hartig
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3-18
"China’s global communication activities are mainly perceived as sinister propaganda to mislead international audiences, and related discussions exemplify Western unease about China’s global communication efforts. While not trivializing these efforts, this article objects to some of the assessme ... more
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China’s Foreign Aid: A Primer for Recipient Countries, Donors, and Aid Providers

Leah Lynch, Sharon Andersen, Tianyu Zhu
Center for Global Development (2020), 16 pp.
"Since the 1950s, Chinese foreign aid has been influenced by and linked with China’s investment, trade, and foreign policy objectives. Partly as a result, it has also been fairly opaque. However, as Chinese aid (and loans) have increased in volume and significance, and as China’s economic status ... more
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The Digital Silk Road: Expanding China’s Digital Footprint

Eurasia Group (2020), 12 pp.
"First unveiled in 2015, the Digital Silk Road (DSR) component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has attracted more political and commercial attention as technology-related tensions between the US and China have risen. Whereas large-scale traditional infrastructure projects have so far bee ... more
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From Digital Divide to Social Inclusion: A Tale of Mobile Platform Empowerment in Rural Areas

Lisha Ye, Huiqin Yang
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 6: 2424 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser ... more
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Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia
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Tina Burrett, Jeff Kingston (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 402 pp.
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The China Story: Reshaping the World's Media
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International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2020), 8 pp.
"Beijing is running an extensive and sophisticated long-term outreach campaign which cuts across the developed and developing world, focusing on both legacy and digital media. This is a strategic, long-term effort to reshape the global news landscape with a China-friendly global narrative. Through f ... more
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Journalism and Communication in China and the West: A Study of History, Education and Regulation

Bing Tong
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 366 pp.
"This book sheds new light on the study of journalism and communication, considering why and how journalism is studied in the 21st century. It notably offers both an international and interdisciplinary comparison of journalism and communication, examining the history of Chinese and Western journalis ... more
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Retweeting Through the Great Firewall: A Persistent and Undeterred Threat Actor

Jacob Wallis, Tom Uren, Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang, Samantha Hoffman, Lin Li, Alex Pascoe, Danielle Cave
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 56 pp.
"This report analyses a persistent, large-scale influence campaign linked to Chinese state actors on Twitter and Facebook. This activity largely targeted Chinese-speaking audiences outside of the Chinese mainland (where Twitter is blocked) with the intention of influencing perceptions on key issues, ... more
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Summary Report: Justice4her 2.0. Strengthening Rule of Law to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 7 pp.
"Justice4Her is a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder project of RNW Media and Qianqian Law Firm that seeks to strengthen the rule of law and reduce gender-based violence (GBV) towards women migrant workers in China. The project launched in 2016 and targets women migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai and ... more
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Countering Russian & Chinese Influence Activities: Examining Democratic Vulnerabilities & Building Resiliency

Cyrus Newlin, Heather A. Conley, Amy Searight, Tim Kostelancik, Rachel Ellehuus, Jeffrey Mankoff, Devin Stewart
Washington, DC: Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) (2020), v, 31 pp.
"With their heavily censored and restricted civil societies at home, China and Russia exploit the asymmetry of democratic systems by targeting open information environments, freedom of expression, participatory civic discourse, and pluralistic and fluid politics. Democracies have unique vulnerabilit ... more
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Digital Democracy

International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 36, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-68
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What Works to Prevent Online and Offline Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse? Review of National Education Strategies in East Asia and the Pacific
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Ann Kangas, Harri Lee, Jenny Holden, Erika Fraser
Bangkok: UNICEF (2020), viii, 63 pp.
"The review found that while there is a growing global body of evidence around effective education programming to prevent child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), much of the available evidence is from high income countries (HICs) and largely focuses on programmes which address offline rather tha ... more
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ICT Aid Flows from China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective

Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25
"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014 ... more
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A digital scramble for Africa: US, EU and Chinese influences on internet regulation in Africa and their effects on freedom of expression and the right to privacy

David Fischer
Coimbra: University of Coimbra, European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Master Thesis (2020), 91 pp.
"Divisive Internet regulation is fragmenting the formerly worldwide web into numerous shards that follow their own rules. The US, the EU and China are influential in shaping regulation even beyond their own jurisdictions, with consequences for human rights, particularly in Africa. This paper argues ... more
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Beijing’s Global Megaphone: The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence Since 2017

Sarah Cook
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 29 pp.
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Chinese Independent Animation: Renegotiating Identity in Modern China

Wenhai Zhou
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xii, 222 pp.
"This study of 'independent' animation opens up a quietly subversive and vibrant dimension of contemporary Chinese culture which, hitherto, has not received as much attention as dissident art or political activism. Scholarly interest in Chinese animation has increased over the last decade, with atte ... more
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The lesser evil? Public opinion towards regulating fake news in three Asian countries

John W. Cheng, Hitoshi Mitomo, Youngkyoung Seo, Artima Kamplean
Paper presented at ITS Online Event, 14-17 June 2020, International Telecommunications Society (ITS) (2020), 15 pp.
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Digital News Report 2020

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 111 pp.
"The bulk of this report is based on data collected by a survey of more than 80,000 people in 40 markets and reflects media usage in January/February just before the coronavirus hit many of these countries. But the key trends that we document here, including changes in how people access news, low tr ... more
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Decentralization of Political Design in China

Jonathan Benney
Pacific Affairs: an International Review of Asia and the Pacific, volume 93, issue 4 (2020), pp. 709-734
"Political posters, banners, and similar objects are extremely common in China. This article uses political design from contemporary China, particularly emphasising the government’s Chinese Dream campaign, to analyze what at first appears to be a paradox. The subjects of the campaigns and the lang ... more