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AI is here. Are we ready?

Eva-Maria Verfürth et al.
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 4 (2026), pp. 31-58
"AI is already having a profound impact on our daily lives. The key question is who controls the technology. It is not only in conflicts that AI accelerates the spread of deceptively realistic fakes and makes it harder to distinguish reliable information from manipulation. At the same time, it opens ... more
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Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame

Crystal Abidin
Cambridge; Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press (2026), xvi, 192 pp.
‘Child Influencers’ have historically been used as a ‘catch-all’ term to refer to all forms of children who acquire some form of online celebrity. But as the chapters of this book will demonstrate, the early histories of ‘Mummy Bloggers’ (chapter 1), ‘Micro-Microcelebrity’ (chapter 2 ... more
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Unlocking local capital: What does it take to address the funding needs of public interest media with locally anchored solutions?

Roby Alampay, Hala Bajani, Clare Cook, Eva Danayanti, Waqas Naeem, Jakub Parusinski, Iryna Vidanava
International Media Support (IMS) (2026), 29 pp.
"In general terms, this learning brief moves forward from the question of “where is the money?” to the question of “what does it take to unlock it?” In other words, how do we work alongside local government, private, philanthropic, and community sectors to meet the funding needs of journalis ... more
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Handbook of Global Oral History
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Mark Cave, Selma Leydesdorff (eds.)
Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.
"The Handbook of Global Oral History inspires the reader to be more open in their conception of what oral history is and how it is applied within a variety of disciplines to unlock meaning in human experience. The book brings together scholars from around the world in the areas ranging from memory s ... more
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Golden Indonesia 2045: Neoliberal Development Policies and Environmental Journalism

Birgit Bräuchler
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, volume 45, issue 1 (2026), pp. 3-29
"By 2045, the government wants Indonesia to be a developed country, with sustainable economic development and energy transition at the top of the agenda on the road to ‘Golden Indonesia’. Despite the supposedly ‘green’ agenda, the forceful push for economic development is causing significant ... more
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Understanding China through Digital Anthropology

Daniel Miller, Xinyuan Wang (eds.)
London: UCL Press (2026), xviii, 305 pp.
"Understanding China through Digital Anthropology questions our understanding of digital technologies by demonstrating fundamental differences in the meaning of both technology and the digital between China and the West. This follows from a longstanding historical divergence in the meaning of and at ... more
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Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World

Charles A. Laughlin, Li Guo (eds.)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiii, 292 pp.
"Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to t ... more
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Panorama of Exiled Independent Media: Amid Global Geopolitical Turbulence in 2026
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Berlin: JX Fund (2026), 29 pp.
"Exiled Independent Media (EXIM) are no longer a marginal or transitional phenomenon. They have become a permanent and structurally significant part of the global media landscape – and the forces that lead EXIM to appear are, if anything, growing stronger. The sustained rise of authoritarian regim ... more
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Oral Histories of Genocide in Bosnia, Indonesia, and Rwanda: Symbolic Violence and Social Death

Erin Jessee, Annie Pohlman
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2026), 408 pp.
"Grounded in extensive oral historical, archival, and ethnographic research in the aftermaths of the Bosnian (1992-95), Indonesian (1965-66), and Rwandan (1994) genocides, this book investigates the symbolic meanings associated with spectacular forms of torture, murder, and mutilation that perpetrat ... more
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China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization

Emeka Umejei
London: Bloomsbury Publishing (2026), xiv, 178 pp.
"Does China's multimodal engagement with African media promote decolonization or its media propaganda? Drawing on copious interviews with journalists from across the continent, and complementing these with detailed analyses of stories reported in ways that serve the narratives and interests of the C ... more
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Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide

Julian Koch
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2026), 268 pp.
"Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging comparative study that analyses how numerous genocides and their perpetrators have been presented in documentary film. Spanning seven 20th-century genocides across three continents and combining interviews with filmmakers, distant reading, ... more
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Foundations in Cyber-Ethnography: A Cross-Cultural Approach

Erica Zimmerman, Clementine K. Fujimura (eds.)
New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), x, 253 pp.
"Contributors to this volume contend that in the realm of research on human society, online and digital communication can no longer be relegated to a separate cyber space and should instead be considered in equal part by integrating cyber-ethnographic methods. Coming at a critical time where student ... more
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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method

Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, Andrea Medrado (eds.)
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
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Jian Xu, Shaohua Guo, Weiyu Zhang (eds.)
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"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula ... more
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China’s New Development Communication: Paradigm Shift and Practical Implications for the Global South

Yanqiu Zhang
Journal of Latin American Communication Research, volume 14, issue 1 (2026), pp. 122-143
"For decades, global development communication has been dominated by Western-centric theoretical frameworks that fail to adapt to the complex historical, cultural and socioeconomic contexts of the Global South. Against this backdrop, neo-developmentalism has emerged as a compelling alternative ideol ... more
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Disinformation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis
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Lisa Ginsborg, Paula Gori (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2026), xvi, 654 pp.
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De Gruyter Handbook of Media and Social Change in the Global South

Kehbuma Langmia (ed.)
Berlin: De Gruyter (2026), xii, 564 pp.
"The birth of the newspapers, radio and television in the 19th century brought various interconnected social, behavioral and cultural changes in the lives of the colonizer and the colonized in the economically ‘developing’ nations. Then in the 20th century and now the 21st century, the birth of ... more
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Principled caution: How AI is used in public-interest media in Asia

James Gomez
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2026), 52 pp.
"In conclusion, this research has provided a systematic understanding of AI adoption within public-interest media across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. By identifying concrete areas for strategic intervention, this research seeks to strengthen ... more
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 3

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2026), xii, 372 pp.
"This third volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first and second volumes, namely by: 1) offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2014, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; 2) providing a n ... more
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Governing Digital China

Daniela Stockmann, Ting Luo
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2026), xx, 273 pp.
"China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlight ... more