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Technology in Disability-Inclusive Education

Paris: UNESCO; Global Education Monitoring Report Team (2023), 43 pp.
"This report outlines the actions driven towards inclusive education, including skill-based training, online learning and classroom settings, and low-tech to high-tech assistive technology (AT). Skill-based training, one of the most important skills for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), covers life ... more
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Countering Disinformation Tools and Initiatives in the Philippines

Rachel E. Khan, Yvonne T. Chua
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2023), 37 pp.
"As can be gleaned from this report, anti-disinformation initiatives are diverse and creative, but whether they’re for prevention, monitoring and identification, or contextualization and correction, the current initiatives can be scaled up and new ones added. Firstly, the initiatives have still to ... more
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The Digitization of Harassment: Women Journalists’ Experiences with Online Harassment in the Philippines

Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Karryl Kim Sagun, Katrina Paola Alvarez
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1198-1213
"Through interviews with women journalists in the Philippines, this study documents and examines their experiences with online harassment. Three main themes stand out. First, we find that online harassment against journalists follows a systematic process that starts from the top, is followed through ... more
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Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

Joshua Kurlantzick
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), 561 pp.
"Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizi ... more
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Connecting every school in Indonesia to the Internet: Policy landscape assessment

Arif Wismadi
Geneva: ITU (2023), ix, 30 pp.
"Indonesia is in the lowest category on the Global Connectivity Index 2020 in terms of ICT investment, ICT maturity and digital economic performance. It should close the Internet connectivity gap in every educational facility so as to ensure educational opportunities, a productive knowledge-based ec ... more
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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India

Ihsan Yilmaz (ed.)
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.
"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ ... more
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Social Media Activism for Civilian Supremacy in Myanmar and Pakistan

Qamar Abbas Jafri
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 14 pp.
"In Myanmar and Pakistan, anti-democratic forces including an alliance of military and right-wing political factions are dominating political affairs despite both countries’ constitutions defining democratic processes. Consequently, the authoritarian rule has been looming in these countries. The a ... more
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Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China

Amitav Acharya, Daniel A. Bell, Rajeev Bhargava, Yan (eds.) Xuetong
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2023), xi, 318 pp.
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Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering

Grace T. Leksana
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 226 pp.
"This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are no ... more
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Dying to tell a story: The role of Citizen Journalists in Myanmar

Thu Thu Aung
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 32 pp.
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, Sharlene Mollett (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 482 pp.
"Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodologica ... more
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Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism

Taiyi Sun
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2023), xv, 283 pp.
"[This book] addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey responses conducted in 126 villages in the Sichuan province, as well as 70 intervie ... more
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India: Trailblazer in Tech-Emancipation from China

Nikhil Pahwa
New Delhi: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 39 pp.
"Over the past few years, India has taken decisive steps to reduce its dependence on Chinese technology and investments. This was triggered by border skirmishes with China in 2020, but built on longstanding national security concerns about China, given the history of conflict between the two countri ... more
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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression

Saskia Witteborn
Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.
"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh ... more
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Assessing China’s news coverage and soft power in Latin America in the wake of the Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2021)

Andrea Morante, H. Denis Wu
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 80-96
"This study assesses the impact of China’s mediated communication strategies implemented in Latin America from 2013 to 2021. We content-analyzed the press coverage about China in nine countries and unveiled tones, topics, and frames which were then examined further across different sources. Public ... more
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When Children Draw Gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach to Children's Representations of Supernatural Agents

Pierre-Yves Brandt, Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert, Christelle Cocco, Dominique Vinck, Frédéric Darbellay (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2023), viii, 569 pp.
"This open access book explores how children draw God. It looks at children's drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our u ... more
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Political Economy of Covert Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections
Deep Insights

Fatima Gaw, Jon Benedik A. Bunquin, Samuel Cabbuag, Jose Mari H. Lanuza, Noreen H. Sapalo, Yusoph Al-Habbyel B.
Internews (2023), 168 pp.
"This report investigates the political economy of covert influence in the 2022 Philippine Elections, with a focus on social media influencers involved in covert political campaigning. This interdisciplinary research (1) examines political influencers and peripheral actors in the field engaged in po ... more
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Changing tides in Zambian television broadcasting: Digital migration and Chinese engagement

Elastus Mambwe
Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 3 (2023), pp. 357-371
"This paper examines the recent shifts and debates in the organization of the television landscape following the implementation of digital migration in Zambia. It ponders Zambia’s experience in the digital migration exercise, playing particular attention to the country’s interaction with the Chi ... more
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Internet Shutdowns: A Human Rights Issue

Julia Ryng, Guillemette Guicherd, Judy Al Saman, Priyanka Choudhury, Kellett, Angharad
RUSI Journal, volume 167, issue 4-5 (2023), pp. 50-63
"The internet is a double-edged sword: civilians can mobilise it to assemble and voice dissent, but illiberal regimes can also weaponise it to consolidate power and suppress any form of opposition. Internet shutdowns – intentional disruptions of internet services – represent one method used to l ... more
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Fact-Checking and Audience Engagement: A Study of Content Analysis and Audience Behavioral Data of Fact-Checking Coverage from News Media

Hyun Suk Kim, Yoo Ji Suh, Eun-mee Kim, Eunryung Chong, Hwajung Hong et al.
Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 5 (2022), pp. 781-800
"This study examined (a) what message variations characterize news articles that fact-check (mis)information (N¼914) and (b) how those message features shape audience engagement with the articles. The study content-analyzed fact-checking coverage from major news outlets in South Korea using both ma ... more