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Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage Dynamics on YouTube

Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 240 pp.
"Amid the proliferation of a range of new and ubiquitous online platforms, YouTube, a video-based platform, remains a key driver in the democratisation of creative, playful, vernacular, intimate, as well as political expressions. As a critical node of contemporary communication and digital cultures, ... more
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Supply Chain Analysis: Cambodia

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance; Education Development Center (EDC); USAID (2022), vii, 88 pp.
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Chinese Crisis Communication in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discourse Analysis of 'People’s Daily' News Articles in Response to Threatening International News Coverage

Maximilian Ernst, Cesare Scartozzi, Ceinwen Thomas, Wang Yigong
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 169-193
"This paper examines China’s international communication strategy during the initial phase of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the spring of 2020, Western governments and media began criticising the systematic lack of transparency and accountability in the Chinese political system in relation to t ... more
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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Panayiota Tsatsou (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 346 pp.
"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the ... more
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‘Data Sovereignty’ or ‘Data Colonialism’? Exploring the Chinese Involvement in Africa’s ICTs: A Document Review on Kenya

Stefano Calzati
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 40, issue 2 (2022), pp. 270-285
"Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a crucial sector of China–Africa relations. As scholars have noted, Africa’s 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) risks transforming into a new ‘scramble’ with foreign actors harnessing Africa’s data. The present article explores th ... more
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Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China

Aviva Wei Xue, Kate Rose
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 215 pp.
"On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speec ... more
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China's Digital Ambitions: A Global Strategy to Supplant the Liberal Order

Emily de La Bruyère, Doug Strub, Jonathon Marek (eds.)
Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research (2022), 118 pp.
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Hearing the Voices of Journalists in Surigao City, Mindanao, Philippines

Kristopher M. Ngilangil
Asian Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences, volume 4, issue 1 (2022), pp. 33-43
"The Philippine media presented itself as the vanguard of the Filipino people’s basic freedoms, especially the freedom of speech and expression. However, as with any responsibility that pertains to that freedom, the news media had its laws that may result in persecution. This study was aimed at in ... more
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition

Scott Reese (ed.)
Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2022), viii, 374 pp.
"This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-cal ... more
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Cyber Troops, Online Manipulation of Public Opinion and Co-Optation of Indonesia’s Cybersphere

Yatun Sastramidjaja, Wijayanto
Singapore: ISEAS (2022), 27 pp.
"Organized propaganda and public opinion manipulation are increasing in Indonesia’s cybersphere. Specifically, since 2019, there has been a marked rise of cyber troop campaigns that serve to mobilize public consensus for controversial government policies. Cyber troop operations played a crucial ro ... more
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Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
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Anthony Le Duc (ed.)
Bangkok: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication (2022), xxvii, 343 pp.
"Despite the wide-ranging topics presented in this collection, this volume takes ‘communication’ as the keyword for the various research and reflections on the life and mission of the Catholic Church during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as post-crisis. The reader will readily recognize that what ... more
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State of Press Freedom in Cambodia

Geneva: United Nations, Office of the High Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR) (2022), 29 pp.
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Digital Nationalism Versus Gender Politics in Post-Reform China: Gender-Issue Debates on Zhihu

Altman Yuzhu Peng
Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 281-299
"This article aims to determine how digital nationalism influences gender politics in the context of gender-issue debates on Chinese social media platforms. To this end, I present an original case study, collecting empirical data from the most popular Chinese community question-answering (CQA) websi ... more
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The Digital Worlds of Displacement-Affected Communities: A Cross-Context Study of How People Affected by Displacement Use Mobile Phones
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GSMA; UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) (2022), 76 pp.
"Through in-depth qualitative research and a survey to confirm and quantify findings, this study aims to provide a more holistic understanding of how displacement-affected communities in three humanitarian settings are using their mobile phones. These settings were chosen to provide a variety of per ... more
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Should we fear China’s brave new digital world?

K. Buysse, Dennis Essers
Brussels: National Bank of Belgium (2022), 33 pp.
"This article starts by taking a closer look at the general characteristics of China’s digital economy. Some of its strengths and weaknesses are further illustrated by two relevant case studies. First, we show that China is a front runner in the digitalisation of financial services (digital paymen ... 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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Digital Media for Young People in Myanmar: Breaking Taboo and Discussing Sexual and Reproductive Health

London: BBC Media Action (2022), 2 pp.
"BBC Media Action’s innovative sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) project - Ma Shet Ne (Don’t be shy!) – was designed to support young people living in Yangon to access quality information and realise their rights. Research findings show that young people are highly engaged with the ... more
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Labelling Fake News: The Politics of Regulating Disinformation in Thailand

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri
Perspective (ISEAS), issue 34 (2022), 14 pp.
"In Thailand, determining what news is true or fake appears to be a political matter. The Thai authorities associate "fake news" with public harm and as a national threat, giving rise to stringent regulatory responses. Official hostility toward "fake news" is influenced by virulent political conflic ... more
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Countering Beijing’s Media Manipulation

Sarah Cook
Journal of Democracy, volume 33, issue 1 (2022), pp. 116-130
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long sought to influence media coverage about China in other countries. Over the past decade, this campaign has accelerated, reaching new world regions and topics. This article examines how CCP-linked actors seek to manipulate foreign information environments i ... more
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Dutch Speaking to Dutch. Broadcasts from the Netherlands to Indonesia During the Decolonization War (1945–1949)

Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 42-60
"Dutch international radio broadcaster Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) was founded in 1947, during the decolonization war in Indonesia. This paper explores the nature of the broadcasts to Indonesia in the early years of RNW. It is argued that these broadcasts must be seen in the context of the Du ... more