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The critical online diasporic infosphere and counter-public sustenance in an autocratizing society

Francis L. F. Lee, Chun Hong Tse
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1590-1607
"This article conceptualizes the critical online diasporic infosphere as an online space constituted by diasporic media, exile media, and overseas-based influencers who share an oppositional orientation toward the home state. The infosphere proffers a constant stream of critical information and pers ... more
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The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance

Roderick Graham, Stephan G. Humer, Claire Seungeun Lee, Veronika Nagy (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxvii, 765 pp.
"Covering a wide range of different online platforms, including social media sites and chatrooms, this volume is a comprehensive exploration of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship focused on online deviance. Understanding deviance broadly, the handbook acknowledges both ... more
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Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's cybercrime compounds

Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li, Mark Bo
London: Verso Books (2025), 215 pp.
"Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region’s ... more
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Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes

Aljosha Karim Schapals, Christian Pentzold (eds.)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxiii, 502 pp.
"In 'Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes', an international team of prominent scholars examines both long-term media systems and fluctuating trends in media usage around the world. Integrating country-specific summaries and cross-cutting studies of geopolitical regions, this ... more
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Responses to a changing media assistance landscape

Dani Madrid-Morales
Deutsche Welle (2025)
"The US has suspended funding for development aid, including for media. Meanwhile, China and Russia have been stepping up media assistance programs for years with a variety of strategies, explains Dani Madrid-Morales." (Introduction)
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Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation

Nelson Ribeiro, Barbie Zelizer (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2025), viii, 205 pp.
"First, the book looks at media and propaganda through the lens of different disciplines, ranging across communication and media studies, journalism studies, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, history, gender studies, information and library science, literature, and platform studies. Recognizing t ... more
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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
Deep Insights

Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Corinna Lauerer, Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (eds.)
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU), WJS Center (2025), 371 pp.
"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate ... more
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China

Cara Wallis
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou ... more
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Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect

Changwook Kim, Wooyeol Shin
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 2 (2025), pp. 232-248
"Anti-press sentiment based on negative emotions of disgust and hatred has prevailed in Korea since the mid-2010s. Through in-depth interviews with ten journalists working for Korean news organizations, supplemented with an analysis of self-reflective articles, this study investigates how journalist ... more
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Energy Discourse in Thai Media

Pijitra Suppasawatgul
Bangkok: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2025), 20 pp.
"The content analysis reveals that Thai media primarily focuses on energy issues related to policy, regulation, and economic aspects, with less attention to environmental concerns. This emphasis reflects the top-down structure of the Thai energy industry and the economic implications of traditional ... more
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Digital repertoires: Embedded and everyday technologies in later life

Riitta Hänninen, Sakari Taipale, Laura Haapio-Kirk (eds.)
London: UCL Press (2025), 202 pp.
"Digital Repertoires explores the intersection between ageing and technology, presenting the concept of 'digital repertoire' as a powerful tool for researchers across disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, gerontology, public policy, communication studies and design. This book offers new theor ... more
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Trotz alledem – Kritischer Journalismus

iz3w, issue 406 (2025), pp. D1- D23
"Was wäre eine Welt ohne kritische und linke Medien? Sie treten Staat und Kapital auf die Füße und schauen auf unterbelichtete Themen – auch wenn es weh tut. Doch die Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenkrise, der digitale Wandel sowie Einschränkungen der Pressefreiheit stellen den kritischen Journali ... more
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Psychological Defence and Information Influence: A Textbook on Theory and Practice

Jesper Falkheimer, James Pamment (eds.)
Karlstad: Psychological Defence Agency (2025), 257 pp.
"In an age defined by rapid information flows and shifting security landscapes, the resilience of societies rests not only on military strength or technological capacity, but equally on the ability of individuals and institutions to withstand psychological influence and manipulation. Psychological d ... more
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Democratising AI through Culture: Making Generative AI Participatory and Intersectional Through an AI of the Commons

Seoyoung Choi, Miro Leon Bucher
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 72 pp.
"This research proposes a participatory, decolonial and feminist approach to AI through the concept of “AI as commons”, offering a practical approach for cultural practitioners to decolonise existing AI systems. Conducted in Seoul, South Korea, the study combines critical theory with practical i ... more
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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology: Global Politics, Law and International Relations

Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, Susannah Montgomery (eds.)
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2nd ed. (2025), 428 pp.
"Bringing together perspectives from academia and practice, this second edition Research Handbook provides fresh insights into debates surrounding digital technology and how to respect and protect human rights in an increasingly digital world. New and updated chapters cover the issues posed by the m ... more
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The AI Policy Playbook: Navigating AI Policy Development through an African and Asian Lens

Aubra Anthony, Deshni Govender, Nadine Dammaschk, Golo Rademacher, Kim Willet, Gustavo Fonseca Ribeiro, Sheila Kibughi
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) FAIR Forward; AI Policymaker Network (2025), 70 pp.
"The AI Policy Playbook offers a practical guide for governments in Africa and Asia to develop responsible and context-specific AI policies. Drawing from real-world policymaking experiences in seven countries, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, India, and Indonesia, the playbook shares less ... more
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An Ecosystemic Approach to Digital Christianity: How Faith and Identity Formation Evolve Among Youth in Singapore

Wayne Choong
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 322-346
"This sociological and ethnographic study develops and employs an ecosystemic approach to examine the effects of digitalization on religious beliefs and practices among young Christians in a Pentecostal megachurch in Singapore. Through extensive fieldwork and qualitative data analysis, this paper un ... more
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Digital vines: Mapping China’s network of global platform ecosystems

Weidi Zheng
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"The world’s information systems are arguably owned by American and Chinese companies. So far, studies on China’s globalising Internet adopt either monolith approach or fragmented approach, lacking a comprehensive image to capture the architecture of China’s global information systems. Critica ... more
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The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Job Satisfaction in Newsrooms

Lindsey E. Blumell, Dinfin Mulupi, Rana Arafat
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 5 (2025), pp. 997-1016
"Despite the pervasiveness of workplace sexual harassment, the connection between sexual harassment and job satisfaction in the news industry remains insufficiently researched. This 16-country and one state study (N*=*1583) sampled news personnel from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Arab ... more
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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (ed.)
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri ... more