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Digital Neo-Colonialism: The Chinese Model of Internet Sovereignty in Africa

Willem Gravett
African Human Rights Law Journal, volume 20, issue 1 (2020), pp. 125-146
"China is making a sustained effort to become a ‘cyber superpower’. An integral part of this effort is the propagation by Beijing of the notion of ‘internet sovereignty’ – China’s supreme right to govern the internet within its borders and keep it under rigid control. Chinese companies w ... more
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Ethnic Media Study: Media Habits and Media Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar

Aye Lei Tun, Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen
International Media Support (IMS); Fojo Media Institute (2020), 18 pp.
"The study examines content produced and distributed to ethnic minorities in Mon, Kayin and Kayah and looks into the news and media habits and understandings of the same groups. It consists of two different research efforts: a content analysis and a qualitative audience study. The content analysis f ... more
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China’s Aid from the Bottom Up: Recipient Country Reporting on Chinese Development Cooperation Flows

Jonathan Glennie, Peter Grinsted, Hannah Ryder
Washington, DC: Center for Global Development (2020), 51 pp.
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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen, Philip N. Howard
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 34 pp.
"In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate ... more
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Theorising Media and Conflict

Philipp Budka, Birgit Bräuchler (eds.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), x, 339 pp.
"Theorising Media and Conflict is the result of a joint and interdisciplinary effort to set the theoretical and empirical agenda in theorising upon the complex relationship between media and conflict. By considering the theorisation work accomplished by the ‘Anthropology of Media’ series forerun ... more
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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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I Know What You Mean: Information Compensation in an Authoritarian Country

Jiangnan Zhu, Chengli Wang
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 26, issue 3 (2020), pp. 587-608
"How do people address information deficiency caused by rigid control of information in authoritarian regimes? We argue that there exists an internally oriented information compensation approach through which people can glean extra information from official messages domestically. This approach does ... 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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Social Media Monitoring April–May 2020

World Bank (2020), 4 pp.
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Philippines: Initiative for Media Freedom

Internews (2020), 2 pp.
"The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with the support of the American people. Internews and its partners work collaboratively to enhance democratic governance that provides ... more
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The Rise of Secular Nationalist and Islamic-Based Populist Communication Strategies: New Threats to Indonesian Media and Journalists' Freedom

Nyarwi Ahmad
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 124-146
"This study aims to examine the impacts of secular nationalist and Islamic-based populist communication strategies advanced by Jokowi and Prabowo on the Indonesian media and journalists' freedoms during the presidential elections of 2019. To address this topic, this study uses the qualitative method ... more
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Minority and Indigenous Trends 2020: Focus on Technology
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Peter Grant (ed.)
London: Minority Rights Group International (2020), 189 pp.
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The Afterlife of Colonial Radio in Christian Missionary Broadcasting of the Philippines

Russel P. Skelchy
South East Asia Research, volume 28, issue 3 (2020), pp. 344-362
"The article explores Christian missionary radio broadcasting as part of a wider sonic colonization of the Philippines under US colonial rule. Specifically, I explore how some post-Second World War faith-based broadcasters shaped the listening practices of Filipino audiences through programming tact ... 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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Hope for Humanity: Spiritual Immunity in a Pandemicised World

Sherman Kuek (ed.)
Christian Institute for Theological Engagement (CHRISTE) (2020), 102 pp.
"The authors contributing to this book do not mean to provide solutions to the pandemic. We mean only to offer resources, based on our studies and experiences, to help our readers to better cope with situations resulting from this crisis, and to assure you that even in the darkest moments of humanit ... more
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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33
"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g ... more
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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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Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media

Dal Yong Jin (ed.)
London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 253 pp.
"This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga / animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context. An international team of experts employ a unique theoretical framework of media conve ... more
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Behind the News: Inside China Global Television Network

Merriden Varrall
Sydney: Lowy Institute for International Policy (2020), 24 pp.
"China’s efforts to use state media as a means to increase its soft power around the world have raised concerns in many quarters. With much fanfare in late 2016, China relaunched its global television network, formerly known as China Central Television, as a new global media brand, the China Globa ... more
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Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship Through Data

Larissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Fumitoshi Kato, Baohua Zhou
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 205 pp.
"In this book, we have investigated the evolving intergenerational media practices over three years to reflect on the quotidian (and often invisible) forms of care at a distance enacted as part of contemporary Digital Kinship. As we have explored, within different cultural contexts we are seeing div ... more