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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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From Living in the Shadows to Facebook Livestreams: The Impact of Social Media on Current Mediumship Practice of Mother Goddesses Worship (Dao Mâu) in Vietnam

Isabel Weitschies
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 451-473
"This paper explores the transformative impact of social media on mediumship practice within the context of Mother Goddesses worship (Dao Mâu) in contemporary Vietnam. By examining the ways in which spirit mediums and practitioners utilise social media platforms, the study reveals that these digita ... more
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Rohingyas and the Geographies of Precarity in Exile: Everyday Life in Bangladesh and Malaysia

Anas Ansar
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), x, 310 pp.
"Focusing on Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Malaysia, this study provides an in-depth analysis of the contribution of historical legacies of exclusion, along with contemporary practices of marginalisation and otherisation to the transcendence of the precarity landscape. In light of ... more
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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens

Martin Echeverría Victoria, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Daniel C. Hallin (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 336 pp.
"This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicia ... 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.
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After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce

Shuaishuai Wang
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China and the Ukraine war: Global Times’ strategic narratives

Emilie Tran Sautedé, Fei Vincent Mo, Jiawei Tang
Global Media and Communication, volume 21, issue 1 (2025), pp. 65-89
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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
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Strengthening Soft Power of Cyber Resilience against State-Based Disinformation Attacks: Insights from South and Southeast Asia

Sangeeta Mahapatra
Hamburg: GIGA (2025), 29 pp.
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Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined

Kees de Groot (ed.)
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2024), xii, 249 pp.
"This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of r ... more
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Analysing the US-China “AI Cold War” Narrative

Richard Heeks, Yujia He
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2024), 13 pp.
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Constructing Africa in Chinese international news reporting: Peace or conflict journalism?

Valerie A. Cooper, Innocent Chiluwa
Critical Discource Studies (2024), 17 pp.
"China’s extensive media presence in Africa aims to distinguish itself through the use of constructive journalism in contrast with the perceived dominance of conflict journalism by Western media outlets. However, many scholars have raised questions of consistency surrounding Chinese media’s use ... more
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Information Sources, Credibility, Knowledge, and Risk Perceptions: Findings from the National Tuberculosis Survey in South Korea

Jarim Kim, Sunouk You, Yesolran Kim
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 888-908
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Learning along the Digital Silk Road? Technology transfer, power, and Chinese ICT corporations in North Africa

Tin Hinane El Kadi
Information Society, volume 40, issue 2 (2024), pp. 136-153
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Ghost in Dissent: Artifacts and the Architecture of Activism in Digital China

Mengyang Zhao, Anosartor
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5673-5693
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Beyond the newsroom: Cambodia's media from an audience perspective. An audience study

Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen (ed.)
International Media Support (IMS) (2024), 19 pp.
"This report presents the findings from a qualitative audience study conducted in Cambodia from December 2023 to February 2024. The study was commissioned by the international media development organisation IMS, International Media Support, and supported by the European Union. The study aimed to ass ... more
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De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics

Ulrike Rohn, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, Tim Raats (eds.)
Berlin: De Gruyter (2024), xix, 566 pp.
"The handbook presents key contributions from scholars worldwide, providing a comprehensive exploration of current trends in media industries from diverse perspectives. Within the framework of understanding contemporary and future trajectories in media markets and industries, the volume delves into ... more
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Community Radio Directory 2024

Utsab Khadka, Jon Bisset, Sumita Rabidas, Elesi Nailati, Volatabu, Fay, Adi Rumansyah, Gwendolyn Gay L. Gaongen, Raymund Villanueva
Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific (2024), 382 pp.
"The AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Office is pleased to present an updated version of the Asia-Pacific Community Radio Directory that was first published in 2009. We are very thankful to everyone who cooperated with us and sent us their entries. This directory is a work in progress and we hope to cont ... more
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Is it about “them”? Leveraging big data research to understand anti-immigrant discourse

Claire Stravato Emes
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 16 pp.
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South

Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Eddy Borges-Rey (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp ... more