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Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique

Sarah Anne Ganter, Hanan Badr (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp.
"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap ... more
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Lessons on Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability for the Pakistan Floods Response

London: CDAC Network (2022), 6 pp.
"1. Pakistan has experienced and responded to floods for decades: support and build on existing systems, networks and experiences that are widely trusted [...] 2. People need information now, to make critical decisions for themselves and their families and to protect what they still have [...] 3. Ca ... more
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Fairwork India Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Bangalore; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2022), 43 pp.
"There are two highlights to this year’s findings, firstly, the same three platforms that scored the first point for Fair Pay last year scored a point this year too. No other platform publicly committed, or provided sufficient evidence, to ensure that workers earn at least the hourly local minimum ... more
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Neglected to Indispensable: Lessons from Beyond Access for Global Public Library Reform and Development

Ari Katz
Public Library Quarterly, volume 41, issue 3 (2022), pp. 273-293
"Beyond Access was the first major global attempt to connect the international development and public library worlds. Taking the form of a series of projects in a dozen countries meant to help catalyze library development around national goals, the program operated from 2011 to 2018. Starting from a ... more
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Trust in the Internet

Ipsos (2022), 23 pp.
"An international survey reveals that Internet users' trust on the Internet has dropped significantly since 2019. That is among the key findings of a 20-country Ipsos survey released by The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany. Only six in ten (63%) Internet users on average across the 20 countries sai ... more
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South Asia Consultations: Media, Information, and Participation in Displacement and Migration Settings

Utsa Sarmin, Priyankar Dey, Miriam Kueller
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 14 pp.
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Schlaue Maschinen: Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Welt

welt-sichten, Heft 12 (2022)
"Künstliche Intelligenz ist auf Smartphones unser ständiger Begleiter, in sozialen Netzwerken verbreitet sie Desinformation, sie wird zur Überwachung und beim Militär eingesetzt. Welche Regeln braucht es, damit uns KI mehr nützt als schadet? Welche billigen Arbeitskräfte liefern die Daten für ... more
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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic

Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.
"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ... more
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Azerbaijan: Analysis of the Law on Media

Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) (2022), iv, 27 pp.
"This analysis of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan “On Media” (Media Law) by the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) seeks to enrich and deepen the criticisms and analyses already made of the Law, based on international human rights standards, in particular the right to freedom of expression ... more
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Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval

Wazhmah Osman
Current History, volume 121, issue 834 (2022), pp. 135-140
"This article traces how the Afghan cultural, media, and arts sectors have gone through cycles of boom and bust in tandem with the country’s tumultuous history in recent decades, starting with the prewar golden era in the 1960s and 1970s, then focusing on the post-9/11 internationally funded media ... more
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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’

Jacob Copeman, Mascha Schulz (eds.)
London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.
"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part ... more
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Associations among traumatic experiences, threat exposure, and mental health in Pakistani journalists

Suzanna M. Koster, Hans M. Koot, Jamil A. Malik, Marit Sijbrandij
Journal of Traumatic Stress, volume 35, issue 2 (2022), pp. 581-592
"Pakistan is considered to be relatively unsafe for journalists; however, little is known about how working in situations that involve a high risk of trauma exposure and personal threat impacts journalists' mental health. The present study aimed to examine the associations among reporting on topics ... more
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Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria

Noah Amir Arjomand
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2022), xv, 355 pp.
"News 'fixers' are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists. Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation ... more
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Journalism safety and the actuality of achieving gender equality in the media landscape of Uzbekistan

Mukarram Otamurodova
European Scholar Journal, issue December (2022), pp. 13-15
"Uzbekistan faces socio-political changes in the last years and the impact of these turnouts are reflected in the media landscape of the country. Several cases show that the issues of gender equality and the safety of journalists are becomingmore threatening. Some journalists suffer from political p ... more
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Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope

Jessica Coates, Victoria Owen, Susan Reilly (eds.)
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), vii, 547 pp.
"This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the sign ... more
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Afghanistan Media Landscape Guide

Atefeh Givian (coord.)
CDAC Network (2022), 24 pp.
"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the media in Afghanistan, including the audiences, the producers, the preferences of different groups in the community, the communications culture, and the languages associated with the media. It gives an insight into the role of media in developmen ... more
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Can Social Media Output Help Shift Perceptions About Informal Waste Pickers in Bengaluru, India?

BBC Media Action (2022), 4 pp.
"Bengaluru […] generates 5,757 metric tonnes of solid waste per day. Estimates suggest that approximately 20,000-30,000 people are engaged in waste picking in the city. BBC Media Action's 'A Pathway to Respect, Identity, Dignity and Empowerment' (PRIDE) project aims to shift negative perceptions a ... more
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Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. Bangladesh Country Report

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 6 pp.
"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in Bangladesh: struggles since the 50 years of the country´s independence, surge and rise of new media, issues of harassment to journalists, persecution via law, power of the protest, use of laws to rout ... more
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Guidelines for Documenting & Confronting Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists

Karachi: Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) (2022), 26 pp.
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Global Study: Gender Equality and Media Regulation
Deep Insights

Sarah Macharia, Sarah Barata Mir et al.
Fojo Media Institute (2022), 75 pp.
"This study is unique in its attempt to map both law and policy (regulation and self-regulation) and identify measures to promote gender equality in the media and women’s freedom of expression. The study covers policy instruments adopted at international, regional, national, industry and media hou ... more