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Earthquake aftersongs: Music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public

Michael Hutt
Popular Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 42-59
"The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus, these videos’ representations of the earthquak ... more
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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Heidi A. Campbell, Ruth Tsuria (ed.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual ... more
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Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Digital Repression on the “New Silk Road”

Raushan Zhandayeva, Rachael Rosenberg
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2022), 24 pp.
"In January 2022, Kazakhstan’s government shut down internet access for several days while enacting a violent crackdown on initially peaceful protests triggered by hikes in fuel prices. This policy brief examines Kazakhstan’s internet and media landscape, the (re)actions of civil society and the ... more
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Human Rights and Technological Change: Conflicts and Convergences After 1945

Michael Homberg, Benjamin Möckel (eds.)
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 392 pp.
"The volume analyses the ambivalent relationship between human rights and modern technologies since 1945. Tools of suppression or agents of emancipation? Modern technologies have become a major subject of human rights policy. Surveillance technology, the military use of drones, and the possibilities ... more
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Disinformation in the Global South
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Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales (eds.)
Guy Berger (foreword)
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2022), xxv, 237 pp.
"In many parts of the Global South, coordinated political disinformation campaigns, rumor, and propaganda have long been a part of the social fabric, even before disinformation has become an area of scholarship in the Global North. The way disinformation manifests in this region, and responses to it ... more
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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change

Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Paulo Freire (honoured person)
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures; Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ ... more
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Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling Through Race and Gender

Diana I. Rios, Carolyn A. Lin (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2022), ix, 320 pp.
"This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexua ... more
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Seeing the (In)justice of Sustainability: Visualizing Inequality at the Centre of Climate Change Communication

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-186
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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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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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The Trust Gap: How and Why News on Digital Platforms is Viewed More Sceptically Versus News in General

Camila Mont'Alverne, Sumitra Badrinathan, Amy Ross Arguedas et al.
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 71 pp.
"Drawing on an original dataset of survey responses collected in the summer of 2022 across four countries - Brazil, India, the UK, and the US - they examine the relationship between trust in news and how people think about news on digital platforms, especially Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and YouTube ... more
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Embedded authoritarianism: The politics of poor press freedom in Indian Kashmir

Tawseef Majeed
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 3 (2022), pp. 613–624
"The current article explores journalism practice amid waning press freedom in Indian Kashmir. Contextualising the recent renovation and introduction of authoritative new media policy 2020, the article maps the constant struggles of the journalists in the region. I consulted five working journalists ... more
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Cyber Harassment Helpline: 2022 Policy Brief

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2022), 11 pp.
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A Strategy for Effective Counterspeech Against Online Hate and Disinformation in Sri Lanka

Nalaka Gunawardene et al.
Dehiwala: National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) (2022), 78 pp.
"This strategy, prepared through a consultative process, identifies some approaches and interventions in counter speech in the context of Sri Lanka's socio-political realities. It is meant to help streamline and scale up various efforts already being pursued by different individuals or groups. The f ... more
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Policy Brief: Nine Steps to Protect Our Data and Privacy in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2021

Jade Lyngdoh, Raman Jit Singh Chima, Namrata Maheshwari
Access Now (2022), 10 pp.
"This policy brief is an Access Now publication. It gives context about the Personal Data Protection Bill in the Parliament of Sri Lank, states the key areas of concerns in the present bill, and proposes nine (9) recommendations." (commbox)
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Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe

Mark G. Pomar
Lincoln: Potomac Books (2022), xv, 307 pp.
"This book is a fascinating look at how the United States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Mark G. Pomar served in senior positions at VOA and RFE/RL from 1982 to 1993, during which time the Reagan and B ... more
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Understanding the Information Landscape in Agricultural Communities in Rural Bangladesh

Suvodeep Mazdumar, Sukaina Ehdeed, Andrea Jimenez, Faisal Ahmed, Momen Sifat
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 89, issue 1 (2022), 20 pp.
"Knowledge sharing in rural agricultural communities is vital to the success of farmers and sustaining high yields. A range of actors in the knowledge landscape participate in knowledge sharing, and with this, a variety of complexities are introduced. In this paper, we report on a set of field visit ... more
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Media Literacy and Disinformation Perception Survey

Tamar Kintsurashvili
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 37 pp.
"The aim of this research was to study media consumption habits among different age groups and geographical areas, as well as the public's vulnerability to various disinformation and manipulative narratives disseminated in Georgia. The first part of the research concerns media literacy competencies, ... more
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China is Playing Turkey's Media Rules

Cagdas Ungör
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2022), viii, 26 pp.
"This paper explores how Beijing and its proxies have sought to alter this state of affairs through a more localized strategy. By adapting to the local rules of Turkish media and seeking new opportunities to elevate China’s image, Beijing has sought to establish a new synergy in Turkey’s public ... more
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Why Aren’t Women Part of the Conversation? A Study of the Gender Gap in Social Media Use in India, its Causes and the Implications for Women’s Empowerment
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Aayush Rathi, Ambika Tandon, Arjun Khanna, Sara Chamberlain
BBC Media Action (2022), 12 pp.
"This report summarises learnings from BBC Media Action’s landscaping study of the gendered dimensions of social media access and use in India. It addresses 10 questions that have implications for designing digital solutions for women’s empowerment in India." (Page 2)