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Media and Social Media Analysis on Religious Freedom and Violent Extremism in Central Asia: Cases of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Search for Common Ground (2020), 33 pp.
"This report analyzes the content of traditional media and social networks on religious freedom and violent extremism in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. At the same time, the study seeks to examine hate speech against certain religious groups and how pre-labeling affects those officially accu ... more
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Snapshot of a Shadow War: A Preliminary Analysis of Twitter Activity Linked to the Azerbaijan–Armenia Conflict

Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 29 pp.
"The rapid escalation in the long-running conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia which took place in late September 2020 has been shadowed by a battle across social media for control of the international narrative about the conflict. On Twitter, large numbers of accounts supporting both sides have ... more
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Exploring Turkey's Disinformation Ecosystem: An Overview

Baris Kirdemir
Istanbul: Edam Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (2020), 28 pp.
"The study’s key findings revealed that the Turkish information landscape is exposed to nearly all kinds of false information at very high rates. Frequent botnet and troll activity in Turkey’s social media use brings about more disinformation, fueling polarization and subversive discourse. Above ... more
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Gender Aspects of Employment and Career in the Media Sector of Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis

Stockholm; Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2020), 28 pp.
"Since 2016, Fojo Media Institute, together with local partners, has investigated media landscapes in Eastern Europe from a gender perspective, to find out how women and men in the industry perceive their work life: What are their options to have influence and a fulfilling career? What are the diffe ... more
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¿Los turcos también lloran? El turkish drama y sus similitudes y/o diferencias con la telenovela latinoamericana. El caso: Las mil y una noches (Binbir Gece)

Irma Milagros Tuccio Valverde
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Magister Thesis (2020), 172 pp.
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Impact of the 2015 Universal Periodic Review on Press Freedom in Nepal

Meenal Thakur
Free Press Unlimited (2020), 12 pp.
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Looking Back to See Forward: A Case Study Collection on UNICEF’s Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Hakan Ergül
Dhaka: UNICEF Bangladesh (2020), 32 pp.
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Keeping it Clean: Exploring Discourses of Development on Indian Community Radio

Bridget Backhaus
Third World Quarterly, volume 41, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2130-2147
"Community radio in India operates within a clear framework of development. This calls into question the fundamental purpose of community radio: communication rights, activism, voice, community participation or development? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at two rural stations in South In ... more
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Consolidated Report for Assessment of Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) for the Year 2019

Islamabad: UNICEF (2020), 64 pp.
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Canned Adaptations and International Success of Turkish TV

Deniz Zorlu
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, volume 9, issue 17 (2020), 11 pp.
"This article examines Turkish TV series’ recent success as canned programming primarily in newly developed and developing countries in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, South Asia, and South America through close textual analysis of a particularly popular Turkish adaptation, Bizim Hik ... more
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Reforming Journalism Education on a Tertiary Level in Afghanistan: Recommendations for a Dual Education Model

Kefa Hamidi, Alessandra Brüchner
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 10, issue 2 (2020), 20 pp.
"The importance of journalism’s role in society is beyond debate. Particularly in so-called fragile states, the social responsibility of media and journalism cannot be denied. Journalism education must account for the high level of skills required by journalists, and the ‘mediation’ function o ... more
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Behind Closed Curtains: Disinformation on Messenger Services

Ann Cathrin Riedel
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 30 pp.
"Several studies analysed in this paper show that messenger services facilitate and exacerbate the spread of disinformation. Any solution must make allowances for the complexity with which information spreads. The case studies show that a lack of trust in government is a key factor in the proliferat ... more
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Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia

Markus Schleiter, Erik de Maaker (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xiv, 281 pp.
"How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous c ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism

David B. Sachsman, JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp.
"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o ... more
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Sifting truth from lies in the age of fake news

Ramsha Jahangir et al.
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2020), 60 pp.
"The study's findings, based on survey responses and interviews, point towards the poor quality of fact-checking practices in Pakistani newsrooms and stress the urgent need of introducing media literacy trainings to journalists and media practitioners." (Executive summary)
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De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures: Perspectives from the Global South

Thomas Herdin, Maria Faust, Guo-Ming Chen (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... more
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Suffering in Silence: The Resilience of Pakistan’s Female Journalists to Combat Sexual Harassment, Threats and Discrimination

Sadia Jamil
Journalism Practice, volume 15, issue 2 (2020), pp. 150-170
"Pakistan’s journalists confront severe safety risks across the country and impunity to crimes against them allows the perpetrators to go unpunished. Now the country is recognized as one of the deadliest places for working journalists in the world. Given this situation, the Pakistani female journa ... more
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Murders, Harassment and Assault: The Tough Wages of Journalism in Pakistan. Pakistan Press Freedom Report 2019-20

Freedom Network (2020), 15 pp.
"At least 91 cases of attacks and violations against media and its practitioners, including journalists, took place in Pakistan over the course of one year — between May 2019 and April 2020 — signifying a worryingly escalating climate of intimidation and harassment that is adversely affecting th ... more
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Digital Inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ... more
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What Compels Journalists to Take a Step Back? Contextualizing the Media Laws and Policies of Bangladesh

Janina Islam Abir, Tanbir Farhad Shamim
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 38-53
"Reports by international organizations suggest that physical violence and threats against journalists and bloggers continued with impunity in Bangladesh, resulting in the country being ranked as 146 in the World Press Freedom Index 2018. Considering the increasing incidents of violence against jour ... more