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Russian Public-Diplomacy Efforts to Influence Neighbors: Media Messaging Supports Hard-Power Projection in Ukraine and Georgia

Maureen Taylor, Natalie M. Rice, Oleg Manaev, Catherine A. Luther, Suzie L. R. Allard, Alexander Bentley, Joshua Borycz, Benjamin D. Horne, Brandon C. Prins
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2661-2684
"Nations use media to disseminate stories about their culture, history, and values. This study explored Russian public-diplomacy efforts by examining news content exported to its neighbors, Ukraine and Georgia, from February 2021 to July 2021, approximately one year before Russia’s invasion of Ukr ... more
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A Dalit religion online: Clashing sensoryscapes and remote ethnographies behind the screen

Carola Erika Lorea, Aditi Mukherjee, Dishani Roy
Dialectical Anthropology, volume 48 (2024), pp. 83-112
"A Bengali Dalit religion called Matua emerged in the nineteenth century in East Bengal. It counts tens of millions of followers across the Bay of Bengal and the Indo–Bangladesh border. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Matua religious gatherings were shifted online. This paper asks what happened to mul ... more
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Armenian Media System Overview According to the Hallin and Mancini Model

Patricia Izquierdo-Iranzo, Lianna Sayadyan
Media and Communication, volume 12, issue 7850 (2024), 16 pp.
"An overview of the Armenian media system is presented from the perspective of media professionals. Interference with the media system by the political system is analysed and the health of the Armenian media system is explored in the context of its transition from a Soviet republic towards a liberal ... more
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Beyond Molotovs: A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, kollektiv orangotango (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 356 pp.
"Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuo ... more
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Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien
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Monika Hübscher, Sabine von Mering (eds.)
Opladen et al.: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2024), 329 pp.
"Soziale Medien haben die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus revolutioniert. Algorithmisch verstärkt verbreitet sich Antisemitismus auf den Plattformen in Sekundenschnelle, kostenlos und global. Die daraus resultierende Gefahr für Jüdinnen*Juden ist eine große gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Das ... more
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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South

Phillip Santos, Cleophas T. Muneri (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist ... more
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Online Toxicity Against Syrians in Turkish Twitter: Analysis and Implications

Hala Mulki, Samir Alabdullah, Ahmed Halil, Nawari Al-Ali, Maria Kyriakidou, Ludek Stavinoha
International Journal of Communication, volume 18, issue 24 (2024), pp. 191-218
"This study examines the portrayal of Syrians on Turkish Twitter between January and August 2021 through a big data analysis of more than 30,000 tweets. We employ the concept of online toxicity to differentiate between disinformation and hate speech and explore how they are embedded in the negative ... more
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Challenges and choices: Afghan women's media use and preferences amidst restrictions

London: BBC Media Action (2024), 2 pp.
"While most adult Afghans have access to some form of media platform, only around one in three have access to internet, with less than half of mobile users owning a smartphone. Men exhibit higher usage of radio and internet compared to women (52% male vs 43% female for radio and 36% vs 29% for inter ... more
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Vibrant Information Barometer: National Report Nepal

Pokharel Umesh, Pandey Lekhanath, Acharya Bhanu Bhakta
IREX; Asia Foundation; USAID (2024), 97 pp.
"The USAID Civil Society and Media (CSM) Program launched the Vibrant Information Barometer (VIBE) study report, which rates Nepal’s information ecosystem as somewhat vibrant. Nepal scored 23 out of 40, which is an average from the score it received under four principles: information quality, chan ... more
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Connected farmers: A casebook of good practices and inspiring stories from Europe and Central Asia

Budapest: FAO (2024), vi, 127 pp.
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Global Perspectives on Press Regulation. Volume 2: Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania

András Koltay, Paul Wragg
London: Hart Publishing (2024), 368 pp.
"In this ground-breaking two-volume set, world-leading experts produce a rich, authoritative depiction of the world's press, its freedom, and its limits. We want press freedom but we also want freedom from the press. A powerful press may expose corrupt government or aid it. It may champion citizens ... more
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News Can Help! The Impact of News Media and Digital Platforms on Awareness of and Belief in Misinformation

Sacha Altay, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Nielsen, Richard Fletcher
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 2 (2024), pp. 459-484
"Does the news media exacerbate or reduce misinformation problems? Although some news media deliberately try to counter misinformation, it has been suggested that they might also inadvertently, and sometimes purposefully, amplify it. We conducted a two-wave panel survey in Brazil, India, and the UK ... 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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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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Heidi Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag ... more
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Azerbaijan digital skills assessment 2023-2024

Geneva: ITU (2024), ix, 83 pp.
"The survey findings reveal that 25 per cent of those aged between 15 and 74 have at least basic digital skills, with 7.8 per cent having above basic digital skills and 17.3 per cent having basic digital skills. The study also found that over a quarter (26.5%) of respondents below the basic level of ... more
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Central Asia Media Program: Final Report

Dmitri Surnin, Dylan Gray
USAID; Internews (2024), 158 pp.
"MediaCAMP built media capacity to provide balanced, informed and unbiased reporting by addressing several aspects important not just to media organizations but individuals in the media field, the wider media environment, and the content and social issues media addresses in all three countries. The ... more
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Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies

Dhiman Chattopadhyay (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"This book explores how journalism is practiced around the world and how there are multiple factors at the structural and contextual level shaping journalism practice. Drawing on case studies of how conflicts, pandemics, political developments, or human rights violations are covered in an online-fir ... more
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Georgian Election Observatory (#GEObservatory24): Debunking pre-election propaganda narratives

Andreas Önnerfors et al.
University of Georgia; Fojo Media Institute (2024), 69 pp.
"The “Georgian Elections Observatory (#GEObservatory24)” was a short-term initiative aimed at fact-checking pre-election narratives leading up to the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2024, together with a few immediate post-election analyses. Unlike traditional fact-checking platforms, thi ... more
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Journalists' safety before the 2024 elections

Ekaterine Basilaia, Ana Keshelashvili
Tbilisi: Center for Media Information and Social Research; DW Akademie (2024), 21 pp.
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Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness
Deep Insights

Stacey L. Connaughton, Jasmine R. Linabary (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), xxvii, 320 pp.
"Sections of the book engage in critical reflection on what peacebuilding effectiveness is and who gets to decide, provide practical examples and case studies of the successes and failures of assessing peacebuilding work, and support innovative strategies and tools to move the field forward. Chapter ... more