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Disputed Archival Heritage

James Lowry (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 342 pp.
"Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerg ... more
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Harassed and Hushed: Bangladeshi Women Journalists’ Experiences of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassments

Priyanka Kundu, Maliha Tabassum
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 9, issue 3 (2023), pp. 185-202
"A large number of Bangladeshi women journalists are facing gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. This is one of the contributing factors in excluding women journalists’ voices from the public sphere. Drawing on the feminist approach of structure and agency theory, the stud ... more
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Worsening Safety Conditions for Women Journalists in Turkey’s Alternative News Media

Özlem Erkmen, Bora Ataman, Baris Çoban
Journalism Studies, issue 7 (2023), pp. 857-875
"This study, drawing on alternative journalism theory takes a postcolonial feminist approach to investigating the lived experiences and gender-based safety problems of women journalists working for alternative media in Turkey. It evaluates the impact on their professional and private lives of Islami ... more
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Freedom of Expression and Media Consumption Research in Armenia

Yerevan: Internews; USAID; Prisma Research and Analysis (2023), 71 pp.
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Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations

Souvik Mukherjee
London: Bloomsbury (2023), ix, 247 pp.
"The book Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent. Development, Culture(s) and Representations is the first ever comprehensive presentation and discussion of material spanning over all nations of South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Discussed b ... more
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Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights

Abiodun Salawu, Tshepang Bright Molale, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), 310 pp.
"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i ... more
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Early Radio in Late Colonial India: Historiography, Geography, Audiences

Vebhuti Duggal, Christin Hoene
In: Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn David Smith (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 199-219
"Tracing the institutional history of the radio allowed scholars in the past to analyse the radio as an instrument of the colonial government in India and to show, for example, how the radio in the Indian subcontinent was deployed as part of the British Empire’s propaganda in the colony. As Gupta ... more
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Uncensored journalism in censored times: Challenges of reporting on Azerbaijan

Arzu Geybulla
Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 313–327
"Azerbaijan is an authoritarian regime, whose government maintains a tight grip over the media landscape. Independent and opposition media are regularly persecuted, with journalists and their family members intimidated by law enforcement agencies via arrests, beating, threats and other forms of pers ... more
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Countering Online Misinformation Against Religious Minorities in Pakistan

Anam Baloch
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2023), 23 pp.
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Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity

Md Azalanshah Syed, Christine Runnel, Rosya Izyanie Shamshudeen
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120
"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I ... more
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Twitter trolling of Pakistani female journalists: A patriarchal society glance

Ayesha Siddiqua, Jiankun Gong, Iffat Ali Aksar
Media, Culture & Society, volume 45, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1303-1314
"The incorporation of new media technology into journalistic practices led to online harassment, particularly of female journalists. The researchers investigated the tweets of four prominent Pakistani female journalists through the lens of post-colonial feminism and symbolic violence. The qualitativ ... more
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Governing the Interlinkages Between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges

Anita Breuer, Daniele Malerba, Srinivasa Srigiri, Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 247 pp.
"The book [...] examines the dedicated policies targeting the SDGs, as well as political and institutional drivers of synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs in selected key areas – both cross-nationally and in specific country contexts. Their analysis moves beyond the focus on links between SDG ... more
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Pressure & Polarisation: Powering Media Resistance in South Asia

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2023), 23 pp.
"In this report we explore the complex interface between power and the fundamental human rights of press freedom and freedom of expression. We also document the challenges for media and attacks to journalists in this time, including at least 140 violations, including killings, jailings, legal harass ... more
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Gender Equality and Media Regulation Study: Bangladesh

Qurratul Ain Tahmina et al.
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI); Fojo Media Institute, 2nd ed. (2023), 108 pp.
"The study finds that provisions for gender equality and sensitivity in media regulations and national policies have two distinct features. The earlier provisions were concerned more about decency, obscenity and other such issues mainly from a moralistic perspective. The main concerns seemed to have ... more
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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Martin N. Ndlela (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.
"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innova ... more
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Armenia. Digital Threat Landscape: Civil Society & Media

Martijn Grooten, Ashley Fowler, Marc Shaffer et al.
Internews (2023), 15 pp.
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Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture

S. M. Shameem Reza, Ratan Kumar Roy (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 250 pp.
"Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices, social processes, mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan ... more
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SACMID Evaluation: An Evaluation of SACMID’s Activities Within the PRIMED Project

Paco Mens, Akriti Saraswat
Free Press Unlimited (2023), 16 pp. + annexes
"The South Asia Center for Media in Development (SACMID), addresses gender disparity both within the workplace and media content. Its main focus is utilizing the Gender Media Monitoring Tool to tackle these issues. The data collected through media monitoring is subsequently employed for advocacy ini ... more
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Grauen ohne Grenzen: Horror in Film & Literatur

iz3w, issue 394 (2023), pp. 22-41
"Wie einst im ursprünglichen Gothic die verlassenen Schlösser des Feudalismus als Orte des Spuks in die bürgerliche Ära hineinragten, so sind es heute die globalen Ruinen des geplatzten Traums von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, in denen das Grauen haust: Von den vom Immobiliencrash ge ... more
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Community Radio in Bhutan

Urszula Doliwa, Szymon Zylinski
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 227-251
"We look at community media in Bhutan from three important perspectives – the concept of community media in general, a modified self-evaluation tool developed by UNESCO Chair on Community Media, Vinod Pavarala, and the Gross National Happiness index where we show in what way community media may co ... more