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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxi, 444 pp.
"This book responds to mounting calls to broaden the theorization of digital journalism, addressing critical questions about an emerging yet rapidly expanding area of study, and presenting multiple entry points and approaches that help us understand digital journalism better. Seeking to establish it
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who
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The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2024
London: GSMA (2024), 91 pp.
"To foster a multifaceted perspective on AI ethics, a pluriversal approach needs to be employed. This two-day workshop “AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate Through Decolonial Lenses” offers a forum to discuss alternatives to the status quo of AI ethics. Hosted by
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El cuarto mosquetero: La comunicación participativa como proceso del cambio social = The fourth musketeer: Participatory communication as social change process
La Paz: Plural Editores (2024), 335 + 331 pp.
"Este libro presenta una reflexión en relación con las diferentes fases o «tiempos» que, a juicio del autor, han influenciado la aplicación de la comunicación a estrategias de desarrollo, mostrando la manera como estos enfoques han permeado la utilización de la comunicación desde los organis
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"Jonathan Haidt ['The Anxious Generation,' 2024] has four bottom-line suggestions: 1) No smartphones before high school; 2) no social media before age 16; 3) phone-free schools; and 4) more free play in the real world. Amidst uncertainty as to the magnitude of social media impacts, implementing thes
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"Tackling Disinformation: A Learning Guide is aimed at helping those already working in the field, or directly impacted by the issues, such as media professionals, civil society actors, DW Akademie partners and experts. It offers insights for evaluating media development activities and rethinking ap
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The Global South and Climate Coverage: From News Taker to News Maker
Social Media + Society, volume 9, issue 2 (2023), 5 pp.
"Global media coverage of climate change has grown consistently—although unevenly—over recent years. While major differences exist in how much attention is paid to climate coverage in different parts of the world, how climate is discussed has been noticeably uniform and the major thrust of the
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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.
"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci
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The Role of Media Festivals in Strengthening Independent Media. Media Festival Briefing
International Media Support (IMS) (2023), 25 pp.
"Festivals taking place across the Global South are attracting increasingly global attendees. This brief discussion paper looks at four diverse examples of such festivals – Media Party in Argentina, Festival 3i in Brazil, Splice Beta in Thailand, and the Africa Media Festival in Kenya – and seek
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Measuring Digital Development. Facts and Figures: Focus on Least Developed Countries
Geneva: ITU (2023), v, 21 pp.
"[...] This publication provides an overview of the state of digital connectivity in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), drawing on the data from ITU’s flagship publication Facts and Figures 2022. Since the Fourth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in 2011, progress has been made
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Hold the Phone! A Cross-National Analysis of Women's Education, Mobile Phones, and HIV Infections in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 1990–2018
Social Science & Medicine, issue 334 (2023), pp. 116217 ff.
"Despite remarkable progress in the fight against HIV, the number of new infections remains unacceptably high, epidemics continue to grow in certain communities, and therefore AIDS continues to be one of the deadliest pandemics of our times. This study analyzes the rate of new HIV infections over al
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Handbook on mainstreaming gender in digital policies
Geneva: ITU (2023), viii, 67 pp.
"The Handbook is a first-of-its-kind guide that gives insights into how we can best support policy-making processes that advocate gender equality. It illustrates the concrete actions that policy-makers can take and offers an actionable checklist that supports the process of gender-equal policy-makin
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A Review of Community Radio Literature in Developing Countries from 2010 to 2020
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 2 (2023), pp. 775-792
"[...] this paper reviewed the literature on community radio in the past 10 years, i.e., from 2010–2020. The review covered 25 empirical studies conducted in developing countries. Leximancer was used to assist in data analysis. It was found that the literature has focused on how community radio is
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Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiv, 259 pp.
"Bringing together 14 journalism scholars from around the world, this edited collection addresses the deficit of coverage of violence against women in the Global South by examining the role of the legacy press and social media that report on and highlight ways to improve reporting. Authors investiga
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Use of Community Engagement Interventions to Improve Child Immunisation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Campbell Systematic Reviews, volume 18, issue e1253 (2022), 118 pp.
"This systematic review examines the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community engagement interventions on outcomes related to childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and identifies contextual, design and implementation features that may be associated with effectiv
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Digital Inequality Beyond the Digital Divide: Conceptualizing Adverse Digital Incorporation in the Global South
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 688-704
"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi
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Born in the Fire: What We Can Learn from How Digital Publishers in the Global South Approach Platforms
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 33 pp.
"Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, the authors of this report analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global South countries approach digital platforms: both big platform companies such as Google and Meta; rapidly
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