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Tödliche Recherche: In Indien starben vier Journalisten innerhalb von vier Jahren. Alle schrieben sie über dasselbe Thema

Lena Kampf, Hannes Munzinger, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 21 (2019)
"Jagendra Singh hatte wieder und wieder über einen Minister der Regierung im Bundesstaat Uttar Pradesh berichtet, der in den illegalen Abbau von Sand involviert gewesen sein soll [...] Singh ist einer von weltweit mindestens 13 Journalisten, die seit 2009 mutmaßlich getötet wurden, nachdem sie ü ... more
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Small Group Discussion to Promote Reflection and Social Change: A Case Study of a Half the Sky Intervention in India

Lauren Kogen
Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 4 (2019), pp. 695-712
"An important sub-discipline within the field of Communication and Social Change addresses how meaningful participation can be practically implemented. This article presents the case of an intervention developed by the NGO ‘Half the Sky Movement’ and reflects upon how participation took shape wi ... more
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Towards a Safer Cyberzone: A Study on Gender and Online Violence in Tamil Nadu

Geeta Ramaseshan, Sudaroli Ramasamy et al.
IT for Change (2019), 21 pp.
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Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South
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Anya Schiffrin
New York: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (2019), 180 pp.
"Three years after writing the report Publishing for Peanuts, in which we surveyed 35 media startups mostly from the Global South, we decided to go back and see how the outlets had fared. Our area of interest in 2015 was small-to-medium size independent media outlets with a track record of consisten ... more
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Aadhaar-Led Identification and Datafication Among Informal Workers in South India: A Data-Justice Perspective

Shyam Krishna
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2019), 26 pp.
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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.
"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more
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Polarisation and Politicisation: The Social Media Strategies of Indian Political Parties

Sangeeta Mahapatra, Johannes Plagemann
Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2019), 14 pp.
"Ahead of the general election in April and May 2019, Indian political parties are using social media aggressively to propagate their ideology, mobilise public opinion, set policy agendas, and discredit detractors. Since the 2014 general election, India’s two major political parties – the Bharat ... more
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Community Radio for SDGs

New Delhi: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India; One World Foundation India (2019), 205 pp.
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Recognition and Transformation: Beyond Media Discourses on the BRICS

Tom Dwyer, Olivier Arifon
Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 27-47
"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of ... more
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Social Media as a Gateway for Young Feminists: Lessons from the #IWillGoOut Campaign in India

Divya Titus
Gender & Development, volume 26, issue 2 (2018), pp. 231-248
"Over New Year’s Eve in 2016, a slew of sexual assault cases against women came to light in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru. Four years prior, against the backdrop of a violent rape in the nation’s capital of Delhi, prominent feminists and activists took to the streets as part of mass public pro ... more
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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Practising Independence

Shweta Kishore
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), 209 pp.
"Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal ... more
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Communication, Culture and Ecology: Rethinking Sustainable Development in Asia

Kiran Prasad (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), ix, 199 pp.
"This book offers comprehensive insights into the cultural and ecological values that influence sustainable development across Asia, addressing the cultural, religious and philosophical moorings of development through participatory and grassroots communication approaches. It presents a range of cont ... more
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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen
New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.
"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more
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Safety and Security of Journalists: Yet Awaiting Intervention from Indian Academy and Industry

C. S. H. N. Murthy
Asia Pacific Media Educator, volume 28, issue 1 (2018), pp. 131-149
"The article is an overview of the growing concerns about escalating violence against journalists in India and a matching lack of interest in Indian academy to understand the various implications of such violence both pedagogically and sociologically. The fact that about six journalists were killed ... more
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Politics of Fake News: How WhatsApp Became a Potent Propaganda Tool in India

Gowhar Farooq
Media Watch, volume 9, issue 1 (2018), pp. 106-117
"While the Internet and multimedia applications have made it easy to produce and spread media, they have also made it possible to distribute fake news to masses. With over 200 million active users in India and growing, WhatsApp's reach and features make it a top choice to spread fake news. This not ... more
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Korrespondenten des Wandels: Lokale Akteure der globalen Nachrichtenindustrie

Martin Heidelberger
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 325 pp.
"Der Auslandsjournalismus des 21. Jahrhunderts stützt sich zunehmend auf lokale Akteure der globalen Nachrichtenindustrie, die häufig als lokale »Stringer« oder »Fixer« bezeichnet werden. Auf Basis von Feldforschungen in Indien und Europa untersucht Martin Heidelberger diese lokale Teilhabe an ... more
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Reimagining Community Media: A Rhizomatic Analysis of Khabar Lahariya in Central India

Annapurna Sinha, Kanchan K. Malik
Media Asia, volume 45, issue 3-4 (2018), pp. 102-113
"Based on an in-depth case study of “Khabar Lahariya” – a community newspaper located in Central India, this research paper analyses its decade-and-a-half journey and examines the metamorphosis it has undergone over the years. The paper borrows from Tanja Bosch’s (2010) synthesis of Gilles D ... more
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This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies
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Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2018), 352 pp.
"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement ... more
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Mobilität und Zeugenschaft: Unabhängige Dokumentarfilmpraktiken und der Kaschmirkonflikt

Max Kramer
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 324 pp.
"Ist unabhängiges Dokumentarfilmschaffen im Kaschmirkonflikt möglich? Über den Fokus auf Mobilität zeigt Max Kramer neue theoretische und methodische Zugänge zur Erforschung von filmischen Praktiken in Konfliktregionen auf. Er argumentiert, dass die Herstellung von Zeugenschaft zunehmend auf ve ... more