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Between advocacy and outrage: a study on treatment of gender issues in social media in Iraq

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2021), 29 pp. , illustr.

"This study was launched with the aim to deepen our understanding of how women related topics are debated in social media in Iraq. It is based on a social media monitoring exercise conducted between April 2019 and November 2020 across two topics of interest: the kidnapping of women rights’ activis... more

Desigualdades digitales: aproximación sociojurídica al acceso a Internet en Colombia

Víctor Práxedes Saavedra Rionda; Daniel Ospina Celis; Juan Carlos Upegui; Diana C. León Torres

Bogotá: Editorial Dejusticia (2021), 106 pp., bibliogr. p.99-106

ISBN 978-958-5597-87-7 (pdf); 978-958-5597-86-0 (print) CC BY-NC-SA

"En este texto nos preguntamos, en concreto, por los efectos de la desigualdad económica en el acceso a las tecnologías digitales, en especial a Internet y, por ende, a los derechos que se ejercen a través suyo. También nos preguntamos por la caracterización jurídica del acceso a Internet, tan... more

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Pioneras en los estudios latinoamericanos de comunicación

Yamila Heram; Santiago Gándara

Buenos Aires: Teseopress (2021), 209 pp.

ISBN 978-987-88-1041-6

"Este libro tiene por objetivo visibilizar y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres pioneras en los estudios de comunicación en América Latina, y lo hace con un doble propósito. Por un lado, como aporte a la historia del campo de la comunicación, a la que pretende completar con estas otras ... more

Remember me: memory and forgetting in the digital age

Davide Sisto

Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), viii, 155 pp., bibliogr. p.138-147, index

ISBN 978-1-5095-4504-9 (pbk); 978-1-5095-4505-6 (online)

Other Editions: Italian ed.: Ricordati di me: La rivoluzione digitale tra memoria e oblio. Torin: Bollati Boringhieri editore, 2020

"... The past does not really exist: it is only a story we tell ourselves. But what happens when we tell this story not only to ourselves but also to our followers, when it is recorded not only on our social media pages but also on the pages of hundreds or thousands of others, making it something th... more

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IMS strategy on gender equality (2021-2023)

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 22 pp., glossary p.20-22

"The strategy presented in this document is the result of a year-long process of literature review and consultation with staff, partners, journalists and experts. A number of webinars for seminars and debates were organised, and several drafts were distributed and discussed. Consequently, this strat... more

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Policy brief and recommendations for an enabling environment for community networks in Brazil

Adriana Labardini Inzunza; Bruna Zanolli et al.

Association for Progressive Communication (APC) (2021)

ISBN 978-92-95113-47-3 CC BY

Other Editions: also published in Portuguese

"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f... more

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Promoting smart policy options in closing the gender digital divide in Uganda

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET); Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA) (2021), 11 pp.

"Although the internet facilitates connection, participation, and engagement, there is a need for new and innovative strategies for closing the gender digital divide in Uganda. A socio-economic, political, and robustic legal approach is needed to close the gender digital divide. This requires regula... more

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Online caste-hate speech: pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social media

Damni Kain; Shivangi Narayan; Torsha Sarkar; Gurshabad Grover

Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) (2021), 32 pp.

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"In India, religious texts, social customs, rituals, and everyday cultural practices legitimise the use of hate speech against marginalised caste groups. Notions of "purity" of “upper-caste” groups, and conversely of "pollution" of “lower-caste” groups, have made the latter subject to discri...mination, violence and dehumanisation. These dynamics invariably manifest online, with social media platforms becoming sites of caste discrimination and humiliation. This report explores two research questions. First, what are the specific contours of caste-hate speech and abuse online? Semi-structured interviews with 12 scholars and activists belonging to Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi (DBA) groups show that marginalised groups regularly face hate and harassment based on their caste. In addition to the overt hate, DBA individuals and groups are often targeted with abuse for availing reservations – a constitutionally mandated right. More covert forms of hate and abuse are also prevalent: trolls mix caste names and words from different languages together so that their comments appear meaningless to individuals who are not keenly aware of the local context. Such hateful expression often emerges as a reaction from “upper-caste” groups to DBA resistance and social justice movements. Our respondents reported that the hateful expression can sometimes silence caste-marginalised groups and individuals, exclude them from conversations, and adversely impact their physical and mental well-being. The second question we explore is how popular social media platforms and online spaces moderate caste-hate speech and abuse. We analysed the community guidelines, policies and transparency reports of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Clubhouse. We find that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube incorporated "caste" as a protected characteristic in their hate speech and harassment policies only in the last two or three years – many years after they entered Indian and South Asian markets – showing a disregard for the regional contexts of their users. Even after these policy changes, many platforms – whose forms for reporting harmful content list gender and race – still do not list caste. Social media companies should radically increase their investment and capacity in understanding regional contexts and languages; they must focus on the dynamics of casteist hate and abuse. They will need to collaborate with a diverse set of DBA activists to ensure that their community guidelines effectively tackle overt, covert and hyper -local forms of caste-hate speech and abuse, and that their implementation and reporting processes match these policy commitments." (Eexecutive summary) more

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Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2021

Geneva: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (2021), iv, 26 pp.

ISBN 978-92-61-35401-5 (pdf)

"An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, according to latest estimates in this 2021 edition of Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures. That means that roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population is now online – an increase of 17 per cent – with almost 800 mi...llion people estimated to have come online since 2019. Internet penetration increased more than 20 per cent on average in Africa, in Asia and the Pacific, and in the UN-designated Least Developed Countries (LDCs). With most of the 17 Global Goals thrust sharply off-track by the force of the emergency, the pandemic has highlighted – and exacerbated – the crippling cost of digital exclusion. Achieving universal meaningful connectivity has become a matter of the utmost urgency if we are to meet the SDGs by the end of the decade. We cannot close the digital divide if we cannot measure it. And we cannot connect the unconnected if we do not know who they are, where they live, and why they remain offline – nor can we measure the success of our policies to bridge the gap . While the access divide is close to being bridged, with 95 per cent of the world’s population now living within range of a mobile broadband network, important blind spots remain. Close to 30 per cent of Africa’s rural population still lacks mobile broadband coverage. And even though the vast majority of the world’s people could access the Internet through mobile broadband, less than two thirds actually do. The statistics reveal a connectivity ‘grand canyon’ separating the digitally empowered from the digitally excluded, with 96 per cent of the 2.9 billion still offline living in the developing world. Drilling down to country level also affords a more nuanced picture. Location plays a big part: our figures reveal that the share of Internet users in urban areas is twice as high as in rural areas. There is also a generational gap – 71 per cent of the world’s population aged 15-24 is using the Internet, compared with 57 per cent of all other age groups. And gender remains a factor: globally, 62 per cent of men are using the Internet compared with 57 per cent of women. While that digital gender divide has been narrowing across all regions, women remain digitally marginalized in many of the world’s poorest countries, where online access could potentially have its most powerful effect." (Foreword) more

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Periodismo ambiental desde y para el Amazonas: periodismo socio-ambiental

Alma D. Montoya Chavarriaga; Sandra Patricia Díaz Pachajoa

Bogotá: Grupo ComunicArte (2021), 14 pp.

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"En esta guía para periodistas amazónicos proponemos aproximarnos al cubrimiento periodístico desde el enfoque de los conflictos socio-ambientales porque permite entender su complejidad, e ir más allá del problema ambiental." (Presentación)

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The mobile gender gap report 2021

Isabelle Carboni et al.

London: GSMA (2021), 65 pp., many illustr., many graphs

"1. Women’s access to mobile internet continues to increase across low- and middle-income countries, while mobile ownership remains relatively flat: 83 per cent of women own a mobile phone and 58 per cent use mobile internet. Women are also more likely than men to access the internet exclusively o... more

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Informe regional de vulneración de derechos humanos en la Panamazonía: tejiendo redes de resistencia y lucha en Colombia, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. Resumen ejecutivo

Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2021), 20 pp.

"El presente documento es un resumen del Informe Regional de Vulneración de Derechos Humanos en la Panamazonía. Recoge 13 casos de violación sistemática a los derechos humanos de diferentes pueblos indígenas, comunidades campesinas y ribereñas de Colombia, Brasil, Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia. La ... more

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The state of mobile internet connectivity 2021

Anne Delaporte; Kalvin Bahia et al.

GSMA (2021), 66 pp., many illustr., many graphs, glossary p.66

"Six years ago, about a third of the world’s population were using mobile internet. Today, it is more than half. Despite this progress, the pandemic has highlighted how big gaps in connectivity persist, even in high-income markets. 3.8 billion people still do not have access to the internet – du... more

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Feminist and gender perspectives in literature on media & development

Viviane Schönbächler

Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome); MEDAS21 (2021), 24 pp., bibliogr. p.21-23

ISSN 2748-9426 CC BY

"Gender remains an under-researched topic in the literature on media and development. A brief evaluation of seven books on media development and media for development shows that only 2% of pages are devoted to gender and feminist issues and that ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often framed in narro... more

Un manual urgente para la cobertura de violencia contra las mujeres y feminicidios en México

Christina Salmerón Arroyo

ONU Mujeres; Iniciativa Spotlight; Gobierno de México (2021), 105 pp.

"Un manual urgente para la cobertura de violencia contra las mujeres y feminicidios en México pretende ser una herramienta de apoyo para los medios de comunicación, equipos editoriales, de investigación y reporteo en los casos de violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas. Con la finalidad de cont... more

Radio as an empowering environment: how does radio broadcasting in Mali represent women’s “web of relations”?

Emma Heywood; Beatrice Ivey

Feminist media studies, volume (2021), 17 pp.

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"Does radio programming by Studio Tamani in Mali create an empowering environment for women’s voices? Contributing to existing theoretical discussions on radio and women’s empowerment, this article examines the need to discuss women’s empowerment not from the perspective of women as individual... more

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Digital inclusion across the globe: what is being done to tackle digital inequities?

Bianca C. Reisdorf; Colin Rhinesmith (eds.)

Social inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 132-259

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Media-friendly glossary on migration: women migrant workers and ending violence against women (EVAW) edition

Deepa Bharathi; Swathi Jakkula; Rebecca Napier-Moore; Valentina Volpe

International Labour Organization (ILO); Spotlight Initiative (2020), 23 pp.

ISBN 9789220337851 (print); 9789220337868 (pdf)

"This glossary serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, trainers and other stakeholders who conduct trainings or write about women’s labour migration, and who write about violence against women in the context of migration. It has been compiled as part of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to El... more

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Handreichung: Krisenberatung am Telefon und per Video in Zeiten von Corona

Joachim Wenzel; Stephanie Jaschke; Emily Engelhardt

Fachgruppe Onlineberatung und Medien Beratung und Familientherapie (DGSF) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Systemische Therapie (2020) Version 1.3, 21 pp.

"Beratende und andere Fachkräfte erleben während der Coronapandemie eine nie dagewesene Herausforderung, da ihre eigene Lebenssituation und zugleich die Lebenswelt ihrer Klient*innen sich grundlegend geändert hat. In besonderen Krisenzeiten wie bei einem Lockdown, Kontaktbeschränkungen oder Isol... more

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The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga... more