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"The study showed a changing pattern in the misconceptions and misinformation about COVID-19. Initially myths were largely on causes and vulnerability. It was widely speculated that black people had some immunity against COVID-19. Also, the condition was perceived to cause severe disease among the e... more

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Investigative journalism, RTI law and the fight against corruption in Ghana: reflections from a stakeholder forum in Accra

Abigail Larbi; Adiza Moro-Maiga (eds.)

Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 10 pp.

"The RTI Act is considered the mother of all anti-corruption tools in Ghana. It is expected that citizens will utilize the law to access public information thereby engendering transparency and accountability in governance. Again, that active information disclosure by government and public institutio... more

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The Palgrave handbook of digital Russia studies

Daria Gritsenko; Mariëlle Wijermars; Michail Vjaceslavovic Kopotev (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp., illustr., diagr., index

ISBN 978-3-030-42855-6 (pdf); 978-3-030-42854-9 (print) CC BY

"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in ... more

Solutions journalism: news at the intersection of hope, leadership, and expertise

Bill Dodd

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2021), viii, 181 pp.

ISBN 978-1-7936-1873-3 (pbk); 978-1-7936-1872-6 (ebook)

Other Editions: paperback ed. 2022

"Drawing upon a year-long study of journalism in Tasmania, Bill Dodd develops a tripartite theory of solutions journalism at the intersection of three core concepts: hope, leadership, and expertise. In Australia’s lagging southernmost province, where development propositions have sparked global pr... more

Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: ein Kompendium

Magnus Brechtken (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021) Sonderausg., 718 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-7425-0772-3

Other Editions: Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021

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Visual ethics: a guide for photographers, journalists, and media makers

Paul Martin Lester; Stephanie A. Martin; Martin Smith-Rodden

New York; London: Routledge (2021) 2nd ed., xx, 226 pp., bibliogr. p.203-219, index

ISBN 978-1-03-215212-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215190-8 (pbk); 978-1-00-324304-5 (online)

"The book covers the definitions and uses of six philosophies, analytical methods, cultural awareness, visual reporting, documentary, citizen journalists, advertising, public relations, typography, graphic design, data visualizations, cartoons, motion pictures, television, computers and the web, aug... more

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Funding democracy: public media and democratic health in 33 countries

Timothy Neff; Victor Pickard

International journal of press/politics, volume (2021)

"This study examines whether and how public media systems contribute to the health of democracies in 33 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, the Middle East, Latin America, and South America. We gather national economic data and public media funding levels, audience shares, and regulato... more

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The politics of impunity: a study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan

Jackie Harrison; Stefanie Pukallus

Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319

"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based ... more

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Community radio for social change: restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces

Vinod Pavarala; Kanchan K. Malik

In: Handbook of communication and development

Srinivas R. Melkote; Arvind Singhal (eds.)

Cheltenham; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), pp. 190-212

"This chapter examines the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locates it within the context of the globalization of media. At present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds into the... more

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Community radio for peacebuilding in the Colombian post-conflict: transformations, tensions and challenges for content production and local participation

Jair Vega Casanova; Camilo Pérez Quintero; César Augusto Tapias Hernández

Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, volume 27, issue 4 (2021), pp. 461-478

"The text presents the results of the external evaluation of the project: ‘Community Radio for Peace and Coexistence’ (CRPC), implemented between 2015 and 2017 by the community media network RESANDER, with the support of the Colombian Government and the European Union. Considering that community... more

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The evolution of popular communication in Latin America

Ana Cristina Suzina (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 234 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-62557-3 (ebk); 978-3-030-62556-6 (print); 978-3-030-62558-0 (print)

"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy... more

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Funding democracy: public media and democratic health in 33 countries

Timothy Neff; Victor Pickard

International journal of press/politics, volume (2021)

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Towards media systems framework in Asia Chinese and Korean media on framing the initial COVID-19 pandemic

Sookyung Cho; Ziyi Wang

International communication gazette, volume 83, issue 5 (2021), pp. 183-205

"Due to the relative lack of media comparison studies within Asian contexts, theoretical frameworks based in Western societies have been applied to knowledge production in the global South. Using a ‘most different’ design, this study compares the dimensions of media systems reflected in two Chin... more

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Radio and the road: infrastructure, mobility, and political change in the beginnings of Radio Rurale de Kayes (1980–early 2000s)

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye

Journal of African history, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 125-149

"Mali’s first non-state radio went on air during the authoritarian rule of Moussa Traoré in 1988, challenging the common narrative that ties political and media liberalization together. Negotiations were conducted by Italian NGOs at a time when such organizations had become key political actors i... more

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From fragmentation to Integration: addressing the role of communication in refugee crises and (re)settlement processes

Amanda Alencar; Noemi Mena Montes; Miguel Vicente-Mariño (eds.)

International communication gazette, volume 83, issue 1 (2021), pp. 3-101

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Why access to information is essential for democratic elections in Africa

Dunia Mekonnen Tegegn

Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) (2021), 5 pp.

"Among the various forms of online censorship, internet shutdowns are some of the most invasive and blunt. Unlike traditional forms of censorship like blocking internet pages or certain content, these disruptions to digital communications are architectural and affect a preliminary condition in the i... more

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Maria Ressa: fighting an onslaught of online violence. A big data analysis

Julie Posetti; Diana Maynard; Kalina Bontcheva

Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2021), 44 pp.

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"This groundbreaking collaborative case study is the most comprehensive assessment of online violence against a prominent woman journalist to date. We conducted a forensic analysis of the torrent of social media attacks on internationally celebrated digital media pioneer Maria Ressa over a five-year... more

Mitlaufen, zuschauen, mitfühlen: Holocaust-Erinnerung im Fernsehen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Wulf Kansteiner

In: Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: ein Kompendium

Magnus Brechtken (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2021) Sonderausg., pp. 506-533

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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