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Visualität und Weltpolitik: Praktiken des Zeigens und Sehens in den Internationalen Beziehungen
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS
(2020), xii, 347 pp.
ISBN 978-3-658-29970-5 (pbk); 978-3-658-29971-2 (pdf)
Radio journalism and women's empowerment in Niger
Journalism studies, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1344-1362
"The significance of radio as a provider of essential news and information in conflict-affected and fragile countries cannot be underestimated nor can its role in contributing to shifts in critical consciousness, changes in behaviour, and raising awareness amongst marginalised groups. This is partic...
Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists
Paris:
UNESCO
(2020), 19 pp.
"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of...
Community radio in South Asia: reclaiming the airwaves
New York et al.:
Routledge
(2020), 294 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-138-55853-3 (hbk); 978-1-00-305623-2 (ebook)
"This book tells the story of community radio in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The three parts of the book focus on policy (discussed country by country), issues in practice, and case studies. In effect, however, each of the chapters touches on these topics to ...
Mediated sociability: audience participation and convened citizen engagement in interactive broadcast shows in Africa
International journal of communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2985-3006
"This article examines what drives audience participation in interactive broadcast shows, with implications for the democratic potential of these shows as spaces of citizen engagement and public discussion. It makes three contributions, the first two to audience and media studies and the last to pol...
Engendering hate: the contours of state-aligned gendered disinformation online
London:
Demos
(2020), 40 pp.
CC BY-SA
"Online spaces are being systematically weaponised to exclude women leaders and to undermine the role of women in public life. Attacks on women which use hateful language, rumour and gendered stereotypes combine personal attacks with political motivations, making online spaces dangerous places for w...
Violence and trolling on social media: history, affect, and effects of online vitriol
Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press
(2020), 266 pp.
ISBN 978-94-6298-948-1 (print); 978-90-4854-204-8 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati...
Amazonia – el desafío de comunicar la diversidad. Los casos de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle DW Akademie
(2020), 53 pp.
Other Editions: also published in English
"Hemos constatado que existe una gran diversidad de proyectos organizados por comunicadores locales, muchas veces en alianza con otros actores de la sociedad civil, que están interesados en desarrollar ofertas de información desde y para la Amazonia. En términos generales, las iniciativas más pr...
Globalance: ethics handbook for a balanced world post-Covid
Geneva:
Globethics.net
(2020), 608 pp., index
ISBN 978-2-88931-367-9 (online); 978-2-88931-368-6 (print)
CC BY-NC-ND
"This book Globalance looks specifically at balancing values in global politics and global economics. Globalance9, the title and topic of this book, is the alternative to the disorder of the world. ‘Globalance’ was in fact my main underlying passion and vision during the last four decades of my ...
Fake News, Framing, Fact-Checking: Nachrichten im digitalen Zeitalter. Ein Handbuch
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2020), 569 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8394-5025-3 (ebook); 978-3-8376-5025-9 (print)
"Digitale Kanäle wie Youtube, Facebook oder Instagram, Künstliche Intelligenz, Fake-News-Vorwürfe und zunehmend fragmentierte Publikumsinteressen haben das Format Nachricht ebenso verändert wie das journalistische Handwerk und die Nachrichtenrezeption. Was bedeutet dieser grundlegende Wandel fü...
Communication, development and social participation in China
Javnost: the public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
The public sphere in Russia between authoritarianism and liberation
Javnost: the public, volume 27, issue 1 (2020), pp. 2-96
De-Westernizing visual communication and cultures: perspectives from the Global South
Baden-Baden:
Nomos
(2020), 225 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8487-6577-5 (print); 978-3-7489-0693-3 (online)
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ...
Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Nigeria
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)
(2020), 8 pp.
"Generally, the relevant authorities in Nigeria have, to a large extent, been proactive with press briefings and national addresses since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, reporters have realised that they are often unable to access information beyond what is said in the briefings. Officials so...
Internet y pandemia en las Américas: primera crisis sanitaria en la era digital
Ciudad de Panama:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Democracia Digital
(2020), 286 pp.
ISBN 978-9962-8528-2-7
CC BY
Platform capitalism in India
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xvii, 331 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-44563-8 (ebook); 978-3-030-44562-1 (print); 978-3-030-44564-5 (print); 978-3-030-44565-2 (print)
"This volume provides a critical examination of the evolution of platform economies in India. Contributions from leading media and communications scholars present case studies that illustrate the social and economic ambitions at the heart of Digital India. Across interdisciplinary domains of busines...
The decolonial turn in media studies in Africa and the Global South
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xvi, 308 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-52832-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-52831-7 (print); 978-3-030-52833-1 (print); 978-3-030-52834-8 (print)
"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo...
Lie machines: how to save democracy from troll armies, deceitful robots, junk news operations, and political operatives
New Haven; London:
Yale University Press
(2020), xviii, 221 pp., glossary p.171-174, bibliogr. p.185-200, index
ISBN 978-0-300-25020-6; 0-300-25020-7
"Artificially intelligent “bot” accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our...
Liar’s war: protecting civilians from disinformation during armed conflict
International review of the Red Cross, volume 102, issue 914 (2020), pp. 659-682
"Disinformation in armed conflict may pose several distinctive forms of harm to civilians: exposure to retaliatory violence, distortion of information vital to securing human needs, and severe mental suffering. The gravity of these harms, along with the modern nature of wartime disinformation, is ou...
Shifting dynamics of contention in the digital age: mobile communication and politics in China
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
(2020), xv, 211 pp., bibliogr. p.173-207, index
ISBN 978-0-19-088729-2 (ebook); 978-0-19-088726-1 (pbk)
"With a communication-centered framework that brings together communication studies, sociology, and political science, this book explains how people adopt and maneuver mobile technologies as tactics of contention for political mobilization in contentious moments and everyday resistance in contempora...
