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Latin American film industries
London; New York:
Bloomsbury; British Film Institute (bfi)
(2019), ix, 193 pp., bibliogr. p.154-184, index
ISBN 978-1-84457-310-3
"Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, compe...
Computational propaganda: political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media
New York:
Oxford University Press
(2019), vi, 263 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-19-093141-4 (pbk)
"Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of int...
Digital Jihad: online communication and violent extremism
Milano:
Ledizioni LediPublishing; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI)
(2019), 156 pp.
ISBN 9788855261371 (pdf); 9788855261357 (print)
"... this ISPI report aims to investigate the current landscape of jihadist online communication, including original empirical analysis. In doing so, the volume does not interpret the internet as a shapeless monolith but tries to highlight the opportunities and limitations of different digital platf...
Technical guidance for communication for development programmes addressing violence against children
New York:
UNICEF
(2019), 104 pp., 48 figures, 22 tables, bibliogr. p.78-81
ISBN 978-0-9911961-8-0
"This publication presents the basics of researching, planning, monitoring and evaluating Communication for Development (C4D) interventions, and offers guidance on how such interventions can be used to address violence against children (VAC). It covers the stages of the C4D programme cycle, emphasiz...
Comunicar derechos en el posconflicto: caja de herramientas y estrategias
World Bank; UNESCO
(2019), 304 pp.
"Queremos entender la comunicación y el acceso a la información como medios para la conquista de otros derechos. Hay innumerables rutas que podríamos tomar para llegar a este destino; la elegida acá es la que entiende la comunicación como un ecosistema complejo que debe estar imbricado en la co...
Despots and disruptions: five dimensions of internet shutdowns in Africa
Kampala:
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
(2019), 12 pp.
"The more undemocratic the system of government, the more likely it is that the Internet will be shut down. To prove this, the authors refer to the annual Democracy Index of the British consulting firm Economist Intelligence Unit of the news magazine of the same name. According to the index, 17 of t...
Unbias the news: why diversity matters for journalism
Essen:
Correctiv
(2019), 221 pp.
ISBN 978-3-948013-03-5
"In journalism, white, male, Western voices still dominate and are often privileged over others, which means that we are not getting the whole story, or the most accurate one. At Hostwriter, we asked journalists to tell us about the barriers they face in their field and potential ways to fix them. W...
State of internet freedom in Africa 2019: mapping trends in government internet controls, 1999-2019
Kampala:
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
(2019), 47 pp.
"The study has found that African countries have broadened the range of measures that govern the use of digital communications including the internet. The implementation of oppressive laws and regulations is on the rise in the countries under review. It is evident that countries are using legislatio...
Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation
Wiesbaden:
Springer
(2019), xvii, 469 pp., 7 tables, 4 illustr., bibliogr. p.435-469
ISBN 978-3-658-23674-8; 978-3-658-23673-1 (print)
"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation...
Digital journalism studies: the key concepts
London; New York:
Routledge
(2019), xix, 313 pp.
ISBN 9781138223066 (pbk); 9781138223059 (hbk); 9781315406107 (online)
"This cutting-edge text offers a particular focus on developments in digital media technologies and their implications for all aspects of the working practices of journalists and the academic field of journalism studies, as well as the structures, funding and products of the journalism industries. A...
Western Sahara: a desert for journalists
Paris:
Reporters Without Borders
(2019), 34 pp.
"On 26 February 1976, after almost a century of colonization, Spain withdrew from Western Sahara, throwing the territory wide open for Moroccan civil and military occupation and abandoning tens of thousands Sahrawis to their fate. More than four decades later, the Western Sahara, officially the last...
Digitale Ethik: Leben in vernetzten Welten
Ditzingen:
Reclam
(2019), 252 pp., glossary p.236-247
ISBN 978-3-15-015240-9
"Fake News, Kriegsroboter, Cyber-Mobbing – unsere zunehmend digitalisierte Lebenswelt stellt uns vor neue ethische Herausforderungen. Wie verhalten wir uns angemessen und legitim gegenüber all diesen Veränderungen? Nötig sind Regeln und Wertmaßstäbe, für die es vor kurzem noch keinen Bedarf ...
Media and mass atrocity: the Rwanda genocide and beyond
Waterloo, Ontario:
Centre for International Governance Innovation
(2019), x, 637 pp.
ISBN 978-1-928096-72-6
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other...
The media in Lebanon: fragmentation and conflict in the Middle East
London et al.:
Tauris
(2019), xiii, 222 pp., bibliogr. p.199-208, index
ISBN 978-1-78076-541-9 (hbk); 978-1-78831-801-3 (online); 978-1-78673-657-4 (pdf)
"Lebanese society is famously, and even notoriously, fragmented, along both class and sectarian lines. Here, Nabil Dajani looks at how this societal division impacts on the nature of the mass media in Lebanon. Implementing the wider theory that the structure and content of mass media is unique to th...
Making meaning of media development today
International journal of communication, volume 13 (2019), pp. 2437-2456
"This article aims to fill a gap in the academic literature on how employees at a media development intermediary construct meaning of their work. Based on in-depth interviews with 18 employees of Internews, this research shows that employees believe the organization has “evolved” from the past t...
Reviewing the role of the internet in radicalization processes
Journal for deradicalization, volume , issue 21 (2019), pp. 261-300
CC BY-NC
"This review presents the existing research on the role of the Internet in radicalization processes. Using a systematic literature search strategy, our paper yields 88 studies on the role of the Internet in a) right-wing extremism and b) radical jihadism. Available studies display a predominant inte...
Defining “fake news”: a typology of scholarly definitions
Digital journalism, volume , issue 6 (2018), pp. 137-153
"This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term “fake news.” An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term “fake news” between 2003 and 2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, man...
Perspectives on political communication in Africa
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2018), xxiii, 272 pp., 12 illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-319-62057-2 (ebook); 978-3-319-62056-5 (print)
"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza...
Access to online resources: a guide for the modern librarian
Springer
(2018), 42 pp.
ISBN 978-3-319-73990-8
CC BY
"According to Gartner IT Glossary (2012), "identity and access management (lAM) is the security discipline that enabled the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons." Simply put, it is making sure your users are who they say they are and only have acce...
Media constrained by context: international assistance and the transition to democratic media in the Western Balkans
Budapest:
Central European University Press
(2018), xiii, 346 pp., tables, bibliogr. p.299-333, index
ISBN 978-963-386-259-9
"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her...
