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The unfreedom monitor: Brazil country report
Advox
(2022), 19 pp.
"Under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil, Latin America's largest democracy, has seen unprecedented increases in threats to citizens’ fundamental rights. Digital rights have not been an exception. Technoauthoritarianism in Brazil must be viewed as a multifaceted development and one that is ...
Wer beherrscht die Medien? Die 50 größten Medien- und Wissenskonzerne der Welt
Köln:
Herbert von Halem Verlag
(2022) 2., völlig aktual. Aufl., 443 pp., bibliogr. p.418-426, index
ISBN 978-3-86962-582-9
Other Editions: 1. Aufl. 2017
"Der Umsatz der 50 größten Medienkonzerne der Welt hat sich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren verdoppelt. Ihre Macht ist so groß wie nie zuvor: Medienunternehmen beeinflussen politische Berichterstattung und produzieren eine nie dagewesene Fülle von Unterhaltungsformaten; sie bestimmen, was im Radi...
Universal Periodic Review 41st session – Indonesia (Fourth Cycle). Joint stakeholder contribution: freedom of expression, freedom of religion and belief, and digital rights
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2022), 16 pp.
"In this submission, the Association of Progressive Communications (APC), EngageMedia and Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) examine Indonesia's compliance with the recommendations received during the third Universal Periodic Review cycle in 2017. This submission will focus parti...
The unfreedom monitor: India country report
Advox
(2022), 28 pp.
"India’s “techade” does show signs of digital authoritarianism that can potentially have farreaching implications for politics, civil liberties and society. At the same time, these are not new challenges for the country. In the past, the Indian government has attempted to surveil, monitor, and...
Universal Periodic Review 41st session period – Brazil. Joint stakeholder contribution: freedom of expression, freedom of religion and belief, and digital rights
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2022), 17 pp.
"This submission focuses on Brazil's fulfilment of human rights obligations in the digital context and seeks to strengthen recommendations focused on guaranteeing universal access to the internet in order to enable free expression and association; access to information, knowledge and culture; and th...
Comunicación, memoria y paz
Quito:
CIESPAL; CALAS
(2022), 289 pp.
ISBN 978-9978-55-208-7
CC BY-ND
"El volumen se divide en dos grandes ejes temáticos, en el apartado “Comunicación” aborda procesos de Ecuador, Colombia y Brasil. En el caso ecuatoriano se analiza la cobertura informativa de las protestas que se realizaron en 2019 en Quito y la presencia de indígenas en las manifestaciones p...
Iron net: digital repression in the Middle East and North Africa
London:
European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
(2022), 25 pp.
ISBN 978-1-914572-56-2
"Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the leading exponents of digital authoritarianism in the Middle East. The two states have intensified their collaboration with China and Israel to gain greater access to advanced technologies. The EU has responded to concerns about the risks of new technologies with a r...
Afghanistan. Blacked out: media freedom under the Taliban
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle DW Akademie
(2022), 7 pp.
"Oppression of women, financial meltdown, censorship: Research findings by Afghan NGO Nai SOMA and DW Akademie highlight the extent of the Afghan media sector’s breakdown after the Taliban took power in Kabul." (p.1)
Treinta años de entretenimiento y política en el Perú: de la dictadura mediática al espectáculo de la democracia (1992-2022)
Lima:
Planeta
(2022)
"En el Perú no ha llegado nuestro Trump, pero nadie se sorprenderá el día que aterrice. Porque aquí también show y política se han contaminado hasta no poder distinguirse. El entrevero es tal que el lector convendrá conmigo en que el premier Aníbal Torres resulta un cómico genuino, al tiemp...
Wie die Redefreiheit in Russland abhanden kommen konnte
Aachener Zeitung, volume , issue May 3 (2022)
"Wiktor Chrul ist Anfang März aus Russland geflohen, ein potentieller Job hat ihn auch für einige Tage nach Aachen geführt. Der Universitätsprofessor und Journalist sieht die Gefahr, dass er in seiner Heimat hart bestraft wird – weil er die Wahrheit sagt. Wo Wiktor Chrul in den nächsten Tagen...
At the interstice of digital rights and environmental justice: four issue briefs to inform funding
Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
(2022), 56 pp.
"[This is] a series of short issue briefs for funders on potential priority areas for funding activities or initiatives that would bring the work of digital rights organisations and environmental justice actors closer together. Each brief states the key problem from the perspective of the APC networ...
Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022
Quick overview
Oxford:
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
(2022), 161 pp., many diagr.
ISBN 978-1-907384-98-1
"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr...
Indicadores para evaluar la rendición de cuentas en los medios de comunicación
Cuadernos.info, volume , issue 51 (2022), pp. 1-27
CC BY-SA
"Esta investigación tiene como objetivo determinar indicadores clave para evaluar la capacidad de transparencia, autorregulación y participación de los usuarios, las tres dimensiones de la accountability. Se adoptó un triple punto de partida metodológico: revisión sistemática de literatura so...
Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung: Analysen und Empfehlungen zum Schutz der Grundrechte in der digitalen Welt
Springer Vieweg
(2022), xxiii, 304 pp.
ISBN 978-3-658-35262-2 (print); 978-3-658-35263-9 (ebook)
CC BY
"Die in diesem Open-Access-Buch zusammengeführten interdisziplinären Untersuchungen des „Forums Privatheit“ gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Verwirklichungsbedingungen von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung durch die Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche radikal ändern. Nahezu jede Lebensregung...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Nigeria: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 4 pp.
"Media and information literacy is paramount to empower the population, and especially the youth, with the capacity of critical thinking and in providing quality information on traditional and social media platforms. During the period of 2018-2021, UNESCO worked towards achieving this goal through t...
Dokumentarfilm in Deutschland: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)
(2022), 398 pp., many illustr., glossary p.362-365, bibliogr. p.366-375, abbrev. p.394-395, index
ISBN 978-3-8389-7206-0
"Die Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland ist mehr als bloße Filmgeschichte. In ihr spiegelt sich auch die Medien-, Mentalitäts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte. So thematisiert der Dokumentarfilm seit seinen Anfängen im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert die politischen, kulturellen und soz...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Somalia: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 5 pp.
"Under the MDP, UNESCO has since 2018 coordinated actions with other development partners through the Somalia Media Sector Group (SMSG) to advocate for improvements in the media legislative framework and to support the implementation of the Somalia Federal Republic Media Strategy 2016-2020 as well a...
UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Tunisia: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 8 pp.
"Past UNESCO support resulted in the establishment of a Monitoring Unit on the Safety of Journalists in partnership with the Union of Tunisian Journalists (Syndicat National des Journalistes Tunisiens (SNJT) and OHCHR, which has been piloted since 2018. Throughout the reporting period, the MDP has p...
Diálogos sobre comunicación comunitaria. El poder de la voz: medios comunitarios en América Latina
Bonn:
Deutsche Welle
(2022), 91 pp.
"Este documento recoge los resultados de los Diálogos Intergeneracionales de Comunicación Comunitaria (en adelante, DICC), los cuales consistieron en una serie de cuatro encuentros virtuales realizados a finales de 2020. En los DICC se habló sobre temas que consideramos son ejes transversales par...
Radio at the edges: perspectives on alternative, community and pirate radio
Newcastle upon Tyne:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
(2022), xiii, 210 pp.
ISBN 978-1-5275-8185-2
"This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio systems, histories and concepts. It addresses the impacts and challenges that alternative, community and pirate radio represent." (Publisher)
