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African Media Portrayals of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi

Brooke Chambers, J. Siguru Wahutu

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2436-2455

"Much has been written about the media coverage of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. However, with few exceptions, much of this work has often focused on how the journalism fields from the global North framed the genocide, with little work on how African fields covered it. This article eschews th ... more

“She Played All the Pregnant Women!”: Russian Disinformation, Symbolic Annihilation, and the Mariupol Hospital Attack

Valentyna Shapovalova

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3730-3751

"On March 9, 2022, the maternity and children’s hospital number 3 in Mariupol, Ukraine, was bombed as part of Russia’s full-scale war efforts in Ukraine. However, Russian statealigned media promoted a different narrative: namely, that the bombing itself, as well as the victims on site, were fake ... more

“Today’s Children, Tomorrow’s Mujahideen”: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis of the Militarist Discourse in a Turkish Cypriot Children's Magazine

Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3668-3687

"This research offers a discourse-theoretical analysis of the construction of the militarist discourse in Turkish Cypriot children’s magazines, with a specific focus on the magazine Tuncer. The selected data for analysis consist of 14 issues published between January 1967 and December 1968. The ch ... more

Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine in den deutschen Medien: Kritik des Maßstabs „ausgewogene Bewertung“ in Inhaltsanalysen

Christoph Neuberger, Ralf Hohlfeld

Publizistik, volume 69 (2024), pp. 455-493

"Inhaltsanalysen über die Darstellung von Konflikten in den Medien werden häufig durchgeführt, um den Vorwurf der Einseitigkeit empirisch zu überprüfen. Dies wirft die normative Frage auf, wie die Forderung nach einer ausgewogenen Bewertung, d. h. einer Gleichverteilung positiver und negativer ... more

The aftermath of the 2019 Pulwama terror attack: Religion, nationalism and exclusion in online news comment sections

Nihar Sreepadaa, Ioana Comanb

Journal of International Communication, volume 30, issue 2 (2024), pp. 394-415

"This study analyses the Indian and Pakistani publics reactions of the extensive coverage of the Pulwama terror attack, through an analysis of the online comments appearing at the end of the news stories covering the attack from the two leading English newspapers: Times of India (TOI) (India), and D ... more

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Im Krieg: Zwei illustrierte Tagebücher aus Kiew und St. Petersburg

Nora Krug

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 127 pp.

"Welche Auswirkungen hat der Angriffskrieg, den Russland seit Februar 2022 gegen die gesamte Ukraine führt, auf den Alltag und das Leben Einzelner? Dieser Frage ging die deutsch-amerikanische Illustratorin Nora Krug im Laufe einer einjährigen Korrespondenz mit einer ukrainischen Journalistin und e ... more

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Gewalt und Gedächtnis: Globale Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert

Mirjam Zadoff

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 236 pp.

"Wie prägen Erfahrungen von Gewalt gesellschaftliche Diskurse? Mirjam Zadoff nähert sich der Frage, welchen Stellenwert kollektive Gewalterfahrungen im Gedächtnis verschiedener Gesellschaften einnehmen und wie diese Erfahrungen bewältigt werden. Sie gibt Einblicke in europäische und außereurop ... more

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Fighting Misinformation Helps Social Cohesion and Early Recovery in Syria

Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2024), 7 pp.

"By preserving independence, Syrian media is trusted to promote dialogue, providing a platform for diverse voices and fosters a culture of critical thinking and public debate, the media acts as a catalyst for inclusive recovery and sustainable development. It lays the groundwork for a resilient, dem ... more

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Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration

Liat Steir-Livny

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1st ed. (2024), xvii, 242 pp.

"Animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants constitute a new phenomenon and inaugurate a new field of Holocaust commemoration. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA, ... more

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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.

"This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book ... more

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Audiences of Nazism: Using Media in the Third Reich

Ulrike Weckel (ed.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2024), xii, 290 pp.

"Traces of audience responses to propaganda in the Third Reich are particularly sparse given that the public sphere was so highly regulated. By taking an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to found historical sources of audiences' responses, the contributions to Audiences of Nazism critically ... more

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Insurgency in northeast Nigeria: Are journalists safe to report?

Umaru A Pate, Abubakar Jibril

Journalism (2024), [no pag.]

"This article interrogates the effectiveness of the safety measures available for journalists in the challenging operational environment. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 16 journalists representing different organisations from the conflict-prone areas in northeast Nigeria. Finding ... more

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Die unbequeme Vergangenheit: Vom Umgang mit Staatsverbrechen in Russland und anderswo

Nikolaj Epple

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 598 pp.

"Die Sowjetdiktatur war von Staatsverbrechen kaum vorstellbaren Ausmaßes geprägt. Insbesondere gilt dies für die Periode von der Oktoberrevolution 1917 bis zum Tod Josef Stalins 1953: Sie umfasst den Bürgerkrieg, die sogenannten Säuberungen, das Gulag-System und zahlreiche weitere Akte massiver ... more

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The geopolitics of human suffering: a comparative study of media coverage of the conflicts in Yemen and Ukraine

Jeffrey S. Bachman, Esther Brito Ruiz

Third World Quarterly, volume 45, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-42

"A Saudi-led coalition of states initiated an on-going-armed conflict in Yemen on 26 March 2015. Meanwhile, Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Though no two armed conflicts are exactly alike, there is reason to compare US media coverage of the two because: (1) civilians have been victims of ... more

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Predictors of psychological distress in frontline journalists: Common denominators across three decades of conflicts

Jonas Anthony Osmann Feinstein

Traumatology, volume 30, issue 3 (2024), pp. 306-313

"Objective: To determine risk factors for symptoms of PTSD and depression in frontline journalists that traverse type of conflict, degree of exposure to stressors, language, and culture. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 1,103 frontline journalists from 12 datasets (Balkans, 9/11 attacks, Iraq, M ... more

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Peace is in the air: Reducing conflict intensity with United Nations peacekeeping radio broadcasts

Mahtab Shafiei, Kathryn Lauren Overton

Conflict Management and Peace Science, volume 41, issue 6 (2024), pp. 693-714

"Commitment problems and information asymmetries represent key impediments to peacekeeping. We posit that mass media—more specifically, United Nations (UN) peacekeeping radio broadcasts—is a cost-effective, easily implemented method of addressing common roadblocks to conflict resolution. We anal ... more

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Journalists and Exposure to Trauma: Exploring Perceptions of PTSD and Resilience Among Pakistan’s Conflict Reporters

Ayesha Siddiqua, Muhammad Zubair Iqbal

Journalism Practice (2024), [no pag.]

"The study attempts to understand how Pakistani journalists perceive Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and resilience in the wake of covering traumatic events. Qualitative interviews of 32 Pakistani journalists were conducted who had covered military operations against militants. The findings in ... more