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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Health Disinformation & Misinformation
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COVID-19 Communication
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Foreign Disinformation, Foreign Information Manipulation Operations, Foreign Propaganda
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Fact-Checking & Verification of Sources
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Election Campaigns: Disinformation & Misinformation
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Disinformation & Misinformation Law & Regulation
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Media Literacy: Disinformation, Fake News, Hate Speech
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
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Russia: Foreign Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Propaganda
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Vaccination Campaigns & Vaccine Hesitancy
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Facebook
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Disinformation Consumption & Perception
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Countering Misinformation & Rumours
17
Social Media in Political Communication
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Deepfakes (Realistic-Looking Media Content that has been Modified, Generated or Falsified Using AI)
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Gendered Disinformation
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WhatsApp
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War Propaganda, Propaganda in Conflicts
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Government Communication Strategies
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Digital Platform & Intermediaries Regulation
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Hate Speech Legislation & Regulation
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Populism
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Government Propaganda
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Extremist & Terrorist Digital / Social Media Presence
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Artificial Intelligence
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Antisemitism
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RT (Russian International Broadcaster, formerly Russia Today)
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Election Campaigns
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Big Digital Platforms, Big Tech Companies
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Telegram
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YouTube
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China: Transnational Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Manipulation
7
COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
7
Media Use, Media Consumption
6
Rumours & Rumour Management
6
Algorithms & Big Data
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Digital & Information Literacy
6
Social Media
6
Bots
6
Freedom of Expression
5
Information Warfare, Psychological Warfare
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Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers
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TikTok
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Countering Defamation & Harassment
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
5
Political Communication
5
COVID-19 Pandemic & Religion
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Harassment & Intimidation of Journalists
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Public Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Environmental Disinformation & Misinformation
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Reporting on Disinformation & Misinformation
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Educational Games, Serious Games
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Environmental Communication
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Media & Information Literacy
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Media Literacy: Youth
4
Right-Wing Extremism
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Censorship
3
Conflicts & Wars: Roles of Digital Technologies & Conflict Narratives in Social Media
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
3
Generative AI, including ChatGPT et al.
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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Journalism Ethics
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Good Practice Examples
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Health Campaigns: Experiences
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Nazism
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European Union (EU)
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Election Reporting
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Media Literacy: Secondary Education
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Social Media Landscapes
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Public Opinion
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Randomised Control Trials & (Quasi-) Experimental Designs
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Society
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Population
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Reality & Communication, Truth & Media
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User-Generated Contents
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Audience Feedback, Interaction & Participation
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Authoritarian Discourse
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Foreign Government Communication Interventions
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Holocaust
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Extremist & Terrorist Communication Strategies and Media
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War Reporting
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Behaviour Change Communication
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Cyberbullying, Cyberharassment
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Google
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Influencers (Social Media)
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AI & Democracy / Democratization
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LGBT & Communication / Media
2
Racism in Communication & Media
2
Effects of Disinformation on Democracy
2
Identifying & Researching Disinformation
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Humour, Parody, Satire
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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History of Journalism
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United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Journalism Education & Training
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Journalistic Quality
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Journalists
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Local Communication & Media
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Media Law & Regulation
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Polarization, Political Polarization
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Election Monitoring
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Public Media, State Media
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Cyberpsychology
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Media Psychology, Communication Psychology
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Persuasive Communication
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Religion and Communication
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Fundamentalisms (Religious)
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Islamophobia
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Muslim Digital Media & Online Communities
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Science Communication & Research Dissemination
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Access to Media & Information
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Access to Public Information, Freedom of Information, Right to Information
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Advertising Markets & Industries
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Digital Advertising, Online Advertising
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Electoral Advertising, Political Advertising
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Audiences & Users
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Audience Segmentation, User Typologies, Personas
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Behavior Tracking & Cookies
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Health Information Access & Use
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Information Needs in Disasters & Humanitarian Crises
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Authoritarian Regimes, Dictatorships
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Book Marketing, Branding & Promotion
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Campaigning: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Catholic Social Thought
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Children & Digital Media
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Girls and Media
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Media Literacy: Children
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Communication Pastoral, Media Pastoral
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Communication Rights
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Chilling Effects (Discouragement of Legitimate Exercise of Legal Rights)
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Exile Journalism, Exile Media
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Freedom of Expression Principles
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Media / Communication Control
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Communication Strategies
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Crisis Communication
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Nonprofit Public Relations: Design & Implementation
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Viral Spots & Viral Online Communication
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Conflicts, Conflict Prevention & Management, Mediation, Peacebuilding
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Religion and Conflicts, Religious Conflicts, Religious Violence
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Islamic State (Political-Religious Extremist Organization)
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Dealing With the Past
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Early Warning: Conflicts & Crises
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Enemy Images
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Foreign Conflict Reporting, International War Reporting
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Military: Online & Social Media Communication Strategies
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Computational Content Analysis
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Hermeneutics
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Collective Memory: Violent Conflicts & Wars
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Memes
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Literature
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Popular Cultures
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Popular Religious Cultures & Practices
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Open Society Foundations (NGO network)
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Entertainment Education, Edutainment
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Cybercrimes
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Labour, Digital Work
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Digital Media, Internet & Religion
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Digital & Social Media Effects
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Media Assistance: Digital Journalism & Social Media
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WeChat (Messaging, Social Media & Mobile Payment App, China)
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Digital Political Communication
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Political Microtargeting
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Search Engines
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Instagram
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Trolling (Social Media)
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AI in Journalism & Media
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AI & Social Justice
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Discrimination in Language & Media
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Racism in Social Media & Digital Communication
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Uyghurs, Uighurs
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Xenophobia
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Information Management
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Earthquakes, Floods, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters
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Infectious Diseases' Outbreak Communication
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QAnon (Conspiracy Narrative)
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Government-Sponsored Disinformation
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Documenting Human Rights Violations
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Political Economy of Media
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
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Sports Reporting
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Climate, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation
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Environmental Journalism
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Codes of Journalistic Ethics
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Sexuality: Media Representation, Sexually Explicit Media Content, Pornography
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Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Tools
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Female Opinion Leaders, Politicians, Decision Makers
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Sexuality
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Collaboration
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Gatekeepers
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Health Communication
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Health Campaigns: Planning & Implementation
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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Polio Communication
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History of Disinformation
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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Population
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Foreign Correspondents
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Foreign Countries: Reporting & Media Representation
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Foreign News, International News
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Sputnik (Russian State News Portal & Radio Broadcast Service)
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Transnational & Comparative Communication Research
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NATO
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Journalism
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Investigative Journalism
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Journalism Sources
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Journalistic Practices & Routines
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Safety of Journalists: Law & Public Policies
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Newsroom Management
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Radio Journalism
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Asian Languages
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Media Assistance
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Information Ecosystems
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Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relations
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Mindfulness, Mindful Communication
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Human Rights
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Human Rights Violations
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Pop Music
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Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274)
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Cadwalladr, Carole (British Investigative Journalist)
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Khashoggi, Jamal (1958-2018)
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Ressa, Maria
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Hindu Nationalism
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Radicalisation: Influence of Media
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Public Opinion Manipulation
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Public Spheres
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Public & State Television
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Psychology (General)
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Archetypes
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Everyday Life
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Opinion, Opinion Formation, Opinion Change
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Prejudices
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Perception, Cognition & Comprehension
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Third-Person Effects
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Buddhism
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Esotericism & New Age
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Taliban
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Islam
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Islamism
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Perceptions & Attitudes Towards Islam
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Mythology
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New Religious Movements
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Religion (General)
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Research in Media & Communication
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Communication & Media Research Centres
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Research Methods
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Research Report Writing
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Discrimination
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Countering Discrimination & Racism
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Civic Coalitions
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Digital Media Technologies
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Robots, Robotics
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Software
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Remote Work, Teleworking, Working from Home
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SMS
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Theories of Communication & Media
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Non-Western Communication Approaches
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Primeiro turno: Eleições 2022. Especial mensageria: Narrativas, estratégias e fluxo de desinformação
NetLab;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2022), 60 slides
"Neste relatório, o NetLab UFRJ reúne os principais resultados do monitoramento de redes de desinformação multiplataforma a partir dos aplicativos de mensageria. Analisando 115,3 mil mensagens veiculadas em grupos públicos do Whatsapp e 180,9 mil em grupos e canais públicos do Telegram, identi
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Acompanhamento da desinformação durante as eleições 2022
NetLab;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2022), 39 slides
"Narrativas de desinformação - principais achados: 1. Entre alegações de fraude e apelos moralistas, a Integridade Eleitoral e os Valores Cristãos despontam como as principais pautas do segundo turno. 2. Parte da relevância dos valores cristãos se dá pelo reenquadramento de outras pautas ger
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Negacionismo climático e desinformação online: Uma revisão de escopo
Liinc em Revista , volume 18, issue 1, e5948 (2022), 27 pp.
"Esforços de síntese de evidências vêm apontando para o avanço das formas organizadas de desinformação e negação do conhecimento científico sobre a mudança climática global. Em vários países do mundo, há um forte debate sobre a difusão dessas narrativas no ambiente online e seus impa
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Belastungsprobe für die Demokratie: Pro-russische Verschwörungserzählungen und Glaube an Desinformation in der Gesellschaft
Berlin: Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie (CeMAS) (2022), 9 pp.
"Die Zustimmungswerte zu pro-russischen Verschwörungserzählungen in der deutschen Gesamtbevölkerung steigen. Im Vergleich zu den Umfrageergebnissen einer CeMAS-Analyse aus April 2022 stiegen sowohl alle Zustimmungswerte als auch alle Werte der teils-teils-Antworten im Hinblick auf die Haltung zu
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Regulation of Harmful Content Online in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Freedom of Expression and Harms to Democracy
Sarajevo: Mediacentar;UNESCO (2022), 108 pp.
"The study specifically focuses on five types of harmful content: a) hate speech and hate narratives; b) denials of war crimes and glorification of war criminals; c) ethno-nationally and/or politically biased media reporting; d) disinformation; and e) attacks, threats and smear campaigns against ind
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A Human Rights Approach to Tackle Disinformation: Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Amnesty International (2022), 16 pp.
"Instead of criminalising or otherwise silencing people to address misinformation and disinformation, States should step up their efforts to ensure credible, reliable, objective, evidence-based and accessible information is disseminated to all." (Back cover)
The Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation 2022
Key Guidance
European Commission (2022), 40 pp.
"The Code of Practice on Disinformation is a first-of-its kind tool through which relevant players in the industry agreed - for the first time in 2018 - on self-regulatory standards to fight disinformation. Its revision process was launched in June 2021 and, after the signature and presentation of t
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Pseudo-Media Disinformation Patterns: Polarised Discourse, Clickbait and Twisted Journalistic Mimicry
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 10 (2022), pp. 2140-2158
"Information disorder involves wide-ranging content that challenges democratic rules and social harmony. Pseudo-media that relies on conspiracy theories and misleading versions of the social reality contribute to feeding the disinformation ecosystem by reinforcing biased messages with expressive pat
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The Problem with Pictures: Source Analysis and Fact-Checking in a Time of War
Journalism Research, volume 5, issue 2 (2022), pp. 172-182
"Day in, day out, we journalists receive images from combat zones in Ukraine, without knowing whether they are authentic or have been manipulated. It is our job to find out, conducting analysis that takes both time and basic knowledge of image forensics. There are many testing tools and platforms fo
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Counter Digital Revolution, Disinformation, and Journalistic Constraints in Arab Media
Journalism Research, volume 5, issue 3 (2022), pp. 234-252
"The spread of social media platforms ushered the beginning of an unprecedented communication era, which is borderless, immediate, widespread, and defies restrictions and censorship. Digital technology aided the spread of democracy and freedom of expression and helped to overthrow some Arab regimes
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A systematic literature review and existing challenges toward fake news detection models
Social Network Analysis and Mining, volume 12, issue 168 (2022), 21 pp.
"This paper aims to conduct a review on fake news detection models that is contributed by a variety of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. The fundamental and well-performing approaches that existed in the past years are reviewed and categorized and described in different datasets. Furthe
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Researching the Evolving Online Ecosystem: Barriers, Methods and Future Challenges
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 35 pp.
"This report outlines the findings from the initial scoping phase of a project supported by a grant from Omidyar Network and launched by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and CASM Technology to identify online spaces used by extremist, hate and disinformation actors and communities as they
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Disinformation and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: Threats and governance responses
Paris: OECD (2022), 33 pp.
"The spread of disinformation around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reflects wider challenges related to the shift in how information is produced and distributed. Platform and algorithm designs can amplify the spread of disinformation by facilitating the creation of echo chambers and confirmation bi
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Demystifying Disinformation Shadow Economies: Fake News Work Models in Indonesia and the Philippines
Asian Journal of Communication, volume 32, issue 3 (2022), pp. 251-267
"[...] this article contributes ethnographically grounded and comparative research of two democratic Southeast Asian countries dealing with urgent threats to media freedom and democracy: Indonesia and the Philippines. Our research identifies the main disinformation work models in Southeast Asia, mos
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Social Media and the Information War in the Balkans
Brussels: Balkan Free Media Initiative (BFMI) (2022), 52 pp.
"This report examines the destabilizing effects of social media in two key places in the Balkans: Serbia and Republika Srpska, the majority Serb entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The leaders of both – President Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia and President Milorad Dodik in Republika Srpska – ar
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We Love to Hate George Soros: A Cross-Platform Analysis of the Globalism Conspiracy Theory Campaign in Brazil
Convergence, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 983–1006
"The proliferation of conspiracy theories surrounding George Soros and the ‘Globalist invasion’ had been concentrated primarily in Eastern Europe, Russia and the United States. However, since Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential victory in Brazil, Soros has become a target of the far-right in the cou
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The Vladimirror Network: Pro-Putin Power-Users on Facebook
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 11 pp.
"Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) researchers identified key pro-Putin accounts with two or more duplicates engaged in administering, moderating, and contributing to large public Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of members fawning over the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russia
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The Role of Religions and Conspiracy Theories in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Politics and Governance, volume 10, issue 4 (2022), pp. 132-242
"This thematic issue asks about the role of religions and religious actors and conspiracy theories/theorists in democratic and authoritarian regimes in general. Special attention is given to the current Covid]19 pandemic, since the relevant state of emergency obviously endorses the persuasiveness
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A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation
Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 5 (2022), pp. 843-865
"Public service media (PSM) are widely acknowledged as part of the variety of solutions to disinformation. The remit of PSM, formed around values of universality, equality, diversity, accuracy and quality, implies a responsibility to fight disinformation by producing fact-based news content and find
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Comunicação e ciência: Reflexões sobre a desinformação
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 476 pp.
"Como indica o título do livro há em seus 21 textos diversos cenários que se apresentam em torno daquilo que conceitualmente é definido como “desinformação”, ou seja, reflexões sobre o nosso tempo concomitante de vida em que se dá crédito a teorias absurdas, se reescreve o passado a par
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