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Protesta pacífica: Conceptos y consejos

Débora Calderón

Caracas: Espacio Público (2023), 30 pp.

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Engaging social media audiences with riots: TV and newspapers’ coverage of the 2019 protests in Colombia and Chile

Victor Garcia-Perdomo, Maria Isabel Magaña, Juan Camillo Hernandez-Rodriguez, Jose Augusto Ventin-Sanchez

International Communication Gazette, volume 86, issue 8 (2023), pp. 607-632

"This research utilizes the theoretical framework of the protest paradigm to analyze how major TV channels and newspapers in Chile and Colombia covered-on their official X (Twitter) accounts-the massive 2019 protests. The paper collected data using the software Crimson Hexagon(CH), a social media an ... more

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Comunicación gubernamental: Reflexiones a partir de los gobiernos kirchnerista 2011-2015 y macrista 2016-2019 en Argentina

Manuela Acha, Alejandra Anoro, Verónica Becerro et al.

La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social (2023), 166 pp.

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Media and power in modern Iran: Mass communication, ideology, and the state

Emily L. Blout

London: Tauris (2023), x, 222 pp.

"Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic-skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting thems ... more

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‘Forced to report’: Affective proximity and the perils of local reporting on Syria

Omar Al-Ghazzi

Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 280–294

"Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local ... more

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Cartoonists on the line: Report on the situation of threatened cartoonists around the world 2020-2022

Cartooning for Peace;UNESCO (2023), 32 pp.

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“I Know Which Devil I Write for”: Two Types of Autonomy Among Czech Journalists Remaining in and Leaving the Prime Minister’s Newspapers

Johana Kotisova, Lenka W. Císa¡rová

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 1 (2023), pp. 238-256

"This paper examines two different understandings of professional autonomy among journalists currently and formerly working at Mafra, a Czech media house acquired in 2013 by Andrej Babiš, who in 2017 became the Czech Prime Minister. We build on existing research of local trends in media ownership a ... more

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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, Daivi Rodima-Taylor (eds.)

New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.

"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on ... more

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A Media Repertoires Approach to Selective Exposure: News Consumption and Political Polarization in Eastern Europe

Fani Toth, Sabina Mihelj, Stetka Vaclav, Katherine Kondor

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 28, issue 4 (2023), pp. 884-908

"In recent years, links between selective news exposure and political polarisation have attracted considerable attention among communication scholars. However, while the existence of selective exposure has been documented in both offline and online environments, the evidence of its extent and its im ... more

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Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging: A study of social media usage by selected South African female politicians

Trust Matsilele, Sisanda Nkoala

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 13 (2023), pp. 2575-2597

"This study investigates social media usage patterns, Twitter’ frequency use and message typologies of selected South African female politicians’. Using the digital public sphere theory as a lens, the study considers six hundred Twitter posts from six female politicians from the African National ... more

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The role of radio as the public sphere for public political education in the digital era: Challenges and pitfalls

Anang Sujoko, Dyan Rahmiati, Fathur Rahman

Cogent Social Sciences, volume 9, issue 2239627 (2023), 14 pp.

"As one of the mass media, the existence of radio in carrying out its role as a social institution to provide education for citizens, especially political education in a democratic country is an interesting topic. The purpose of this study is to analyze the way radio runs and controls political educ ... more

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Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa

Meghan Sobel Cohen, Karen McIntyre Hopkinson

New York: Oxford University Press (2023), 176 pp.

"Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy uses the perceptions of journalists in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya to examine mediascapes at varying stages of development and democracy-building—Rwanda, which experienced a genocide in 1994, is in relatively early (though fast-paced) stages of ... more

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Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East Since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon

Dounia Mahlouly (ed.)

London: Tauris (2023), vii, 198 pp.

"This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022. It examines the shifting narrative around digital activism in the region, from the ... more

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Report: Online Influencers’ Influence in Kenya and Nigeria 2023

Newton Adika

GeoPoll (2023)

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La télé dans les bidonvilles: Réceptions des messages politiques télévisés dans le quartier marginalisé des chiffonniers du Caire

Catherine Gaber

Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 342 pp.

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Inteligencia artificial y comunicación política: Cuando la tecnología toma el poder

Diego Mota Orlob

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 113 pp.

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A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy

Eytan Gilboa (ed.)

Cheltenham (UK); Northampton, Mass. (US): Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), xxvii, 307 pp.

"Public diplomacy has become one of the central instruments of foreign policy and national security; this crucial Research Agenda provides a new outline for its investigation. Aiding the comprehension of the broad boundaries of the field, it proposes a clear starting point for contemporary research ... more

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Journalism in the Grey Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia

Kjetil Selvik, Jacob Høigilt

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), ix, 228 pp.

"Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media organisations and individual journalists to shore up support for themselves and attack opponents. This book explores the political role of journalism in the ... more

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Media Manipulation in Young Democracies: Evidence From the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election

Alexsandros Cavgias, Raphael Corbi, Luis Meloni, Lucas M. Novaes

Comparative Political Studies, volume 57, issue 2 (2023), pp. 221-253

"We investigate how dominant media networks can manipulate voters in young democracies. During the first presidential election after the democratic transition in Brazil, TV Globo, the largest and most-watched network in the country, unexpectedly manipulated the news coverage of the last debate 2 day ... more

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Social Media for Civic Education: Engaging Youth for Democracy

Amy L. Chapman

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 161 pp.