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Threats Against Public-Facing Women in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Association of Women in Journalism (SLAWIJ);Internews (2022), 49 pp.

"This research presents findings and recommendations about the nature, scale, and impact of threats faced by select categories of public-facing women in Sierra Leone. Specifically, by women human rights defenders (HRDs) and women journalists." (Research methodology)

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Violating Network: Gender-Based Violence Against Palestinian Women in the Digital Space

Inas Khatib (ed.)

Arab Center for Social Media Advancement (2022), 46 pp.

"The main findings of the research show that the danger of online gender-based violence lies in its rapid expansion and dissemination due to massive technological developments, the growing demand for digital spaces, fake accounts and screenbased anonymity enabling fraud and concealment, and the ubiq ... more

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Specification Curve Analysis Shows That Social Media Use is Linked to Poor Mental Health, Especially Among Girls

Jean M Twenge, Jonathan Haidt, Jimmy Lozano, Kevin M. Cummins

Acta Psychologica, volume 224, issue 103512 (2022), 11 pp.

"An important 2019 paper applied a novel analytic technique called Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the association between adolescent technology use and mental health/well-being. The paper concluded that an association exists but is ... more

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Feminist Internet Research Network: Meta-Research Project Report

Nyx McLean

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), iii, 58 pp.

"The FIRN meta-research aggregates and examines feminist research from the global South focused on questions around unequal access to online participation, the implications and impact of datafication, online gender-based violence, and gendered digital economies in the global South [...] While the re ... more

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White Paper on Feminist Internet Research

Sachini Perera

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 72 pp.

"Feminist internet research considers how gender justice can be achieved in the ways we belong, work and make on the internet and shows that this is not possible without considering the economic and environmental dimensions of the internet as well as the intersectionality of discriminations and viol ... more

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Their Story. Research: How Indonesian Media Views Non-Normative Sexuality and Genders (LGBT)

Widia Primastika, Nurhajati Lestari, Dina Listiorini, Marina Nasution, Luviana, Reka Kajaksana

Jakarta: Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI);USAID (2022), 134 pp.

"This study by Konde.co with the support of Internews was conducted with the objective of uncovering Indonesian media newsroom policies with regards to issues related to individuals or groups with diverse gender expression and non-normative sexuality, which are collectively labeled as "LGBT". In thi ... more

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What is an Ideal Internet to You? A Global Exploration of Digital Rights Trends

Mardiya Siba Yahaya, Favour Borokini, Meital Kupfer, Neema Iyer, Phillip Ayazika, Phyllis Njoki Macharia

Pollicy (2022), 56 pp.

"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas ... more

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Russia's Vigilante YouTube Stars: Digital Entrepreneurship and Heroic Masculinity in the Service of Flexible Authoritarianism

Anna Schwenck

Europe-Asia Studies, volume 74, issue 7 (2022), pp. 1166-1189

"Combating illegal parking and drinking in public is the raison d’être of Russia’s best-known law-and-order youth initiatives, StopKham and Lev Protiv. These initiatives enforce and promote neotraditional morals amongst young people by challenging alleged offenders on camera and uploading the e ... more

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Media Coverage of Gender-Based Violence During the COVID-19 Period

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2022), viii, 27 pp.

"This report shows that the media coverage of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Kenya remains insensitive, lacking in depth and seems not prioritized by mainstream media as it is with digital platforms. Journalists need to pay more attention to matters relating to GBV, considering the increasing cases ... more

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Digital Nationalism Versus Gender Politics in Post-Reform China: Gender-Issue Debates on Zhihu

Altman Yuzhu Peng

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 281-299

"This article aims to determine how digital nationalism influences gender politics in the context of gender-issue debates on Chinese social media platforms. To this end, I present an original case study, collecting empirical data from the most popular Chinese community question-answering (CQA) websi ... more

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Gender Learning Brief

Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development (PRIMED) (2022), 10 pp.

"This learning brief aims to summarise key issues, evidence and trends on media and gender and help PRIMED partners identify opportunities to empower women as both media consumers and content producers as well as to amplify the voices of women in the media. It explores the links between improved gen ... more

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Gender on Our News Radar: A View from Southeast Asia

Johanna Son

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2022), 59 pp.

"This is a handy tool for learning and teaching in journalism and communication. This book is part of the Fojo Media Institute's Southeast Asia Media Training Network project, which focused on the building the capacity of, and co-learning with, media trainers in Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Rep ... more

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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India

Dante Donati, Victor Orozco-Olvera, Nandan Rao

Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 53 pp.

"This paper experimentally tests the effectiveness of two short edutainment campaigns (under 25 minutes) delivered through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability of violence against women in India. Participants were randomly assigned to watch video clips with ... more

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Cultivating a Feminist Community Network: Reflections of Practices in the Quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca

Bruna Vasconcelos, Bruna Zanolli

Feminist Internet Research Network;Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 25 pp.

"This article is an outcome of an actionresearch project that gathered community members, farmers, technologists, agroecologists and community network practitioners to make possible a community network in the quilombo of Ribeirão Grande/Terra Seca, located in Barra do Turvo city, São Paulo state, ... more

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The Influence of Gender-Based Online Violence on Political and Societal Participation of Women and Girls

Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 19 pp.

"Several projects, publications and initiatives within German development cooperation already focus on bridging the digital gender divide, for instance by promoting gender-equitable internet access, digital literacy and employment opportunities in the tech sector. This paper aims to build on existin ... more

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How #NiUnaMenos Used Discourse and Digital Media to Reach the Masses in Argentina

Alyssa Bedrosian

Latin American Research Review (LARR), volume 57 (2022), pp. 100-116

"In March 2015, a group of feminist writers and academics in Argentina organized a marathon reading event to protest femicide, using the slogan “Ni Una Menos.” Less than three months later, more than 250,000 Argentines participated in the first #NiUnaMenos demonstration in Buenos Aires. Since th ... more

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Femicidios en los medios y en la opinión pública: Estudio de las coberturas y su impacto

Estudio D’Alessio Irol

Buenos Aires: Iniciativa Spotlight (2022), 33 pp.

"Este proyecto tiene dos objetivos principales: por un lado, realizar un análisis sobre las coberturas periodísticas de femicidios y hechos de violencia de género en diferentes medios de comunicación de todo el país y, por otra parte, indagar cuál es el impacto que este tipo de noticias genera ... more

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Hashtags, Memes and Selfies: Can Social Media and Online Activism Shift Gender Norms?

Katie Washington, Rachel Marcus

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI);AKIGN (2022), 75 pp.

"Beyond supporting coalition-building, campaigning and lobbying, online campaigns aim to achieve specific goals such as the implementation of gender-based violence laws (#NiUnaMenos), or the removal of taxes on menstrual supplies (#HappytoBleed). More than just ‘slacktivism’, this report traces ... more

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Mujeres periodistas y salas de redacción: Avances, desafíos y recomendaciones para prevenir la violencia y luchar contra la discriminación

Pedro Vaca Villarreal

Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Relatoría Especial para la Libertad de Expresión (2022), 67 pp.

"[...] la Relatoría Especial ofrece en este informe un análisis de los patrones de discriminación que las mujeres periodistas y las trabajadoras de los medios de comunicación experimentan en las redacciones y/o en su lugar de trabajo a luz de los estándares interamericanos, con énfasis en la s ... more

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The Working Conditions and Challenges of Afghan Female Journalists

Mohammad Yousaf Saddiqi, Elif Kucuk Durur

American Journal of Applied Psychology, volume 11, issue 3 (2022), pp. 90-100

"Journalism is a demanding profession in Afghanistan, where females are less encouraged to become journalists. Even recently, the people of Afghanistan still do not encourage females to work outside. But still, a significant number of females are engaged in journalism. It contributes to society for ... more