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Benchmarking Demand: Pakistan and the Internet Users’ Perspective
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2016), 27 pp.
"The percentage of Pakistanis using the Internet increased by 37.5% between 2009 and 2013, though overall internet penetration remains very low with only 11% of the population having access to the Internet". (Page 9) "Heavy internet users in Pakistan are very young (72% under 30 years of age), large
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Interactive Voice Response and Radio for Peacebuilding: A Macro View of the Literature and Experiences from the Field
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Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2016), 27 pp.
"This report provides a broad overview and assessment of how Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems are being implemented in international development work with an emphasis on the particular role IVR can play in peacebuilding work in post-conflict contexts. In order to narrow the scope of research
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Chaos and Control: The Competing Tensions of Internet Governance in Iran
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication; Small Media (2015), 52 pp.
"Some key findings from the report include: Iran's primary objective has been to challenge existing internet governance structures, most notably the United States' privileged position vis-à-vis the IANA and ICANN; it is too simplistic to say that Iran allies only with authoritarian countries on int
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Benchmarking Public Demand: Russia's Appetite for Internet Control
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication; Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) (2015), 26 pp.
"Almost half (49%) of all Russians believe that information on the Internet needs to be censored; a plurality (42%) of Russians believe foreign countries are using the Internet against Russia and its interests. About one-quarter of Russians think the Internet threatens political stability (24%); abo
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Benchmarking Demand: Turkey’s Contested Internet
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2015), 35 pp.
"The data in this report was collected between December 20, 2014 and February 2, 2015 and represents the views of 1161 respondents from that time. The goal of the project is to understand how people in Turkey perceive and value the debate over Internet freedoms in Turkey and how they employ the Inte
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Uchaguzi: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of ICTs, Statebuilding, and Peacebuilding in Kenya
Philadelphia: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2015), 43 pp.
"This study has found that Uchaguzi represents a blended model incorporating both crowd-seeding (placing monitors on the ground to collect data) and crowd-sourcing (collecting information from the public). The success of crowd-seeding is a function of Uchaguzi’s partnerships with local and interna
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"RLB’s interventions in Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC have achieved significant knowledge, attitude, and behavior changes. Among the most notable of these: With respect to gains in knowledge, members of RLB’s audience have gained better understandings of the cycle of violence and methods used by
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Testing a Media Intervention in Kenya: Vioja Mahakamani, Dangerous Speech, and the Benesch Guidelines
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2013), 29 pp.
"Susan Benesch, human rights scholar, genocide prevention fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, has, over the last several years, developed an analytical framework for identifying ‘dangerous speech’
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"BBC Media Action has made strengthening the evidence base of reports, data sets, and analysis about the role of media and communication in democratic development a priority. Yet, the extent to which different donor organizations, foundations, think tanks, practitioners, and academics utilize resear
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Afghanistan Media Development & Empowerment Project (AMDEP) Media Law and Policy Program. Participants' Manual
Philadelphia, PA: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2012), iv, 381 pp.
"Through the design, development and delivery of curricula and the training program in Afghanistan on the subject of media law, the hope is to empower Afghan lawyers to serve as a critical resource to journalists, media managers, and local government officials. Through the trainings, participants ch
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National Web Studies: Mapping Iran Online
Philadelphia: Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2012), 25 pp.
"Instead of defining a priori the types of websites to be included in a national web, the approach put forward here makes use of web devices (platforms and engines) that purport to provide (ranked) lists of URLs relevant to a particular country. Once gathered in such a manner, the websites are studi
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Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study
Washington, DC: Internews; Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2012), 40 pp.
"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co
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Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure
Washington, DC; Philadelphia: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) Annenberg School for Communication (2010), 63 pp.
"The organizations that conduct country rankings should continue to increase technical sophistication, cultural neutrality, and transparency. In particular, continued attention must be paid to digital media, notably the Internet and mobile phones, which now number approximately 4.6 billion worldwide
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