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Digital Vs Traditional Media Consumption: Analyzing Time Devoted to Online and Traditional Forms of Media at a Global Level, as Well as by Age and Across Countries

GlobalWebIndex (2019), 40 pp.

"In this report, GlobalWebIndex offers a unique perspective on day-to-day media consumption behaviors by age and across 41 markets – analyzing how much time people are spending online, tracking the types of media they are consuming and assessing the share of time spent on digital versus traditiona ... more

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Media Framing Dynamics of the ‘European Refugee Crisis’: A Comparative Topic Modelling Approach

Tobias Heidenreich, Fabienne Lind, Jokob - Moritz Eberl et al.

Journal of Refugee Studies, volume 32, issue 1 (2019), pp. 173-182

"The complexity and duration of the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’ created a climate of uncertainty, which left ample room for mass media to shape citizens’ understanding of what the arrival of these refugees meant for their respective country. This study analyses the national media disco ... more

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Metodologias emergentes na comunicação católica: Documentos oficiais das Conferências Episcopais Italiana, Brasileira e Caribenha

Mauricio Cruzz

Comunicación , issue 40 (2019), pp. 12-34

"Este artigo integra pesquisas desenvolvidas em minha tese de doutoramento “A Educomunicação no Diretório de Comunicação da Igreja no Brasil: aprendizagem em perspectiva”, defendida junto à Universidade de São Paulo. Aqui apresentamos os documentos específicos produzidos pelas três prim ... more

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A Closer Look at How Religious Restrictions Have Risen Around the World

Samirah Majumdar, Alan Cooperman, Anna Schiller

Pew Research Center (2019), 126 pp.

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Between the White House and the Kremlin: A Comparative Analysis of Afghan and Tajik Media

Wazhmah Osman

International Journal of Communication, volume 13 (2019), pp. 619-641

"In their postwar, postindependence, and post-Soviet moments, why did two neighbors, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, who share cultural, linguistic, and historical similarities, take radically divergent paths in the development of their mass media, public sphere, and democracy? In this article, I argue ... more

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Pluralism in a Hybrid Media Environment from the User Perspective

Beata Klimkiewicz

San Domenico de Fiesole (IT): European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (2019), 21 pp.

"The analyzed studies and surveys reflect some common trends concerning changing news habits in Europe. First, although the newspapers are still the main original sources for stories and provide institutional basis for high-quality journalism, they are not the primary gateways through which users ac ... more

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How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
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Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye

Cape Town: Afrobarometer (2019), 34 pp.

"Popular support for media freedom continues to decline, dropping to below half (47%) of respondents across 34 countries. More Africans (49%) now say governments should have the right to prevent publications they consider harmful. Twenty-five of 31 countries tracked since 2011 experienced declines i ... more

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Violencia contra los periodistas
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Marisol Cano Busquets

Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2019), 554 pp.

"La violencia contra los periodistas no es un hecho aislado. Esta es una práctica presente en países de todo el mundo y que se caracteriza por la impunidad que rodea a las muertes de comunicadores de diversos medios de comunicación. Esta situación no solo deja impune el crimen, también impide y ... more

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Marketplace of Ideas or Little Shop of Horrors? Comparing US News Coverage of Local and Distant Suffering

Lauren Kogen

In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond

Allan Thompson (ed.)

Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 393-412

"While we might blame news audiences for their short-lived engagement with foreign crises, their reactions are far less surprising when we look carefully at what news stories truly communicate to readers. As illustrated above, the subtle lessons the news media teach audiences about foreign crises wo ... more

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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2019

Geneva: ITU (2019), ii, 11 pp.

"Welcome to the first of ITU’s Measuring Digital Development series of statistical and analytical publications that replace the annual Measuring the Information Society Report. Facts and figures 2019 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year. ... more

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Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans
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Kristina Irion, Tarik Jusic (eds.)

Budapest: Central European University Press (2018), xiii, 346 pp.

"This books draws a comparative balance of twenty years' international media assistance in the five countries of the Western Balkans. The central question was what happens to imported models when they are transposed onto the newly evolving media systems of transitional societies. Albania, Bosnia-Her ... more

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The Age Gap in Religion Around the World: By Several Measures, Young Adults Tend to be Less Religious Than Their Elders

Pew Research Center (2018), 96 pp.

"Although the age gap in religious commitment is larger in some nations than in others, it occurs in many different economic and social contexts – in developing countries as well as advanced industrial economies, in Muslim-majority nations as well as predominantly Christian states, and in societie ... more

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Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles
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Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (ed.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxv, 396 pp.

"The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governanc ... more

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Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa

Nicole Stremlau

New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (2018), xiii, 175 pp.

"Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges about what the role of media should be in political transitions, particularly when attempting to build a new state and balance a difficult legacy. Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa discusses how ideas, institutions and intere ... more

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Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, But Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver: Deep Political Divides in Many Nations on Satisfaction with News Media

Amy Mitchell, Katy Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa, Laura Silver

Pew Research Center (2018), 54 pp.

"Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far mo ... more

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"To give publicity to our thoughts": Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit

Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, Frieder Ludwig, Ciprian Burlacioiu (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2018), 378 pp.

"Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen indigen-christliche Eliten in Asien und Afrika, sich stärker in der kolonialen Öffentlichkeit ihrer Länder zu artikulieren. Sie gründeten ihre eigenen Journale, kritisierten Missstände in Gesellschaft und Missionskirchen, beteiligten sich an sozialen Be ... more

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Digital Civil Society: Wie zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen im Web 2.0 politische Ziele verfolgen

Jasmin Fitzpatrick

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), 317 pp.

"Jasmin Fitzpatrick widmet sich aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen und untersucht, wie diese das Potenzial der neuen Kommunikationskanäle des Web 2.0 nutzen. Im Fokus stehen zum einen ihre Mobilisierung von Unterstützern und zum anderen ihre Absicht, d ... more

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Measuring the Reach of 'Fake News' and Online Disinformation in Europe

Richard Fletcher, Alessio Cornia, Lucas Graves, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 10 pp.

"The purpose of this RISJ factsheet is to provide toplevel usage statistics for the most popular sites that independent fact-checkers and other observers have identified as publishers of false news and online disinformation in two European countries: France and Italy. We focus specifically on sites ... that independent fact-checkers have shown to publish demonstrably false news and information, whether for profit or for ideological/political purposes. This constitutes a more clearly defined subset of a wider range of issues sometimes discussed using the broad, vague, and politicized term “fake news”. We examine France and Italy as two particularly important cases, as both are widely seen as facing serious issues with forprofit and ideologically/politically motivated online disinformation. Based on a starting sample of around 300 websites in each country that independent fact-checkers have identified as publishers of false news (which, on this basis, we refer to as “false news sites”), we focus on measuring these sites’ reach, attention, and number of interactions on Facebook. We provide context by comparing these figures with equivalent data for a small selection of the most widely-used French and Italian news brands. We find that: • None of the false news websites we considered had an average monthly reach of over 3.5% in 2017, with most reaching less than 1% of the online population in both France and Italy. By comparison, the most popular news websites in France (Le Figaro) and Italy (La Repubblica) had an average monthly reach of 22.3% and 50.9%, respectively; • The total time spent with false news websites each month is lower than the time spent with news websites. The most popular false news websites in France were viewed for around 10 million minutes per month, and for 7.5 million minutes in Italy. People spent an average of 178 million minutes per month with Le Monde, and 443 million minutes with La Repubblica—more than the combined time spent with all 20 false news sites in each sample; • Despite clear differences in terms of website access, the level of Facebook interaction (defined as the total number of comments, shares, and reactions) generated by a small number of false news outlets matched or exceeded that produced by the most popular news brands. In France, one false news outlet generated an average of over 11 million interactions per month—five times greater than more established news brands. However, in most cases, in both France and Italy, false news outlets do not generate as many interactions as established news brands." (Pages 1-2) more

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The Mobile Economy: Latin America and the Caribbean 2018

London: GSMA (2018), 57 pp.

"By mid-2018, there were 442 million unique mobile subscribers across Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for 68% of the population. The region is characterised by varying levels of mobile subscriber penetration. A number of countries (such as Chile, Uruguay and Argentina) are approaching sa ... more

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Research Evidence for the Relationship Between Corruption and Civil Liberties

Transparency International (2018), 8 pp.

"Corrupt individuals have proven very adept at finding ways to get around formal constraints, which is why grassroots and bottom-up approaches to fighting corruption tend to be more sustainable in the long run than isolated institutional and legal reform. Often, well-intentioned laws are poorly enfo ... more

How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive Top Insights

Violencia contra los periodistas Top Insights

Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans Top Insights

Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles Top Insights

How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
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Violencia contra los periodistas
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Media Constrained by Context: International Assistance and the Transition to Democratic Media in the Western Balkans
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Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles
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