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Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Online: Survivors’ Perspectives

Bangkok: ECPAT International;WeProtect Global Alliance (2022), 83 pp.

"Across the types of issues that child protection workers were facing, forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse with an online element were indicated in 18% of their total caseloads. This means that one in five children they were supporting had related concerns. It is noted this was a convenienc ... more

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Entorno regulatorio y políticas públicas para la sostenibilidad de los medios comunitarios en Colombia

Jorge Alberto Londoño Lugo

Montevideo: Observacom (2022), 37 pp.

"Es necesario que el Congreso de la República expida una ley en donde se de estabilidad y seguridad jurídica a las comunidades organizadas que prestan el servicio de radio comunitaria. En la actualidad está reglamentado mediante una Resolución Ministerial, la cual es fácilmente modificable por ... more

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The Viability of Ethiopian News Media: Applying DW Akademie's Media Viability Indicators (MVIs)

Asrat Seyoum

Addis Ababa: MERSA Media Institute;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 50 pp.

"[...] almost all the media experts interviewed in the study identified “political and legal system,” “public attitude and relationship to media,” and “economic and ownership situation” to be the top three biggest obstacles to news media viability in Ethiopia. In fact, almost four-fifth ... more

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Mapping Open Data in Kyrgyzstan

Ion Marandici et al.

Internews;Zekalo (2022), 25 pp.

"New data sources related to socio-economic development should improve journalistic reporting. Still, despite an abundance of open data in Kyrgyzstan, journalists may face delays in getting quick access to important datasets. Goal: To facilitate the access to development-related information for jour ... more

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Digital Maps

British Council (2022), 136 pp.

"Developed and delivered in 2021/2022, the Digital Media Arts for an inclusive Public Sphere (Digital MAPS) programme brought together three universities, a data science and software company, an international Digital Peacebuilding NGO, as well as 18 country-based media-arts initiatives, to explore l ... more

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“They’ll Get You no Matter What”: Morocco’s Playbook to Crush Dissent

Human Rights Watch (2022), 134 pp.

"This report examines eight cases of police and/or judicial harassment targeting known Moroccan dissidents, and two cases targeting independent media institutions. The report examines in detail 12 cases tried by Morocco courts." (Methodology)

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Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
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Marie-Soleil Frère

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 347 pp.

"This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different ... more

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Trust in the Internet

Ipsos (2022), 23 pp.

"An international survey reveals that Internet users' trust on the Internet has dropped significantly since 2019. That is among the key findings of a 20-country Ipsos survey released by The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany. Only six in ten (63%) Internet users on average across the 20 countries sai ... more

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Media Reform in Tunisia: A Volatile Process

Fatima el Issawi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 25 pp.

"The halting progress of the Tunisian media reform reflects the uncertainty and vulnerability of the political reform. As Professor of Communication and Democracy Katrin Voltmer contends, emerging media systems are unique types that are a blend of inherited structures, the constraints of the transit ... more

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Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints

Bruce Mutsvairo, Nnamdi T. Ekeanyanwu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xv, 272 pp.

"The book traces communication in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communication, through the development of telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian flm industry (‘Nollywood’) and on to the digital era. At a time when Western voices still dominate the academic li ... more

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Country assessment to facilitate digital financial inclusion in Ethiopia

Geneva: ITU (2022), x, 63 pp.

"This report presents findings from a country assessment undertaken to facilitate digital financial inclusion in Ethiopia and gives an overview of the current digital financial services landscape in the country. It also identifies some of the barriers to digital financial inclusion and suggests how ... more

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Étude sur le développement des médias en Haïti: Basée sur les indicateurs de développement des médias de l’UNESCO

Jean Pharès Jérôme, Alberte Pétiote

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 75 pp.

"L’État peine à protéger les journalistes. Les attaques contre eux sont fréquentes et leurs auteurs sont rarement traduits en justice. Une insécurité qui renforce la précarité des journalistes, par ailleurs peu rémunérés, pas toujours formés, et souvent contraints d’exercer simultan� ... more

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Afghanistan Media Landscape Guide

Atefeh Givian (coord.)

CDAC Network (2022), 24 pp.

"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the media in Afghanistan, including the audiences, the producers, the preferences of different groups in the community, the communications culture, and the languages associated with the media. It gives an insight into the role of media in developmen ... more

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Fair Game: The Endangered Media Space for Foreign Correspondents Inside China 2022

Mary Kay Magistad

Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 10 pp.

"This report focuses on Beijing's efforts to control domestic reporting by resident foreign journalists. It is based on interviews conducted by the IFJ in December 2021 with 19 current or recent correspondents from nine countries, who work across print and broadcast and whose experience in China ran ... more

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Assessment of Media Development in Sudan 2019-2020: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Steve Buckley, Amel Ibrahim Ahmed Abuzaid, Sara Eljmiaabi, Ahmed Yahia

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 107 pp.

"The research data reveal that Sudan at the time had at least 10 media-related laws in place that do not meet international standards. At the same time, the country had the benefit of an infrastructure of 30 institutions offering media education and training. Sudan has an opportunity to restructure ... more

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Afghanistan's media developments and challenges in the past two decades: A short glance at media freedom

Masom Jan Masomy

Reality of Politics, issue 19 (2022), pp. 64-77

"Media, during Taliban five years period from 1996–2001, had been totally suffocated. Only limited number of print media would publish to spread the propaganda of Taliban Emirate under Sharia Law. Post-Taliban era, media landscape obtained new image with the establishment of democratic government. ... more

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Assessment of Media Development in The Gambia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Alymana Bathily, Sait Matty Jaw, Modou Joof, Awa Bah, Birane Gai et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 86 pp.

"Although some planned reforms announced since 2017 concerning the rights to freedom of expression and others are yet to be finalized, the report finds that the media environment has improved considerably since the new government came into power. In the context of a rising internet penetration rate, ... more

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New money. Bitcoin and cryptoassets in Central America: The case of El Salvador

Felipe J. Echandi Lacayo

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2022), 16 pp.

"El Salvador’s experiment, though mired with fiscal and political issues from before, has shown that the adoption of public blockchain assets like Bitcoin are not taken in good regard by legacy financial multilateral institutions and are seen with great skepticism and concern. Although the adoptio ... more

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La radio en Bucaramanga: Vidas y sonidos de ciudad ...

Tito Ballesteros López

[author] (2022), 153 pp.

"Este libro se lee con mucha facilidad y nos describe con gran amplitud y rigurosidad investigativa ese paisaje mediático de la ciudad, donde conviven la expresión pública, la comercial y la comunitaria. Es un texto que nos cuenta que la radio sigue vigente y muy presente en la vida de la gente, ... more

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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil: A Work in Progress

Marília Duque

London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 275 pp.

"With people living longer all over the world, ageing has been framed as a socio-economic problem. In Brazil, older people are expected to remain healthy and autonomous while actively participating in society. Based on ethnographic research in São Paulo, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Brazil show ... more

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