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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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Racism in Social Media & Digital Communication
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Election Campaigns: Disinformation & Misinformation
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Reporting on Disinformation & Misinformation
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Environmental Communication
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Investigative Journalism
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Media Literacy: Youth
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Social Media Landscapes
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Robots, Robotics
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Telecommunication Companies, Mobile Phone & Fixed Line Operators
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Advertising Markets & Industries
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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Foreign Government Communication Interventions
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Holocaust
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Dealing With the Past
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Military: Online & Social Media Communication Strategies
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Memes
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Google
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Digital Media Markets
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AI & Social Justice
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Effects of Disinformation on Democracy
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Gendered Disinformation
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Political Economy of Media
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Sports Reporting
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Countering Defamation & Harassment
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Sexuality: Media Representation, Sexually Explicit Media Content, Pornography
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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History of Journalism
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Foreign Countries: Reporting & Media Representation
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European Union (EU)
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Information Ecosystems
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Trust Building: Role of Communication & Media
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Taliban
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RT (Russian International Broadcaster, formerly Russia Today)
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Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Access to Public Information, Freedom of Information, Right to Information
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Digital Advertising, Online Advertising
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Media Advocacy, Media Activism
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Audience Feedback, Interaction & Participation
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Behavior Tracking & Cookies
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Social Media Analytics, Web Metrics, User Data Analytics
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Media & ICT Use in Authoritarian Regimes / Dictatorships
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Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
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Authoritarian Discourse
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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E-Books & Digital Book Publishing
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Catholic Church and Communication
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Child Abuse: Digital Media
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Child Protection, Protection of Minors
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Children & Digital Media
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Media Literacy: Children
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Christian Communication Ethics, Christian Media Ethics
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Data Protection: Law & Regulation
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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State Influence on the Media
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Nonprofit Public Relations: Design & Implementation
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Social Media Marketing & Digital Public Relations
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Viral Spots & Viral Online Communication
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Alternative Communication & Media
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Community Radios
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Conflicts, Conflict Prevention & Management, Mediation, Peacebuilding
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Religion and Conflicts, Religious Conflicts, Religious Violence
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Islamic State (Political-Religious Extremist Organization)
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Conflict-Sensitive Radio Journalism, Radio in Conflict Prevention & Transformation
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Extremist & Terrorist Communication Strategies and Media
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Extremist Recruitment through Media
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Peace Culture, Peace Education, Non-Violence
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Peace Negotiations & Agreements: Media Representation & Reporting
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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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Computational Content Analysis
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Content Analysis (Research Method)
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Hermeneutics
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Media Ethnography
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Collective Memory: Violent Conflicts & Wars
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Fans, Fandom, Fan Cultures
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Literature
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Open Society Foundations (NGO network)
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Behaviour Change Communication
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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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Convergence of Media
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Cybercrimes
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Labour, Digital Work
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Digital Media, Internet & Religion
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Digital Media Research, Digital Communication Research
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Digital Research Methods
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History of Internet & Digital Media
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Interactive Media
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WeChat (Messaging, Social Media & Mobile Payment App, China)
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Electronic Commerce
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Political Blogging
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Political Websites & Online Communities
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Financing Digital / Online Media
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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Instagram
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Streaming Media
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Trolling (Social Media)
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AI in Journalism & Media
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AI Reporting
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Digital Philosophies
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Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
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Discrimination in Language & Media
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Ethnic Media, Minority Media
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Minorities & Disadavantaged Groups: Oppression
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Minorities & Disadvantaged Groups: Reporting & Media Representation
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Racism in Communication & Media
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Information Management
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Early Warning: Disasters
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Stop.Fake.org (Internet Portal, Kiev)
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Environmental Disinformation & Misinformation
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Documenting Human Rights Violations
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Economics of Media
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Media Clusters
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Media Concentration
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Media Industries
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Music Industries & Markets
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Television Markets
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Civic Education: Use & Role of Media
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
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Gaming: Ethical Issues
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Sports
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Docusoaps & Scripted Reality Programmes
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Environmental Journalism
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Defamation Law & Regulation
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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Image Ethics, Ethics in Photojournalism
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Objectivity & Veracity of Reporting
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Ubuntu (Ethical Concept of Southern African Origin)
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Sexuality
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Gatekeepers
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History of Disinformation
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Indigenous Communication
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Ethnicity in Communication
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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Population
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Influence of Media on Foreign & International Policies
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NATO
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UNESCO
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Civic Journalism, Public Journalism
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Journalism Sources
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Journalism Studies & Research
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Journalistic Genres
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Journalistic Practices & Routines
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Mobile Journalism, Video Journalism
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News
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Local News
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Newsroom Management
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Radio Journalism
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Drug Trafficking Reporting & Media Representation
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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Protests, Protest Movements, Protest Reporting & Media Representation
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Asian Languages
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Local Communication & Media
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Media Assistance
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Mindfulness, Mindful Communication
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Media Literacy: Primary Education
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Media Literacy: Secondary Education
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Consumer Protection
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Media Governance
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Rule of Law
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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Deaf & Hard of Hearing People
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People with Disabilities: Access to & Use of ICT and Media
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Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274)
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Cadwalladr, Carole (British Investigative Journalist)
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Khashoggi, Jamal (1958-2018)
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Ressa, Maria
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Conflict & War Photography
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Accountability & Transparency
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Governance
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FARC (Insurgent Group, Colombia)
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Political Culture
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Hindu Nationalism
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Framing
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Political Television Programmes & Political Talkshows
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Public & State Television
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Gatekeeping Function of Media
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Persuasive Communication
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Everyday Life
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Indignation, Outrage
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Opinion, Opinion Formation, Opinion Change
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Perception, Cognition & Comprehension
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Third-Person Effects
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Buddhism
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Interreligious Dialogue
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Islam
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Muslim Digital Media & Online Communities
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Perceptions & Attitudes Towards Islam
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Yazidism, Yazidis, Yezidis
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Communication & Media Research Centres
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Research Methods
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Data Analysis & Interpretation
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Political Indicators
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Randomised Control Trials & (Quasi-) Experimental Designs
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Rohingya
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Digital Media Technologies
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Apps
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Remote Work, Teleworking, Working from Home
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SMS
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State Influence on ICT & Telecommunication Markets
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Al-Jazeera
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Freedom on the Net 2019: The Crisis of Social Media

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2019), 32 pp.
"Social media allow ordinary people, civic groups, and journalists to reach a vast audience at little or no cost, but they have also provided an extremely useful and inexpensive platform for malign influence operations by foreign and domestic actors alike. Political leaders employed individuals to s ... more
"A luta contra a desinformação não é nova, mas atingiu proporções inimagináveis há algumas décadas. O volume de conteúdos, a velocidade e o alcance conferiram mudanças qualitativas ao problema, exigindo um esforço para a descoberta de novas formas de enfrentá-lo. Longe de esgotarmos o a ... more

Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2018

São Paulo: Intervozes (2019), 80 pp.

The Business of Misinformation: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lying for Profit

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 8 pp.
"The websites creating misinformation content in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be classified into four categories based on their financial and/or political motivations and the extent to which they provide valuable journalistic contributions. The majority of misinformation websites are motivated solely ... more

Russian Information Warfare in Central and Eastern Europe: Strategies, Impact, and Countermeasures

Washington, DC: German Marshall Fund of the United States (2019), 19 pp.
"The dynamism of Russia’s information warfare is best illustrated by the fact that over the last decade it underwent at least two strategic shifts—after the Russian-Georgian war in 2008 and in 2014 when Russia went from being risk-averse and stealthy to increasingly aggressive and risk-taking. E ... more
"Efforts to fight the spread of disinformation have had mixed results. Self-regulation by online platforms such as Twitter or Facebook puts a great deal of power in their hands, with potentially negative effects on independent news outlets that depend on social media for their outreach. State regula ... more
"Facebook is the Internet in Myanmar, and it presents both opportunities for and challenges to the government, the opposition, and the people in a country that is in transition. Facebook has gained notoriety as a platform for hate speech and fake news in Myanmar over the past seven years. Facebook h ... more
"Our analysis of millions of Russian tweets over 2014-2018 reveals that bots make up a large proportion of the Russian political Twittersphere. However, an important lesson from our region is that one cannot assume that simply because there are bots present in the Russian political Twittersphere tha ... more
"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face ... more

The Business of Misinformation: Slovakia. Snake Oil Spills Onto the Web

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 12 pp.
"The presented report looks at 49 major Slovak disinformation and misinformation websites and sketches out their ownership as well as financial background. The report succeeds in identifying the ownership or operational structure behind 35 websites. In terms of financial data, the report canvasses f ... more

Media Influence Matrix: Romania. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism

Budapest: CEU School of Public Policy, Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 23 pp.
"Convergence of services usually affects the quality and price of services offered by providers. However, this has not been the case in Romania yet. People benefit from a very competitive market and enjoy fairly cheap services, but the implications of convergence on the content made available to con ... more

Patriotic Trolling: A Survey of State-Sponsored Trolling Worldwide

In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 501-529
"In this chapter we begin by surveying the digital political landscape, which has provided a fertile breeding ground for trolling as a state tool for suppression of dissenting ideas. We observe the tactical move by states from an ideology of information scarcity to one of information abundance, whic ... more
"Esta guía instruccional está diseñada para el uso de periodistas, facilitadores, académicos y estudiantes con el fin de contextualizar la crisis de las ‘noticias falsas’ del siglo 21. Por medio de algunos casos relevantes y un cronograma, los usuarios podrán informarse de manera más efect ... more

Vulnerable Landscapes: Case Studies of Violence and Disinformation

Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2019), 19 pp.
"Disinformation existed in the past, but the growing ubiquity of social media grants political actors increasing capacity to spread dangerous rhetoric and imagery in their pursuit of power. Incendiary content has the potential to catalyze mob violence, riots, and vigilantes taking the law into their ... more

Digital Threats to Democracy

The Workshop;Law Foundation;Luminate Foundation (2019), 244 pp.
"At the heart of the challenges to democracy posed by digital media are three core problems: 1. Platform monopolies: two or three corporations control not only our means of communication, but also the content which is distributed, both of which are core aspects of our democracy. Whilst the market po ... more

Disinformation: Annotated Bibliography

Toronto: University of Toronto, Citizen Lab (2019), 71 pp.
"This document serves as a reading list and primer on digital disinformation. While the proliferation of literature on the subject is a positive reaction to an otherwise vague yet troubling threat, it can be difficult to grasp how much has been accomplished and what questions remain unanswered. This ... more

Integridad y ética de los medios de comunicación

Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2019), 30 pp.
"El módulo explora la importancia crítica de la ética para medios tradicionales, como el periodismo, y para medios modernos, como las redes sociales. La presencia de las redes sociales y las noticias digitales ha aumentado la responsabilidad ética de la gente que opera en este campo, especialmen ... more

The Business of Misinformation: Hungary. Pushing Politics, Picking Pockets

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.
"It is almost impossible to obtain information about who is behind Hungarian misinformation websites; financial information about them is even harder to come by; Hungarian misinformation websites fall on the spectrum from purely ideological sites to simple moneymaking machines; Facebook appears to b ... more

The State of Deepfakes: Landscape, Threats, and Impact

Amsterdam: Deeptrace (2019), 20 pp.
"Our research revealed that the deepfake phenomenon is growing rapidly online, with the number of deepfake videos almost doubling over the last seven months to 14,678. This increase is supported by the growing commodification of tools and services that lower the barrier for non-experts to create dee ... more