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Videogames in the Indian subcontinent: development, culture(s) and representations

Souvik Mukherjee

London: Bloomsbury (2023), 261 pp., bibliogr. p.179-202, glossary p.236-238, index

ISBN 978-93-5435-971-2 (pdf);

"Drawing on a series of player and developer interviews and surveys conducted over the last five years, including some recent ones, this book provides a sense of how games have become a part of the culture of the region despite its huge diversity and plurality and opens up avenues for further study ... more

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Collective trauma

D+C: development and cooperation, volume 0, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31

Other Editions: alos published in German

Advancing meaningful connectivity: towards active and participatory digital societies

Teddy Woodhouse

Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 27 pp.

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"This report advances the Meaningful Connectivity framework as a way to support more inclusive societies and strengthen digital economies. It measures the gap in the number of people with just basic internet access and those with meaningful connectivity and examines what this digital divide means fo... more

Let the net work: internet shutdowns in India 2022

New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.

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"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re... more

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Human rights online in India: joint stakeholder report. Universal Periodic review, 41st session - India

Access Now; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) (2022), 19 pp.

"This joint stakeholder report focuses on key issues relating to human rights online in India, including internet shutdowns, digital exclusion, freedom of speech and expression online, online harassment and hate speech, privacy, surveillance and data protection. The report draws on extensive and ong... more

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Navigating copyright for libraries: purpose and scope

Jessica Coates; Victoria Owen; Susan Reilly (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), vii, 547 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-3-11-073715-8 (print); 978-3-11-073200-9 (pdf) CC BY

"This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the sign... more

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Community radio enabling women’s empowerment in remote communities of India

Sarbani Banerjee Belur; Saidsudha Sugavanam; Ritu Srivastava

Bombay: Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Rhizomatica; Spoken Tutorial Project (2022), 49 pp.

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"The objective of this study is twofold –firstly to understand how women have found self-expression through community radio as a frugal technology and how, in turn, it has helped them serve the community and empower other women in the community to find their voices. Secondly, this study examines h... more

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Seeing the (in)justice of sustainability: visualizing inequality at the centre of climate change communication

Journal of environmental media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022)

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Why aren’t women part of the conversation? A study of the gender gap in social media use in India, its causes and the implications for women’s empowerment

Aayush Rathi; Ambika Tandon; Arjun Khanna; Sara Chamberlain

BBC Media Action (2022), 12 pp.

"This report summarises learnings from BBC Media Action’s landscaping study of the gendered dimensions of social media access and use in India. It addresses 10 questions that have implications for designing digital solutions for women’s empowerment in India." (p.2)

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FactShala media literacy initiative in India: an impact evaluation

Annu Anand; Alok Srivastava

Center for Media Studies (2022), 103 pp.

"The spread of both mis- and disinformation, especially via social media, is a common problem inIndia. From September 2020 to January 2021, 253 trainers delivered the FactShala training program to 23,347 adults in communities across India. The FactShala media literacy training program launched b... more

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'Hated speech' and the costs of freedom in India

Preeti Raghunath

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), iv, 35 pp.

"[…] This project looks at experiences and observations of what it means to speak truth to power and receive hate as it is manifested through varying degrees of violence, across a variety of instances. Drawing on the responses of 15 interviewees, this qualitative research report presents 3 section... more

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Social media and hate

Shakuntala Banaji; Ramnath Bhat

London, New York: Routledge (2022), 130 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-367-53726-5 (pbk); 978-1-003-08307-8 (ebook) CC BY-NC-ND

"Using expert interviews and focus groups, this book investigates the theoretical and practical intersection of misinformation and social media hate in contemporary societies. Social Media and Hate argues that these phenomena, and the extreme violence and discrimination they initiate against targete... more

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The global handbook of media accountability

Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-367-34628-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215615-6 (pbk); 978-0-429-32694-3 (pdf)

"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in... more

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Can social media output help shift perceptions about informal waste pickers in Bengaluru, India?

BBC Media Action (2022), 4 pp.

"Bengaluru […] generates 5,757 metric tonnes of solid waste per day. Estimates suggest that approximately 20,000-30,000 people are engaged in waste picking in the city. BBC Media Action's 'A Pathway to Respect, Identity, Dignity and Empowerment' (PRIDE) project aims to shift negative perceptions a... more

Church communication in the new normal: perspectives from Asia and beyond

Anthony Le Duc (ed.)

Bangkok: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication (2022), xxvii, 343 pp.

ISBN 978-974-487-164-0

"Despite the wide-ranging topics presented in this collection, this volume takes ‘communication’ as the keyword for the various research and reflections on the life and mission of the Catholic Church during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as post-crisis. The reader will readily recognize that what... more

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Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022
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Nic Newman; Richard Fletcher; Craig T. Robertson; Kirsten Eddy; Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp., many diagr.

ISBN 978-1-907384-98-1

"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr... more

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Digital religion: understanding religious practice in new media worlds

Heidi A. Campbell; Ruth Tsuria (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022) 2nd ed., xii, 294 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-367-27236-4 (pbk); 978-0-429-29568-3 (ebook)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2012

"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual... more

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The unfreedom monitor: India country report

Advox (2022), 28 pp.

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"India’s “techade” does show signs of digital authoritarianism that can potentially have farreaching implications for politics, civil liberties and society. At the same time, these are not new challenges for the country. In the past, the Indian government has attempted to surveil, monitor, and... more

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Starting conversations to tackle sanitation in India through TV drama: evaluation of Navrangi Re!

Tom Newton-Lewis; Rishika Das Roy; Varinder Kaur Gambhir; Anna Godfrey; Rituparna Sanyal; Ishleen Sethi; Radharani Mitra; Ragini Pasricha; Purnima Mehrotra; Sandhya Iyer; Pavan Mamidi

Journal of development communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 45-58

"There is a growing body of evidence from rigorous evaluations demonstrating the effectiveness of education entertainment – ‘edutainment’– interventions in achieving development outcomes. Building on this research, this study presents the results of a pioneering quasi-experimental evaluation... more

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Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe

Dawud Ansari et al.

Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp., illustr., bibliogr., p.44-51

"... in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicatio... more

Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022 Quick overview

Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022
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