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Investigative journalism

Hugo de Burgh; Paul Lashmar (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021) 3rd ed., xvi, 299 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-367-18248-9 (pbk); 978-0-429-06028-1 (ebook)

"This 3rd edition maps the new world of Investigative Journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energized journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences in politics and business worldwide. In this new edition, expert contributors demonstra... more

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“Fake news”, religion, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Rubal Kanozia; Ritu Arya

Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 313-321

"Salali and Uysal (2020) found in their study that vaccine acceptance significantly increased when people believe in the natural origin of the virus. Therefore, mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories about how the virus started need to be debunked, especially in countries having high vaccine hes... more

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Communication infrastructure and community mobilization: the case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 response network for the marginalized in India

Hua Wang; Aaditeshwar Seth; Mira Johri; Esha Kalra; Arvind Singhal

Journal of development communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86

"In this article, we employed communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to analyze Gram Vaani’s (“Voice of the Village”) Covid-19 Response Network in India. We reviewed key CIT components (i.e., storytelling network and communication action context) and their applications in civic engagement, ... more

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The politics of impunity: a study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan

Jackie Harrison; Stefanie Pukallus

Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319

"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based ... more

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Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts

Stefanie Felsberger; Ramesh Subramanian (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 180 pp.

ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)

"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse... more

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Online caste-hate speech: pervasive discrimination and humiliation on social media

Damni Kain; Shivangi Narayan; Torsha Sarkar; Gurshabad Grover

Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) (2021), 32 pp.

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"In India, religious texts, social customs, rituals, and everyday cultural practices legitimise the use of hate speech against marginalised caste groups. Notions of "purity" of “upper-caste” groups, and conversely of "pollution" of “lower-caste” groups, have made the latter subject to discri...mination, violence and dehumanisation. These dynamics invariably manifest online, with social media platforms becoming sites of caste discrimination and humiliation. This report explores two research questions. First, what are the specific contours of caste-hate speech and abuse online? Semi-structured interviews with 12 scholars and activists belonging to Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi (DBA) groups show that marginalised groups regularly face hate and harassment based on their caste. In addition to the overt hate, DBA individuals and groups are often targeted with abuse for availing reservations – a constitutionally mandated right. More covert forms of hate and abuse are also prevalent: trolls mix caste names and words from different languages together so that their comments appear meaningless to individuals who are not keenly aware of the local context. Such hateful expression often emerges as a reaction from “upper-caste” groups to DBA resistance and social justice movements. Our respondents reported that the hateful expression can sometimes silence caste-marginalised groups and individuals, exclude them from conversations, and adversely impact their physical and mental well-being. The second question we explore is how popular social media platforms and online spaces moderate caste-hate speech and abuse. We analysed the community guidelines, policies and transparency reports of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Clubhouse. We find that Facebook, Twitter and YouTube incorporated "caste" as a protected characteristic in their hate speech and harassment policies only in the last two or three years – many years after they entered Indian and South Asian markets – showing a disregard for the regional contexts of their users. Even after these policy changes, many platforms – whose forms for reporting harmful content list gender and race – still do not list caste. Social media companies should radically increase their investment and capacity in understanding regional contexts and languages; they must focus on the dynamics of casteist hate and abuse. They will need to collaborate with a diverse set of DBA activists to ensure that their community guidelines effectively tackle overt, covert and hyper -local forms of caste-hate speech and abuse, and that their implementation and reporting processes match these policy commitments." (Eexecutive summary) more

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Community radio stations’ production responses to COVID-19 pandemic in India

Kaifia Ancer Laskar; Biswadeep Bhattacharyya

Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 243-257

"The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown have made community radio broadcasting more important than before. Using case studies and interviews, we explored the kind of programming adopted by selected community radio (CR) stations in India during the pandemic and how they fight fake news. We... more

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Fake news is bad news: hoaxes, half-truths and the nature of today's journalism

Ján Visnovský; Jana Radosinská (eds.)

Intech Open (2021), 260 pp.

ISBN 978-1-83962-422-3 (online); 978-1-83962-421-6 (print); 978-1-83962-423-0 (pdf)

"The publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda ... more

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Connecting empowerment: how social network expansion in women’s collectives helps bridge the gender digital divide

Eric Rice; Sara Chamberlain

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 9 pp., illustr.

"This report, based on research conducted with women's empowerment collectives (self help groups, co-operatives, rights-based groups, trade unions) in India in late 2019, explores the relationship between the expansion of women's social networks in collectives, their growing empowerment, and their a... 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

Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern

Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW)

Hamburg: Missionshilfe Verlag (2021), 228 pp.

ISBN 978-3-946426-28-8

"Mit Covid-19 hat sich eine todbringende Pandemie erstmals global verbreitet, mit weitreichenden Folgen auf allen Ebenen, auch für Mobilität und Kommunikation in Kirche, Mission und weltweiter Ökumene. Partnerschaftsreisen oder Auslandsjahre für junge Freiwillige sind ausgefallen, stattdessen si... more

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Community radio policies in South Asia: a deliberative policy ecology approach

Preeti Raghunath

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 382 pp., abbrev. p.xix-xxii, 2 tables, bibliogr. p.339-361, index

ISBN 978-981-15-5629-6 (ebook); 978-981-15-5628-9 (hbk)

"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking, ... more

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Community radio in South Asia: reclaiming the airwaves

Kanchan K. Malik; Vinod Pavarala (eds.)

New York et al.: Routledge (2020), 294 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-138-55853-3 (hbk); 978-1-00-305623-2 (ebook)

"This book tells the story of community radio in four South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The three parts of the book focus on policy (discussed country by country), issues in practice, and case studies. In effect, however, each of the chapters touches on these topics to ... more

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The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga... more

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GlobalOriya.com: a case study in sudden failure of community media in India

Subhransu Mohapatra

3Cmedia: journal of community, citizen's and third sector media and communication, volume , issue 10 (2020), pp. 3-6;

"Internal migration within India increased significantly after economic liberalization in 1991. The effect of liberalization really took effect on the ground in India around the year 2000 when the internal migration from the relatively poorer regions of north and east to the more prosperous regions ... more

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Indian sound cultures, Indian sound citizenship

Laura Brueck; Jacob Smith; Neil Verma (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2020), vi, 330 pp., bibliogr., index

ISBN 978-0-472-05434-3 (pbk); 978-0-472-12623-1 (online)

"Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship addresses the multifaceted roles sound plays in Indian cultures and media, and enacts a sonic turn in South Asian Studies by understanding sound in its own social and cultural contexts. "Scapes, Sites, and Circulations" considers the spatial and circu... more

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De-Westernizing visual communication and cultures: perspectives from the Global South

Thomas Herdin; Maria Faust; Guo-Ming Chen (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.

ISBN 978-3-8487-6577-5 (print); 978-3-7489-0693-3 (online)

"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... more

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Platform capitalism in India

Adrian Athique; Vibodh Parthasarathi (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 331 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-44563-8 (ebook); 978-3-030-44562-1 (print); 978-3-030-44564-5 (print); 978-3-030-44565-2 (print)

"This volume provides a critical examination of the evolution of platform economies in India. Contributions from leading media and communications scholars present case studies that illustrate the social and economic ambitions at the heart of Digital India. Across interdisciplinary domains of busines... more

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Digital inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda; Anna Gladkova (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp., 20 illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-030-32706-4 (pdf); 978-3-030-32705-7 (print)

"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ... more

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Communication for development: an evaluation framework in action

Jessica Noske-Turner (ed.)

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-85339-997-8 (pbk); 978-1-78044-996-8 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op... more