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The rise of internet throttling: a hidden threat to media development

Samuel Woodhams

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020)

"An increasing number of governments around the world are forcing internet service providers to slow their services during critical sociopolitical junctures—a practice known as throttling—infringing on citizens’ right to information and freedom of expression. Despite its deleterious impact on ... more

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Routledge handbook of environmental journalism

David B. Sachsman; JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp., illustrations, index

ISBN 978-1-138-47850-3 (hbk); 978-1-351-06840-6 (online)

"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o... more

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A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: working towards inclusive research

Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas; Debbie Laliberte Rudman; Jeshuran Gunaseelan; Vinod Joseph Abraham; Debra Cameron; Colleen McGrath; Samuel Prasanna Vinoth Kumar

Methodological innovations, volume , issue September-Dezember (2019), pp. 1-19

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"Children with disabilities often experience exclusion within their communities, and this exclusion can extend into research processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, emphasizes that children of all abilities need to be involved as decision makers in matters affec... more

Transnational media: concepts and cases

Suman Mishra; Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley & Sons (2019), ix, 246 pp.

ISBN 978-1-119-39460-0

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa... more

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Nirbhaya, new media and digital gender activism

Adrija Dey

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiii, 232 pp., bibliogr. p.197-221, index

ISBN 978-1-78754-529-8

"This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy student from New Delhi was raped by six men in a... more

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Vigilante publics: orientalism, modernity and Hindutva fascism in India

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-350

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"This paper explores the interconnections of Hindutva fascist repertoires in India and quasi-orientalist discourses. History and common sense are re-written through audiovisual communications to appeal to one section of a dangerously split Indian public and a neoliberal-touristic sensibility elsewhe... more

Spiritual news: reporting religion around the world

Yoel Cohen (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4331-2862-2

"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-... more

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De-centring Western enlightenment: revisionist histories, contestation and communication theory

Shakuntala Banaji

Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440

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Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

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"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more

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Communication for development: case study compendium 2013-2017

New Delhi: UNICEF (2018), 205 pp., many illustr.

"This compendium of 15 SBCC cases presents results and learning from the Communication for Development (C4D) cross-sectoral interventions from 15 states of India – all implemented during the country programme 2013- 2017. Additionally, a national level C4D Results Report ‘Resonating Change’ has... more

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Kept in the dark: social and psychological impacts of network shutdowns in India

Zothan Mawii; Ritu Srivastava; Shivani Lal; Bijo P. Abraham

New Delhi: Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) (2018), 70 pp.

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"While the State has been justifying network shutdowns as matters of “national interests”, it is interesting to note that the effect has been the total opposite. Interviewees in Kashmir and Darjeeling have stated that their mistrust in the Indian government has grown due to these actions. These ... more

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This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies

kollektiv orangotango+ (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (2018), 352 pp., many maps

ISBN 978-3-8394-4519-8 (pdf); 978-3-8376-4519-4 (print) CC BY

"This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement... more

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Digital publishing report

New Delhi: German Book Office (2017), 7 pp.

"India’s book market is overall the sixth largest in the world and the second largest among English language book markets, and it is expected to reach INR739 billion by the year 2020. More than 70 per cent publishers in India have digitised their content to produce e-book versions. E-readers as we... more

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Desecrating expression: an account of freedom of expression and religion in Asia

Gayatri Khandhadai

Bytes for All; Asian For Human Rights & Development; Global Partners Digital (2016), 80 pp.

"This report outlines the international human rights standards and processes related the protection of freedom of expression and religious belief, and discusses regional trends and challenges. The nine country case studies include the stories of many people across the region struggling to defend fre... more

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Mobilities, ICTs and marginality in Africa: comparative perspectives

Francis Nyamnjoh; Ingrid Brudvig (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2016), ix, 244 pp.

ISBN 978-0-7969-2516-9 (pbk); 978-0-7969-2531-2 (pdf)

"The book aims to situate the cultural, social and, in some cases, transnational context of ICT appropriation and virtual connectivity so as to reposition Africans from various countries and contexts as active agents of social change. The intricacies of local ICT use and the dynamics of mobility in ... more

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The handbook of international crisis communication research

Andreas Schwarz; Matthew W. Seeger; Claudia Auer (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xix, 525 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-118-51676-8

"The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research articulates a broader understanding of crisis communication, discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of domestic and transnational crises, featuring the work of global scholars from a range of sub-disciplines... more

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Innovations in community radio: with special reference to India

Ankuran Dutta; Sanjaya Mishra

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2015), ix, 18 pp.

ISBN 978-81-88770-28-1 CC BY-SA

"This research explores the present status of the community radios (CR) in India in the initial sections. But the main focus has been given on the innovative practices of the community radios scattered in nook and corner of the country. Emphasis has also been given to classify the possible innovatio... more

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Internationalizing "international communication"

Chin-Chuan Lee (ed.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-472-90014-5 CC BY-NC-ND

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Bridging the gender gap: mobile access and usage in low- and middle-income countries. Connected women 2015

Shireen Santosham; Dominica Lindsey

GSMA; Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp., many tables, bibliogr. p.126-128

"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more

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India's gender digital divide: women and politics on twitter

Sydney Anderson

New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (2015), 8 pp.

"This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women are marginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of 23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women in Twitter's political conversa... more