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The chilling: a global study of online violence against women journalists

Julie Posetti; Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.

ISBN 979-8-218-09201-6 CC BY-NC-SA

"Online violence against women journalists is one of the most serious contemporary threats to press freedom internationally. It aids and abets impunity for crimes against journalists, including physical assault and murder. It is designed to silence, humiliate, and discredit. It inflicts very real ps... 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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Examining perceptions towards war/peace journalism: A survey of journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan

Shabir Hussain; Araz Ramazan Ahmad

International communication gazette, volume 84, issue 3 (2022), pp. 183-205

"Following seminal study on journalistic attitudes towards wars and peace journalism, in this study we investigated the perceptions of conflict reporters in the three most deadly countries in the world including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A total of 317 journalists participated in this study. T... more

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UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Pakistan: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 7 pp.

"Overall, Pakistan experienced a shrinking of its space for free expression over the past four years, with censorship and restrictions increasing over time in the form of new stringent rules and regulations, along with intensifying threats and various types of attacks on journalists. Pakistan, who w... 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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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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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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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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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.

CC BY-NC-SA

"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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Women and TV culture in Pakistan: gender, Islam and national identity

Munira Cheema

London: Tauris (2018), xii, 228 pp., bibliogr. p.212-222, index

ISBN 978-1-788311779

"The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002. The President, General Pervez Musharraf, introduced a policy of liberalisation that enabled controversial issues such as honour killings, adultery, stoning to death, domestic violence, marriage after divorce and homos... 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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Trauma and public memory

Jane Goodall; Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp., index

ISBN 9781137406798 (print); 978-1-349-48806-3; 978-1-137-40680-4 (ebook)

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle... more

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Expression restricted: an account of online expression in Pakistan

Asad Baig; Sadaf Khan

Bytes for All; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); APC Impact (2015), 37 pp.

"How is freedom of expression in Pakistan’s digital spaces governed? What protections do journalists and bloggers enjoy? What is censored and how conducive is the environment for political and religious expression online? This research looks at these questions within the premise of an internationa... more

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Security versus access: the impact of mobile network shutdowns. Case study: Telenor Pakistan

London: Institute for Human Rights and Business (2015), 49 pp.

"Network shutdowns are usually justified on security grounds, and the counterargument is often framed around the impact on freedom of expression. However, the impacts of network shutdowns can have far-reaching, adverse economic and social implications and could affect future economic growth; further... more

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Pakistan: audience realities in an unstable media landscape

Gallup; Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (2014), 43 slides

"TV is the main information platform by far, but the importance of individual channels varies by region and modes of access. Population is divided between those with access to non-State TV and those without. While most express generic satisfaction with media, actual opinions about specific channels ... more

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Contemporary media use in Pakistan

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 2 pp.

"Just 18.1% of Pakistanis say they follow current events about the country “a lot,” but almost half (47.7%) follow current events “somewhat.” About one-third report being less attentive, following current events “very little” (29.6%) or “not at all” (4.6%). Results trend upward with ... more

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Communicating with communities: a case study and guide from Pakistan and elsewhere

Brian Kelly; Ariane Quentier

Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM); Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) (2014), xix, 109 pp., 23 figures, illustr., bibliogr. p.107-109

"The purpose of this handbook is to highlight achievements, as well as ongoing efforts and future plans, in improving information delivery to and communication with affected communities. This guide highlights the lack of critical information in emergency response and what needs to be done to ensure ... more

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The hierarchy of global suffering: a critical discourse analysis of television news reporting on foreign natural disasters

Stijn Joye

Journal of international communication, volume 15, issue 2 (2011), pp. 45-61

"In 2007 nearly 17,000 people died because of natural disasters and more than 211 million others were directly affected. News media play a basic role in giving publicity to these numerous instances of global suffering as it is mainly through media reports that the world perceives international crise... more

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The practice of public diplomacy: confronting challenges abroad

William A. Rugh

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xviii, 262 pp.

ISBN 978-0-230-11322-0 (print); 978-1-283-09673-7 (ebook)

"Relying heavily on scores of first-hand accounts collected through interviews, the studies examine the practice of public diplomacy largely from the perspective of American practitioners in different countries. The analyses follow the standard field officer approach, asking systematically: what iss... more

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National studies on assessing the economic contribution of the copyright-based industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 392 pp.