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The new censorship: inside the global battle for media freedom

Joel Simon

New York: Columbia University Press (2015), x, 236 pp., bibliogr. p.217-223, index

ISBN 978-0-231160643

"Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Joel Simon calls for a global freedom-of-expression agenda. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrup... more

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The trauma graphic novel

Andrés Romero-Jódar

New York; London: Routledge (2017), x, 179 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-138-23888-6 (pbk); 978-1-315-29661-6 (online)

"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s... more

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A survival toolkit for journalists: how to protect yourself against digital surveillance

Internews; Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) (2022), 24 pp.

"Surveillance of journalists has become a very topical and controversial issue that now requires attention at a number of levels – the level of the state, CSOs, and journalism organisations themselves. The systematic and arbitrary harvesting of journalists’ information, tracking and targeting of... more

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Orphaned landscapes: violence, visuality, and appearance in Indonesia

Patricia Spyer

New York: Fordham University Press (2022), viii, 304 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.281-298, index

ISBN 978-0-8232-9868-6 (hbk); 978-0-8232-9869-3 (pbk); 978-0-8232-9870-9 (online) CC BY-NC-ND

"Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town [Ambon] in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme pe... more

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Media development: an evaluation of five capacity-strengthening projects

Rosie Parkyn; Sonia Whitehead

London: BBC Media Action (2015), 60 pp.

"BBC Media Action has been involved in media development since it was founded in 1999. Over the years, we have designed and deployed a broad range of evaluation approaches and methodologies to assess the impact of and learn from our work. This has generated much internal discussion: Are we measuring... more

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Voices from the mountain: oral testimonies from Cerro de Pasco, Peru

London: Panos (2002), 49 pp. , illustr., glossary, index

ISBN 1-870670-58-2

"In the area around Cerro de Pasco, where these interviews were gathered, people’s herding lifestyle has undergone great change, principally as a result of Peru’s most important industry: mining. While it has brought employment and infrastructure to the region, the industry paid scant regard to ... more

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Digital development and the digital gender gap

Siân Herbert

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 11 pp.

"This rapid literature review collates findings from recently published papers on digital development and gender, highlighting some of the most commonly discussed discussions related to economic, social and political development. As the scope of this query is very large, this review provides an illu... 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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Making the invisible visible. Guideline 1: An intersectional gender guide to monitoring and documenting attacks against journalists and social communicators

Article 19 (2022), 22 pp.

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"This guide begins with gender at its centre, analysing the systemic oppression resulting from the social construction of what it means to be ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’. Yet, for ARTICLE 19, a gender approach is intrinsically an intersectional one. Gender is part of the various systems of so... more

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Rethinking the media audience: the new agenda

Pertti Alasuutari (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (1999), 212 pp., index

ISBN 0-7619-5070-2 (hbk); 0-761 9-5071 (pbk)

"The key idea of this book is to argue that a 'third generation' of reception studies and audience ethnography is presently taking shape and will establish itself in the near future. However, the division of the development of reception studies and audience research into three 'generations' outlined... more

Fundamentalism and the search for meaning in digital media among Gen Y and Gen Z

Clyde Anieldath Missier

Journal for deradicalization, volume , issue 33 (2022), pp. 255-285

CC BY-NC-ND

"Religious fundamentalists have a common fear that modernity, digital mass media, and popular culture may corrupt young adults and undermine sacred values and moral codes. However, some young adults do not abandon their religion; conversely, they submit to fundamentalist religious authority and are ... more

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Multi-stakeholder partnerships: issue paper: pulling together to uplift and empower the world

Overseas Development Institute (ODI); Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC)

Kuala Lumpur: Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) (2003), 58 pp., illustr.

ISBN 983-2588-04-9

"The concept of multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) as an instrument for achieving development goals is sound, particularly when stakeholders with unique complementary strengths or core competencies add value to development efforts and pool their resources and assets in solving problems. But while m... more

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Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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Svetlana Gorshenina; Sergei Abashin; Bruno De Cordier; Tatiana Saburova

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), viii, 431 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-3-11-075442-1 (print); 978-3-11-075446-9 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts. Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ‘photography and power’, the ... more

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Media, revolution and politics in Egypt: the story of an uprising

Abdalla F. Hassan

London: Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 276 pp., chronol. p.223-231, index

ISBN 978-1-78453-218-5

"The Story of an Uprising examines the political and media dynamic in pre-and post-revolution Egypt and what it could mean for the country's democratic transition. We follow events through the period leading up to the 2011 revolution, eighteen days of uprising, military rule, an elected president's ... more

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Religion and film: an introduction

Melanie Jane Wright

London; New York: Tauris (2007), vi, 244 pp., bibliogr. p.205-234, filmogr. p.235-238, index

ISBN 978-1-85043-759-8 (hbk); 978-1-85043-886-1 (pbk); 978-0-85771-628-6 (ebook)

"From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional perspectives, with the result that the field has long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a... more

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Tipping point: democratic erosion and the assault on press freedom

Kate Musgrave

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2021), 24 pp.

"The majority of people now live under illiberal regimes or some form of autocracy as a consequence of democratic declines occurring globally since 2010. Understanding the driving forces behind this historic setback to democratic progress will be essential for turning the tide. An analysis of media ... more

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Courage against hate

Facebook (ed.)

Facebook (2021), 128 pp.

"The Courage Against Hate initiative has been brought together by Facebook for the purpose of sparking cross-sector, pan-European dialogue and action to combat hate speech and extremism. This collection of articles unites European academic analysis with practitioners who are actively working on coun... more

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Heike Paul; Sarah Marak; Katharina Gerund; Marius Henderson (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 400 pp., 91 illustr.

ISBN 978-3-8394-5973-7 (pdf); 978-3-8376-5973-3 (print) CC BY

"Welcome to the world of melodrama—and to the melodramas of the world. This book introduces nearly one hundred cinematic masterpieces from various periods and different cultural contexts—ranging from early Hollywood to emergent and popular Bollywood, from Latin American and New German Cinema to ... more

The return of digital authoritarianism: internet shutdowns in 2021

Access Now; KeepItOn (2022), 32 pp.

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"With a gradual return to normalcy following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a dramatic resurgence of internet shutdowns in 2021. During this year, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented at least 182 internet shutdown incidents around the world in 34 countries, as com... more

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African Media Development Initiative: Angola. Research findings and conclusions

Cândido Mendes; Barnaby Smith

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 55 pp.

ISBN 1-906086-01-X

"Relevant changes in Angolan media were noticed in the press. Newspapers grew the most radios grew some, but TV did not grow at all. There are few new media development initiatives known in Angola. The greatest initiative, though still not in effect, is the new Media Law. The growth of the Sindicato... more

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Photographing Central Asia: from the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence
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Lexicon of global melodrama
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