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Burning out and turning off: Journalists’ disconnection strategies on social media

Diana Bossio, Avery E. Holton

Journalism, volume 22, issue 10 (2021), pp. 2475-2492

"This study explores forms of social media fatigue described by professional journalists, including frustration with the perception of their increased affective labor, dissatisfaction with communication environments on particular social media platforms, and increased anxiety about the possible impac ... more

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Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective

Claudia Mellado (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xix, 299 pp.

"The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe, ... more

Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Americas region

Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 70 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Americas region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors and insights on how good practice can strengthen capacity to integrate ICT innovation into national development agendas. Overall, the Americas region has sho ... more

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Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media

Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, Jason Crouthamel (eds.)

Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press (2021), xiv, 408 pp.

"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are ... more

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Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media Innovation in the Diaspora

Lori Kido Lopez

New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 171 pp.

"With the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this ... more

Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems

Daniela V. Dimitrova (ed.)

Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2021), xv, 239 pp.

"[This book] provides an overview of the key issues in global journalism today and traces how media systems have evolved over time in different world regions. Taking into account local context as well as technological change across media industries, the book offers an up-to-date, thorough overview o ... more

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Sourcing Pandemic News: A Cross-National Computational Analysis of Mainstream Media Coverage of COVID-19 on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Claudia Mellado, Daniel C. Hallin, Luis Cárcamo, Rodrigo Alfaro, Daniel Jackson, María Luisa Humanes et al.

Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1261-1285

"This article explores the uses of sources in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in social media posts of mainstream news organizations in Brazil, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. Based on computational content analysis, our study analyzes the sources and actors present in more t ... more

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Journalism safety in the time of populism: A cautionary tale from the US

Elena Cosentino

In: Populism, the Pandemic and the Media: Journalism in the age of Covid, Trump, Brexit and Johnson

John Mair; Tor Clark; Neil Fowler; Raymond Snoddy; Richard Tait (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), 9 pp.

"How did the home of freedom of expression become a very dangerous place to report the democratic process? Elena Cosentino, director of the International News Safety Institute, says the American experience is a lesson for us all." (Abstract)

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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.

"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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Handbook of Global Media Ethics

Stephen J. A. Ward (ed.)

Cham: Springer (2021), xxxii, 1460 pp.

"The first handbook on global media ethics; provides a valuable resource for teaching media ethics in a global era; addresses all major approaches to global media ethics; contains contributions by leading, internationally recognized authors in the field of media ethics." (Publisher description)

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 441 pp.

"The handbook is divided into five parts, each taking global developments in the field into account: Theoretical Reflections, Power and Authority Conflict, Radicalization and Populism, Dialogue and Peacebuilding, Trends. Within these sections, central issues, debates and developments are examined, i ... more

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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities

Allison Hahn

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp.

"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com ... more

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Live from my Living Room: Perceived Organizational Support Among TV News Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rebecca Coates Nee, Lourdes M. Cueva Chacón

Electronic News, volume 15, issue 3–4 (2021), pp. 75–94

"As members of the media, TV news workers were considered essential employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees went into the field to cover stories related to the pandemic, which included anti-mask and lock-down protests. This mixed-methods study explored the extent to which TV news work ... more

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Communication Campaigns and their Implications for Strategic Competition with Russia

Caitlin McCulloch, Stephen Watts

RAND Corporation (2021), 19 pp.

"The most effective campaigns are face-to-face, repeated campaigns. Such campaigns generally have a larger average impact on persuasion, knowledge, and behavior than remote campaigns (such as ones conducted through television or the internet). Negative and positive messages appear to be almost equal ... more

Catalyst or Destabiliser? COVID-19 and its Impact on the Media Landscape Worldwide

Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 159 pp.

"In terms of quality of media coverage, there are various outcomes: In Asia, for example, small and independent outlets, able to provide reliable information, gained momentum, whereas citizens in the MENA-region turned to social media in search of trustworthy facts on the coronavirus. In South-Easte ... more

Religion, Medien und die Corona-Pandemie: Paradoxien einer Krise

Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger (eds.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2021), 134 pp.

Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-Covid World

Anya Schiffrin, Hannah Clifford, Kylie Tumiatti

Washington, DC: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 36 pp.

"Dozens of plans to help save journalism have emerged since the Covid-19 pandemic decimated media outlets around the world. This report summarizes some of the trends we’ve seen and evaluates where they currently stand. Most promising are Australia’s efforts to get Google and Facebook to pay for ... more

Social Networks and the Challenge of Hate Disguised as Fear and Politics

Adam Klein

Journal for Deradicalization, issue 26 (2021), pp. 1-33

"This case study examines social networks as the modern intersections of radical discourse and political extremism. But, as this research will show, extremist content in social networks, even that which has telegraphed violent hate crimes, is seldom communicated in textbook forms bigotry or provocat ... more