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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research

Stefania Vicari, Daniel Kirby

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755

"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat ... more

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023
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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Kirsten Eddy, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 158 pp.

"Across markets, only around a fifth of respondents (22%) now say they prefer to start their news journeys with a website or app – that’s down 10 percentage points since 2018. Publishers in a few smaller Northern European markets have managed to buck this trend, but younger groups everywhere are ... showing a weaker connection with news brands’ own websites and apps than previous cohorts – preferring to access news via side-door routes such as social media, search, or mobile aggregators. • Facebook remains one of the most-used social networks overall, but its influence on journalism is declining as it shifts its focus away from news. It also faces new challenges from established networks such as YouTube and vibrant youth-focused networks such as TikTok. The Chinese-owned social network reaches 44% of 18–24s across markets and 20% for news. It is growing fastest in parts of Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Latin America. • When it comes to news, audiences say they pay more attention to celebrities, influencers, and social media personalities than journalists in networks like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. This contrasts sharply with Facebook and Twitter, where news media and journalists are still central to the conversation. • Much of the public is sceptical of the algorithms used to select what they see via search engines, social media, and other platforms. Less than a third (30%) say that having stories selected for me on the basis of previous consumption is a good way to get news, 6 percentage points lower than when we last asked the question in 2016. Despite this, on average, users still slightly prefer news selected this way to that chosen by editors or journalists (27%), suggesting that worries about algorithms are part of a wider concern about news and how it is selected. • Despite hopes that the internet could widen democratic debate, we find fewer people are now participating in online news than in the recent past. Aggregated across markets, only around a fifth (22%) are now active participators, with around half (47%) not participating in news at all. In the UK and United States, the proportion of active participators has fallen by more than 10 percentage points since 2016. Across countries we find that this group tends to be male, better educated, and more partisan in their political vie ws. • Trust in the news has fallen, across markets, by a further 2 percentage points in the last year, reversing in many countries the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, four in ten of our total sample (40%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the country with the highest levels of overall trust (69%), while Greece (19%) has the lowest after a year characterised by heated arguments about press freedom and the independence of the media." (Summary, page 10) more

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Continued neglect of women: An analysis of media’s representation of women as sources in top 10 trending topics of January to June, 2023

Lister Namumba

Media Monitoring Africa (2023), 9 pp.

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Artificial Intelligence in the Information and Communications Space. Country Assessment Report: South Africa

Sarah Chiumbu, Unathi Malunga, Kgothatso Mampa, Minaar, Izak, Dimitri Martinis, Tharin Pillay

Forum on Information & Democracy;Media Monitoring Africa (2023), 80 pp.

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State of children in South African media: An analysis of media’s coverage of children in 2022

Musa Oswald Rikhotso

Media Monitoring Africa (2023), 21 pp.

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National E-waste Monitor Botswana

Ditshupo Gaobotse, Stephen Pheko, Joyce Isa-Molwane, Neelo Michelle Oppedahl, Frank Molaletsi

Geneva: ITU (2023), viii, 29 pp.

"This report examines the overall statistics of electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) and e-waste generation in Botswana. The main findings indicate that 21 097 tonnes of EEE were placed on the market in Botswana in 2020 generated by demand from households and business ... more

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National E-waste Monitor Namibia

Geneva: ITU (2023), ix, 28 pp.

"Namibia currently lacks the capacity to monitor e-waste, which makes e-waste hard to track and hampers the setting and assessment of targets that are necessary to move to a more sustainable and circular economy. In line with policy objectives, a draft national policy on management of waste electric ... more

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Fairwork South Africa Ratings 2023: Advocating for Safety and Dignity in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.

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The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights

Aimee Vega Montiel, Margaret Gallagher (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2023), xv, 432 pp.

"The first major collection of its kind published in the COVID-19 era, this unique volume frames a wide range of issues relevant to the gender and communication agenda within a human rights framework.An international panel of feminist academics and activists examines how media, information, and comm ... more

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Most Zimbabweans want free media as watchdog over government

Stephen Ndoma, Simangele Moyo-Nyede

Afrobarometer (2023), 13 pp.

"The survey data show that most Zimbabweans treasure a media that is free from the shackles of government interference and that acts as a watchdog over government, investigating and reporting on its mistakes and corruption. Despite this dominant preference, only a minority think the country currentl ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic

Yonty Friesem, Usha Raman, Igor Kanižaj, Grace Y. Choi (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxvi, 531 pp.

"Combining an innovative mix of traditional chapters, autoethnography, case studies, and dialogue within an intercultural framework, the handbook focuses on the future of media education and provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and affordances of media education as we move forward. Topi ... more

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Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South
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Abiodun Salawu, Tshepang Bright Molale, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), vii, 284 pp.

"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang ... more

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Through the Media Looking Glass: Journalists’ Perceptions on South Africa’s Funded Environmental Journalism

Trust Matsilele, Lungile Tshuma

African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 1 (2023), pp. 58-72

"Environmental journalism has passed through a plethora of iterations—from a reporting that was science-oriented to a reporting for popular publications focusing on the green. This qualitative study looks at the political economy of environmental journalism in South Africa. The study seeks to unde ... more

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Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Martin N. Ndlela (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiii, 240 pp.

"This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. Chapters employ a wide range of innova ... more

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A Decolonial Analysis of the Cyberbullying of South African Women Journalists

Glenda Daniels

In: Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Ylva Rodny-Gumede; Colin Chasi; Zubeida Jaffer; Mvuso Ponono (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 135-148

"At the heart of decolonial theory is the love for woman, particularly black woman, as the most oppressed of political categories in the old colonial structures of race, class and gender hierarchy. This chapter uses decolonial theory, specifically Chela Sandoval’s concept of ‘decolonial love’ ... more

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Community Radio Acceptance in Rural Africa: The Nexus of Language and Cultural Affinity

K. Onyenankeya, A Salawu

Information Development, volume 39, issue 3 (2023), pp. 567-580

"Community radio has gained traction with the grassroots in South Africa, especially subaltern groups excluded from the public sphere during the colonial and apartheid years. This paper argues that rural audience acceptance of and participation in community radio is closely associated with indigenou ... more

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Sustaining Exposure to Fact-Checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and its Political Implications

Jeremy Bowles, Kevin Croke, Horacio Larreguy, Shelley Liu, John Marshall

[authors] (2023), 37 + 27 pp.

"Exposure to misinformation can affect citizens’ beliefs, political preferences, and compliance with government policies. However, little is known about how to reduce susceptibility to misinformation in a sustained manner outside controlled environments, particularly in the Global South. We evalua ... more

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Consultation on media viability in Namibia

Windhoek: Editor's Forum of Namibia;Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD);Namibia Media Trust;UNESCO (2023), 20 pp.

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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte

Sebastian Conrad

München: Beck, 5., durchges. Aufl. (2023), 127 pp.

"Das deutsche Kolonialreich war nicht groß und währte nur 30 Jahre. Es wirkte jedoch in vielfältiger Weise auf Deutschland zurück. Sebastian Conrad beschreibt, wie die koloniale Ordnung funktionierte, wo sie an ihre Grenzen stieß und wie die einheimischen Gesellschaften auf die Fremdherrschaft ... more

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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)

London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.

"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)

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