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Owning the Conversation: Assessing Responses to Russian and Chinese Information Operations Around COVID-19

Vera Zakem, Edward Lucas, James Lamond

Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2022), 32 pp.

"Russia and China have created and amplified disinformation and propaganda about COVID-19 worldwide to sow distrust and confusion and to reduce social cohesion among targeted audiences. The United States government, the European Union, and multinational organizations have developed a series of inter ... ventions in response. These include exposing disinformation, providing credible and authoritative public health information, imposing sanctions, investing in democratic resilience measures, setting up COVID-19 disinformation task forces, addressing disinformation through regulatory measures, countering emerging threat narratives from Russia and China, and addressing the vulnerabilities in the information and media environment. Digital platforms, including Twitter, Meta, YouTube, and TikTok, have stepped up to counter COVID-19 disinformation and misinformation via policy procedures, takedowns of inauthentic content, addition of new product features, and partner with civil society and multinational organizations to provide credible and reliable information to global audiences. In addition, digital platforms are addressing COVID-19-related disinformation and misinformation stemming from a variety of state and non-state actors, including China and Russia. Several of these initiatives have proven to be effective, including cross-sectoral collaboration to facilitate identification of the threat; enforcement actions between civil society, governments, and digital platforms; and investment in resilience mechanisms, including media literacy and online games to address disinformation. Despite some meaningful progress, gaps in countering COVID-19 disinformation and propaganda stemming from Russia and China and unintentional misinformation spread by everyday citizens still exist. Closing these gaps will require gaining a deeper understanding of how adversaries think; aligning and refining transatlantic regulatory approaches; building coordination and whole-of- society information-sharing mechanisms; expanding the use of sanctions to counter disinformation; localizing and contextualizing programs and technological solutions; strengthening societal resilience through media, digital literacy, and by addressing digital authoritarianism; and building and rebuilding trust in democratic institutions." (Executive summary) more

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Das Verblassen der Welt: Auslandsberichterstattung in der Krise

Marc Engelhardt

Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2022), 72 pp.

"Marc Engelhardt arbeitet selbst seit 20 Jahren aus anderen Ländern für deutsche Medien. Nun hat er für die Otto Brenner Stiftung das Diskussionspapier über den deutschen Auslandsjournalismus geschrieben. Er habe damit gerechnet, dass bestimmte Länder öfter in den Medien vorkommen als andere. ... more

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Agrarkommunikation: Eine Einführung in Theorie, Konzeption und Umsetzung

Matthias Kussin, Jan Berstermann

Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler (2022), xv, 395 pp.

"Ziel des Buches ist es, ein grundsätzliches Verständnis zu schaffen und methodische Herangehensweisen darüber zu vermitteln, was erfolgreiche Kommunikation in diesem Branchenkontext auszeichnet und welche Wirkungen sich mit Kommunikation erzielen lassen - veranschaulicht an vielen Fallbeispielen ... more

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CANnual Report 2022: Trend Radar. The Latest in Advertising, Media and Consumer Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe

WeCAN Communications (2022), 125 pp.

"The CANnual Report 2022 follows a slightly different editorial concept than before. Since 2016, the publication featured one central topic which all creative agencies wrote about. This year however, weCAN experts write about twelve of the hottest topics in communication across the region. Five of t ... more

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Reporting the Covid-19 Pandemic: Trauma on Our Own Doorstep

Stephen Jukes, Karen Fowler-Watt, Gavin Rees

Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 6 (2022), pp. 997-1014

"The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face of a hidden enemy. But this is not a distant war where journalists are parachuted in to report on the action for a few weeks and then fly home. It is on our own doorstep. Many of those covering the globa ... more

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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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Heidi A. Campbell, Ruth Tsuria (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.

"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual ... more

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Sterben, Tod und Jenseits in der graphischen Literatur: Schlüsselbildanalysen in Bilderbüchern und Graphic Novels

Birte Svea Philippi

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 370 pp.

"Die Medienlandschaft behandelt täglich die Motive Sterben, Tod und Jenseits. Bilderbücher und Graphic Novels stehen bei diesen Themen meist nicht im Fokus, doch die Anzahl an entsprechenden Veröffentlichungen steigt stetig. Welche Bilder nutzen sie zur Darstellung der komplexen Thematik? Wie wir ... more

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Der Klang des Strukturwandels: Die Geschichte des freien Radios in den Niederlanden, Belgien und Nordrhein-Westfalen 1975-1990

Vitus Sproten

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 424 pp.

"Zwischen 1975 und 1990 machten tausende Menschen in ganz Westeuropa mit freien Radiosendern auf ihre Kultur, ihre politischen Ansichten und ihre Interessen aufmerksam. Sie erreichten über ihre Rundfunkstationen Millionen Zuhörer. Der Strukturwandel war dabei in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, den ... more

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Politics – Simply Explained? How Influencers Affect Youth’s Perceived Simplification of Politics, Political Cynicism, and Political Interest

Desirée Schmuck, Melanie Hirsch, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 27, issue 3 (2022), pp. 738-762

"Social media influencers promote not only products and brands but also their opinions on serious topics like party politics or climate change. These so-called digital opinion leaders may exert a powerful impact on their followers’ political attitudes. Accordingly, we explore new directions to exp ... more

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Media Councils in the Digital Age: Year in Review

Blanquerna Foundation (2022), 22 pp.

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Limitations of Anti-War Messaging Oriented at Russians

Fyodor Krashennikov

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 11 pp.

"This paper offers a critical overview of anti-war propaganda in the Russian language during the first six months of the war and identifies the reasons for its limited success. After a review of the challenges to current forms of propaganda, the paper offers practical recommendations to improve the ... more

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Pirate Waves: Polish Private Radio Broadcasting in the Period of Transformation 1989-1995

Urszula Doliwa

Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2022), 248 pp.

"This book reveals the value and significance of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland in the early 90s. It shows that many of them, like in other countries from the region, began as non-commercial, community-oriented initiatives. Several sourc ... more

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Digital challenges to ethical standards of journalism: Responses and needs of European Media Councils

Laura Juntunen

Council for Mass Media in Finland (2022), 41 pp.

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The Media Councils Debates Facing the Challenges of the Digital Age

Marc de Haan, Muriel Hanot, Sofia Laaboudi et al.

Bruxelles: Association pour l'Autorégulation de la Déontologie Journalistique (AADJ);Conseil de Déontologie Journalistique (CDJ) (2022), 122 pp.

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Aggravating circumstances? The COVID-19-related situational threats against the press in Portugal

Rui Alexandre Novais

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 13, issue 3 (2022), pp. 337-357

"This study aims to fill the gap of the practical impediments for journalists properly doing their work during the COVID-19 pandemic over a single country. It is achieved by mapping the situational threats faced by the press in Portugal, as one of the best countries that grant media a free environme ... more

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Umgang mit digitalen Medien und ihren Auswirkungen auf die psychische Gesundheit im schulischen Kontext

Julia Brailovskaia

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2022), 23 pp.

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A Matter of Organisational Silence: Media Managers Struggling to Make Sense of the Online Harassment of Journalists as a Collective Issue in Journalism

Sylvain Malcorps, Manon Libert, Florence Le Cam

Digital Journalism, volume 11, issue 10 (2022), pp. 1868-1885

"The online harassment of journalists is a phenomenon which has been on the rise in Europe over the last decade and it affects journalists' working lives. As an expression of mob censorship, online harassment raises questions about how media organisations react to online aggressions targeting their ... more

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Zwischen Partizipationsversprechen und Algorithmenmacht: Wie soziale Medien politisches Handeln prägen

Jan-Hinrik Schmidt

Erfurt: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen (2022), 88 pp.

"Soziale Medien wie Facebook, YouTube, Instagram oder Twitter sind wichtige Werkzeuge der politischen Kommunikation geworden. Politikerinnen und Politiker genauso wie ehrenamtlich Engagierte nutzen sie, um über ihre Ziele zu informieren und Unterstützung zu mobilisieren. Bürgerinnen und Bürger k ... more

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Freedom of Expression and Media Freedoms on the Eve of the Pandemic

Neven Andjelic

In: Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe

Neven Andjelic

Cham: Springer (2022), pp. 117-135

"The diversity of the state of media freedoms in Europe is reflected in its geography, where more liberal regimes are to be found in the north and the west of the continent where the freedoms are secured firmer in countries’ legislations, governments’ practices, and citizens’ behaviours. Some ... more

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Broadcasting and the Portuguese Empire: The Case of São Tomé and Príncipe

Sílvio Correia Santos

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 136-155

"The colonial essence of the Portuguese nation was one of the pillars of Estado Novo (1933–1974). During this period, the media were largely used as a tool for promoting the cohesion of the territories, firstly embodying an Imperial mystique, and after the second World War, arguing for the excepti ... more

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