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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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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
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Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, Jolynna Sinanan (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.

"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic ... more

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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India

Ihsan Yilmaz (ed.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.

"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ ... more

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Using mass media to increase audiences’ ability to keep safe from explosive ordnance in Afghanistan

London: BBC Media Action (2023), 2 pp.

"BBC Media Action has been using mass media to help audiences recognise risks and keep safe from explosive ordnance (EO), which is widespread across Afghanistan following years of conflict. We conducted a panel study in 10 most affected provinces to evaluate the impact of our programme. We found tha ... more

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Disaster Risk Communication: What Do People in Nepal Need to Prepare Better for Disasters?

London: BBC Media Action (2023), 6 pp.

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Radio and Technology Adoption During India’s Green Revolution: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Srinivasan Vasudevan

SSRN (2022), 39 pp.

"Adoption of innovative technologies is central to improving agricultural productivity. Farmers in developing countries rely heavily on social learning in adopting new technologies. Barriers to social learning such as heterogeneity or social fragmentation can therefore limit technology adoption and ... more

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Understanding Internet Shutdowns: A Case Study from Pakistan

Benjamin Wagner

Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2022), pp. 3917-3938

"This article provides an overview of Internet shutdowns in Pakistan, which have become an increasingly common phenomenon, with 41 occurring between 2012 and 2017. It argues that to understand how shutdowns became normalized in Pakistan, it is necessary to look at the specific dynamics of how the sh ... more

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Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique

Sarah Anne Ganter, Hanan Badr (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp.

"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap ... more

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Students’ Learning Experience During Covid-19: A Study of Open Universities in India

B. Phalachandra (ed.)

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);Commonwealth of Learning (COL), (2022), 44 pp.

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Viabilidade da mídia: Consultas nacionais sobre soluções para promoção e preservação de sua independência. Brasil, El Salvador, Indonésia, Jamaica, Líbano, Namíbia, Nigéria, Paquistão, Senegal e Tunísia

Brasilia: UNESCO;Free Press Unlimited (2022), 32 pp.

"Este relatório fornece transcrições resumidas de consultas nacionais sobre a viabilidade da mídia com as partes interessadas no setor dos meios de comunicação. As consultas nacionais são baseadas nas trocas de conhecimento e pesquisas proporcionadas pela UNESCO e pela The Economist Intellige ... more

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Know Your Rights: Guide for Journalists in India

Thomson Reuters Foundation (2022), 23 pp.

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Assessment of the Media Sector in Bangladesh: Final Report

ME&A, Inc.;USAID (2022), 64 pp.

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Policy Paper: Unpacking Content Moderation in Pashto and Dari

Shmyla Khan et al.

Meedan;Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2022), 25 pp.

"Content moderation at scale is an extremely complicated issue, however by looking at specific examples such as the case studies and data highlighted in this study, the conversation can start to take into account more diverse experiences and context that is normally overlooked. Emerging from these e ... more

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Countering Digital Threats: Toolkit

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2022), 38 pp.

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Community Radio: An Emerging Platform for Awareness and Empowerment

Srivastava Dr. Shuchi

South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, volume 4, issue 1 (2022), pp. 66-70

"Community radio plays an important role in the communication of a certain community and is a form of public-service broadcasting. It upholds the principles of participatory communication. The present study was conduct to know about the role of Radio Dhadkan, a community radio, in sensitizing and em ... more

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Fairwork India Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Bangalore; Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2022), 43 pp.

"There are two highlights to this year’s findings, firstly, the same three platforms that scored the first point for Fair Pay last year scored a point this year too. No other platform publicly committed, or provided sufficient evidence, to ensure that workers earn at least the hourly local minimum ... more

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Cyber Harassment Helpline: 2022 Policy Brief

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2022), 11 pp.

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‘Just Like Us’: Community Radio Broadcasters and the On-Air Performance of Community Identity

Bridget Backhaus

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2022), pp. 581-594

"While community media audiences and broadcasters have themselves been the subject of research, how a sense of community identity is created through content production is less understood. This article details a critical discourse analysis of programming from ten different community radio stations wi ... more

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Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval

Wazhmah Osman

Current History, volume 121, issue 834 (2022), pp. 135-140

"This article traces how the Afghan cultural, media, and arts sectors have gone through cycles of boom and bust in tandem with the country’s tumultuous history in recent decades, starting with the prewar golden era in the 1960s and 1970s, then focusing on the post-9/11 internationally funded media ... more

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Communicating the Sacred: Varieties of Religious Marketing

Milos Hubina, Francis S. M. Chan (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), xi, 286 pp.

"This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early Christian writings, and 9th CE Cambodian inscriptions, right down ... more

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