"This paper examines the role that community radio can play in a refugee camp, with particular focus on community building and social cohesion among young people. The article introduces the experience of RefFM in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Findings from four focus groups with young refugees in Kaku
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ma shed light on both the uses and perceptions of the radio station among Kakuma youth. They also present insights into the design of radio-based interventions for humanitarian agencies working in refugee camps. In particular, reflections are offered on how “refugee community radio” programming can be developed to strengthen the ties between different communities living in the camp, and particularly among young people, while addressing the critical needs of a displaced population." (Abstract)
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"In recent years, IMS has seen a steady increase in the number of its media partners forced to flee their home countries to avoid persecution and closure as the democratic space globally has shrunk. IMS expects this trend to continue, with “exiled media” becoming the main – and, in some cases,
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only –source of public interest journalism for audiences in more and more countries. This situation, along with the likely drop in development assistance by some of these exiled media’s main funders, calls for a more strategically coherent and creative response from IMS and our colleagues in the media development sector. The briefing paper Navigating instability provides an initial framework for this response, based on learning from the support IMS’ programmes have provided to exiled media over 20-plus years. With additional input from exiled media leaders, IMS’ Exiled Media Working Group has identified five phases of transition and evolution that media appear to go through between deciding to leave their home country and either returning home again or permanently settling in their host country; a long and often stormy journey, fraught with risks and uncertainty and involving many twists and turns. Crucially, Navigating instability shows there is light at the end of the turnnel – there are media that survive exile and eventually return home, often stronger and wiser having spent years – sometimes decades – away and ready to play a leading role in transforming their country’s media, once opportunities allow. This calls for a long-term approach that enables exiled media to chart their journey with less jeopardy and more certainty. Navigating instability illustrates each phase of exile through the eyes of media leaders experieincing the situation first-hand, and outlines the support that IMS can provide media partners during each phase. The briefing paper also presents a set of recommendatons to the media development sector, our donors and other policy makers on how we can collectively address the gaps in our support to exiled media." (https://www.mediasupport.org)
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"Based on an online survey with 330 Chilean journalists and 4,615 media users, this study examines the discrepancies between the expectations of Chilean audiences and news professionals regarding journalistic roles and their evaluation of media performance. The findings reveal that audiences place g
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reater importance on the disseminator and public service–oriented roles, while journalists prioritize roles aimed at influencing the public. Regarding media performance, audiences believe that journalism favors industry-oriented roles over those they prioritize. In contrast, journalists believe that the media mostly perform roles aligned with the audience’s expectations. Our results also show that although the watchdog and disseminator roles are strong predictors of quality journalism for both groups, the civic role only impacts quality journalism in the case of news professionals. Instead, audiences associate good journalism with practices that address their everyday problems, such as the ones represented by the service role." (Abstract)
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"Wie gestaltet sich das Zusammenspiel von Vergangenheitsarbeit, Friedensförderung, Kunst und Kultur in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit der Bundesrepublik? Welche Verbindungen bestehen zwischen dem eigenen Umgang mit gewaltbelasteter Vergangenheit und der Unterstützung dieser Prozesse im Ausland
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– und welche Chancen und Herausforderungen ergeben sich daraus für die dritte Säule der deutschen Außenpolitik, die Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungsspolitik (AKBP) (im Folgenden der Lesbarkeit halber Auswärtige Kulturpolitik) die sich selbst als „Teil der Friedenspolitik“ (Bundesregierung 2020: 8) versteht? Diesen Fragen geht der vorliegende Artikel nach. Er beleuchtet zunächst das im internationalen Kontext für Vergangenheitsarbeit geläufige Konzept von Transitional Justice, seine Entstehung, Entwicklung in der Praxis und seine Einbettung in deutsches wie internationales Friedensengagement. Dabei geht er auch auf die deutsche Aufarbeitungsgeschichte, Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten mit Transitional Justice-Prozessen sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen ein. Schließlich wird aufgezeigt, welche Überschneidungen zwischen Auswärtiger Kulturpolitik und Vergangenheitsarbeit bereits jetzt bestehen, welche Potenziale die Auswärtige Kulturpolitik hat und wie Synergien zwischen Auswärtiger Kulturpolitik, Vergangenheitsarbeit und Friedensförderung gestärkt werden können." (Seite 2)
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"Con este informe, se pretende arrojar algo de luz sobre un fenómeno especialmente complejo y todavía difícil de delimitar, en parte por la falta de una definición única y por la ausencia de datos que revelen su prevalencia real, pero también en parte por la normalización de determinadas cond
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uctas que contribuyen a ocultar su gravedad. Para ello, se ha preguntado a profesionales y personas expertas en la materia, provenientes de diversos ámbitos: jurídico, ciberseguridad y delitos informáticos, psicología, criminología, academia e investigación, y del ámbito de la protección y los derechos de la infancia. Además, se quiere conocer qué riesgos asociados a la explotación sexual digital identifica, asume y naturaliza la adolescencia en el entorno digital. Para ello, se ha realizado una encuesta a 1.008 jóvenes de entre 18 y 21 años, en la que se les ha preguntado por sus percepciones y conductas online durante la adolescencia, con especial foco en los conocimientos, creencias y experiencias relacionadas con la explotación sexual en línea. También se organizaron dos talleres presenciales con adolescentes de entre 15 y 18 años, para profundizar en las preocupaciones y riesgos que identifican en su uso de Internet, así como en cómo perciben y distribuyen la responsabilidad frente a la exposición a estos riesgos.
A partir de este análisis, se busca formular recomendaciones que fortalezcan la protección de niños, niñas y adolescentes frente a esta forma de violencia, también a través de los procesos legislativos actualmente en marcha, para que puedan ejercer de forma segura todos sus derechos en el entorno digital. Y se hace desde un enfoque de infancia, entendiendo que la tecnología y el mundo digital forman parte de la esfera en la que los niños, niñas y adolescentes se desarrollan, y que lo tecnológico está intrínsecamente ligado a su socialización, y también a cómo descubren y exploran su sexualidad, lo que implica riesgos específicos. Pero entendiendo también que estos riesgos no se originan en el vacío, sino que el ecosistema digital proporciona el caldo de cultivo que facilita y condiciona estas dinámicas." (Introducción, páginas 5-6)
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"The discrepancy between children’s actual amount of viewing time and parents’ accounts of their concerns, rules, and parental mediation choices has been documented in empirical research, and typically interpreted through the lens of the Uses and Gratifications theory – showing how parents cha
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nge their attitudes towards screen media in order to satisfy their own needs. Based on a qualitative longitudinal research project, including app-based media diaries, with 20 families with at least one child aged eight or younger, we aim to make two contributions to the literature. With regard to theory, we aim to highlight the heterogeneous and contingent ways of balancing the place of digital media in children’s lives that arise from parents navigating screen time discourses, social pressures, and daily schedules. With regard to methods, we argue for the combination of qualitative data and app-based media diaries to contextualise and interpret potential discrepancies between reported screen time and parental anxieties or hopes about digital media." (Abstract)
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"In the age of digital media, news avoidance behaviour is continually increasing. This behaviour has brought new challenges for society and democracy. Research on news avoidance has recently experienced a surge, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are many uncertainties
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on this topic, and this systematic literature review attempts to resolve them. This research uses the PRISMA framework to answer the research questions. Two databases are used for this study: Web of Science and Scopus. The study uses the inclusion criteria of research papers published in English and the exclusion criteria of review papers. The research study is based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 23 selected articles from both databases. Quantitative results show a sudden increase in the number of news avoidance studies in 2023. The analysis also revealed a dominance of quantitative methods and non-probability samples. The regional distribution of the studies underlines the concentration of research in Europe and North America. The qualitative analysis highlights the causes of news avoidance, the profile of news avoiders, the connection between news avoidance and news overload, social media and engagement, the disadvantages of avoidance, and solutions to avoidance. The study concludes that trust in news, interest in news, enjoyment of news consumption, news curation and constructive news provide a solution to news avoidance behaviour." (Abstract)
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"Algorithmic news recommender systems (NRS) are present in many digital platforms. A decade after Eli Pariser introduced the infamous ‘filter bubble’ hypothesis, empirical evidence challenges the assumption that recommendation algorithms predominantly create homogeneous opinion environments. Stu
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dies indicate that algorithmic platform use may amplify users’ political polarization. Whether the link between platform use and polarization can be causally explained by ideological news filtering, however, is still an unanswered question as rigid causal designs to test the notion of ‘filter bubble’ effects are still largely lacking. To fill this gap, we conducted two experimental studies in Germany (n = 1,786) and the U.S. (n = 1,306) with running NRS selecting news items based on the political orientation and political interest of its users. For both national contexts, results indicate that an NRS with a bias towards users’ political preferences increases ideological polarization among politically moderate individuals, supporting the notion of ‘filter bubble’ effects for this group. No such pattern could be found for affective polarization. Yet, in the German data, affective polarization among moderate users was reduced by a politically balanced NRS (as compared to a randomized news diet), while the same NRS increased affective polarization of politically extreme participants. We discuss the democratic implications of these findings against the backdrop of increasing digital news consumption." (Abstract)
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"Die Vielzahl von Informationen und Nachrichten, die täglich über unterschiedlichste Kanäle verbreitet werden, können für Nutzerinnen und Nutzer eine Herausforderung darstellen. Nachrichtenvermeidung (News Avoidance) kann die Folge sein. Wie der Reuters Digital News Report 2024 zeigt, ist das I
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nteresse an Nachrichten in der Mehrzahl der teilnehmenden Länder in den letzten Jahren tatsächlich merklich gesunken (vgl. Newman und andere, 2024 sowie Newman und andere, 2023). Die zunehmende Zahl an Nachrichtenquellen und die große Vielfalt an Nachrichten und Informationen (High-Choice-News-Avoidance-These) ist laut der Studie von Karlsen, Beyer und Steen-Johnsen (2020) jedoch nicht alleiniger Grund, warum Menschen Nachrichten vermeiden. Vielmehr spielen sowohl Faktoren auf Seiten der Nachrichten (beispielsweise bestimmte Themen; Negativität) als auch individuelle Merkmale der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer eine wichtige Rolle. Nachrichtenvermeidung ist vor allem in Krisenzeiten häufiger zu beobachten. Schäfer, Betakova und Lecheler (2024) untersuchten intentionale Nachrichtenvermeidung und konnten zeigen, dass diese durch spezifische Themen, wie zum Beispiel die COVID-19-Berichterstattung, verstärkt wird, und spezifischen Motiven – zum Beispiel Informationsüberlastung – geschuldet ist." (Seite 1)
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"Este livro celebra a trajetória acadêmica das mulheres que ajudaram a construir o campo da Comunicação no Brasil. Organizado por regiões, os volumes resgatam as histórias de pesquisadoras que, como fundadoras e consolidadoras, desafiaram estruturas e deixaram sua marca na produção de conhec
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imento. A iniciativa dá visibilidade a essas mulheres, destacando suas contribuições para o ensino, a pesquisa e a extensão universitária, ao mesmo tempo em que preserva a memória de sua atuação no desenvolvimento da área." (Verso)
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"Der Info-Monitor der Medienanstalten dokumentiert, wo und wie sich die Bevölkerung in Deutschland zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen informiert. Nutzung: Der Bedarf in der Bevölkerung an Informationen zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen ist groß. Mehr als 90 Prozent interessieren sich für aktuelle Themen und
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informieren sich mindestens wöchentlich. Die sog. etablierten Medien erfüllen diesen Bedarf nur (noch) bedingt, weil nur 60 % der Befragten die für sie relevanten Themen aufgegriffen sehen. 34 % sehen ihre Themen nicht repräsentiert. Vertrauen: Der Info-Monitor belegt einen klaren Zusammenhang zwischen Medienvertrauen und Demokratiezufriedenheit: Von den etablierten Medien Überzeugte (22 %) und diese kritisch Betrachtende (45 %) sind meist auch mit der Demokratie in Deutschland zufrieden. Skeptische (26 %) und Ablehnende (7 %) äußern häufiger systemkritische Ansichten. Nutzungsmuster und Medienvertrauen dieser Gruppen variieren stark: Von den etablierten Medien Überzeugte bevorzugen öffentlich-rechtliche Angebote und Tageszeitungen, Skeptische nutzen deutlich häufiger Suchmaschinen, Soziale und sog. alternative Medien. Ablehnende vertrauen vor allem Videoplattformen, sog. alternative Medien und Suchmaschinen. Skeptische vertrauen vor allem öffentlich-rechtlichen Angeboten, Informationen der Tageszeitungen und von privaten Radiosendern. Vertrauenswürdigkeit sozialer Medien: Die nicht gezielte Informationsnutzung zum aktuellen Zeitgeschehen überwiegt. Besonders stark ausgeprägt ist die Nebenbei-Nutzung bei Sozialen Medien, die vor allem für Jüngere eine wichtige Informationsquelle darstellen. Die Vertrauenswürdigkeit von Sozialen Medien als Nachrichtenquelle fällt gleichzeitig gering aus. Die große Mehrheit sieht in Personalisierung, Desinformation und Hassrede eine Bedrohung für Gesellschaft und Demokratie - und findet, dass die Anbieter der Social-Media-Plattformen zu wenig gegen diese Phänomene tun." (Auf einen Blick, Seite 2)
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"This paper analyzes the work experience of Israeli-Palestinian women journalists who reside and work in Israel for local news organizations or non-Israeli news agencies. It focuses on their experiences related to the intersected axes of their gender, ethnic, and national identities. Through themati
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c analysis of narrative interviews with 24 Palestinian women journalists, the study reveals that their work experiences vary between exclusion and inclusion among different news organizations. Israeli-Palestinian women journalists face barriers getting jobs at mainstream news agencies because of their accent; and when they apply to local Arab news organizations, they confront recruiting procedures based on a clan system that discriminates against women. However, a few of them report an advantage when trying to enter mainstream news organizations based on their image as an “authentic Arab woman.” Additionally, the study finds that the professional identity of all interviewees is closely connected to their ideological perceptions and political aims." (Abstract)
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"Following the conservative Turkish government’s political-economic capture of the news media, educated and pro-feminist women journalists have migrated online. Despite having more publicity across platforms, they face immediate prosecution based on the tweet of an anonymous troll, an informant ci
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tizen or a government official. While this is a common case of networked misogyny, inspired by Liz Kelly’s concept of the continuum of sexual violence, we argue that networked misogyny against women journalists is not simply technological but rather both interconnected across different spaces (online manosphere, masculine newsrooms, and authoritarian state) and intersectional feeding from nationalism, class, and anti-Western sentiments. This intersectionality renders networked misogyny against Turkey’s journalists different from liberal contexts because it operates not through illegality but suspicion (of terrorism, treason). Our focus on interconnections and intersectionality allows for theorizing networked misogyny beyond the digital, genders current perspectives on authoritarianism and reframes networked misogyny as a violent war targeting women’s intellectual labor and public visibility, both significant threats to authoritarian regimes across the globe. The interconnected and intersectional stories of networked misogyny from Turkey point to how fighting against this form of violence is also a fight against the post-truth regimes of authoritarianism and fight for democracy." (Abstract)
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