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Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft

Rainer Kuhlen, Dirk Lewandowski, Wolfgang Semar, Christa Womser-Hacker

Walter de Gruyter (2023), xlv, 958 pp.

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To Know is to Compare: Studying Social Media Across Nations, Media, and Platforms

Mora Matassi, Pablo J. Boczkowski

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2023), x, 212 pp.

"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better und ... more

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WhatsApp and Transparency: An Analysis on the Effects of Digital Platforms’ Opacity in Political Communication Research Agendas in Brazil

Viktor Chagas, Gabriella Da-Costa

Profesional de la Información, volume 32, issue 2 (2023), 14 pp.

"This article aims to discuss what we call environmental opacity, a condition of mobile instant messaging services (MIMS) that operates on the basis of end-to-end encryption systems. Utilizing WhatsApp as a specific example, the article presents two fundamental dilemmas around which some issues conc ... more

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News Podcast Use, Press Freedom, and Political Participation: A Cross-National Study of 38 Countries

Yoonmo Sang, Sunyoung Park, Jiwon Kim, Sora Park

International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 1402-1424

"This study investigates the use and effects of news podcasts on online and offline political participation, based on a global survey of news consumers from 38 countries. The results demonstrate that political participation, both online and offline, is directly affected by news podcast use. Online d ... more

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How the Internet is Being Tamed in Russia: Chronicle of State Securitization Measures

Yulia Belinskaya

Journalism Research, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 71-92

"As a communicative space, the Russian public sphere is dramatically prosecuted, and it suffers from pathologic efforts to have it systematically shut down. This article looks back into the history of the new restrictive media laws and their framing in the state media. The analysis is disclosing how ... more

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A Guide to Challenges and Recommendations for the Implementation of a Fairer AI

Fundación Vía Libre (2023), 19 pp.

"The main recommendations we propose are: 1. Before proceeding with any development, analyze the need and social value of it. Consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of implementing the project. 2. Define the problem to be solved in non-technical terms, based on the joint reflection of the par ... more

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Privacy and Protection: A Children’s Rights Approach to Encryption

Child Rights International Network (CRIN) (2023), 108 pp.

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Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap. The ITEC Handbook
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José Roger Flahaux, Brian Patrick Green, Ann Gregg Skeet

Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara University, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics;ITEC;Dicastery for Culture and Education (2023), 138 pp.

"The primary goal of this handbook is to help companies developing, procuring, or leveraging advanced technologies understand the ethical risks that such technologies introduce, and help them implement the infrastructure necessary to mitigate those risks throughout the product and service life cycle ... more

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Google News Initiative’s Influence on Technological Media Innovation in Africa and the Middle East

Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, Allen Munoriyarwa, Adeola Abdulateef Elega, Charis Papaevangelou

Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2023), 14 pp.

"The Google News Initiative (GNI) aims to collaborate closely with the news industry and financially support the creation of quality journalism in the digital age. It also aims to bring technological advancements and innovation into newsrooms for operations. Drawing on journalism innovation and resp ... more

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Coding Da Vinci: Das Playbook. Schritt für Schritt zum eigenen Kultur-Hackathon

Philippe Genêt, Andrea Lehr Ilias Kyriazis (eds.)

De Gruyter Saur (2023), 95 pp.

"Das von 2019 bis 2022 von der Kulturstiftung des Bundes geförderte Projekt "Coding da Vinci" vernetzt seit 2014 technikaffine und kulturbegeisterte Communities mit deutschen Kulturinstitutionen, um das kreative Potential in unserem digitalen Kulturerbe weiter zu entfalten. Inhaltlich ist die Publi ... more

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The Digital Leisure Divide and the Forcibly Displaced. Part 2: Field Research

UNHCR (2023), 81 pp.

"Research on forcibly displaced people and their digital cultures have dominantly focused on utility-driven ends, primarily tied to goals of assimilation, social surveillance/tracking, economic betterment and other aid agencies’ specific agendas and outcomes. This approach negates much of their di ... more

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Medienkompetenz in einer digitalen Welt

Sonja Ganguin, Johannes Gemkow, Anna-Maria Kamin, Uwe Sander et al.

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2023), 67 pp.

"Medien – digitale wie traditionelle – spielen eine zentrale Rolle im Leben der Menschen. Sie informieren über das Geschehen weltweit und bieten zudem diverse Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten, beruflich wie privat. Einen großen Teil ihres Alltags bewältigen Menschen digital. So haben sich durch d ... more

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A Framework for Developing Gender-Responsive Cybersecurity Policy: Assessment Tool

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2023), 40 pp.

"This assessment tool seeks to provide step-by-step advice and concrete recommendations for those wishing to develop a gender approach to cybersecurity policy. Building on APC’s previous work on a human rights approach to cybersecurity, online gender-based violence, and cybersecurity and gender, r ... more

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Social Media in the Middle East 2022: A Year in Review

Damian Radcliffe, Hadil Abuhmaid, Nii Mahliaire

University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication (2023), 92 pp.

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Reporting on Artificial Intelligence: A Handbook for Journalism Educators

Maarit Jaakkola (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (2023), 133 pp.

"[...] While many AI deployments serve public interest, journalists also need insight and expertise to alert about aspects like exclusions, unequal benefits, and violations of human rights. As part of its journalism education series, UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communic ... more

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Data Ethics: Building Trust. How Digital Technologies Can Serve Humanity

Christoph Stückelberger, Pavan Duggal (eds.)

Geneva: World Council of Churches;Globethics.net (2023), 670 pp.

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Cyber Ethics 4.0: Serving Humanity with Values

Christoph Stückelberger, Pavan Duggal (eds.)

Geneva: World Council of Churches;Globethics.net (2023), 494 pp.

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Unveiling African Narratives on Facebook: Media Posts and Audience Engagement

Daniel O. Ong`Ong'a

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 199-216

"The issue of African narratives has attracted significant attention in traditional media studies. On social media in general, and on Facebook in particular, little is known about these narratives. This study addresses the public’s concerns about African narratives on social media by meeting the d ... more

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Mexico. Digital Threat Landscape: Civil Society & Media

Internews (2023), 13 pp.

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AI, Journalism, and Public Interest Media in Africa: Scoping Study to Map the Current State of Artificial Intelligence Use in Public Interest Media in Africa

George Ogola

International Media Support (IMS) (2023), 25 pp.

Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap. The ITEC Handbook Key Guidance

Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap. The ITEC Handbook
Key Guidance