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Russia – YouTube and Global Platforms: A New Battleground for Russian Journalists and Bloggers

Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 13 pp.

"In the late 2010s, the Internet overtook television as the most popular media format in Russia. It was also the time when Russian-speaking YouTube went political: well-known bloggers started producing political content, opposition politicians became the most popular YouTubers, and finally mainstrea ... more

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The Global State of Democracy: Forging Social Contracts in a Time of Discontent

Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) (2022), viii, 52 pp.

"The fourth edition of the Global State of Democracy Report comes at a time when democracy is under both literal and figurative assault around the world. The steady drumbeat of such warnings—included in the previous edition of this report, which was produced at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic� ... more

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Making Humanitarian Crises: Emotions and Images in History

Brenda Lynn Edgar, Valérie Gorin, Dolores Martín-Moruno (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xii, 186 pp.

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Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences

Gerlov van Engelenhoven

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 161 pp.

"This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is si ... more

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Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry

Tycho Alexander van der Hoog

Africa Spectrum, volume 57, issue 3 (2022), pp. 264-281

"The call to decolonize African Studies has a profound influence on the field, with varying degrees of success. This article addresses this topic in relation to the author’s personal experiences in the publishing industry in Namibia. By describing the attempt to publish a historical book about Nam ... more

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Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil

David Nemer

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2022), xi, 218 pp.

"David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in community technology centers and in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by ... more

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La radio en Bucaramanga: Vidas y sonidos de ciudad ...

Tito Ballesteros López

[author] (2022), 153 pp.

"Este libro se lee con mucha facilidad y nos describe con gran amplitud y rigurosidad investigativa ese paisaje mediático de la ciudad, donde conviven la expresión pública, la comercial y la comunitaria. Es un texto que nos cuenta que la radio sigue vigente y muy presente en la vida de la gente, ... more

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Audio Identity in Branding and Brand Communication Strategy: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Audio Branding

Montserrat Vidal Mestre, Alfonso Freire Sánchez, Diego Calderón Garrido, Adrien Faure Carvallo, Josep Gustems Carnicer

Profesional de la Información, volume 31, issue 5: e310504 (2022), 12 pp.

"Brand creation and management has undergone a substantial change in recent years as a result of new communication strategies, adaptation to the digital transmedia paradigm, and interaction with consumers. The use of an audio identity as a variable in this architecture and its inclusion in the diffe ... more

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Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development

Niamh Gaynor

London, New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 190 pp.

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HF Radio: Guide for Facilitators and Community Installers

Peter Bloom

Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.

"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station. For some years now, Rhizomatica has been working to “modernize” HF technology, allowing the transmission and reception of digital information. HF technology offers many advantages for autonomous com ... more

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Fair Culture: A Key to Sustainable Development

Véronique Guèvremont, Maxime Mariage

Bonn: German Commission for UNESCO (2022), 74 pp.

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Observatory on Information and Democracy: Feasibility Study

Forum on Information & Democracy (2022), 50 pp.

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Religiöse Helden: Glaube, Religion und Moralität in der superheroischen Popkultur

Nicolas Gaspers, Torsten Caeners, Matthias Keidel (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 220 pp.

"Superheld*innen sind in der Krise: Gut und Böse, Richtig und Falsch sind nach starken sozialen und politischen Umbrüchen längst nicht mehr klar und eindeutig. Für das Genre ein eklatantes Problem. Religion und Glaube könnten hier Orientierung bieten, verlieren aber - so der gängige Vorwurf - ... more

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This Time It’s for All the Marbles. Social Injustice in Digital Gaming

Gamevironments, issue 17 (2022), 481 pp.

"This special issue aims to examine the ways in which games and gaming are connected to and potentially accelerate undemocratic and bigoted movements while simultaneously highlighting projects and perspectives from games and games research that learn from analyzing these issues and then use that kno ... more

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Needles in a Haystack: An Analysis of Global South Roles in Humanitarian Knowledge Production

Campbell Aitken (ed.)

Humanitarian Advisory Group (2022), 25 pp.

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South-To-South Dialogues Between Brazilian and Kenyan Artivists: Decolonial and Intersectional Feminist Perspectives

Andrea Medrado, Monique Paulla Isabella Rega

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, volume 5, issue 1 (2022), 19 pp.

"In this article, we analyze experiences in which Brazilian and Kenyan artivists (artists who are activists) used animation to challenge colonial hierarchies that devalue Global Southern knowledges, histories, and stories. We draw from ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews, and artivists ... more

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Kamera-Ethnographie: Ethnographische Forschung im Modus des Zeigens. Programmatik und Praxis

Bina Elisabeth Mohn

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 278 pp.

"Die Methode der Kamera-Ethnographie ist ein zeigendes statt beschreibendes Verfahren und nutzt Kameraführung, Schnitt und Montage im Rahmen einer visuellen Analytik und performativen Wissensform. Bina Elisabeth Mohns Programmschrift zeigt, wie Kamera-Ethnographie auch nonverbale Praktiken in ihren ... more

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Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World: Recursive Nationhood

Stephen C. Hutchings

London; New York: Routledge (2022), ix, 197 pp.

"This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what 'the Kremlin' is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the ... more

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State of the Art of Indigenous Languages in Research: A Collection of Selected Research Papers

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 395 pp.

"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com ... more

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We Need to Talk: Measuring Intercultural Dialogue for Peace and Inclusion

Paris: UNESCO;Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) (2022), 107 pp.

"Currently, 1.5 billion people live in countries with low Intercultural Dialogue where global challenges such as absolute poverty, terrorism and forced displacement are more prevalent. To forge effective cooperation and sustain peace, strengthening Intercultural Dialogue must be a priority. For the ... more