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From Mobile Money to Digital Cash: Learnings from Africa’s Experience with Mobile Money for the Introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies

Bitange Ndemo, Aaron Thegeya

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 25 pp.

"The first adopters of mobile money were economies in sub-Saharan Africa, and over time adoption rates have increased rapidly particularly in Asia and Latin America. As of 2020, there were 1.2 billion mobile money accounts globally, with US$ 767 billion in transactions during the year. Sub-Saharan A ... more

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Supply Chain Analysis: Cambodia

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance;Education Development Center (EDC);USAID (2022), vii, 88 pp.

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Supply Chain Analysis: Jordan

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance;Education Development Center (EDC);USAID (2022), viii, 85 pp.

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Supply Chain Analysis: Nigeria

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance;Education Development Center (EDC);USAID (2022), viii, 217 pp.

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Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project

Roy Grundmann, Peter J. Schwartz, Gregory H. Williams (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 410 pp.

"This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around ... more

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Broadcasting Special Issue

Women’s History Today, volume 3, issue 5 (2022), pp. 4-52

‘Feminine Frequencies’: Gender, Radio, and the Auditory Culture of Revolution in 1940s China / 4 Frocks And Powder Puffs / 13 María Luisa Ross: Mexican Educator, Writer and Radio Station Manager / 23 Cathleen Nesbitt: Britain’s First Radio Drama Producer / 32 ‘Women on the Air’: A Contrib ... more

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Earthquake aftersongs: Music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public

Michael Hutt

Popular Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 42-59

"The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus, these videos’ representations of the earthquak ... more

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Reading the Radio-Magazine: Culture, Decolonization and the Paigc’s Rádio libertação

Alexandra Reza

Interventions, volume 24, issue 6 (2022), pp. 857-878

"This essay examines the history of the PAIGC radio station Rádio Libertação, broadcast from Conakry from 1967. The essay asks how to read the radio station today, and suggests we might see the radio station as a manifestation – albeit limited in scope and life span – of the commitment Amílc ... more

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Democracy Report 2022: Autocratization Changing Nature?

Vanessa A. Boese, Staffan I. Lindberg (eds.)

Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute (2022), 58 pp.

"The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 is down to 1989 levels. The last 30 years of democratic advances are now eradicated. Dictatorships are on the rise and harbor 70% of the world population – 5.4 billion people. There are signals that the nature of autocratization ... more

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The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication

Bruno Takahashi, Julia Metag, Jagadish Thaker, Suzannah Evans Comfort (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxv, 514 pp.

"Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories and areas of research. Chapte ... more

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Buchmarkt China 2022

Deutsches Buchinformationszentrum Peking (2022), 15, 21 pp.

"Dem im Januar 2023 von OpenBook veröffentlichten 2022 Annual Report of China Book Market ist zu entnehmen, dass der chinesische Bucheinzelhandelsmarkt im Jahr 2022 im Vergleich zu 2021 um 11,77 % zurückging, wobei das Mayang insgesamt ein Volumen von 87,1 Milliarden CNY erreichte. In den fünf Ja ... more

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Evolución del mercado digital (ebooks y audiolibros) en España y América Latina

Bookwire (2022), 60 pp.

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Radio Broadcasting and Indonesian Nationalism: During the Last Decade of Dutch Colonialism

Darmanto, Masduki, Hari Wiryawan

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 104-119

"This paper discusses how radio during the last decade of Dutch colonial era had served as an agent of nationalism in Indonesia. This paper applies a literature study using a historical approach that focused on Soloche Radio Vereeniging (SRV) and the Eastern Radio network, which were operational fro ... more

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Reflections on Feminist Communication and Media Scholarship: Theory, Method, Impact

Stine Eckert, Ingrid Bachmann

New York; London: Routledge (2022), xvi, 187 pp.

"This collection brings together ten of the most distinguished feminist scholars whose work has been celebrated for its excellence in helping to lay the foundation of feminist communication and media research. This edited volume features contributions by the ten renowned communication and media scho ... more

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Semillero Navegantes de la Memoria – Nadelam: Cuatro años “navegando” por los archivos comunitarios en Buenaventura, Colombia

Erika Paola Parrado, Jefferson Jaramillo

Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) (2022), 2 pp.

"En 2018 se inició en Buenaventura, Colombia, la conformación de un semillero local de Archivos y Memoria .. A partir de 2022, el semillero se ha autonombrado Semillero Navegantes de la Memoria-Nadelam. Está integrado por líderes y lideresas sociales, jóvenes y adultos quienes, conscientes del ... more

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Taking form, making worlds: Cartonera publishers in Latin America

Lucy Bell, Alex Flynn, Patrick O'Hare

Austin: University of Texas Press (2022), xvi, 303 pp.

"A publishing phenomenon and artistic project, cartonera was born in the wake of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis. Infused with a rebellious spirit, it has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of publishers across Latin America and Europe making colorful, low-cost books out of cardboard salvaged ... more

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Transitional (in)justice in phasing out coal in China: Documentary as visual evidence to unveil the local experiences of coal transitions

Lisa Lin

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 171-176

"This article examines how documentary film can be employed as visual evidence to create a thick description of environmental injustice among low-social-economic status communities in China. In particular, this article exemplifies the approach with a case study of a 2022 research project on transiti ... more

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Mujeres de la comunicación Bolivia

Vania Sandoval Arenas, Rigliana Portugal Escobar, Sandra Villegas Taborga (eds.)

La Paz: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe;Asociación Boliviana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ABOIC) (2022), 205 pp.

"La trayectoria y los aportes de 27 mujeres que han estudiado la comunicación en Bolivia están condensados en este libro que forma parte de la colección de Mujeres de la Comunicación de FES Comunicación en la región. El presente volumen está dividido en dos partes; la primera presenta a diez ... more

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Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt

Andrew Simon

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2022), xiii, 279 pp.

"Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology - the cassette tape - to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary indiv ... more

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A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons from the Front Lines
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Deborah Blum, Ashley Smart, Scott Veale (eds.)

New York: Oxford University Press (2022), xiii, 345 pp.

"A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism is a compendium of advice, insights, and lessons about how to do excellent and thoughtful science journalism from some of the best science journalists working today. With chapters from more than 40 leading practitioners from around the world, representing publ ... more

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