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"Radio shows which invite audience participation via short message service (SMS)—interactive radio–SMS—can be designed as a mixed methods approach for applied social research during COVID-19 and other crises in low and middle income countries. In the aftermath of a cholera outbreak in Somalia, ... more
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Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitised Archival Collections

Lise Jaillant (ed.)
Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press; transcript Verlag (2021), 330 pp.
"Cultural heritage organizations face at least three main challenges. First, the volume of digital archives makes it extremely difficult for archivists to assess records. Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to archives is still at an experimental stage, but AI/ ML could b ... more
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Gendered Social Media Communication Around Mining: Patriarchy, Diamonds, and Seeking Feminist Solidarity Online

Juliet Gudhlanga, Samuel J. Spiegel
Gender & Development, volume 29, issue 2-3 (2021), pp. 369-390
"Although it is increasingly well-known that mining generates a vast array of gendered impacts, less studied is how women in mining zones have turned to online social media to articulate concerns and mobilise for collective action. This article explores how gendered social media communication has co ... more
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Persuasive Gaming in Context

Teresa de la Hera, Jeroen Jansz, Joost Raessens, Ben Schouten (eds.)
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 264 pp.
"The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called 'persuasi ... more
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Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China

David Craig, Jian Lin, Stuart Cunningham
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), ix, 197 pp.
"In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cu ... more
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China and International Development: Knowledge, Governance, and Practice

Xiaoyun Li, Jing Gu, Chuanhong Zhang (eds.)
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 52, issue 2 (2021), viii, 160 pp.
"This issue of the IDS Bulletin brings together studies of the primary institutions and policies that are guiding China’s activities in development cooperation, focusing on the question of what China contributes to international development and the implications for global development cooperation. ... more
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Why Some Development Works: Understanding Success

Meera Tiwari
London et al.: Zed Books (2021), 160 pp.
"Right at the beginning of her book, the author makes it clear how complex and difficult it is to track down success factors for functioning development processes. Her research and case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, which focus on local processes and selected, in many cases state-run, ... more
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Understanding Indian Movies: Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination

Patrick Colm Hogan
Austin: University of Texas Press (2021), 293 pp.
"In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films ... more