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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
London: Profile Books (2019), viii, 691 pp.
"The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that we
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Disconnected: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Network Disruptions
Global Network Initiative (2019), 33 pp.
"The statistical study determines that network interferences are more likely to happen at higher rates of expansion of Internet connectivity until a tipping point, suggesting that efforts to extend Internet access in low- and middle-income countries may lead to less overt restrictions. This threshol
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The Need for a New US Information Strategy for North Korea
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 19 pp.
"Drawing on relevant literature, analysis of North Korean media and information control techniques, and interviews with refugees and defectors, this report argues that a new US information strategy is needed to alleviate the social isolation of the North Korean people and improve their long-term wel
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Exposed: Living with Scandal, Rumour, and Gossip
Lund: Lund University Press (2019), 201 pp.
"This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive empirical material drawn from a Swedish context. The questions
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Journalists' Safety and Multifaceted Censorship in Colombia: An Exploratory Study
International Affairs and Global Strategy, volume 78 (2019), pp. 33-46
"Safety of journalists has been studied as part of freedom of expression. However, there is scarce qualitative research on Colombian regional journalists’ safety. This chapter seeks to address issues surrounding journalists’ safety and censorship in Colombia shedding light on triple menace: the
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Violations of Media Freedoms in Palestine: Annual Report 2019
Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 190 pp.
"The year 2019 did not witness anything concrete and positive at the level of respecting media freedoms in Palestine and putting an end to violations against journalists/media outlets, as the Israeli occupation forces and authorities continued, at great frequency, to commit various types of violatio
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Glasnost! Nine Ways Facebook Can Make Itself a Better Forum for Free Speech and Democracy
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 27 pp.
"Following multiple controversies in the past two years, Facebook is seeking to implement much needed processes for self-regulation and governance to help regain the trust of the public, politicians, and regulatory authorities. Facebook has thus entered a new era of cautious glasnost, inviting resea
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Comunicar sin riesgo: Radios comunitarias en tiempos de paz. Manual de autoprotección
Bogotá: Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2019), 69 pp.
"En respuesta al riesgo que enfrentan tanto las emisoras comunitarias como otros medios de comunicación en todas las regiones del país, Colombia cuenta con un programa de protección a periodistas desde el año 2000. Luego de 19años, puede afirmarse que esta iniciativa ha contribuido considerable
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Social Media Platforms and Content Exposure: How to Restore Users’ Control
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, volume 20, issue 1 (2019), pp. 86-110
"Social media platforms have become themain channel for people to communicate, access information and share content. A handful of giant platforms dominate the markets and, through a complex typology of conducts, are able to strongly affect users’ exposure to content, violating their privacy, as we
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Media Ownership Monitor Egypt
Reporters Without Borders (2019), 687 pp.
"A hostile takeover of Egypt’s media is under way, leaving the influence on public opinion to be controlled by the state, the secret services and a few wealthy owners loyal to the regime and with close ties to the former president Hosni Mubarak. In a move to gain influence over the State-owned med
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Berichterstattung über öffentliche Proteste in Kasachstan: Medienkontrolle als Quelle politischer Macht
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 138 (2019), pp. 2-5
"Die Berichterstattung der kasachstanischen Massenmedien über Proteste im Lande folgt einer klaren Linie. Kleinere Proteste werden ignoriert. Wenn über größere Demonstrationen berichtet wird, kommen ihre Vertreter nicht zu Wort und ihre Forderungen werden nicht erwähnt. Stattdessen werden der i
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Media Influence Matrix: Pakistan. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.
"With particularly low internet penetration rates, intense state censorship and heavy Chinese investment, Pakistan presents elements of an authoritarian internet culture where surveillance is a barely-questioned norm, unless probed by civil society organizations or journalists. Social media giants s
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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.
Dashed Hopes: The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Myanmar
Human Rights Watch (2019), 87 pp.
"This report—based largely on interviews in Myanmar and analysis of legal and policy changes since 2016—assesses the NLD government’s record on freedom of expression and assembly in its more than two years in power. It updates Human Rights Watch’s prior report, “They Can Arrest You at Any
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"To Speak Out is Dangerous": The Criminalization of Peaceful Expression in Thailand
Human Rights Watch (2019), 136 pp.
"Focusing on the period between the 2014 coup and flawed elections in March 2019, “To Speak Out is Dangerous” draws on interviews with individuals prosecuted for exercising their rights to speech or assembly, lawyers, journalists, students, and activists, and examination of police charge sheets,
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An Investigation into State Suppression of Freedom of Expression in Lesotho
IJCIRAS, volume 2, issue 2 (2019), pp. 75-82
"The constitution of Lesotho gives assurance to freedom of expression which is supposed to protect the rights of journalists in the day to day dispensation of their duties. The situation on the ground however shows the exact opposite. Recent history can show assassination attempts on practicing jour
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Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation
Wiesbaden: Springer (2019), xvii, 469 pp.
"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation
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Safer Together: Considerations for Cooperation to Address Safety in the Media Support, Humanitarian and Human Rights Sectors
International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 31 pp.
"Every year, hundreds of human rights defenders, humanitarian workers and journalists and media workers are killed around the world – simply for doing their job. Hundreds more are threatened, sexually harassed, kidnapped, arrested, imprisoned or otherwise targeted. This briefing paper is the preli
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Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral
Freedom House (2019), 30 pp.
"According to Freedom House’s Freedom in the World data, media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade, with new forms of repression taking hold in open societies and authoritarian states alike. The trend is most acute in Europe, previously a bastion of well-establishe
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