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India: Trailblazer in Tech-Emancipation from China
New Delhi: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 39 pp.
"Over the past few years, India has taken decisive steps to reduce its dependence on Chinese technology and investments. This was triggered by border skirmishes with China in 2020, but built on longstanding national security concerns about China, given the history of conflict between the two countri
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Soft power, sharp power? Exploring RT’s dual role in Russia’s diplomatic toolkit
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3292-3317
"This article examines the multilingual audiences of Russian outlet RT on Facebook. RT is a state media outlet known for spreading strategic Kremlin narratives and disinformation in support of Russia’s domestic and foreign policy objectives to large and multilingual global audiences. RT serves as
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China, media, and international conflicts
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 212 pp.
"This book focuses on China’s media diplomacy and its interplay with a range of international conflicts. It assesses the representation and framing of China, as well as the perception and reception of China’s media communication in relation to various crises and conflicts. Including detailed ana
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The paperboys of Russian messaging: RT/Sputnik audiences as vehicles for malign information influence
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1849-1867
"This article examines the reception and dissemination of ‘malign information influence’ (MII) in a liberal democracy; information sponsored by authoritarian regimes or other hostile actors and projected through international broadcasting outlets across borders. The study contributes to the scar
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COVID-19 and the Constructions of Africa in African News Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 179-198
"This article examines the constructions of Africa in COVID-19-related stories that were produced by African news media. Dominant scholarship indicates that western media generally reproduce and perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Africa. Given that there is scant literature on how African media cover
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Watching Competencies: Malay Women, Turkish Serial Dramas and Islamic Modernity
International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 101-120
"This article discusses the emergence of Turkish serial dramas as a site for contestation over the impact of Islamic modernity on Malay women in contemporary Malaysia. Despite its popularity among Malay women, Turkish serial drama has been criticized for misleading and confusing the audience about I
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Hashtag activism: An alternative pathway for the transnationalization of protests a case study of #SaveSheikhJarrah
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2023), pp. 157-177
"Digital media have provided activists with communication and organizational tools that have revolutionized the work of social movements. This article contributes to the literature on the role of digital media in the transnationalization of protests by examining a case study of a digital advocacy ca
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Exploring Disinformation in Fragile States: Iraq as a Case Study of Influence of International Political Actors
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 18 pp.
"This paper examines the influence of international political actors in perpetuating disinformation in fragile states, using Iraq as a case study. The advent of modern technology and social media has transformed the global information landscape, providing new avenues for the dissemination of disinfo
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China's Discourse Power: Capabilities and Impact
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2023), 40 pp.
Transnational Turkish Television Production and Consumption
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 3-4 (2023), pp. 193-344
Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), 561 pp.
"Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizi
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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2022
London: Care International (2023), 28 pp.
"Our 2022 report shows that all of the most under-reported crises are now in Africa. Hunger is rampant and spreading, particularly in East Africa where one of the worst droughts in living memory is causing over 21 million people to face life-threatening hunger. Water becomes scarcer every day, crops
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Putins Armee der Trolle: Der Informationskrieg des Kreml gegen die demokratische Welt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 397 pp.
"Im Ringen um die globale Deutungshoheit setzt die russische Regierung seit Jahren auf die Verbreitung von Desinformation. Die finnische Journalistin Jessikka Aro hat nicht nur derartige Propagandataktiken aufgedeckt, sie wurde auch selbst zur Zielscheibe orchestrierter Drohungen durch vom Kreml unt
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Changing tides in Zambian television broadcasting: Digital migration and Chinese engagement
Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 3 (2023), pp. 357-371
"This paper examines the recent shifts and debates in the organization of the television landscape following the implementation of digital migration in Zambia. It ponders Zambia’s experience in the digital migration exercise, playing particular attention to the country’s interaction with the Chi
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An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2023), xii, 255 pp.
"Tracing, first, the formative development of an international and global media landscape throughout the 20th century from the telegraph, television and film export, and transnational television to the Internet, the book then focuses on developments in the 21st century. This includes: the digitizati
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Belt and Road Initiative supported co-production films: Film policy and disoriented remembrance of the Silk Road past
International Communication Gazette, volume 48, issue 62 (2023), pp. 48-62
"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even
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Assessing China’s news coverage and soft power in Latin America in the wake of the Belt and Road Initiative (2013–2021)
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 80-96
"This study assesses the impact of China’s mediated communication strategies implemented in Latin America from 2013 to 2021. We content-analyzed the press coverage about China in nine countries and unveiled tones, topics, and frames which were then examined further across different sources. Public
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A Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy
Cheltenham (UK); Northampton, Mass. (US): Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), xxvii, 307 pp.
"Public diplomacy has become one of the central instruments of foreign policy and national security; this crucial Research Agenda provides a new outline for its investigation. Aiding the comprehension of the broad boundaries of the field, it proposes a clear starting point for contemporary research
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Russian Media in the Balkans. Case Study: How Moscow‘s Propaganda Influences Serbia
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 27 pp.
"The influence of Russian state-run foreign media (RT, Sputnik et al.) on public opinion in Western democracies is now common knowledge - regardless of its political qualification. Well-documented analyses are available, e.g., from the USA, France and Germany. The German government has also repeated
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