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Blasphemy and Religious Defamation: What Are the Limits to Our Freedom?
TAFHIM: IKIM Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World, volume 12, issue 2 (2019), pp. 31-58
"Incidents of blasphemy and religious defamation occur around the world, often provoking angry, and sometimes violent reactions from religious adherents. However, laws prohibiting blasphemy and religious defamation are heavily criticised as being against freedom of speech, despite their effect on ra
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Annual Report 2018/2019
Johannesburg: Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2019), 136 pp.
"Spotlight report on the state of public access to information in Canada, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Ukraine prepared for the 2019 cycle of the Voluntary National Reviews and the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum." (Subtitle)
Redefining Community: Community Radio Licencing in Zimbabwe at Crossroads
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 42-56
"The promulgation of the Broadcasting Service Act (BSA), which contains a three-tier model of the broadcasting system, was supposed to revolutionise the broadcasting media sphere in Zimbabwe. It was supposed to change the dynamics of radio broadcasting in Zimbabwe by increasing the opportunity for p
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Community Media and Media Policy Reform in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa
In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 210-221
Policy Update: Pakistan's Blasphemy Law
Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2019), 3 pp.
Whistleblowers for Change: The Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Leaking and Whistleblowing
Open Society Foundations (2018), 29 pp.
"The insights in this study identify that we should not only deal with the whistleblowing concerns much further upstream, but we should also support whistleblowers much earlier in the process by ensuring that not only is the concern dealt with but that the individual who raised it is provided with t
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Faith on Trial: Blasphemy and ‘lawfare’ in Indonesia
Ethnos, volume 83, issue 2 (2018), pp. 371-391
"This article develops the argument that blasphemy trials occupy a pivotal role in ‘religion-making’ in post-1998 Indonesia. Examining a blasphemy trial on the island of Lombok in 2010, I argue that the process of democratisation has given civilian actors more opportunity to engage Indonesia’s
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Legal Standards on Freedom of Expression: Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa
Paris: UNESCO (2018), 218 pp.
"The toolkit encompasses a broad variety of issues, which should be considered by judicial actors in the course of their work to protect human rights. It covers legal standards of freedom of expression according to international and regional instruments and core texts and surveys pertinent jurisprud
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EU Medmedia: Vers une réforme du secteur des médias dans la région du Sud de la Méditerranée. Résultats
Deep Insights
MedMedia (2018), 24 pp.
"Développé dans le cadre d’un programme de 17 M d’euros financé par l’Union européenne intitulé « Médias et Culture pour le développement du sud de la Méditerranée », MedMedia a été mis en oeuvre de janvier 2014 à mai 2018. Ce programme a offert aux décideurs politiques, aux org
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The Handbook of Privacy Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2018), 456 pp.
"The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective. Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, th
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Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 186 pp.
"This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these
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International Development Aid Beyond Money: The Push and Pull of Media Democracy Promotion in Three Mercosur Countries
Journal of Latin American Communication Research, volume 6, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 116-134
"Media democracy promotion is a hidden form of international development aid (IDA). However, the dynamics underlying democracy promotion and their adaptation in local contexts is hardly considered when evaluating or theorizing international media development aid (IMDA). Multi-lateral organizations (
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Towards Media Sector Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region: Key Results
Deep Insights
MedMedia (2018), 24 pp.
"Part of a €17 million EU-funded programme entitled “Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean”, MedMedia was implemented in the Southern Mediterranean from January 2014 until May 2018. The MedMedia programme has given media policy makers, regulators, public service broad
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Subsidies: Fuel for the Media
In: Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe: Unpacking the Policy Cycle
Chicago, Bristol: intellect (2018), pp. 73-91
"Media subsidies have proved useful and appropriate as means to attain both economic and value-related objectives. Media companies often prefer indirect (and less transparent) ‘fuel’, while States favour direct subsidies. However, there is little scientific research on the actual impact of media
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Speech and Society in Turbulent Times: Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), xix, 334 pp.
"This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging questions about the relationship between expression, traditional and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new information communications technologies. It seeks to identify alternative approaches to the role of speech an
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Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2017
São Paulo: Intervozes; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 76 pp.
Recherche/étude comparative sur les grandes écoles de politiques publiques médiatiques
Programme d’Appui aux Médias en Tunisie Media Up (2018), 41 pp.
"L’objectif de cette étude est de présenter et de décrire les axes et les éléments les plus importants en matière de politiques publiques médiatiques, à partir d’ expériences comparées et des standards consacrés par le droit et les organisations et instances internationales compétent
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