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"To foster a multifaceted perspective on AI ethics, a pluriversal approach needs to be employed. This two-day workshop “AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate Through Decolonial Lenses” offers a forum to discuss alternatives to the status quo of AI ethics. Hosted by
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“Polite Watchdog”: Kompas and Watchdog Journalism in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 3 (2024), pp. 628-645
"Many studies have argued that watchdog journalism cannot flourish under authoritarianism. However, the effect of the democratization of previously authoritarian regimes on watchdog journalism is still poorly understood. This article aims to fill this knowledge gap by using Kompas, Indonesia’s old
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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Digital Coloniality: An Ubuntu perspective
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, volume 36, issue 2 (2024), pp. 175-216
"[...] How does the sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu bring the concept of digital coloniality to light? The main aim of the article is to define the concepts of digital colonialism and digital coloniality, to provide clear examples thereof and to provide some guidelines for corrective interv
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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.
"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain
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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.
"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm
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Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2024), pp. 303-320
"Drawing insights from decolonial theory and Ubuntu ethics, this article examines coloniality practices embedded in conflict journalism in Zimbabwe. It uses election violence reporting between 2000 and 2013 as a lens for gaining insights into how reporting conflicts perpetuates coloniality. How colo
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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8 (2024), pp. 145-167
"The Wayusa is a community ritual that is part of the exercise of political imagination among the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku, in Ecuador. In this article it will be discussed as a case study arguing towards a circular theory of communication, emerging from the works of Paulo Freire and cal
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Different Global Journalisms: Cultures and Contexts
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvi, 205 pp.
"This edited collection seeks to better understand how journalism across cultures differs, presenting an in-depth exploration of global practices that departs from the typical Western-centric approach. Journalists across the world are trained, generally speaking, within Western models of reporting a
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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.
"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci
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Analisando as perspectivas climáticas decoloniais: O caso da região da Amazônia Legal brasileira
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 79 pp.
"Este estudo é realizado dentro da estrutura do Programa de Pesquisa do ifa „Cultura e Política Externa“, no qual especialistas analisam tópicos atuais das relações culturais internacionais e desenvolvem recomendações para futuras medidas de política cultural externa. Ele discute o poten
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Pensares y haceres para una comunicación decolonial
Quito: CIESPAL (2023), 231 pp.
"Este trabajo busca introducir las discusiones en torno a la Comunicación y a la Decolonialidad desarrolladas en el Grupo Comunicación-Decolonialidad durante las últimas tres ediciones de los congresos bienales de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación (ALAIC) y que
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Otredades: Comunicología de los sures
Ediciones CIESPAL (2023), 236 pp.
Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.
"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global
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A Decolonial Approach to Open-Access Repositories: How to Set Up a Subject Repository for Documents on International Cultural Relations
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 78 pp.
"This study is based on desk research, supplemented by a three-month open commenting period and a public workshop whose participants have substantial experience in the technologies and practices analysed, or are members of the communities of practice, amongst them experts who work in “Global South
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Media and Communication Theory in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxii, 340 pp.
"This contributed volume explores theories of media and communication and focuses on providing African perspectives on global conversations. Using broad cases relating to media and communication theories, this book explores socio-cultural issues affecting most modern African societies, providing a c
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‘Top-Tier’ Journals: Does a Global Reputation Mean a Global Orientation?
Global Media Studies Network, March 20 (2023)
"Academia as an industry has come to rely on journal impact factors as convenient proxy measures of faculty members’ research quality. As competition intensifies — among individuals, departments, and universities — such bibliometrics have grown in importance. At many institutions, researchers
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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.
"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn
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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History
Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 287 pp.
"The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communicatio
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