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Manual de seguridad digital: Kit de herramientas para una internet feminista

Larissa Saud

Málaga: ArsGames (2019), 12 pp.

Tackling Gender Inequality Through Access to Information

London: Article 19 (2019), 17 pp.

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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Zahra Hankir, Christiane Amanpour (eds.)

New York: Penguin Books (2019), xxiv, 278 pp.

"International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and male--meaning we see only one side of the story. But a growing number of intrepid Arab women, whose access to and understandin ... more

Media, Access to Information and ICT, and the Empowerment of Women & Girls: Technical Assistance to the EU Delegation to Burkina Faso

Virginie Ramey, Nestorine Sangare Compaore, Dessi Damianova

Media 4 Democracy (2019), 72 pp.

50:50 Project

BBC (2019), 37 pp.

"A year ago, I set our teams a challenge: to aim for at least 50% women contributing to BBC programmes and content by April 2019. In this report, you’ll see how they’ve turned that challenge into a creative opportunity which has fundamentally transformed our approach to representation. This repo ... more

Female Journalists in New Media: Experiences, Challenges and a Gendered Approach

Maham Javaid

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2019), 23 pp.

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Stratégie genre

Issy-les-Moulineaux: CFI (2019), 15 pp.

"CFI est l’agence française de développement médias. CFI inscrit au cœur de son action la jeunesse, le numérique avec ses nouveaux canaux de diffusion, ainsi que l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, principes qu’elle s’attache à transcrire au travers de ces différents programme ... more

Gender, Media & ICTs: New Approaches for Research, Education & Training
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Lisa French, Aimée Vega Montiel, Claudia Padovani (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO (2019), 129 pp.

"Teachers can cultivate gender-sensitive graduates able to impact on the future communication environment to help make it inclusive, diverse and open. Scholars from 10 universities from across all world regions have collaborated on this project: Complutense University (Spain), Hawassa University (Et ... more

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Female journalists under attack? Explaining gender differences in reactions to audiences' attacks

Lea Stahel, Constantin Schoen

New Media & Society, volume 22, issue 10 (2019), pp. 1849-1867

"The literature on public figures attacked by their audiences is unclear why female and male figures react differently to attacks. This study examines why female journalists are more likely than male journalists to use avoidance strategies as a reaction to online attacks. Avoidance includes limiting ... more

Weaponised Information in Brazil: Digitising Hate

Diego Casaes, Yasodara Córdova

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 18 pp.

"In the last few years, the world information ecosystem has been flooded by the “fake news” phenomena, augmented by the widespread use of social media. The fragmentation and scale of the new communication tools help spread old ideologies, that uphold racism, homophobia, and oppression. This phen ... more

Guía para una comunicación igualitaria

María Silvia Corbalán, Alejandra Pérez Scalzi

ALTEC (2019), 21 pp.

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Cracking the Glass Ceiling in Myanmar Media

Thin Lei Win

In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change

Lisa Brooten; Jane Madlyn McElhone; Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)

Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 243-250

"Pre-publication censorship has been abolished, private journals and papers abound (although the issue of consolidation caused by financial strains is another matter) and, depending on your calculations, there are between 2,000 and 5,000 accredited journalists in Myanmar, at least half of whom are w ... more

Toolkit on Gender-Sensitive Communication: A Resource for Policymakers, Legislators, Media and Anyone Else with an Interest in Making their Communication More Inclusive

Vilnius: European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) (2019), 61 pp.

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Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations

Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, Cariad Astles (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), 222 pp.

Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara, Victor Orozco

AEA Papers and Proceedings, issue 109 (2019), pp. 133-137

"Entertainment education (“edutainment”) is a communication strategy that works through mass entertainment media with the aim of promoting a better context for behavior change than the delivery of information alone. We experimentally evaluate season 3 of the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga, prod ... more

Women Into Politics! Greater Female Participation in Cambodia: A Best-Practice Handbook 2016–2018

Kyle James

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2018), 35 pp.

"Women are a great untapped potential in Cambodia. That is the driving idea behind the EU-funded project “Women into Politics! Greater female participation in Cambodia”. This three-year project reached women from different regions in Cambodia and gave them the communications skills they needed t ... more

Changing Forms and Platforms of Misogyny: Sexual Harassment of Women Journalists on Twitter

Richard Rego

Media Watch, volume 9, issue 3 (2018), pp. 472-485

"Across time, in a variety of forms and spaces -from homes and workplaces to digital domains of social media- women have become victims of male dominance. So also are the other vulnerable sections that suffer multi-layered abuse, and endure sexual harassment in social media. Yet, this phenomenon is ... more