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Just Hiring! How to counter discrimination in AI-powered software for recruitment. A toolkit for software developers

M. Daviet, N. Baranowska, A. Mueller, C. Rus, C. Castillo, J. Saldivar, A. Gatzioura

FINDHR Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (2025), 86 pp.

"In this Toolkit, we offer introductory information and technical recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of discrimination in software development of systems used for recruitment. This Toolkit addresses software developers and product managers working or interested in this field, and it intends ... more

Mapping Information Environments for Marginalised Communities in Central and Eastern Africa

Minority Rights Group

Canal France International (CFI); Advancing Global Innovation and Learning Effectively to Build Resilience in Independent Media (AGILE) (2025), 50 pp.

"1. In rural areas, word of mouth is often the only information system that works: In the DRC, over 80% of media outlets are clustered in the capital Kinshasa, leaving vast rural areas effectively without coverage. Ethnic minority groups such as the Batwa and Bambuti rated the relevance of the infor ... mation they receive at 0.5 out of 3, considering it to be "never relevant”. In these communities, access to information depends less on digital innovation than on trusted local networks: local leaders, women’s groups, grassroots organisations. These systems re resilient, but they are not infallible - information shared informally can be incomplete, delayed, or distorted before it reaches its intended audience. AGILE will support more accessible and inclusive information by working with trusted local intermediaries, community networks, and communication channels that already form the backbone of information access for marginalised communities. 2. Radio is still the backbone of information access – and it is under threat: In Uganda, 87% of respondents reported having a working radio at home. In Zambia, around 60% of the population listens to radio daily. In the DRC, more than 4,000 radio stations serve communities across the country. In a region where digital access remains unequal, radio is not a legacy medium - it is the primary information lifeline for millions. But this ecosystem is now under severe pressure. Following the cut to US foreign aid in 2025, community radio stations, that relied primarily on this funding source, face an uncertain future. Where community radio disappears, so does the locally rooted, trusted voice that keeps misinformation in check and civic life alive. AGILE will work with community radios, local organisations, and trusted community networks to help information reach people in more accessible and relevant ways. 3. Language is the most underestimated barrier, and communities have a clear ask: When asked what would most improve the information they receive, communities across all four countries gave a consistent answer: Translate it into our languages, and simplify it. Language is the decisive and most consistently underestimated barrier to information access. Official communications, media broadcasts, and humanitarian messages are routinely produced in dominant administrative languages that large parts of the population do not fully understand. Even where people speak the dominant language, technical jargon and bureaucratic phrasing can produce near-total incomprehension. On average, marginalised community members report understanding the language used in information only “sometimes”. In the DRC, ethnic minorities rate their comprehension between “rarely” and “sometimes”. In Tanzania, Hadzabe and Akie communities whose languages are oral and rarely represented in any media, rate their comprehension at the bottom of the scale. In contrast, Zambia is the only country where ethnic minorities rated their language comprehension as "often" adequate, a direct result of community radio broadcasting in multiple local languages. Respondents described asking their school-going children to explain official broadcasts, or depending on religious leaders or NGO staff to interpret messages. As information passes through multiple intermediaries, it can be delayed, simplified, or distorted - sometimes significantly - before reaching the people who need it. AGILE will prioritise multilingual, audio-first, and simplified content production across all activities co-designed with community radios, women's groups, and disability organisations to ensure that the needs of different communities are better reflected. 4. When information doesn't reflect communities' realities, they stop trusting it - or stop receiving it altogether: Accuracy is necessary but not sufficient. Communities are more likely to engage with - and trust - information when it reflects their realities and responds to their everyday concerns. When it doesn't, they disengage. Women across all four countries described a consistent pattern: stories about gender issues may be factually correct, but they "fail to reflect women's lived realities, rendering them irrelevant”. In the DRC, women's comprehension of information is rated as “rarely” adequate - not because they cannot understand the language, but because the content does not speak to their lives. The pattern is even sharper for some ethnic minorities. Maasai respondents described appearing in the media “rarely on their own terms” - their way of life consistently framed as a problem to be solved, rather than a legitimate system with its own logic and history. Several communities reported being exposed to derogatory language and hate speech in the way they are described in media. For people with disabilities, the exclusion takes a different form: the near-total absence of accessible formats. Across all four countries, sign language, braille, and audio-adapted content remain the exception rather than the rule. Information that cannot be accessed cannot be trusted - or used. AGILE will work more closely with marginalised communities to ensure their perspectives, experiences, and ways of understanding information are reflected in media and communication efforts. 5. Inclusive reporting already exists but journalists still face major barriers: Across all four countries, many journalists and media professionals recognise the importance of more inclusive, community-focused reporting. The mapping found this awareness to be widespread - the gap is not one of knowledge or intent, but of resources and conditions. Putting inclusive reporting into practice remains difficult. Covering remote communities takes time and money that most newsrooms do not have. Editorial priorities favour urban, mainstream audiences. In Zambia, several journalists described stories about marginalised communities as regularly sidelined because they are considered “unprofitable”. In the DRC and Tanzania, political and legal pressures further narrow the space for sensitive reporting. The result is a gap between what journalists know needs to happen, and what the system allows them to do. AGILE will support media professionals, community radios, and local organisations to strengthen inclusive reporting practices, improve community engagement, and produce information that is more accessible, relevant, and responsive to the needs of marginalised communities." (https://cfi.fr/en/news/5-things-we-learned-about-access-information-underserved-communities-central-and-eastern-africa) more

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Just Hiring! How to counter discrimination in AI-assisted recruiting within your organisation. A toolkit for HR professionals

M. Daviet, A. Mueller, N. Baranowska, C. Castillo, J. Saldivar, A. Gatzioura

FINDHR Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (2025), 73 pp.

"In this Toolkit, we offer introductory information and concrete recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of discrimination in algorithmic hiring systems within organisations. This Toolkit addresses HR professionals and recruiting agencies and intends to help them gain a better understanding of w ... more

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Solidarity Reporting on Marginalization: A Grounded Alternative to Monitorial Reporting’s Emphasis on Officials

Anita Varma

Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 1 (2025), 17 pp.

"A dominant monitorial reporting method means that journalism shines a spotlight on officials’ activities, plans, and statements. While this reporting method has brought official wrongdoing to light, monitorial reporting has also participated in amplifying, emphasizing, and normalizing problematic ... more

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Transformative Archive: Ansätze und Perspektiven für die (historisch-)politische Bildung

Iris Rajanayagam, Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2025), 211 pp.

"Inwieweit kann das Dokumentieren, Archivieren und Bereitstellen von marginalisiertem (Geschichts-)Wissen Räume eröffnen, in denen Neues gedacht werden kann und dekoloniale Optionen in der erinnerungspolitischen Landschaft Deutschlands und darüber hinaus besprechbar werden können? Welche Formen ... more

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Das Diversity ABC

Ramzi Fatfouta

Offenbach: Gabal Verlag (2025), 33 pp.

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Just Hiring! How to counter discrimination in AI-assisted recruiting at the governance level. A toolkit for policymakers

M. Daviet, A. Mueller, N. Baranowska, G. Meijers, C. Castillo, J. Saldivar, A. Gatzioura

FINDHR Fairness and Intersectional Non-Discrimination in Human Recommendation (2025), 67 pp.

"In this Toolkit, we offer introductory information and concrete recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of discrimination in algorithmic hiring systems on a governance level. This Toolkit addresses policymakers and people working in regulatory bodies, as well as civil society organisations inte ... more

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State capture of Romani ethnic media in Hungary

Konrad Bleyer-Simon, Kata Benedek

European Journal of Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (2025), pp. 23-36

"The portrayal of ethnic communities in the media can have a significant impact on the everyday life of these groups – both in a positive and negative way. Often, the dominant depictions in mainstream media are created without the community's involvement and are dominated by stereotypes. To deal w ... more

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Communication, Entertainment, and Messages of Social Justice

Richard West, Christina S. Beck

Abingdon: Routledge (2025), xix, 323 pp.

"This edited collection explores the contemporary interplay among three pivotal areas found in cultures around the world: communication, entertainment, and messages of social justice. Each chapter centralizes communication as instrumental in creating mediated messages pertaining to social justice, u ... more

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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building

Kwai Cheung Lo

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), xiii, 285 pp.

"Ethnic Minority Cinema in China's Nation-State Building investigates the convoluted relations between the cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China's nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-firs ... more

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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China

Cara Wallis

New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.

"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou ... nd marginalized groups and communities, Cara Wallis gently shifts our attention away from the world of “social media influencers” and tech-centric discourses of entrepreneurial lives towards a decidedly ambivalent terrain of routine life practices. Social Media and Ordinary Life argues that understanding these individual experiences of the everyday enables greater insight into larger transformations taking place in contemporary China. Through long-term ethnographic fieldwork across China, Wallis foregrounds the entanglement of affect, emotion, ordinary ethical decisions, and desires connected to social media as it is used for self-expression, self-representation, fights for equality, maintenance of community, and economic livelihood. Four case studies show how social media is integrated into the articulation of affects by a wide variety of “ordinary” Chinese subjects: disadvantaged young creatives who migrate to Beijing from rural areas and use social media to cultivate their personal aesthetics; micro-entrepreneurs in rural Shandong province, especially women whose affective ties to the patriarchal family constrain their use of technology for economic enhancement; domestic workers, all women, in urban homes who use social media to build community and construct themselves as ethical subjects; and young feminists spread across China who engage in various types of cultural production and deploy social media in their fight for gender equality, often facing social and/or political marginalization in the process. Amid daunting forces—big data, artificial intelligence, massive surveillance—this book centers the “small,” showing how structural inequality, the urban/rural divide, patriarchal gender norms, and generational differences lead to contradictory or ambivalent outcomes of technology use. Even so, for these individuals and many others, social media is deeply intertwined with aspirations for a better future." (Publisher description) more

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The Media Diversity Index 2025: What the pilot index highlights about the UK

Peter Block, Naomi Sakr

Media Diversity Institute (2025), 18 pp.

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Using Radical Co-Design to Create and Develop a Technology-Based Solution to Improve Post-Release Outcomes for Formerly Incarcerated Women: LindaBot

Michele Jarldorn, Susannah Emery

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1246-1265

"Most women exiting prison face profound disadvantages and are likely to struggle with poor mental and physical health. Rarely are women furnished with the resources needed to flourish post-release, and seemingly simple-sounding tasks like getting formal identification are quite complicated. The con ... more

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Unmasking racism: Guidelines for educational materials

Eckhardt Fuchs, Simiao Yu et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 82 pp.

"Since wars begin in the minds of men and women, it is in the minds of men and women that the defences of peace must be constructed” Countering racism in and through education Racist ideologies and discrimination continue to be a global problem. They are still widespread in our societies and roote ... more

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Exposure to Online Hateful Content and Users’ Engagement: A Silencing Effect

Nicoleta Corbu, Raluca Buturoiu, Oana Stefanita, Alexandru Dumitrache

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5629-5651

"Although there has been recent interest in the effects of exposure to online hate speech targeting ethnic minority groups, there are some underexplored areas. In a context dominated by debates over free and hateful speech across social media platforms, it has never been more pertinent to investigat ... more

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Code & Vorurteil: Über Künstliche Intelligenz, Rassismus und Antisemitismus

Marie-Sophie Adeoso, Eva Berendsen, Leo Fischer, Deborah Schnabel (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 231 pp.

"Was bedeutet die zunehmende Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz für die Demokratie, für Offenheit und Vielfalt in der Gesellschaft? Wie gerecht entscheiden Algorithmen? Vielfach zeigt sich, dass KI-Anwendungen strukturelle Ungleichheit und bestehende Diskriminierungsmuster reproduzieren können. Den ... more

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Annual Report 2023

Glasgow: International Network of Street Papers (INSP) (2024), 17 pp.

"The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) is the UK based charity and enterprise that represents all printed publications sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty to earn a dignified income. INSP mission is to support the global street paper network to alleviate poverty and buil ... more

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“We All Have Power”: Using Photovoice to Document Challenges and Strengths of Lakota Women With Histories of Incarceration

Katie M. Edwards, Emily E. Camp, Tiffani N. Luethke et al.

Feminist Criminology, volume 19, issue 3 (2024), pp. 191-219

"Results from a photovoice study with 13 Lakota women found that there were numerous barriers (e.g., finding stable housing, finding a job) to reintegration following incarceration and that trauma, grief, and loss were identified as prominent challenges throughout attempts at reintegration. Despite ... more

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“A Significant Impact on our Democracy”: Chilean Media Audiences’ Claims for Dignity

Mónica Humeres-Riquelme, Claudia Jordana-Contreras, Jorge Saavedra-Utman

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 432-451

"Chile’s largest social uprising in 30 years began in October 2019. Protests erupted throughout the country, inspired by a widespread belief that the state and powerful institutional actors, such as the media, had undermined the dignity of much of the population. In this article, we explore how an ... more

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Libros infantiles para el desarrollo sostenible

Lorena Panche (coord.)

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2024), 76 pp.

"[...] este catálogo —iniciativa conjunta del Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe, Cerlalc, y la región de América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización Internacional para el Libro Juvenil, IBBY, por su sigla en inglés— cobra especial relevancia al ofrec ... more