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Governing Digital China
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2026), xx, 273 pp.
"China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlight
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Safety by Design: Pathways to Safer Social Media Platforms
Berlin: HateAid (2026), 18 pp.
"Europe’s approach to platform regulation is uniquely rooted in its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights. To defend these principles and safeguard its digital sovereignty, the EU must assert the user rights enshrined in its legislation—resisting both the
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.
"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula
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Global South Creator Cultures
New Delhi: Routledge India (2026), x, 196 pp.
"Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their work, offering a four-part conceptual framework for studying creator cultures. Rather than
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Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiv, 244 pp.
"Homebodies: Performance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media sheds light on a fascinating yet often overlooked phenomenon: how ordinary people transform their private lives into captivating performances for the digital stage. Focusing on home dance videos shared on Instagram from 2010 to 2020, the
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The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy
New York; London: Routledge (2026), xxii, 475 pp.
"A comprehensive collection that offers an overview of digital technologies and democratic practice, this Companion explores the topic of digital media and democracy from a historically rich and socio-culturally broad perspective. Edited by one of the foremost leaders in the field, Zizi Papacharissi
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Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis
Platforms & Society, volume 2 (2025), 16 pp.
"Hopes that the growth of platform work in Africa will provide new opportunities for women’s employment have not yet been matched by empirical research. Based on a five-country survey of workers on 18 platforms across four sectors (ride-hailing, delivery, professional, microtasks), the research re
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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"This anthology is the result of a global collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and activists who come together to reflect on the expanding role of platforms in an increasingly digitized world. As platformization reshapes economies, politics, and everyday interactions, it brings with it new f
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Digital vines: Mapping China’s network of global platform ecosystems
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 17 pp.
"The world’s information systems are arguably owned by American and Chinese companies. So far, studies on China’s globalising Internet adopt either monolith approach or fragmented approach, lacking a comprehensive image to capture the architecture of China’s global information systems. Critica
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Gespiegelte Wirklichkeit: 'Osteuropa' und Öffentlichkeit im Wandel
Osteuropa, volume 75, issue 1-3 (2025), 472 pp.
"Der 100. Jahrestag von 'Osteuropa' bietet allerdings Anlass, in drei Bereichen das Verhältnis von Osteuropa und Öffentlichkeit zu analysieren. Der erste ist ein kritischer Blick auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart der Zeitschrift. Seit ihrer Gründung bewegt sich Osteuropa an der Grenze zwischen Wis
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Determinants of fake news diffusion on social media: A systematic literature review
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication (GKMC), volume 74, issue 7-8 (2025), pp. 2069-2092
"This paper aims to explore the determinants causing fake information proliferation on social media platforms and the challenges to control the diffusion of fake news phenomena. The authors applied the systematic review methodology to conduct a synthetic analysis of 37 articles published in peer-rev
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TikTok: Prekäre Plattform
Die Politische Meinung, volume 70, issue 592 (2025), pp. 20-89
"Mit rund 1,5 Milliarden monatlichen Nutzern ist TikTok ein globaler Kommunikationsraum – und ein geopolitisches Machtinstrument. Die Plattform steht mit im Zentrum der Rivalität zwischen den USA und China. Washington drängt auf eine Abspaltung vom chinesischen Mutterkonzern ByteDance, während
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La inteligencia artificial: Una mirada pastoral desde América Latina y el Caribe
Bogotá: Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y Caribeño (CELAM) (2025), 97 pp.
"El trabajo incluye desde nociones generales sobre Inteligencia Artificial hasta propuestas prácticas a los obispos del continente. El sumario incluye antecedentes históricos y evolución de la IA, aspectos éticos, antropológicos y teológicos, recoge el magisterio de la Iglesia, asume el desaf
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Data integration and analysis platforms as digital platforms: A conceptual proposal
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 22 pp.
"In this paper, we conceptualize platforms that aim at data integration and analysis as a distinct type of digital platform. Based on the existing literature on digital platforms in general, which so far did not engage with data integration and analysis platforms, we present a definition of data int
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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who
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Fairwork India Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Bangalore; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 39 pp.
"1. Only bigbasket and Urban Company were awarded the first point under Fair Pay for instituting a minimum wage policy that guaranteed all their workers earn at least the hourly local minimum wage after factoring in work-related costs. No platform earned the second point under Fair Pay, which requir
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Communications, media and internet concentration in Chile, 2019-2021
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), 27 pp.
"Between 2019 and 2021, the combined income of all the sectors studied increased by 44%. The sector with the most significant percentage growth is internet advertising, impacting other traditional media industries (newspapers, radio, and television) which have experienced a decrease in relative mark
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The digital covenant: Non-centralized platform governance on the Mastodon social network
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2024), pp. 3275-3291
"The majority of scholarship on platform governance focuses on for-profit, corporate social media with highly centralized network structures. Instead, we show how non-centralized platform governance functions in the Mastodon social network. Through an analysis of survey data, Github and Discourse de
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Communications, media and internet concentration in India 2019-2021
Deep Insights
Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC) (2024), iii, 88 pp.
"During the survey period of 2019-2021, the Indian media economy grew by 21% to reach gross revenues of $US 66.52bn (excluding publishing). The overall pattern of growth was unevenly distributed across four component divisions: telecoms and internet infrastructure with growth of 23% (2021 revenues o
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