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Cleaning up data work: Negotiating meaning, morality, and inequality in a tech startup
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportunity and exploitation. Existing research on the moral economy of data work focuses on platforms where individuals anonymously complete
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First be safe: Exploring and improving journalists’ skills in digital security
Journalism, volume 26, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1742-1760
"Despite the scientific significance of journalism practice, the gap between academic and applied fields persists. In this paper, based on our project on the digital security of journalists and their sources, we argue that practice-relevant research in the form of the action-innovation model benefit
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Keeping it Real: An Exploratory Study of How 13-14-Year-Olds Critically Engage with Online Content
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Free Press Unlimited (2020), 43 pp.
"We recruited participants aged 13-14 in three countries: Mexico, South Africa and the Netherlands. Through a questionnaire, an observation exercise and interviews, we gathered information in order to identify trends [...] We constructed a number of global personas that cut across the groups. Safety
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Monetising the Dividual Self: The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), xiii, 221 pp.
"Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter thick description case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media microcelebrities and influencers. It tracks the transformation of pe
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Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age
New York: Routledge (2018), 252 pp.
"Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with journalists and aid agency press officers, participant observations at the Guardian, BBC and Save the Children UK, as well as the ordinary people who created the words and pictures that framed these disasters, this book reveals how humanitarian disa
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Social Tech Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) (2018), 86 pp.
"Around the world diverse actors are working to develop technology that directly improves social conditions. This report refers to these types of technology as ‘social tech’. Examples of social tech include anti-corruption systems for citizens to report bribes; communications platforms for refug
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Division in the Land of ‘the Unspoken’: Examining Journalistic Practice in Contemporary New Caledonia
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 52-71
"While the Kanaks’ pro-independence protests against French settlers have been extensively documented in the global media and academic literature, another protest – more subtle and diffused, but deeply embedded – is now taking place in New Caledonia (South Pacific) to decide whether to remain
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News Broadcasting on South African Community Radio: In Search of New Public Spheres
African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (2011), pp. 61-79
"The South African community station movement, consisting now of around 100 such stations, situates itself explicitly in the international tradition of alternative, grassroots and (in some cases) radical media. The stations aspire - and are mandated to - cater for poor and marginalised communities,
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Community Radio in Nepal: A Case Study of Radio Madanpokhara
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Scripps College, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 353 pp.
"This study is about Community Radio Madanpokhara (CRM) in Palpa district in Western Nepal. Initiated and managed by the local residents, CRM has been on the air on frequency modulation (FM) band serving 800,000 potential listeners in the region since 2000. Triangulating in-depth interviews, observa
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