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The Online Regulation Series: The Handbook

Tech Against Terrorism (2021), 170 pp.

"The Online Regulation Series Handbook provides an analysis of global online regulation, analysing over 60 legislations and regulatory proposals in 17 countries, and their implications for countering terrorist and violent extremist content. The Handbook is based on analysis published throughout Octo ... more

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Community Media’s Role in Changing Centre-Periphery Relations Through Participatory, Not-For-Profit Journalism

Urszula Doliwa, Judith Purkarthofer

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 17, issue 2 (2021), pp. 161-182

"Traditional notions of journalism focus exclusively on professionals, often embedded in media outlets and publishing houses. However, preceding decades have seen transformations in the understanding of journalism. This contribution sets out to explore the role of community media in working towards ... more

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Regulation, Self-Regulation and Co-Regulation in Media and Gender Equality

Aimée Vega Montiel, Emma Lygnerud Boberg

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 17 pp.

"This briefing note is designed to give readers a basic understanding of the role of media regulatory and self-regulatory systems in promoting gender equality and inclusion. It highlights the main self- and regulatory systems that reflect or affect the role of media – from the perspective of gende ... more

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New Quality Criteria for TV Channels and TV Narrative

Valerio Fuenzalida

English Language, Literature & Culture, volume 6, issue 1 (2021), pp. 1-6

"In this article, I discuss that quality TV for the specific children audience can be described with some new quality indicators afforded by child neuroscience and child epigenetic development; there is a reappreciation of the ludic and emotional genetic abilities of child brain to enjoy and compreh ... more

Overlooking the Political Economy in the Research on Propaganda

Aman Abishek

Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue special issue (2021), 14 pp.

"A thematic meta-analysis – of recent literature on online propaganda in the context of the Global South, and 20 Facebook-funded research projects in 2018 – shows that research is overwhelmingly focused on the psychological and behavioral impacts of propaganda. This research advocates for promot ... more

Towards Sustainable Journalism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Brief

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey, Anthea Garman, Franz Krüger, Ulrika Olausson, Peter Berglez, Lars Tallert, Guy Berger, Vilhelm Fritzon

Fojo Media Institute;Consortium to Promote Human Rights, Civic Freedoms and Media Development (CHARM) Africa, 2nd ed. (2021), 36 pp.

"Sustainable journalism addresses two intertwined challenges of our time: * The sustainability crisis of society, e.g. environmental crises, democratic crises, poverty, financial crises, armed conflicts, etc. Obviously, journalism has a crucial role to play here since it contributes greatly to the p ... more

Carta de Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte: Mutirão de Comunicação (2021), 3 pp.

"Depois de dois dias de reflexões, espiritualidade, encontro e arte, dias 23 e 24 de julho, num encontro que reuniu mais de 5.000 comunicadores católicos de todo o Brasil, a 12ª segunda edição do Mutirão de Comunicação divulgou a Carta de Belo Horizonte, um documento que sintetiza os princip ... more

Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity: Design, Defence and Response

Katharine Millar, James Shires, Tatiana Tropina

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) (2021), 70 pp.

"This report outlines the relevance of gender norms to cybersecurity. It draws on existing research, supplemented by stakeholder and expert interviews, to assess gender-based differences in the social roles and interaction of women, men and non-binary people of all ages reflected in the distribution ... more

Building Trust in Journalism: Slovakia

Aida Kaisy

Ethical Journalism Network (EJN);Evens Foundation;Fritt Ord Foundation (2021), 22 pp.

"This policy report provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities that the media are facing in Slovakia. Based on a number of interviews that took place with key Slovak media stakeholders, it finds that the Slovak media landscape is currently the freest of the Visegrad countries, despite ... more

Why Conspirational Propaganda Works and What We Can Do About It: Audience Vulnerability and Resistance to Anti-Western, Pro-Kremlin Disinformation in Ukraine

Peter Pomerantsev et al.

London School of Economics and Political Science;Internews Ukraine;Cardiff University, Crime and Security Research Institute (2021), 45 pp.

"The most effective propaganda resonates with audiences’ underlying worldviews and personal experiences. In order to fight it, one has to understand the mindsets that it preys on. This paper sets out to do exactly that. We first track a set of Kremlin-aligned propaganda narratives across Ukrainian ... more

Quality and Equity in Digital Learning: Policy Brief

Tony Bates

Burnaby, BC: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2021), 15 pp.

"High-quality digital learning offers potential economic and social advantages but also could easily lead to a widening gap between economically advanced and low-income countries. Within countries without suitable policy, it could also generate increasing inequity between the rich, who can afford th ... more

Digital Ecosystem Framework

USAID;Digital Frontiers Project (2021), 13 pp.

"The Digital Ecosystem Framework is organized around three separate, overlapping pillars: Digital Infrastructure and Adoption: the resources that make digital systems possible and how individuals and organizations access and use these resources; Digital Society, Rights, and Governance: how digital t ... more

Digital Misinformation / Disinformation and Children

Philip N. Howard, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Nayana Prakash

UNICEF (2021), 35 pp.

"Children can be targets and objects of mis/disinformation, spreaders or creators of it, and opponents of mis/disinformation in actively seeking to counter falsehoods. There is insufficient data available to researchers and policymakers to get a clear and comprehensive picture of how susceptible chi ... more

La protección del espacio cívico en línea: Un repaso a las amenazas actuales a la libertad de expresión en internet

Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (2021), 32 pp.

"La Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) tiene la misión de defender los derechos fundamentales mediante la contribución al diseño de políticas por parte del sector público y privado. Las respuestas de los gobiernos deben promover un espacio público amplio y robusto en internet. Este deb ... more

Myanmar’s Military Struggles to Control the Virtual Battlefield

Brussels: International Crisis Group (2021), 37 pp.

"Since the 1 February coup d’état in Myanmar, the online space has become a parallel battlefield on which the country’s military and its opponents try to rally supporters, share information and control the narrative around events unfolding in the country. This virtual struggle has been vitally ... more

Final Report

Commission on Information Disorder

Aspen Institute (2021), 78 pp.

"This report is the culmination of an in-depth investigation aimed at better defining the causes and challenges of information disorder, and offering a viable framework for action [...] The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder invited voices from across our society to help build up ... more

Los desafíos pastorales de la Asamblea Eclesial de América Latina y El Caribe

Asamblea Eclesial de América Latina y El Caribe (2021), 2 pp.

Unlocking the Power of Digital Technologies to Support "Learning to Earning" for Displaced Youth

Joel Mullan, Emma Broadbent et al.

UNICEF (2021), 45 pp.

"This report provides an overview of how digital technologies are being used to support youth’s transition from school to work, ‘learning to earning’, in displaced and host communities. Based on a rapid analysis of emerging approaches and lessons in this burgeoning space, the report’s purpos ... more

Cybersecurity Primer: How to Build Cybersecurity Into USAID Programming

USAID;Digital Frontiers (2021), 65 pp.

"This Primer is intended to increase awareness and provide a basic understanding of cyber threats, cybersecurity, and cyber resilience as they relate to development programming for USAID staff. It does not provide specific cybersecurity programming or operational recommendations or address technical ... more

Integrating Cyber Capacity Into the Digital Development Agenda

Melissa Hathaway, Francesca Spidalieri

The Hague: Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation (GFCE);Digital Development Partnership (DDP) (2021), 85 pp.

"This report aims to bridge two communities – the broader development community and the cybersecurity capacity building community – to achieve more resilient outcomes by ensuring incorporation of cybersecurity and digital resilience into digital development activities. This report is a product o ... more