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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Internet Shutdowns
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Artificial Intelligence
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Digital Rights
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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LGBT & Communication / Media
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Digital Economies & Markets
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Encryption, Cryptology
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Facial Recognition, Biometric Surveillance
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Harassment & Intimidation of Journalists
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Self-Censorship
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Internet
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Digital Political Communication
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Filter Bubbles & Echo Chambers
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Twitter & Microblogs
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Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
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ICT Policies
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Uyghurs, Uighurs
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Political Economy of Media
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Labour, Labour Markets, Labour Laws, Working Conditions
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Globalisation: Impact on (Local) Media & Communication
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Investigative Journalism
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Politics and Media
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Access to Media & Information
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Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Social Movements: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Suppression: Communicative Counterstrategies
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Internet & Social Media Use: Minorities
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Media & ICT Use in Authoritarian Regimes / Dictatorships
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Mobile Phone Use
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Authoritarian Regimes, Dictatorships
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Children's Rights
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Christian Communication Ethics, Christian Media Ethics
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Media Assistance: Freedom of Expression & Safety of Journalists
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Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists & Media Personnel
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Conflicts & Wars: Roles of Digital Technologies & Conflict Narratives in Social Media
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Cyberwarfare, Cyber Operations: Attacking Enemy Computers, Software, and Control Systems
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Human Security Reporting
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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International Development Cooperation
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Digital Criticism
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Labour, Digital Work
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Digital Skills, Digital Production Skills
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WeChat (Messaging, Social Media & Mobile Payment App, China)
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Electronic Commerce
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Sexual Abuse: Digital Media
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Content Moderation & Regulation: Social Media
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Religion in Social Media
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TikTok
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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WhatsApp
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Generative AI, including ChatGPT et al.
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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Female ICT Sector Personnel / Professionals
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ICT Regulation
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Postal Services, Letters & Parcels, Stamps
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Diaspora Media
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Minorities
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Early Warning: Disasters
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Data Economics
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Commodities, Raw Materials, Extractive Industries, Mining
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Small Enterprises, Micro Businesses, Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
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International Economy
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University Education, Tertiary Education
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Water Resources Management, Water Access & Supply
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Collaboration
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Colonial Legacies
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Indigenous Communication
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Globalisation of Media
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International Media & Communication Policies
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African Union (AU)
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Safety of Journalists: Law & Public Policies
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Minority Languages
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Communication Networks
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Post-Socialist Media Systems & Landscapes
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Civil Rights
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Human Rights Protection
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Human Rights Violations
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Law & Regulation: Protection of Confidential Sources & Whistleblowers
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Marketing & Branding
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Popular Music
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Deaf & Hard of Hearing People
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Conflict & War Photography
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Polarization, Political Polarization
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Capitalism
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Political Resistance
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Political Communication
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Cyberpsychology
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Islam and Communication
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Religious Discrimination, Persecution of / Violence Against Religious Groups
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Data Protection (Computer Software)
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Satellite Communication & Information Services
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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Telecommunication Companies, Mobile Phone & Fixed Line Operators
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Telephone
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Iron Net: Digital Repression in the Middle East and North Africa
London: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (2022), 25 pp.
"Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the leading exponents of digital authoritarianism in the Middle East. The two states have intensified their collaboration with China and Israel to gain greater access to advanced technologies. The EU has responded to concerns about the risks of new technologies with a r
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Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Top Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), viii, 210 pp.
"This book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship p
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Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean: Communicating Power in Transition After 2011
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xv, 426 pp.
"This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and h
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“We Have to act Like our Devices are Already Infected”: Investigative Journalists and Internet Surveillance
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1849-1866
"Internet surveillance has become a crucial issue for journalism. The “Snowden moment” has shed light on the risks that journalists and their sources face while communicating online and has shown how journalists themselves can be targets of surveillance operations or other forms of malicious dig
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The Monitored Watchdogs: Journalists’ Surveillance and its Repercussions for their Professional and Personal Lives in Pakistan
Journalism Studies, volume 22, issue 7 (2021), pp. 878-895
"Journalists, across the world, are ever more at risk of surveillance from state and non-state antagonists. However, to work safely in a monitored environment is a substantial challenge for journalists. In such regimes, journalists and media organizations are often prone to attacks by the state auth
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"This report has documented the surveillance measures and practices in Kenya and Uganda during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key trends include poor oversight over COVID-19 data collection, the lack of independent data protection authorities, the use of telecommunications data to ‘t
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10 Facts to Counter Encryption Myths
Access Now (2021), 23 pp.
"There is no question that we must address the issues of child safety, disinformation, national security, and criminal activity in the digital age. However, even if the stated end goal for mandating encryption backdoors is legitimate, the means must be necessary and proportionate. Deliberately intro
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Netzpolitik: Eine feministische Einführung
Opladen; Berlin: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2021), 188 pp.
"Die Publikation führt in die Thematiken einer feministischen Netzpolitik ein und zeigt deren Potentiale auf. Zudem unternimmt sie den Versuch, einen neuen Gesellschaftsvertrag des Digitalen zu entwerfen. Anhand von zwei zentralen Themen- und Diskussionsfeldern, „Digitale Gewalt“ und „Überwa
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Uncovering the Iceberg: The Digital Surveillance Crisis Wrought by States and the Private Sector
London: Amnesty International (2021), 21 pp.
"Technologists at Amnesty Tech’s Security Lab were able to identify traces of NSO’s “zero-click” attacks (malware infections that require no interaction with the target) through cutting edge forensic analysis, including by linking these new attacks to previously documented attacks on human r
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Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Expression
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2020), 72 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an increasingly important tool for shaping and arbitrating online information. It is increasingly, and often invisibly, used by both public authorities and private companies, and greatly impacts the way people seek, receive, impart and access information. Cou
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Red lines of journalism. Digital surveillance, safety risks and journalists’ self-censorship in Pakistan
"Drawing on Reese’s hierarchy of influences model, this study investigates the extent to which safety risks and digital surveillance result in journalists’ self-censorship in Pakistan. This study also explores the key areas of journalists’ self-censorship in the country and how it affects thei
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Online surveillance and the repressive Press Council Bill 2018. A two-pronged approach to media self-censorship in Nigeria
"This chapter examines the perceptions of Nigerian journalists towards the Nigerian Press Council Bill 2018 and the governments’ online surveillance. The study employs survey and interview methods: 217 Nigerian media practitioners selected from print and online media responded to the questionnaire
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Arendt’s Algorithm: AI’s Disenfranchising Effect on Refugees as Examined Through China’s Uighur Population
[author] (2020), 23 pp.
"China’s Integrated Joint Operations Platform (IJOP) operates in Xinjiang by collecting Big Data and alerting authorities to those it deems potentially harmful to the CCP regime. It does so through two major devices: the mobile phone, and the camera. These act as tools of disablement constraining
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Assessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2589-2610
"Concerns surrounding the threats that digital platforms pose to the functioning of Western liberal democracies have grown since the 2016 U.S. election. Yet despite a preponderance of academic work in this area, the precise nature of these threats, empirical solutions for their redress, and their re
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"The Chinese state has demonstrated a propensity for controlling and shaping the information environment of the Chinese diaspora—including via WeChat. The meteoric growth of TikTok has now put the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a position from which it can shape the information environment on a
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Digital Surveillance and the Impact on Journalism in Russia
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 15 pp.
Civil Society in the Digital Age in Africa: Identifying Threats and Mounting Pushbacks
Pretoria; Kampala: Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; CIPESA (2020), 78 pp.
"The report documents the threats to civil society in the digital age by examining the legislative and regulatory framework in four countries in Africa: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia. These countries were selected from the four main geographic regions of Africa, in order to provide a sense
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