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Media Influence Matrix: Pakistan. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.
"With particularly low internet penetration rates, intense state censorship and heavy Chinese investment, Pakistan presents elements of an authoritarian internet culture where surveillance is a barely-questioned norm, unless probed by civil society organizations or journalists. Social media giants s ... more
"In many African countries, including Zimbabwe, journalists have been subjected to various policy regulations that have widely been criticised for making the practice of journalism difficult. Part of the reason has been the advent of competitive politics that have left the ruling regimes scrambling ... more

Digital Threats to Democracy

The Workshop;Law Foundation;Luminate Foundation (2019), 244 pp.
"At the heart of the challenges to democracy posed by digital media are three core problems: 1. Platform monopolies: two or three corporations control not only our means of communication, but also the content which is distributed, both of which are core aspects of our democracy. Whilst the market po ... more
"This book explores the complex and contradictory relationships between communication and information technologies and social movements by drawing on different case studies from around the world. The contributions analyse how new communication and information technologies impact the way protests are ... more

The Future of Investigative Journalism in an Era of Surveillance and Digital Privacy Erosion

In: Digital Investigative Journalism: Data, Visual Analytics and Innovative Methodologies in International Reporting
Oliver Hahn; Florian Stalph (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 249-261
"While the digital era has delivered unprecedented opportunities for big-data based investigative journalism—from the Snowden Files to the Panama Papers—it has also thrown up a host of new threats to the sustainability of journalism based on confidential sources. These include: mass and targeted ... more
"The information and media environment in North Korea continues to evolve quickly. This report demonstrates that the depth and diversity of information and media access channels have grown markedly since the release of A Quiet Opening in 2012. More North Koreans have greater access to a larger varie ... more

Protecting Journalism Sources in the Digital Age

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 191 pp.
"This study, which covers 121 UNESCO Member States, represents a global benchmarking of journalistic source protection in the Digital Age. It focuses on developments during the period 2007-2015. The legal frameworks that support protection of journalistic sources, at international, regional and coun ... more
"Frente a la tendencia regional y global que lleva a gobiernos y a proveedores de servicio a acumular una cantidad cada vez mayor de información sobre sus usuarios, este estudio intenta una aproximación comparada a la manera en que las legislaciones de México, Brasil, Colombia, Perú, Argentina y ... more

Internet: Smarte neue Welt

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42

60 años de espionaje a periodistas en Colombia: Informe sobre el estado de la libertad de prensa en 2014

Bogotá: Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2015), 106 pp.
"This publication identifies at least 12 digital threats, including illegal or arbitrary digital surveillance, location tracking, and software and hardware exploits without the knowledge of the target. Further examples that are considered are: phishing, fake domain attacks, Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) ... more

Watchdogs Under Watch: Media in the Age of Cyber Surveillance

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2015), 20 pp.
"The fundamental problem with cyber surveillance, even for the most well-intentioned governments, is that laws have not evolved with the technology. Governments must enforce the laws that exist and apply them to the modern age. And they should consider that just because technology makes surveillance ... more

Communications Surveillance in Colombia: The Chasm Between Technological Capacity and the Legal Framework

Bogotá: Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) (2015), 46 pp.
"The subject of this article is the issue of journalist-spies in the Bulgarian media before and after the fall of communism in 1989. The focus is on the perceptions of Bulgarian journalists on the role alleged secret service collaborators played, and continue to play, in the postcommunist society an ... more

Digitale Diktatur: Totalüberwachung, Datenmissbrauch, Cyberkrieg

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 345 pp.
"Vom eigenen Staat auf Schritt und Tritt überwacht zu werden, ist eine Horrorvision für viele Menschen. Möglich wird dies auch durch den Spion in der Hosentasche. Smartphones kommunizieren ständig mit staatlichen Lauschern, ohne dass wir es wollen – und bemerken. Stefan Aust und Thomas Ammann ... more
"The internet has enabled an unprecedented ability to monitor and track people and information flows as highlighted in the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden about online surveillance carried out by the United States’ National Security Agency. The revelations have kicked off debates across the wor ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more