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Role of Media in Delivering the SDGs: A Mapping Exercise on Bangladesh
Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue (2020), 37 pp.
"The present paper identifies five key roles of media in contributing to the SDGs delivery. These include: channeling information flow, ensuring proper monitoring and accountability, acting as an enabler of a ‘culture of peace’, upholding marginalised voices and facilitating the localisation of
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Human Development and Advocacy Journalism: Analysis of Low Editorial Coverage in Pakistan
Development Policy Review, volume 38, issue 5 (2020), pp. 646-663
"This article examines advocacy journalism coverage of human development issues versus other issues in the contents of mainstream Pakistani newspapers and investigates the factors behind the inadequate space given to them. The study further explores the association between editorial and readers’ p
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Watchdog Role: How Malawi Media Utilise Question Time During Press Briefings
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper explores how Malawian media utilise question time during press briefings to fulfil its watchdog role. Using the concept of ‘journalistic interview’, which treats interviews between journalists and politicians as an encounter of two institutions, each making a claim on its legitimacy,
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Understanding News Coverage of Religious-Based Violence: Empirical and Theoretical Insights from Media Representations of Boko Haram in Nigeria
Journal of Communication, volume 70, issue 4 (2020), pp. 548-573
"Recent studies on conflict and terrorism news coverage have documented an ingroup bias as well as an increasingly negative discourse about Muslims in the wake of Islamist terrorist attacks. Yet, as most of these studies have focused on Western media and settings, the determinants of news media’s
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Social Media and Disinformation in War Propaganda: How Afghan Government and the Taliban Use Twitter
Media Asia, volume 47, issue 1-2 (2020), pp. 34-46
"This study examines disinformation and propaganda in war in the age of information particularly through social media. It analyzes Twitter's posts of the Afghan government and the Taliban, from January to March 2018. For understanding disinformation, 952 tweets of both parties were crosschecked with
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"In this research, we found that:
1. The media tend to play safe during the 2019 presidential election. When addressing certain issues, the media rarely provided their own in-depth analysis based on certain values. They let the public decide by itself by bring debates and use comments from prominent
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Food, Nutrition and the Media
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 323 pp.
"Placed at the crossroads of diverse disciplines – medical sciences, information and communication science, sociology of food, agricultural sciences – this book focuses on media, food and nutrition. Contributors to this volume come from different countries including the United Kingdom, Germany,
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Peace Journalism for Conflict Reporting: Insights from Pakistan
Journalism Practice, volume 14, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-16
"This study proposes a classification framework for conflict journalism with respect to its potential for conflict escalation and de-escalation in Pakistan—a country marred by a number of deadly conflicts. While building on the existing literature, the study proposes the varying levels of intensit
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Ondas comunitarias que narran la paz en Colombia
Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás; Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano (2020), 238 pp.
"Este libro tiene como finalidad presentar los resultados del proceso de investigación que se llevó a cabo entre enero de 2018 y noviembre de 2019 por parte de un grupo de docentes-investigadores de los programas de Comunicación Social de la Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano
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WhatsApp Audios and the Remediation of Radio: Disinformation in Brazilian 2018 Presidential Election
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 2 (2020), pp. 139-158
"This article brings the results of an investigation into the role of WhatsApp audio messages in the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, proposing that instant voice messaging borrows elements from radio language. We started from a broader research, conducted by the Brazilian National Institute o
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Images and Misinformation in Political Groups: Evidence from WhatsApp in India
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 1, issue 5 (2020), 12 pp.
"WhatsApp is a key medium for the spread of news and rumors, often shared as images. We study a large collection of politically-oriented WhatsApp groups in India, focusing on the period leading up to the 2019 Indian national elections. By labeling samples of random and popular images, we find that a
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Libya Social Media Monitoring Report: Main Findings
Democracy Reporting International; ZINC Network (2020), 10 pp.
"This report presents our main findings from eleven months of social media monitoring. We identify the main narratives of online discourse and their key drivers, as well as the weaknesses of Libya’s social media landscape — and how to address them." (Summary)
Prime-Time Narcos: The Mafia and Gender in Colombian Television
Feminist Media Studies, volume 19, issue 3 (2019), pp. 348-363
"Through a content analysis of 532 programs screened on various national television networks in Colombia, this paper examines portrayals of women in the country’s narconovelas, fictional series derived from the telenovela genre that resonate forcefully with the public. We do so in order to gain a
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European Media Migration Report: How Media Cover Migration and Intra-EU Mobility in Terms of Salience, Sentiment and Framing
Vienna; Madrid: REMINDER - Role of European Mobility and its Impact in Narratives, Debates and EU Reforms; University of Vienna; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2019), 89 pp.
"The aim of this report is to offer a broad overview of migration (both immigration and emigration) discourses in European media for researchers in comparative media and migration studies in the coming years. It also aims at those involved in journalistic news production as well as policy decisions
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'Screening' Transitional Justice in Serbia: ICTY Representations and the Memory of War Crimes in Serb Television Media
Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF) (2019), 41 pp.
"The visual presentation of the Serb accused in TV news was based on iconic images of the accused combined with symbolic images of the state and its power, with nearly complete absence of visuals of atrocities and victims. In contrast, the visual presentation of the Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian de
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"PeaceTech Lab’s work on hate speech aims to identify and contextualize the particular types of language that are likely to cause violence. This project identifies relevant terms through on-theground information gathering and examines their origins, background context, and use in a particular coun
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"Conflict in Yemen plays out along various fault lines—regional, sectarian, class, political, tribal, and ethnic—which are reflected in the hateful language employed on and offline to incite violence. The sectarian aspect of conflict in Yemen is relatively new, as prior to 2011, “religious coe
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