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The Role of Ghanaian News Media Organisations in Countering Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 186-213
"Journalist safety is vital to media freedom as it shows stakeholders' duties to protect the media from crime and to guard media freedom. The media have the power to combat problems via coverage, yet evidence submits that journalist insecurity persists in Ghana. So, the study aims to examine how the
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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
Deep Insights
Gates Foundation (2020), 101 pp.
"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an
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Fear and Lying in the EU: Fighting Disinformation on Migration with Alternative Narratives
Key Guides
Brussels: European Policy Centre (2020), 51 pp.
"This Issue Paper examines nearly 1,500 news articles from four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic) published between May 2019 and July 2020. It shows that disinformation narratives about migration seek to exploit readers’ fears to polarise public opinion, manufacture d
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Palestinian Youth Activism in the Internet Age: Online and Offline Social Networks After the Arab Spring
London et al.: Tauris (2020), xxiii, 198 pp.
"Since the Arab uprisings of 2011, Palestinian youth movements have formed unofficial and leaderless networks of political activism, using the internet to mobilise and bring together three generations of Palestinian activists. This book focuses on three key case studies that have marked a turning po
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Shining a Spotlight on Media Freedom? Media Coverage of the Global Campaign for Media Freedom
City University of London; University of East Anglia (2020), 26 pp.
"The Global Campaign for Media Freedom (GCMF) was launched in 2019 by the UK and Canadian governments. It includes a coalition of 37 countries seeking to promote media freedom, a High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom and a Global Media Defence Fund, administered by UNESCO. The overarch
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When the News Takes Sides: Automated Framing Analysis of News Coverage of the Rohingya Crisis by the Elite Press from Three Countries
Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 9 (2020), pp. 1284-1304
"Triangulating several methods including automated framing analysis and assessment of textual elements, this study examines how the elite press from three countries frames the Rohingya refugee crisis in 2017. Results from our framing and textual analysis show differences in how the press from the th
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La pobreza y el discurso de los mass media: Un estudio de la prensa local argentina
Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación (Sevilla), issue 49 (2020), pp. 136-157
"La pobreza constituye un problema estructural en Argentina, realidad que se evidencia, más allá de las controversias en torno a su delimitación conceptual y su medición, desde diversos enfoques teórico metodológicos que abordan el fenómeno. Este trabajo busca aportar a la explicación de est
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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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"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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Citizens and Condemnation: Strategic Uses of International Human Rights Pressure in Authoritarian States
Comparative Political Studies, volume 52, issue 4 (2019), pp. 579-612
"Governments with strict control over the information that their citizens hear from foreign sources are regular targets of human rights pressure, but we know little about how this information matters in the domestic realm. I argue that authoritarian regimes strategically pass on certain types of ext
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Social Media and Conflict in South Sudan II: A Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms 2017-2018
Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab (2019), 36 pp.
"This report — Social Media and Conflict in South Sudan II: A Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms 2017-2018 — follows on its predecessor which was released in December 2016 after three years of civil war in South Sudan. It identifies key terms being used in the conflict, as well as new terms, context,
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Precarity and Risk in Myanmar's Media: A Longitudinal Analysis of Natural Disaster Coverage by 'The Irrawaddy'
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 177-200
"In this chapter we use the twin concepts of precarity and mobilization to explore the tensions associated with media reporting about Myanmar over time, analysing the reporting of the (formerly) exiled media publication The Irrawaddy. The chapter explores coverage through an examination of the sourc
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Beyond Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: The Integrative Potential of the Internet
Berlin, Germany: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2019), 246 pp.
"Are online audiences today fragmented into echo chambers or ilter bubbles? Do users only see what digital platforms (like search engines or social media) let them see? And if so, what are the consequences for the cohesion of a society? Concerns like these abound in recent years. They attest to wide
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Like Dust Before the Wind, Or, the Winds of Change? The Influence of International Criminal Tribunals on Narratives and Media Frames
International Journal of Transitional Justice, volume 13, issue 2 (2019), pp. 368-386
"When created, international criminal tribunals (ICTs) were not only expected to do justice but also to provide stabilization to postconflict regions, contribute to reconciliation and curb the potential denial of atrocities. Based on media content analysis, this article examines whether controversia
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Berichterstattung über Gewaltkriminalität: Wie häufig nennen Medien die Herkunft von Tatverdächtigen?
Hamburg: Hochschule Macromedia (2019), 15 pp.
"Wie unsere Langzeitanalyse zeigt, hat sich die Fernsehberichterstattung über Gewaltkriminalität gravierend verändert: Während die Herkunft von Tatverdächtigen 2014 praktisch keine Rolle spielte, wurde sie 2017 in jedem sechsten und 2019 in jedem dritten Beitrag erwähnt. In den untersuchten Ze
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"The information ecosystem in DRC is fragmented and fragile. It is characterised by a great number of media outlets, however their level of professionalism is low and their vulnerability to partisan capture is high. This fragility is replicated in the online space. The Congolese population rely heav
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Representaciones de género y melodrama televisivo en el Perú: Una mirada al siglo XXI
Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Doctoral Thesis (2019), 242 pp.
"El análisis hecho en esta investigación de los distintos personajes protagónicos femeninos de los cuatro relatos seleccionados [Dina Paucar, la lucho por un sueño; Por la Sarita; Las reinas de las carrefillas; Amor de Madre], me permite señalar que las representaciones femeninas que nos ofrece
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El vídeo indígena en la comunidad Embera Chamí: Nuevas estéticas y sistemas de circulación
Luciérnaga, volume 11, issue 22 (2019), pp. 95-111
"El texto es un análisis visual sobre varios videos de dos grupos de música del resguardo Emberá Chamí del municipio de Pueblo Rico Risaralda, Bidika y Ibanafarag, estos grupos cuentan con características especiales en su concepción que logran permear en sus canciones, en la construcción est
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Recognition and Transformation: Beyond Media Discourses on the BRICS
Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 27-47
"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of
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