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Die Qualität der Medienberichterstattung über den Ukraine-Krieg

Marcus Maurer, Jörg Haßler, Pablo Jost

Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (JGU); Otto Brenner Stiftung (2023), 21 pp.

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Walking with Bourdieu into Twitter communities: An analysis of networked publics struggling on power in Iranian Twittersphere

Hossein Kermani, Amirali Tafreshi

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 8 (2023), pp. 1653-1674

"This paper offers some insights into Twitter as a political field, based on Bourdieu’s field theory. Networked publics, as agents of this field, are competing overpower by performing networked practices. To investigate this field, we focused on two networked practices: networked framing and narra ... more

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Deny, Deceive, Delay (vol.2): Exposing New Trends in Climate Mis- and Disinformation at COP27

Climate Action Against Disinformation (2023), 43 pp.

"Analysis of over 850 advertisers between 1 September and 23 November 2022 showed a small cohort drove the majority of false or greenwashed advertising on Facebook, with activity peaking in the weeks preceding and during COP27. Common techniques included ‘nature-rinsing’, to distract and mislead ... more

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Beyond the Humanitarian Savior Logics? UNHCR's Public Communication Strategies for the Syrian and Central African Crises

David Ongenaert, Stijn Joye, David Machin

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 2 (2023), pp. 164-190

"Forcibly displaced people often face restrictive migration policies and stereotypical discourses. Therefore, this study analyzes UNHCR's public communication strategies towards the Syrian and Central African crises. Through a comparative-synchronic multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) of U ... more

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Gender-Based Violence Narratives in Internet-Based Conversations in Nigeria: Social Listening Study

Martha Silva, Udochisom Anaba, Nrupa Jani Tulsani, Pooja Sripad, Jonathan Walker, Adolor Aisiri

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e46814 (2023), 11 pp.

"Objective: We explore how gender-related internet-based conversations in Nigeria specifically related to sexual consent (actively agreeing to sexual behavior), lack of consent, and slut-shaming (stigmatization in the form of insults based on actual or perceived sexuality and behaviors) manifest the ... more

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Relatório especial: O Sínodo sobre a sinodalidade na Igreja Católica

Casa Galilea (2023), 59 pp.

"[...] Este relatório apresenta uma síntese das principais narrativas monitoradas pela Casa Galilei em perfis de redes sociais, no período de 25 de Setembro a 30 de Outubro, portanto o período da realização desta primeira sessão. Utilizando palavras-chaves relacionadas ao Sínodo, nos debruç ... more

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Inkonsistent einseitig: Die Medienberichterstattung über Geflüchtete 2015–2020

Marcus Maurer, Pablo Jost, Simon Kruschinski, Jörg Haßler

Publizistik, volume 68 (2023), pp. 13-35

"Die Medienberichterstattung über Geflüchtete wird von einem großen Teil der deutschen Bevölkerung als einseitig wahrgenommen. Inhaltsanalysen zeigen allerdings sehr unterschiedliche Befunde: Während einige Studien eine einseitig positive Berichterstattung konstatieren, kommen andere zu dem Erg ... more

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Who Makes the Cambodian News: An Assessment of Women's Presence and Portrayal in Cambodian News

Margarette Robers

Phnom Penh: UNESCO Office Phnom Penh (2023), 12 pp.

"A total of 4,094 news stories were collected and analysed across 12 selected media outlets for a period of one month, from 2 January 2023 to 31 January 2023, by trained monitors. This study revealed a grim picture of women’s under-representation and misrepresentation in Cambodian news. This is a ... more

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How Public Service Media Disinformation Shapes Hungarian Public Discourse

Ágnes Urbán, Gábor Polyák, Kata Horváth

Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 4 (2023), pp. 62-72

"The Russian war against Ukraine illustrates how the disinformation ecosystem works in Hungary, and it also reveals its devastating impact on democratic public discourse. Public service media play a prominent role in spreading disinformation. We were able to identify several false narratives in the ... more

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Examining Media Coverage of Online Violence Against Women in East Africa

Pauline Awuor Okoth, Emmanuel Keith Kisaame, Sandra Komuhiimbo

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2023), 62 pp.

The study revealed the following: 1. OVAW coverage follows clear and rigid patterns: All 137 media reports covered only seven aspects: occurrence of the Online Violence against Women (OVAW) incident; public reaction to the incident; OVAW survivors’ responses; pursuit of justice; consequences of t ... he OVAW incident; attribution of blame for the incident; and other issues (e. g., responses to OVAW incidents by survivors’ families and mentions of OVAW incidents in broader human rights articles). These findings show that traditional media coverage of OVAW is typically quite predictable in its course, unchanging, and basic. The media is typically feeding their audiences the same type of information regardless of the survivors and type of OVAW. On the other hand, what all reports are usually missing is a discussion of why and how OVAW is committed, what laws prohibit OVAW, and what measures exist to combat this kind of violence. 2. The threshold is high for OVAW to be covered: Editors have created a more stringent criteria for covering OVAW, compared to other topics such as crime, sports or politics. Apart from audience preference, other factors that determined whether OVAW incidents received traditional media spotlight included, among others,– magnitude and gravity of the incident;– opinions of (male-dominated) newsroom teams on the value of OVAW stories; – compliance with editorial policies, most of which censure incidents involving nudity;– and whether the incident attained an offline dimension (e. g., if it was reported to police). All in all, OVAW stories need to tick many more boxes to be included in traditional media coverage than politics and crime stories, for example, and are therefore less likely to be published, despite their frequency. 3. Single-sourcing is common: The analysis covered– the diversity of sources used in media reports (that is, the number of sources per media report);– relevance of sources;– gender diversity in sources; – the involvement of OVAW survivors, and– the involvement of OVAW perpetrators in media investigation and coverage. Across the region, 62 percent of media reports on OVAW only cited a single source. Single-sourcing was most often found in radio reporting of OVAW at 90 percent, followed by news websites at 68 percent, with television and newspapers coming in at 50 percent each. Across the region, most sources quoted in OVAW reports (95 percent) were relevant to the topic covered. However, even though sources were mostly relevant, the widespread practice of using a single source ultimately limited the scope of relevant information published or broadcast on OVAW. At a regional level, there was a fair balance of male and female sources. Reasons for the exclusion of OVAW survivors and alleged perpetrators as sources by the media included the refusal to take interviews, cases being on trial, and the convenient option to replace personal interviews with the use of social media posts. A few survivors and alleged perpetrators dominated media coverage. Where survivors dominated coverage, they achieved significant public awareness, diffused incidents, and demanded accountability from alleged perpetrators. 4. OVAW is trivialized: Several factors indicated that OVAW incidents are seen as trivial by the media, including the low-priority placement of stories on media platforms, inadequate verification of evidence, and miscommunication of the gravity of OVAW. For instance, 82 percent of OVAW stories were not front-page stories in newspapers. In all four countries, 48 percent of web articles on OVAW were placed in the lifestyle and entertainment sections. However, OVAW is not a subject of entertainment regardless of whether the women affected work in the entertainment industry. Most radio content on OVAW (81 percent) was classified as gossip or entertainment indicating OVAW as a non-newsworthy item. Most traditional media houses also relegated OVAW reports to their digital platforms. Media reports also framed OVAW incidents as “love scandals,” diminishing their gravity. Some media practitioners said OVAW was not a serious topic for news coverage." (Key findings, pages 7-8) more

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1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: Towards a Framework for Networked Defence
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European Union (2023), 35 pp.

"Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine dominates observed Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) activity. Ukraine and its representatives have been the direct target of 33 incidents. In 60 out of 100 incidents, supporting the invasion was the main motivation behind the attack. D ... more

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Exploring the Use of #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter to Understand the Impacts of the Cameroon Anglophone Crisis

Soomin Lee, Lynn Cockburn, Julius T. Nganji

Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 3 (2023), pp. 418-439

"Since October 2016, Cameroon has been involved in a violent conflict known as the Anglophone Crisis. This study examines the impact of the hashtag #MyAnglophoneCrisisStory on Twitter in capturing and amplifying the stories of people affected by the crisis. Using R, the authors extracted and analyze ... more

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Global Issue, Global Coverage? How climate change is reported in African countries and countries in the Global North with regard to national issues and international relations

Merle Elisabeth van Berkum

London: City University of London, Doctoral Thesis (2023), 246 pp.

"This research investigates how the global challenge of climate change is portrayed in five African countries, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, and South Africa, along with Germany, the UK, and the US. Several studies have investigated climate change reporting; this research adds to the literature by ... focusing on a comparative analysis of media coverage and including questions of historic responsibility and international relations [...] The overarching question guiding this research is: How do the different countries report climate change in comparison to each other, and with regard to international dynamics? From this, the project investigates three sets of more nuanced research questions diving deeper into the analysis of climate change reporting and the influence of structural or content-related issues on the reporting. The thesis draws on sociological approaches to journalism studies as well as postcolonial perspectives. It combines a quantitative content analysis of 1,348 news articles with 18 semi-structured interviews with environmental journalists to highlight the different viewpoints and experiences as a lens on global debates. The study finds that to a large extent climate change reporting demonstrates a strong national and sometimes even local focus, while covering an issue of global scale. Contradicting the familiar ‘Africa is a country’ trope, the research reveals the extent to which climate change reporting in Africa covers a global issue but is reported through a particular national lens of each country, led by the common news values of relevance and proximity. International (power) relations are mostly only reproduced indirectly through a conscious or unconscious focus on specific voices and regions. Additionally, the distinction between ‘active’ countries who contribute to the rising greenhouse gas emissions and ‘passive’ countries that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change is no longer a reflection of the media coverage. Instead, the simplified classification does not do justice to the complex world that we live in today. Overall, the thesis contributes to the emerging discussion of approaching climate journalism from a critical perspective and relating it to international (power) structures. This approach is not limited to the analysis of climate change reporting but can be applied to other issues, as well." (Abstract) more

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Electoral news sharing: A study of changes in news coverage and Facebook sharing behaviour during the 2018 Mexican elections

Ernesto de León, Susan Vermeer, Damian Trilling

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1193-1209

"Patterns of news consumption are changing drastically. Citizens increasingly rely on social media such as Facebook to read and share political news. With the power of these platforms to expose citizens to political information, the implications for democracy are profound, making understanding what ... more

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Child Abusing News: Episodic and Thematic Media Framing Adapting the Children Act and UNICEF’s Principles in Bangladesh

Nusrat Jahan, Mehedy Hassan Razib

Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 113-130

"The present study is designed to assess the trend of episodic and thematic media framing on child-abusing news and its relation with the adaptation of The Children Act along with UNICEF's reporting principles. With media framing theory this paper executed a quantitative study through content analys ... more

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‘Top-Tier’ Journals: Does a Global Reputation Mean a Global Orientation?

Cherian George, Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis

Global Media Studies Network, March 20 (2023)

"Academia as an industry has come to rely on journal impact factors as convenient proxy measures of faculty members’ research quality. As competition intensifies — among individuals, departments, and universities — such bibliometrics have grown in importance. At many institutions, researchers ... are pushed to publish in journals that are highly ranked. Many scholars of non-western societies have long noted, though, that “top-tier” journals, while international in reputation, are far from global in orientation. This is an issue that we and our colleagues in the Global Media Studies Network are keen to discuss. First, though, what exactly is the current state of affairs? We looked at 20 SSCI-indexed communication journals with high five-year journal impact factors. We categorised all the articles they published in 2021 and 2022 according to their geographic focus: what country or countries was each article studying? Here is what we found: [see chart]. This snapshot shows clearly that top-tier journals generally have a geographic diversity problem. Most of the articles are about the west, with a high proportion of articles focusing purely on the United States. Also striking is the lack of North-South comparative work, despite years of advocacy for comparative research. The chart may underestimate the imbalance. We coded many of the articles— literature reviews, meta-studies, or purely methodological or theoretical pieces— as geographically “non-specific” as they have no explicit focus on any particular country, but since these tend to be built on past work that was even less diverse than the field is now, most of these should probably be considered genetically western. One interesting pattern is that journals devoted to digital communication host a higher proportion of non-western work. This could be because the digital is so globalised and new that research on phenomena beyond the west (say, disinformation in Kenya’s social media) is intelligible to western editors, while research on older offline phenomena (say, caste discrimination on Indian television) requires extensive contextual explanation that journals do not have the patience for. The digital may also be more amenable than offline communication to the quantitative research methods favoured by many top journals." more

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Moving Beyond the Protest Paradigm? News Coverage of International Women’s Day Marches in Mexico

C. González de Bustamante G. Salazar Rebolledo

In: Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo Era

Andrea Jean Baker, Celeste González de Bustamante, Jeannine E. Relly (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), pp. 113-143

"The chapter examines how news coverage of feminist protests in Mexico, one of the most violent countries in the world for women and for journalists, has changed in mainstream Mexican media since the #MeToo movement’s revitalization after 2017. With few exceptions, news coverage in Mexico, a count ... more

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Évaluation de la couverture médiatique des enjeux économiques et sociaux en Tunisie

Michel Leroy, Sofien Ammar (eds.)

CFI (2023), 82 pp.

"L'information economique et sociale occupe la 3eme position des rubriques favorites, derriere le sport et la sante (la 5e pour les femmes). 65% des sondes declarent la suivre mais seulement 5% des 18-24 ans la suivent « regulierement ». 34 % des 18-24 ans n'ont recours a aucun des medias traditio ... more

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Laboratorio de medios: Alertas mediáticas 2022

Lima: Observatorio de Medios; Calandria; Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2023), 77 pp.

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Boundaries, Barriers, and Champions: Understanding Digital Security Education in US Journalism Programs

Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Martin Shelton

Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 3 (2023), pp. 309-328

"Journalists are increasingly attacked in response to their work yet they often lack the necessary support and training to protect themselves, their sources, and their communications. Despite this, there has been limited scholarly attention that addresses how journalism schools approach digital secu ... more

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1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: Towards a Framework for Networked Defence
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