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“It’s complicated, but we put it “simply”: Analysis of the media literacy framing in Latvian Media Support Fund projects (2018-2020)

Anda Rožukalne, Aija Kažoka

Comunicação Pública, volume 17, issue 33 (2022), 29 pp.

"This study examines the framing of media and information literacy issues in media projects financed by the Latvian Media Support Fund and discusses the professional quality of media and information literacy (MIL) related content with project beneficiaries and media experts. The study uses the ideol ... more

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The Quantification of Child Labour by Ghana’s Mass Media: A Missed Opportunity?

Kalaria Okali, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah, James Sumberg

Africa Spectrum, volume 57, issue 2 (2022), pp. 155-177

"This article describes how the mass media in Ghana use quantitative information to communicate the prevalence of child labour. During the period 2000–2020, stories about child labour frequently appeared in Ghana’s mass media. Within nearly 30 per cent of the stories, at least one numerical quan ... more

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How Lebanese Elites Coopt Protest Discourse: A Social Media Analysis

Alexandra Siegel

Beirut: Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) (2022), 17 pp.

"This report leverages social media data to provide real-time measures of how diverse elites have strategically co-opted protest narratives during Lebanon's 2019 October revolution. Social media data provides temporally granular measures of elites' political communication strategies, as well as thei ... more

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The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People’s Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis

Isabella Jackson, Siyi Du

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 194-218

"History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people’s understanding of their nation’s modern history, as revealed on the popular microblogging site SinaWeibo. We analysed ... more

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Digital Nationalism Versus Gender Politics in Post-Reform China: Gender-Issue Debates on Zhihu

Altman Yuzhu Peng

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 281-299

"This article aims to determine how digital nationalism influences gender politics in the context of gender-issue debates on Chinese social media platforms. To this end, I present an original case study, collecting empirical data from the most popular Chinese community question-answering (CQA) websi ... more

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TikTok Intifada: Analyzing Social Media Activism Among Youth

Laila Abbas, S. Shahira Fahmy, Mirna Ibrahim

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 287-314

"This study uses TikTok as a novel medium to extend the literature on online activism. It adds to the emergent body of knowledge about playful political participation among youth. It also explores how creative micro-videos can be a force to create momentum and shape opinions around social and politi ... more

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Fact-Checking Initiatives in Portuguese Language Countries: Checking Methods and Financing Strategies

Lucas Durr Missau, Laura Strelow Storch

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 600-625

"This work examines more closely the standardizing and the customizing aspects of active factchecking outlets in Portuguese-speaking countries, focusing on the verification methods and organizational models in use. Based on Content Analysis, we collected manually 318 posts during June 2019 from each ... more

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Scientific Disinformation in Times of Epistemic Crisis: Circulation of Conspiracy Theories on Social Media Platforms

Thaiane Oliveira

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 1 (2022), pp. 164-186

"The spread of disinformation about science in social media has been a major concern worldwide, especially at a time of crisis in which all institutions that produce knowledge and truth, including science, are delegitimized or discredited by society. Given this, the purpose of this research is to ma ... more

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Kenyan Media Coverage of the 2022 Elections

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), viii, 83 pp.

"This report examines at Kenyan news media coverage of the 2022 elections, focusing on four key publications, nine television stations, 11 radio stations, and three digital media channels. The report further pays particular attention to the coverage of the four presidential candidates, focusing on w ... more

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Using Markers for Digital Engagement and Social Change: Tracking Meaningful Narrative Exchange in Transmedia Edutainment with Text Analytics Techniques

Roel O. Lutkenhaus, Hua Wang, Arvind Singhal, Jeroen Jansz, Martine P. A. Bouman

Digital Health, volume 8 (2022), pp. 1-18

"While social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for orchestrating large-scale communication campaigns, it is often difficult to track audience responses on various digital platforms over time and to ascertain if their engagement is aligned with the original intention. In this article, we shar ... more

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The Catholic Church and the Media: A Text Mining Analysis of Vatican Documents from 1967 to 2020

Michele Martini

Journal of Media and Religion, volume 21, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-173

"In the last two decades, mainstream religious institutions have progressively incorporated ICTs in both their organizational infrastructure and their devotional practices. Stemming from digital religion scholarship, the present article aims at investigating how the official discourse of the Catholi ... more

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Russian Media in the Balkans. Case Study: How Moscow‘s Propaganda Influences Serbia

Thomas Brey

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 27 pp.

"The influence of Russian state-run foreign media (RT, Sputnik et al.) on public opinion in Western democracies is now common knowledge - regardless of its political qualification. Well-documented analyses are available, e.g., from the USA, France and Germany. The German government has also repeated ... more

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Mapping Disinformation in the Serbian Media

Jelena Kleut et al.

Beograd: CRTA (2022), 98 pp.

"Our main findings show that, numerically, disinformation overpowers the news. More precisely, this study identified 559 different types of disinformation cases in 494 news items disseminated in 14 (out of 15 analysed) Serbian news media. Our study found that false, misleading and manipulative infor ... more

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The State of Journalism Reporting in Tanzania

Abdallah Katunzi, Christoph Spurk

Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication (2022), iv, 50 pp.

"The quality of journalistic reporting in Tanzania reveals a twofold pattern. On the one hand, there is a significant increase in quality in 2022 relative to the quality performance reported in 2019. In fact, the performance in many quality criteria for all media types has improved in terms of multi ... more

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Venezuela: Represión calculada. Correlación entre las estigmaciones y las detenciones arbitrarias por motivos políticos

Amnesty International;Foro Penal;Centro para los Defensores y la Justicia (CDJ) (2022), 54 pp.

"La Relatoría Especial para personas defensoras de derechos humanos de Naciones Unidas, en 2011, definió las estigmatizaciones como la caracterización de personas defensoras como “terroristas”, “enemigas del Estado” u “oponentes políticos” por parte de autoridades estatales y medios ... de comunicación estatales y su uso para deslegitimar su trabajo, incrementando su vulnerabilidad a sufrir abusos y violaciones a derechos humanos. El CDJ ha registrado los eventos de estigmatización en contra de personas defensoras a derechos humanos entre enero de 2019 y junio de 2021 en Venezuela, a través de medios de comunicación, públicos y privados, que tienen vínculos con el gobierno. A menudo estos medios de comunicación, que pueden tener forma de portales web, programas de televisión y blogs, entre otros, utilizan los espacios para atacar, exponer y hostigar a personas que son percibidas como críticas al gobierno de Nicolás Maduro. Al analizar la base de datos con más de 300 eventos de estigmatización entre enero 2019 y junio de 2021. Los medios de comunicación que se repitieron con más frecuencia antes de que se produzcan arrestos por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad venezolanas fueron “Con el Mazo Dando”, “Misión Verdad” y el portal web “Lechuguinos” [...] La correlación entre detenciones arbitrarias por motivos políticos, llevadas a cabo por todos los agentes de seguridad estatal, y las estigmatizaciones, realizadas por todas las fuentes de estigmatización, se filtró por cada año que está bajo análisis debido a la distinta naturaleza de cada período. De este análisis se obtuvo que mientras en 2019 la correlación general entre ambas variables era de 29%, en 2020 aumentó al 42% y en el primer semestre de 2021 llegó hasta el 77%. Las correlaciones anuales entre las detenciones arbitrarias y las estigmatizaciones también varían dependiendo de los distintos cuerpos de seguridad involucrados en la detención. Así, hay una correlación más estrecha en 2019 con las detenciones que se producen por los órganos de inteligencia (DGCIM y SEBIN), en 2020 por los órganos dependientes de la PNB, incluyendo las FAES, que sube hasta el 92%, y en 2021 por órganos de naturaleza civil y descentralizados, como las FAES, los cuerpos de policía municipal y el Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (CICPC) que también sube al 92% de correlación con las estigmatizaciones." (Resumen ejecutivo, página 6-8) more

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Internet Radio and Podcasts as Alternative to the Public Service and Commercial Mainstream Media in Poland: The Cases of Radio Nowy Swiat, Radio 357, and Raport O Stanie Swiata

Urszula Doliwa

Profesional de la Información, volume 31, issue 5: e310506 (2022), 13 pp.

"The aim of this article is to show to what extent alternative audio media can be built online, not only by amateurs but also as a combination of the energy and involvement of professional journalists and the community of listeners who are ready to support them [...] The podcast Raport o stanie swia ... more

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Pseudo-Media Disinformation Patterns: Polarised Discourse, Clickbait and Twisted Journalistic Mimicry

Dolors Palau-Sampio

Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 10 (2022), pp. 2140-2158

"Information disorder involves wide-ranging content that challenges democratic rules and social harmony. Pseudo-media that relies on conspiracy theories and misleading versions of the social reality contribute to feeding the disinformation ecosystem by reinforcing biased messages with expressive pat ... more

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La violencia de género contra la mujer en la prensa regional: Monitoreo de medios con enfoque de género

Marisol Castañeda (coord.)

Lima: Calandria (2022), 68 pp.

"La problemática de la Violencia contra la Mujer no es un tema de agenda prioritaria en los medios regionales analizados. Durante dos meses (Agosto y Setiembre 2022) 06 diarios regionales solo han publicado un total de 185 noticias sobre este tema, lo que equivale a que en dos meses cada diario ha ... more

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The Business in Africa: Narrative Report

Richard Addy

Africa No Filter;AKAS (2022), 56 pp.

"The report found seven significant frames to stories about business in Africa: 1 More negative coverage: International media are more likely to negatively frame issues that impact on business in Africa while African media are twice as likely to reference corruption in their coverage of business in ... Africa compared to international media. 2 Foreign powers scramble for Africa: 70% of international coverage about business in Africa is dominated by references to foreign powers like China, the USA, Russia, France and the UK. 3Africa is two countries: Business in Africa coverage focuses on South Africa and Nigeria while business stars like Mauritius, Botswana, the Seychelles and Namibia get little coverage and research attention. 4. Silencing creativity, amplifying technology: Despite Nollywood being the world’s second-largest film industry and the growing influence of musical influences like AfroBeats and AmaPiano, creative businesses were only featured in 1% of all articles across African and global media. 5. Youth and women are underrepresented: Africa claims the top three spots in the Mastercard Index for the highest concentration of women business owners in the world. It also has the youngest population globally. However, youth and women are underrepresented. In fact, online news coverage of young people has declined since 2017, falling from 12.5% of articles referencing young people in 2017 to 8.1% in 2021. 6. Government, policy and regulations dominate: Around 54.5% of business news in 2021 was framed through government action and policies. Additionally, African media focused more on themes related to government than on those related to entrepreneurship. Yet, African countries make up six of the top 10 countries whose populations were most likely to search for the topic of entrepreneurship in 2021. 7. Missing Free Trade Area and investment: It makes up 1% of news and academic research, yet the agreement is expected to lift 30 million Africans out of extreme poverty and boost the incomes of nearly 68 million others. It’s also projected to boost Africa’s income by $450 billion by 2035 and increase Africa’s exports by $560 billion, mostly in manufacturing." (Executive summary, pages-5-6) more

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Élections législatives du 31 juillet 2022 au Sénégal : Monitoring des médias et des discours dangereux

Dakar: Gorée Institute (2022), 63 pp.