"A dominant monitorial reporting method means that journalism shines a spotlight on officials’ activities, plans, and statements. While this reporting method has brought official wrongdoing to light, monitorial reporting has also participated in amplifying, emphasizing, and normalizing problematic
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official definitions that neglect structural factors contributing to persistent issues of marginalization. Using qualitative textual analysis, this study articulates a grounded alternative called a solidarity reporting method for covering marginalization. A solidarity reporting method means that journalism prioritizes marginalized people’s definitions, shared conditions, and ongoing struggles—which may challenge the definitional parameters that officials attempt to set. A case study of a 2016 journalistic collaboration called the San Francisco Homeless Project demonstrates how a solidarity reporting method enriches journalism on homelessness by representing the firsthand observations and perspectives of people subjected to social injustice, and accounting for structural conditions. Solidarity reporting helps advance journalism’s pursuit of truth." (Abstract)
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"Gute Kinderbücher oder vielmehr Kinderbücher, die Platz machen für alle Kinder, Gefühle, Erfahrungen, Stimmen, eröffnen einen Raum der Vielheiten und der Vielstimmigkeit. Sie geben Kindern Orientierung, erklären ihnen die Welt und ihre Bewohner:innen, sind lustig und spannend, emotional und u
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nterhaltsam. Sie erschaffen einen Ort, in dem alle Kinder mit ihren Erfahrungen, ihren Lebensweisen und Perspektiven sich wohl fühlen, sich wertgeschätzt und gehört fühlen sollten. Und ist das nicht letztendlich der Charakter großartiger Literatur? Menschen an die Hand zu nehmen und sie in fremde Welten zu entführen, ihnen die Möglichkeit zu geben auch in andere Rollen zu schlüpfen und neue Erfahrungen zu machen? Genau hier beginnt das Lesen, spannend zu werden. Denn gute Kinderliteratur kann Kinder in seelischen Aufruhr versetzen, sie klüger und erfahrener aus der Lektüre entlassen. Weil wir und sie im Buch Menschen begegnet sind, die uns und ihnen Einblicke in ihr Leben gegeben und seelisch, emotional und mental berührt haben. Weil wir in ihnen uns selbst begegnet sind, in all unseren Widersprüchlichkeiten und Identitäten. Weil wir in Büchern zu Held:innen werden konnten. Und sie haben uns Menschen gezeigt, die uns inspirieren, uns aufzeigten, welche anderen Realitäten es noch gibt und auch in uns stecken. Was nun? In den heutigen bewegten Zeiten öffnet sich immer mehr die Tür zu diesem Chor der Vielheiten. Und diese Stimmen rütteln an den unhinterfragten Vorstellungen und Normbildern weißer Lesender: Muss eine Prinzessin weiß sein und blonde Haare haben? Darf Arielle schwarz sein? Welche Beziehung haben wir zu Winnetou und indigenen Menschen? Interessieren wir uns für echte Menschen oder verteidigen wir lieber unsere in liebevoller Nostalgie gefangenen Kindheitserinnerungen? Wen dürfen wir wie benennen? Wessen Kritik müssen wir annehmen? Diese Fragen können anstrengend und unbequem sein. Doch sie sind der Schlüssel dazu, dass sich diese Tür immer weiter öffnet. Lasst uns also Fragen stellen, das Zuhören lernen, diskutieren und in neue Geschichten und Stimmen versinken." (Seite 8-9)
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"Guía de transición ecosocial y principios éticos para nuestros medios” es un manual de redacción y valores que busca inspirar a las personas lectoras a través de principios éticos narrativos relacionados con la práctica del periodismo en los medios audiovisuales y en las prácticas de tran
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smedialidad. Este trabajo recoge narrativas o formas en las que se debería informar sobre asuntos fundamentales en torno a los que gira gran parte de la información de actualidad y que requieren un tratamiento adecuado, crítico y reflexivo. Parte de la idea fundamental de que la comunicación es un eje transversal de transformación y transiciones así como de la importancia de construir a partir de lo local, desde la proximidad. La guía se conforma en torno a cinco grandes temas de debate o bloques: Transición ecosocial; Perspectiva de género; Discursos de odio, Migraciones y grupos minorizados; Menores; y Discapacidades. El manual se completa con una sucinta guía en forma de anexo, un glosario de términos y algunas recomendaciones bibliográficas." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"El objetivo es acercar debates, aprendizajes y conceptos alrededor de tres ejes: población afrodescendiente y negra, pueblos indígenas y comunidades LGBTIQ+ en Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Las autoras y autores parten de una mirada situada en sus territorios, aportando historicidad sobre las lucha
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s de comunidades en la ampliación y respeto de los derechos humanos entendiendo estos como universales, inalienables, irrenunciables, imprescriptibles e indivisibles. Por ello, cada sección ofrece consejos, sugerencias y un glosario para quienes incursionan por primera vez en dichas temáticas. La guía busca generar reflexiones, pero también aportar buenas prácticas para ejercer el trabajo periodístico de forma comprometida, atenta y sensible." (Introducción)
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"Bengaluru […] generates 5,757 metric tonnes of solid waste per day. Estimates suggest that approximately 20,000-30,000 people are engaged in waste picking in the city. BBC Media Action's 'A Pathway to Respect, Identity, Dignity and Empowerment' (PRIDE) project aims to shift negative perceptions a
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bout informal waste pickers and highlight their contribution to society in the city of Bengaluru in India. The first phase of the project's social media campaign to tackle these issues reached 21% of Bengaluru's population. Research shows it has improved awareness of informal waste pickers, increased appreciation of the work they do and generated discussion about how they contribute to society." (Page 1)
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"Using examples of the existing media coverage of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, geography, social and marital status, this handbook offers a set of educational tools that can be used in a classroom to develop sensitivity to diversity, to increase s
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tudents’ analytical skills in relation to news content and to enrich students’ knowledge and understanding of the relationship between social diversity and the media [...] The handbook is aimed to be used as a textbook in journalism schools. It has been written in the context of China, but its content and examples would also serve journalism teachers elsewhere well." (Introduction, page 8)
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"For months, our team has been tracking how China has exploited search engine results on Xinjiang and COVID-19, two subjects that are geopolitically salient to Beijing — Xinjiang, because the Chinese government seeks to push back on condemnation of its rights record; COVID-19, because it seeks to
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deflect criticism for its early mishandling o f the pandemic. In both cases, Beijing is quite focused on positioning itself as a responsible global leader and softening perceptions to the contrary. To evaluate these concerns, we compiled daily data over a 120-day period on 12 terms related to Xinjiang and COVID-19 from five different sources: (1) Google Search; (2) Google News; (3) Bing Search; (4) Bing News; and (5) YouTube. We found that Chinese state media are remarkably effective at influencing the content returned for the term “Xinjiang” across several search types. “Xinjiang,” which is among the most neutral terms in our data set, regularly returned state-backed content across news searches, with at least one Chinese state-backed news outlet appearing in the top 10 results in 88% of searches (106 out of 120 days searched). On YouTube, state media appeared among the top 10 results in searches for “Xinjiang” in 98% of searches (118 out of 120 days searched) [...]" (Executive summary)
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"A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black ch
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aracters, these artists and the visual media they create identify, challenge, or break with entrenched racist practices, ideologies, and structures. Gillam looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians assert control over various means of representation in order to present a complex Black humanity. These images--so at odds with the mainstream--contribute to an anti-racist visual politics fighting to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people while highlighting the importance of media in the movement for Black inclusion." (Publisher description)
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"The book is divided into five sections that examine philosophical principles for reporting on poverty, the history and nature of poverty coverage, problematic representations of people experiencing poverty, poverty coverage as part of reporting on public policy, and positive possibilities for pover
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ty coverage. Each section provides an introduction to the topic, as well as a broad selection of essays illuminating key issues and a Q&A with a relevant journalist. Topics covered include news coverage of corporate philanthropy, structural bias in reporting, representations of the working poor, the moral demands of vulnerability and agency, community empowerment, and citizen media. The book's broad focus considers media and poverty at both the local and global levels with contributors from sixteen countries." (Publisher description)
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"The study examines content produced and distributed to ethnic minorities in Mon, Kayin and Kayah and looks into the news and media habits and understandings of the same groups. It consists of two different research efforts: a content analysis and a qualitative audience study. The content analysis f
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ound that media targeted at ethnic minorities - here represented by three ELTV contributors: Mon News Agency (MNA), Karen Information Center (KIC) and Kanthayawaddy Times - consistently involve their target groups in news coverage compared to national averages. Representatives from ethnic minorities were used as sources in eight out 15 stories analyzed. Yet, ethnic minorities are often portrayed as victims and therefore rarely framed from an empowered position. Furthermore, the audience study showed that some minorities felt less represented by the media than others, resulting in limited trust in the media." (Executive summary)
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"When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. 'Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia' becomes one-stop sho
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pping for synthesizing what we know within the composite of stereotyping research in the United States." (Publisher description)
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"Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed-race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have
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perfected racial representation - all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates. Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and US popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an "acceptable" version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for interracial desire." (Publisher description)
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"Under increasingly intense newsroom demands, reporters often find it difficult to cover the complexity of topics that deal with racial and social inequality. This path-breaking book lays out simple, effective reporting strategies that equip journalists to investigate disparity's root causes. Chapte
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rs discuss how racially disparate outcomes in health, education, wealth/income, housing, and the criminal justice system are often the result of inequity in opportunity and also provide theoretical frameworks for understanding the roots of racial inequity. Examples of model reporting from ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, and the San Jose Mercury News showcase best practice in writing while emphasizing community-based reporting. Throughout the book, tools and practical techniques such as the Fault Lines framework, the Listening Post and the authors' Opportunity Index and Upstream-Downstream Framework all help journalists improve their awareness and coverage of structural inequity at a practical level." (Publisher description)
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"Les médias reflètent-ils les sociétés telles qu’elles sont aujourd’hui ou bien ne reflètent-ils que les tendances majoritaires ? Comment mettre en lumière les différences et les particularismes sans encourager le communautarisme et contribuer aux divisions ? Le rôle des médias est-il d
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e rapporter les faits ou de contribuer activement à une certaine vision de la société ? Les critères professionnels du journalisme sont-ils suffisants pour éviter les discours de haine et les messages exacerbant les tensions communautaires ? Lancé par CFI et le centre SKeyes pour la liberté de la presse et de la culture (de la Fondation Samir Kassir), le projet Naseej – qui signifie « tissage » en arabe – s’appuie sur les médias pour restaurer et maintenir un débat équilibré autour de ces questions. En examinant ce que les médias libanais, syriens et irakiens publient et diffusent, le langage utilisé, les concepts promus, les groupes qui y sont représentés et ceux qui ne le sont pas, Naseej tente de promouvoir une vision inclusive du journalisme. L’objet n’est pas de demander aux journalistes de restaurer la paix ou d’éviter les conflits, mais de contribuer à l’émergence de conditions plus propices au dialogue à travers une meilleure qualité d’information vérifiée et professionnelle, évitant les généralisations et les stéréotypes. Il n’est pas de demander aux médias d’accorder un traitement privilégié aux minorités face à la majorité, mais de mettre en lumière les difficultés auxquelles font face les citoyens, tous les citoyens, quelles que soient leurs appartenances. Ce livret présente la synthèse d’une étude, réalisée en octobre 2017, sur la couverture médiatique de la diversité dans les médias irakiens, libanais et syriens, réalisée par la Fondation Adyan et la Fondation Samir Kassir." (Introduction)
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"This chapter sought to analyze the portrayals of Sinai people in the Egyptian media as it pertains to the people themselves. It started by giving the reader an overview of the current Sinai’s social, security, and economic status quo and structures. Then, it examined how image building could be o
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r not an essential tool for political control over Sinai; before moving into how and why specific people’s images are constructed and deconstructed by the mass media and how this is affecting and affected by the different and multiple aspects of development. While many Arabic and Western studies tackled the Sinai Peninsula issues, yet almost no single research focused on the people themselves: How they perceive their own identity?! How they evaluate their image in other Egyptian’s eyes?! And how they judge what is being presented to them via Egyptian media?! A quick glance at the development measures that could boost the integration of Sinai’s people into the formal Egyptian economy and provide alternatives to smuggling, we would easily realize that “the poor state of Egypt’s public finances and the myriad challenges facing the country as a whole could mean that the needs of the Sinai may continue to be neglected despite the promise to invest” (Watanabe 2015). Bright promises only follow almost every terroristic attack and then fade out. Although the officials quickly introduce many symbols and discourses of unity to the people there, quick observations more quickly show that the development of a sense of belonging at their popular level is slow." (Conclusion)
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"Nouvel ouvrage de la collection Ecritures du Monde, cet ouvrage a été réalisé dans le cadre des rencontres annuelles des Chaires UNESCO en communication ORBICOM. Les objectifs de la rencontre annuelle étaient les suivants : 1) Identifier et analyser les conflits culturels et communicationnels
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à l'échelle de la planète, tels qu'ils sont reflétés dans les différents médias ; 2) Comprendre l'histoire, les contextes et les raisons qui sous-tendent ces conflits et 3) Elaborer des solutions de communication transculturelle et interculturelle pour résoudre les conflits à l'échelle locale, nationale et internationale. Pour assurer la réalisation d'un monde pacifique, de nombreux observateurs estiment qu'il est souhaitable d'adopter et de promouvoir une communication transculturelle et interculturelle orientée vers la paix." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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