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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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YouTube
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Hate Speech, Hate Speech in Social Media
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Social Media
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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COVID-19 Communication
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Instagram
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WhatsApp
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Catholic Digital Media Presence & Online Communities
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TikTok
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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Google
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Hate Speech Legislation & Regulation
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Internet Shutdowns
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Digital Political Communication
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Nazism
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Antisemitism
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Holocaust
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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Disinformation Consumption & Perception
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Divine Word Missionaries (SVD)
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Solidarity
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Child Protection, Protection of Minors
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Christian Press: Evangelical / Protestant & Others
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Holy Mass Transmission: Television & Social Media
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Missionary Communication, Media & Evangelisation
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Digital Theologies
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Hollywood
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Communication Rights
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Exile Journalism, Exile Media
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Freedom of Expression
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Media / Communication Control
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Crisis Communication
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Foreign Government Communication Interventions
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Community Radios
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Storytelling
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Religion and Conflicts, Religious Conflicts, Religious Violence
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Boko Haram
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Islamic State (Political-Religious Extremist Organization)
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Conflicts and Media
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Conflict-Sensitive Digital Technology Use & Social Media in Prevention & Transformation
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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Dealing With the Past
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Internet / ICTs and Conflicts
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Trauma, Coping with Trauma, Trauma Therapy
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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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Content Analysis (Research Method)
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Religious Functions & Messages of Digital Media
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Visual Anthropology
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Collective Memory: Violent Conflicts & Wars
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Memes
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Free Basics (Facebook Internet Access Programme)
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Good Governance
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Edutainment Campaigns: Experiences
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Digital Communication, Digital Media
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Internet / ICTs and Social Change
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Net Neutrality
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Online Dating
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Podcasts
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Religion in Social Media
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Weibo (Microblogging Website, China)
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Wikipedia
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Ethnic / Minority Online Communities & Websites
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News Websites & Portals
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Artificial Intelligence
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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ICTs and Development
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Virtual Reality
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Religious Minorities & Media
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Xenophobia
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Election Campaigns: Disinformation & Misinformation
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Identifying & Researching Disinformation
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Media Concentration
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Music Industries & Markets
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Political Economy of Media
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Video on Demand
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Microcredits, Microfinance, Small-Scale Loans
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Communication for Sustainable Development
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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Ethics in Nonprofit & Community Journalism
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Journalism Ethics
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Objectivity & Veracity of Reporting
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Success Factors
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Gender Issues: Media Coverage
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Gender Norms & Roles
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Good Practice Examples
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Health Communication
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Alcohol Abuse: Prevention & Media Representation
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Religion in Health Communication
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Sexual Health Communication, Reproductive Health Education, Family Planning
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History of Media: Colonial Period
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China: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Russia: Foreign Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Journalism
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Language Barriers
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Linguistic Diversity: Internet & Digital Media
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Media Assistance: Financial Sustainability & Management
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Social Media Landscapes
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Consumer Protection
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Human Rights Violations
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Migrants & Refugees: Tailor-Made Media Products & Information Services
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Refugees / Displaced People
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Youth Migrants, Youth Refugees, Youth Dasporas
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People with Disabilities: Access to & Use of ICT and Media
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Photography
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Governance
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Fascism
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Public Opinion
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Public Spheres
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Video Production Skills
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Buddhism and Communication
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Taliban
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Jihad
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Islam and Communication
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Jainism
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Yazidism, Yazidis, Yezidis
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Rohingya
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Technologies: Impact Assessment
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Mobile Phone Apps
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RT (Russian International Broadcaster, formerly Russia Today)
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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User-Generated Contents
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Visualization
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Youth, Adolescents
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric
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“How can I keep quiet?” Motivations to participate in vaccination communication on Facebook
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 4 (2023), pp. 482-501
"Risk and crisis communication (RCC) is a complex constellation of multiple actors, platforms, and voices. It involves institutional actors but also laypeople. Participation by social media users can both facilitate and obstruct effective RCC. The present study draws on in-depth interviews with Swed
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Electoral news sharing: A study of changes in news coverage and Facebook sharing behaviour during the 2018 Mexican elections
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
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Politiques éditoriales dans la mission (XIXe-XXIe siécle)
Paris: Karthala (2022), 405 pp.
"Les Missions à l’époque contemporaine ont continué de se propager grâce à destechniques éditoriales que les progrès des moyens de communication leur ont procurées. En tout premier lieu, l’imprimerie a permis l’édition de la Bible dans de multiples langues et la multiplication de supp
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Nachhaltigkeit als Gegenstand und Zielgröße der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung: Aktuelle Studien und Befunde
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2022), 249 pp.
"Der Band bietet vielfältige Einblicke in die aktuelle kommunikationswissenschaftliche Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung rund um das Thema Nachhaltigkeit. Die Beiträge beschäftigen sich etwa damit, wie die Thematik in den (sozialen) Medien verhandelt wird, wie sich verschiedene Botschafts- und Ko
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Conteúdo nocivo: A Meta protege a integridade eleitoral no Brasil?
NetLab;Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) (2022), 12 pp.
"Analisamos uma amostra do conteúdo denunciado ao TSE, a fim de verificar se, de fato, a Meta removeu ou indicou a presença de desinformação nestas publicações. Os resultados apontam que parcelas expressivas das publicações denunciadas e já diagnosticadas como nocivas por checadores de fato
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Under-Moderated, Unhinged and Ubiquitous: Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State Networks on Facebook. Why Al-Shabaab and Islamic State Pages and Profiles in East African Languages Continue to Plague Facebook
London et al.: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 21 pp.
"Researchers at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) led a two-year investigation into the online media ecosystem of al-Shabaab and the Islamic State in Africa, analyzing the role of “independent news” outlets and their intersections with hundreds-strong networks of amplifier profiles on F
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Top Insights
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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The Trust Gap: How and Why News on Digital Platforms is Viewed More Sceptically Versus News in General
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 71 pp.
"Drawing on an original dataset of survey responses collected in the summer of 2022 across four countries - Brazil, India, the UK, and the US - they examine the relationship between trust in news and how people think about news on digital platforms, especially Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and YouTube
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Born in the Fire: What We Can Learn from How Digital Publishers in the Global South Approach Platforms
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 33 pp.
"Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, the authors of this report analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global South countries approach digital platforms: both big platform companies such as Google and Meta; rapidly
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Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 319 pp.
"Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has in recent years moved to the forefront of policy debate. In the wake of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the global 'techlash' against digital monopolies, platform studies are undergoing a
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Digitalisation and Civic Space: Chances and Challenges
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2022), 58 pp.
"Multifaceted, uncensored, promoting democracy - that is the internet, many people had long hoped. But from today's perspective, this is not true - or only partially. Because the big digital platforms and the world wide web are both: media of freedom and control. In many places, they support civil s
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Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft. Freiheitsrechte unter Druck: Schwerpunkt Digitalisierung
München; Berlin: oekom Verlag;Brot für die Welt (2022), 86 pp.
"Vielfaltig, unzensiert, demokratiefördernd - das ist das Internet, hofften viele Menschen lange. Doch diese Attribute passen aus heutiger Sicht nicht - oder nur teilweise. Denn die großen digitalen Plattformen und das World Wide Web sind beides: Medien der Freiheit und der Kontrolle. Sie helfen d
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The Dynamics of Racism, Antisemitism and Xenophobia on Social Media in South Africa
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2022), x, 221 pp.
"This study examines racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia on Facebook and Twitter. The authors were looking for patterns in the mass of posts, tweets, and images that circulate on social media. To do this, they focused on a series of case studies. These demonstrate that political discussion on socia
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Scientific Disinformation in Times of Epistemic Crisis: Circulation of Conspiracy Theories on Social Media Platforms
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
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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Inspiring Practice
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2022), 50 pp.
"The CEU Democracy Institute's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) embarked in November 2020 on a one-year project aimed at mapping and analyzing the work of the world's fact-checking groups, with a focus on their challenges, needs and successes. The project started with a survey of 30 fact-ch
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Infodemics and Health Misinformation: A Systematic Review of Reviews
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, volume 100, issue 9 (2022), pp. 544-561
"Our search identified 31 systematic reviews, of which 17 were published. The proportion of health-related misinformation on social media ranged from 0.2% to 28.8%. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram are critical in disseminating the rapid and far-reaching information. The most negative conseq
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Communication Leading to Communion: Social Communications in the Digital Culture Through the Catholic Church’s Engagement in Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 369-396
"With the prohibition of religious gatherings by the Philippine government to help curb the spread of the COVID-19, the Catholic Church had to close its doors to the public and instead hold masses and other activities online, primarily utilizing the livestreaming features of Facebook. The study prob
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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 53 pp.
"This paper experimentally tests the effectiveness of two short edutainment campaigns (under 25 minutes) delivered through Facebook Messenger at reshaping gender norms and reducing social acceptability of violence against women in India. Participants were randomly assigned to watch video clips with
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A Social Media Analysis Toolkit for Mediators and Peacebuilders
Key Guidance
Build Up;Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2022)
"Many mediators and peacebuilders are interested in using information about actors and narratives on social media to inform programming. Our starting assumption is that users of this toolkit do not have the resources to either hire a specialist social media analysis firm or to pay for commercial soc
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