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Elections and Media in Digital Times
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 67 pp.
"The central focus of this study is the dynamic and complex relationship between elections and (digital) media. This choice of focus is explained by the need to safeguard the integrity and credibility of electoral processes, as well as the role of the news media during election periods, in the face
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Mobile-First Journalism: Producing News for Social and Interactive Media
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xiv, 223 pp.
Combining theory and practice, Mobile-First Journalism examines how audiences view, share and engage with journalism on internet-connected devices and through social media platforms. The book examines the interlinked relationship between mobile technology, social media and apps, covering the entire
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The Use of Twitter Bots in Russian Political Communication
Washington, DC: PONARS Eurasia (2019), 10 pp.
"Our analysis of millions of Russian tweets over 2014-2018 reveals that bots make up a large proportion of the Russian political Twittersphere. However, an important lesson from our region is that one cannot assume that simply because there are bots present in the Russian political Twittersphere tha
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"The collection of essays in this volume seek among other things to draw attention to the virtues of conflict-sensitive journalism as a way of transforming the negative effects of ‘war’ journalism. Contributors to the handbook include journalists drawn from the following countries: eSwatini, Les
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Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xix, 283 pp.
"This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider soci
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Navigating Social Journalism: A Handbook for Media Literacy and Citizen Journalism
New York; London: Routledge (2019), viii, 322 pp.
Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: A framework and research agenda
Annals of the International Communication Association, volume 43, issue 2 (2019), pp. 97-116
"Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that ‘fake news’ alludes to two dimensions of political communication: the fake news genre (i.e. the deliberate creation of pseudojournalistic disinformation) and the fake news label (i.e. the instrumentalization of the term to delegitimize ne
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The Business of Misinformation: Slovakia. Snake Oil Spills Onto the Web
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 12 pp.
"The presented report looks at 49 major Slovak disinformation and misinformation websites and sketches out their ownership as well as financial background. The report succeeds in identifying the ownership or operational structure behind 35 websites. In terms of financial data, the report canvasses f
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The Business of Misinformation: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lying for Profit
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 8 pp.
"The websites creating misinformation content in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be classified into four categories based on their financial and/or political motivations and the extent to which they provide valuable journalistic contributions. The majority of misinformation websites are motivated solely
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"Fake News," Dangerous Speech and Mass Violence: Challenges for Social Media in the Developing World
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 483-500
"The cases discussed in this chapter have demonstrated how disinformation and rhetoric that is spread through social media in the developing world often meets the Benesch criteria for dangerous speech. It comes from influential sources, which can include family and friends who share it. It plays on
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Nachgefragt: Medienkompetenz in Zeiten von Fake News
Berlin: Zentralen für Politische Bildung, Sonderausg. (2019), 130 pp.
"Jugendliche informieren sich heute primär digital. Umso wichtiger ist es, dass sie bei der Nutzung von digitalen Medien in der Lage sind, Nachrichten und Informationsquellen richtig einzuordnen und wahre von falschen Meldungen zu unterscheiden. Dieses Buch gibt kompetent Auskunft zum Thema. Google
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The Psychology of State-Sponsored Disinformation Campaigns and Implications for Public Diplomacy
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, volume 14, issue 1/2 (2019), pp. 65-82
"Policy discourse about disinformation focuses heavily on the technological dimensions of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns. Unfortunately, this myopic focus on technology has led to insufficient attention being paid to the underlying human factors driving the success of state-sponsored disin
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Catholic Church and the Public Sphere: Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression
Roma: Edizioni Santa Croce (2019), 156 pp.
"This book gathers the main conferences and a selection of the communication of the eleventh edition of the Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices: Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression in the Public Sphere, organized by the School of Church Communications of the Pontifical Uni
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Freedom on the Net 2019: The Crisis of Social Media
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2019), 32 pp.
"Social media allow ordinary people, civic groups, and journalists to reach a vast audience at little or no cost, but they have also provided an extremely useful and inexpensive platform for malign influence operations by foreign and domestic actors alike. Political leaders employed individuals to s
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Direito à comunicação no Brasil 2018
São Paulo: Intervozes (2019), 80 pp.
La posverdad: Una cartografía de los medios, las redes y la política
Barcelona: Gedisa (2019), 185 pp.
Integridad y ética de los medios de comunicación
Vienna: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2019), 30 pp.
"El módulo explora la importancia crítica de la ética para medios tradicionales, como el periodismo, y para medios modernos, como las redes sociales. La presencia de las redes sociales y las noticias digitales ha aumentado la responsabilidad ética de la gente que opera en este campo, especialmen
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The disinformation landscape and the lockdown of social platforms
Information Communication & Society, volume 22, issue 11 (2019), pp. 1531-1543
"This introduction to the special issue considers how independent research on mis/disinformation campaigns can be conducted in a corporate environment hostile to academic research. We provide an overview of the disinformation landscape in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal and
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Digital News Report 2019
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 153 pp.
"Despite the efforts of the news industry, we find only a small increase in the numbers paying for any online news – whether by subscription, membership, or donation. Growth is limited to a handful of countries mainly in the Nordic region (Norway 34%, Sweden 27%) while the number paying in the US
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