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Innovative Arab Media and the New Outlines of Citizenship: A Collaborative Vision Builds Stronger Journalism Across the Region

Lina Attalah

New York: Century Foundation (2019), 15 pp.

"In this report, I have provided a glimpse of the ways in which innovative media outlets act as political agents in their current contexts, through their expressed positions, their content, and the forms in which they publish. Further work is needed to more fully describe the editorial sensibilities ... more

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China's Digital Rise: Challenges for Europe

Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Mareike Ohlberg

Berlin: Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) (2019), 55 pp.

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L'internet au Maroc: Militantismes, sociabilités et solidarités numériques

Souad Souad Azizi (ed.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 211 pp.

"Cet ouvrage questionne trois dimensions de l'usage d'Internet au Maroc constituant un enjeu majeur, pour toute société et pour la société marocaine en particulier : la dimension militante, la dimension relationnelle et la dimension solidaire. Les contributions s'articulent autour des trois axes ... more

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Macht im Netz: Vom Cybermobbing bis zum Überwachungsstaat

Philippe Wampfler

Ditzingen: Reclam (2019), 148 pp.

"Cybermobbing, Social Scoring, algorithmische Diskriminierung, Big-Data-Überwachung, Framing: Das Internet ist (auch) ein Ort der Kontrolle, der Überwachung, der Disziplinierung von Menschen. Es gehört zu den wichtigsten medienpädagogischen Aufgaben der Gegenwart, gemeinsam mit Schülerinnen und ... more

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Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia

Aswin Punathambekar, Sriram Mohan (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2019), viii, 317 pp.

"Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping ho ... more

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Digital Future

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue September (2019), pp. 19-33

"From the mid-90s to the Arab spring of 2011, a sense of euphoria was common. Before the 1990s, however, information technology simply did not seem relevant in developing countries. That began to change when international media became aware of the IT hub that had evolved around Bangalore. Next, inte ... rnet access spread fast, and, though digital divides persisted, the World Wide Web came ever closer to living up to its name. Then mobile telephony conquered much of Africa. Suddenly, Kenya was pioneering mobile money. Digital technology was making a difference in evermore people’s lives, and masses of them were poor. Mobile phones became commonly used devices even in remote villages. People got access to more information than ever before and started to interact with others who were far away. In many ways, digitalisation proved empowering. For example, social media were essential in the Arab spring. As dictators were toppled, journalists spoke of “Facebook revolutions”. That was then. Platforms that seemed to facilitate free communication in early 2011 are now infested with disinformation and propaganda. Moreover, the business models of established media houses are being undermined, to the detriment of quality journalism. Instead of living in “knowledge societies” as we were promised, it is getting harder to understand our world. As a general trend, both public administrations and private-sector businesses are being computerised. Digital disruption is common, and leaders in both spheres are paying increasingly close attention to what is discussed online. Some are doing their best to manipulate public discourse. Authoritarian populism is gaining ground, while the respect for democracy seems to be waning in many places. China’s communist regime is leading the trend of monitoring citizens, but other governments seem all too eager to follow. At the same time, the corporate powers that dominate the internet today are still largely beyond government control. They are not paying taxes commensurate with their revenues. The top managers cultivate a liberal image, but their lobbyists are really only striving to protect the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple from regulation. The algorithms of Facebook and YouTube, which belong to Google’s parent company Alphabet, are driving the radicalisation of angry people by offering users ever more extreme content. That trick keeps them on the platform. Digitalisation is shaping our species’ future. We need sensible rules. The forces that dominate the web are far more powerful than most nation states. The only three political entities that still seem able to regulate them are the USA, China and the EU. At this point, only the EU shows a preference for protecting citizens’ rights. If other countries want to have an impact, they must forge alliances. That way they can tap technology’s still promising potentials and keep a check on the risks. There is no alternative – unless we want to surrender to overwhelming corporate and state power." (Editorial, page 3) more

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Digital Asia

Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 40 pp.

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De-colonialidad en la era tecnomediática: Intersecciones teóricas, contextos y procesos de comunicación

Claudio Andrés Maldonado Rivera

CIESPAL (2018), 150 pp.

"La obra que sigue a continuación invita a un ejercicio de relectura de los procesos de modernidad-colonialidad desde la perspectiva teórica basada en el giro decolonial. El objetivo es presentar una discusión teórica que permita comprender y dar respuesta a las relaciones culturales en conflict ... more

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Les civic tech en Afrique: Citoyens et technologies pour dynamiser la démocratie. Premier bilan au Bénin, au Kenya, au Sénégal et en Tunisie

Philippe Couve, Edem Gbetoglo et al.

CFI (2018), 62, 25 pp.

"Dans ces quatre pays africains (Bénin, Kenya, Sénégal, Tunisie) où l’étude a été réalisée, il apparaît qu’à l’origine des civic tech se trouvent le plus souvent des citoyens et des citoyennes engagés, désireux de traduire leur frustration, et parfois leur colère, devant le déca ... lage observé entre l’affirmation officielle de principes démocratiques et une réalité de terrain assez éloignée des discours. Pour la grande majorité d’entre eux, les initiateurs de ces actions ont suivi des parcours universitaires exigeants et connu des expériences à l’étranger. Les hommes sont très largement majoritaires, à l’exception du Kenya où les femmes sont presque aussi nombreuses que les hommes. Elles considèrent toutefois qu’elles ne se trouvent pas sur un pied d’égalité, notamment lorsqu’il s’agit pour elles de prendre la parole publiquement ou de se lancer dans l’entrepreneuriat. Les difficultés d’une mobilisation à grande échelle Les jeunes adultes (20-25 ans) qui s’investissent dans les civic tech s’engagent généralement pour exprimer une forme d’irritation face aux dérives liées à la corruption ou au manque de prise en compte de l’avis des citoyens dans les décisions politiques. De l’avis général des « doyens » (activistes des civic tech ayant plus de 6 ou 7 ans d’expérience) que nous avons interrogés, la jeune génération est très prometteuse, car mieux formée sur les nouvelles technologies et très mobilisée sur les objectifs de bonne gouvernance et de participation citoyenne. En termes d’audience et de développement, l’étude montre que, dans les quatre pays concernés, les acteurs des civic tech rencontrent le plus souvent des difficultés à mobiliser de larges communautés de citoyens. Ils peinent à faire entendre leur message dans des pays où l’illettrisme au sens littéral et au sens numérique sont importants. Il en résulte des actions qui mobilisent essentiellement un petit nombre de citoyens, à la fois très engagés et très motivés. En général, le système d’organisation des initiatives civic tech varie selon les projets : le degré de structuration est plus ou moins formel et dépend surtout de l’ancienneté des initiatives, de l’ampleur des financements collectés et, in fine, du nombre de participants actifs impliqués à temps plein. Lorsqu’une forme de professionnalisation de l’action est évoquée, beaucoup de nos interlocuteurs mentionnent la difficulté à recruter et à fidéliser des profils combinant sensibilité aux questions de redevabilité et de transparence, savoir-faire en matière de gestion de projet, capacités technologiques et maîtrise des techniques de communication, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux." (Résumé analytique) more

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Le numérique et le développement des Suds

Anne-Marie Laulan (coord.)

Communication, Technologie et Développement, issue 5 (2018), pp. 8-145

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Emergent Voices and Evolving Agendas: Writing Realities in Cuba’s New Media Landscape

Mariela Morales-Suárez

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2017), 25 pp.

"This paper aims to understand the motivations, decision-making processes, and missions of the producers of new Cuban media using interviews with journalists recruited from the wider group of twenty non-governmental publications. In ten semi-structured interviews, participants described their person ... more

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Redes sociales, virtualidad y subjetividades

Alberto Constante, Ramón Chaverry (coord.)

México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (2017), 314 pp.

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World Press Trends 2017: The Definitive Guide to the Global News Media Industry in Numbers, Trends and Changes

Frankfurt: WAN-IFRA (2017), 87 pp.

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Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces

Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 267 pp.

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Tendências em comunicação digital. Volume 2

Elizabeth Saad, Stefanie C. Silveira et al.

São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Grupo de Pesquisa em Comunicação Digital COM (2017), 212 pp.

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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope

Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.

"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more

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Peer-To-Peer Programme: Managing the Digital Transition. A Training Challenge for National Broadcasters in the MENA Region. Final Results

MedMedia; COPEAM (2017), 7 pp.

"This report presents the final results of a nine-month regional peer-to-peer exchange programme implemented in 2017 by MedMedia, an EU-funded programme, and COPEAM, in partnership with public service broadcasters in the Southern Mediterranean Region. The programme aimed at developing training polic ... more

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Public Service News and Digital Media

Annika Sehl, Alessio Cornia, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 42 pp.

"In this report, we examine how public service media in six european countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom) are delivering news in an increasingly digital media environment. The analysis is based on interviews conducted between december 2015 and February 2016 [.. ... more

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Cuba’s Parallel Worlds: Digital Media Crosses the Divide

Anne Nelson

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 25 pp.

"For many years, the media development conversation regarding Cuba has largely focused on the country’s harsh censorship practices and other restrictions on freedom of expression. Those concerns remain. But with the opening of relations with the United States over the past two years, the conversat ... more

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Comunicação digital na era da participação

Pollyana Ferrari

Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2016), 210 pp.

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