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Open Science for Peacebuilding Toolkit

Obialunanma Nnaobi, Kersti Ruth Wissenbach, Geraldine de Bastion, Obasegun Ayodele, Ana Rocío Sandres (eds.)

Berlin: Global Innovation Gathering (GIG);Vilsquare (2022), 43 pp.

"The aim of this Open Science and Peacebuilding Toolkit is to provide an open, living collection of resources for innovation hubs operating in conflict or post-conflict environments, creating a joint framework for open science and peacebuilding in action. It seeks to enable makerspaces across the wo ... more

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Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology

Georgina Born (ed.)

London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 526 pp.

"Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital as ... more

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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today

Eveline G. Bouwers, David Nash (eds.)

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), x, 303 pp.

"Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing ... more

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The Chilling: A Global Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists
Top Insights

Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ);UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.

"This ground-breaking three-year global study on gender-based online violence against women journalists represents collaborative research covering 15 countries. It is the most geographically, linguistically, and ethnically diverse scoping of the crisis conducted up until late 2022. The research draw ... more

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Empowering Yemeni Youth Towards Peace: Ensuring Access to Information and Participation

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 64 pp.

"UNESCO strived to improve access to information for Yemeni youth through building capacities of young Yemeni journalists to produce content that ensures balanced coverage of the peacebuilding process. The produced content necessitated the development of an information platform to disseminate messag ... more

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Results-Based Report on Projects Approved by the 64th Meeting of the IPDC Bureau (June 2020) and Implemented in 2020-2021. Part II

UNESCO (2022), 278 pp.

"This document reports on the implementation of projects approved by the 64th meeting of the IPDC Bureau (June 2020) and implemented in 2020-2021, and on projects approved as part of IPDC’s rapid response mechanism in January 2021. It also includes the implementation reports of several projects th ... more

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Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance

Terry Flew, Fiona R. Martin (eds.)

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 ... more

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Defeating COVID-19 Poverty Through Community Radios: Lessons Learnt and Good Practices

Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific Regional Office (2022), 21 pp.

"The project Promotion of Resilient Communities: Addressing COVID-19-related Poverty by Community Radios in South and Southeast Asia was implemented by the World Association of Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Asia-Pacific regional office to support community radios in four countries - Bangladesh, India, ... more

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Financing Mechanisms for Locally Owned Internet Infrastructure
Key Guidance

Jim Forster, Ben Matranga, Arnoop Nagendra

Connectivity Capital;Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Internet Society;Connect Humanity (2022), 134 pp.

"The digital divide is not a problem the market alone will solve. We need to do things differently. Globally there is a growing movement of community connectivity providers — including community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and social enterprises — connecting underserved communiti ... more

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Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive
Inspiring Practice

Alex Veeneman, Shana Black et al.

Philadelphia: Lenfest Institute for Journalism;Center for Cooperative Media (2022), 42 pp.

"What’s working to generate revenue and sustain journalism collaborations, beyond philanthropy? To answer this question, the Center for Cooperative Media, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Solutions Journalism Network conducted a survey, interviewed collaborative project managers, funde ... more

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Financing Independent Media: A Global Challenge

Mediation: Biannual Publication of Fondation Hirondelle, issue 9 (2022), 6 pp.

"The evolution of media towards mainly digital platforms has provoked a long crisis in their financing, often resulting in them being absorbed into large industrial groups seeking political influence. In the North as in the South, economic models for independent news and information need to be reinv ... more

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The Dynamics of Racism, Antisemitism and Xenophobia on Social Media in South Africa

Thierry Rousset, Maluleke Gavaza, Adam Mendelsohn

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 ... more

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Narrativa transmedia: Una mirada al conflicto armado y la memoria social indígena desde los relatos expandidos. Casos: Colombia y Perú

María Cristina Pinto Arboleda, María Isabel Zapata Cárdenas, Luis Eduardo Gómez Vallejo

Contratexto (Universidad de Lima), issue 37 (2022), pp. 259-286

"Este trabajo tiene como objetivo central el análisis de dos proyectos transmedia latinoamericanos en el marco de la no ficción, circunscritos desde el método del estudio de casos y la aplicación de elementos de la teoría del actor-red, donde las relaciones, la conformación de grupos sociales ... more

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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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Independent Media Under Pressure: Evidence from Russia

Tom Paskhalis, Bryn Rosenfeld, Katerina Tertytchnaya

Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 38, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-174

"Existing literature recognizes growing threats to press freedom around the world and documents changes in the tools used to stifle the independent press. However, few studies investigate how independent media respond to state pressure in an autocracy, documenting the impact of tactics that stop sho ... more

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Meaningful Connectivity for Rural Communities: Geographic Barriers & Policy Strategies for Digital Inclusion

Ana María Rodríguez Pulgarín, Teddy Woodhouse

Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI);World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 23 pp.

"This report details the urban-rural connectivity gap in nine low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what that means for their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals [...] Across all nine countries [Colombia, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Af ... more

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Let Free Media Thrive: Selected Stories of 4 Years of Impact of the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (2018-2021)

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 18 pp.

"The stories presented here are some examples of how the Multi-Donor Programme for Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) works to provide countries and their populations with the necessary tools to nurture a free and independent media. This includes promoting the adoption of policies ... more

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Combating Fake News, Disinformation, and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence for Media Literacy Education

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey

Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 9, issue 2037229 (2022), 17 pp.

"This study investigated the effect of media and information literacy (MIL) on the ability to identify fake news, disinformation and misinformation, and sharing intentions. The experimental approach was selected to study both the control group and experimental group made up of a total of 187 respond ... 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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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Inspiring Practice

Robert Nemeth, Marius Dragomir

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 ... more

The Chilling: A Global Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists Top Insights

Financing Mechanisms for Locally Owned Internet Infrastructure Key Guidance

Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive Inspiring Practice

The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations Inspiring Practice

The Chilling: A Global Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists
Top Insights

Financing Mechanisms for Locally Owned Internet Infrastructure
Key Guidance

Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive
Inspiring Practice

The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Inspiring Practice