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The Impact of Chayka.lv on the Russian-Speaking Community of Daugavpils, Latvia

Internews;Market Research Center (2023), 54 pp.

"Chayka.lv is an independent media outlet established in 2019 that provides free, high-quality, politically neutral information to the Russian-speaking community of the Latvian city of Daugavpils, including news, entertainment, human-interest and other factual content. It started as pages on the Fac ... more

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Researching the Evolving Online Ecosystem: Telegram, Discord and Odysee

Henry Tuck, Jakob Guhl, Julia Smirnova, Lea Gerster, Oliver Marsh

London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2023), 59 pp.

"Harmful actors use an ever-expanding range of digital spaces to spread harmful ideologies and undermine human rights and democracy online. Understanding their evolving ideas, online networks and activities is critical to the development of a more comprehensive evidence base to inform effective and ... more

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Aber ich lebe: Vier Kinder überleben den Holocaust. Nach den Erinnerungen von Emmie Arbel, David Schaffer, Nico Kamp und Rolf Kamp

Barbara Yelin, Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 175 pp.

"Es gibt kaum noch Zeitzeugen des Holocaust. Die letzten erzählen von ihrer Erinnerung als Kinder in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten und über die Verfolgung und Ermordung ihrer Familien. Um diese Erinnerungen vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren, haben die Zeichnerinnen Barara Yelin, Mir ... more

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The Life and Death of SNET, Havana’s Alternative Internet

Priscila Bellini

Rest of World, October 8 (2023)

"[...] in 2011, a group of more than 100 Havana residents decided to unify their hyperlocal networks into a larger structure. The Havana “street network” (or SNET) would soon become one of the largest such community networks in the world. At its peak, user estimates hovered around 100,000 IP add ... more

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Reality TV and Civic Engagement: Researching the Lives of the Young Palestinians Who Ran for ‘The President’

Valentina Baú

Creative Industries Journal (2023), 21 pp.

"This article analyses the role that Reality TV can play in the lives of young participants, when a programme is designed as a strategic intervention to achieve change. With roots in Communication for Development notions, this study brings together different theoretical fields to illustrate how medi ... more

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‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign

Venetia Baker, Sarah Mulwa, Sophie Sarrassat, David Khanyile, Simon Cousens, Cherie Cawood, Isolde Birdthistle

Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 25, issue 7 (2023), pp. 803-817

"This study explores how and why young people engage with MTV Shuga, a popular mass media campaign in South Africa, to understand what makes effective HIV edutainment. Young MTV Shuga viewers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa and their parents participated in remote individual interviews and focus ... more

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Digital Patronage: Toward a New Model of Building a Radio Station

Patryk Galuszka, Piotr Chmielewski

International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 1861-1879

"This article analyzes how patronage crowdfunding is becoming a central part of the model for building a radio station. Implementing this model requires mobilizing listeners to engage in the direct, long-term financial support of a station. The analysis conducted in this article is based on a case s ... more

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Kriegsreporterinnen: Im Einsatz für Wahrheit und Frieden

Rita Kohlmaier

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 176 pp.

"Rita Kohlmaier stellt 30 Kriegsberichterstatterinnen und -fotografinnen aus verschiedenen Ländern stellvertretend für den ganzen Berufstand vor. Sie bezahlten oftmals einen hohen Preis: psychische Belastungen, Entfernung von ihren Familien, ständige Unsicherheit. Einige starben bei einem ihrer E ... more

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Write for Rights 2022 Campaign Report

Amnesty International (2023), 62 pp.

"For the twenty-second consecutive year, Write for Rights activities took place across the world. While online actions continued to increase, we also saw a major return to offline events, as Covid 19 restrictions were lifted in most countries. From running marathons in Zimbabwe, to music concerts in ... more

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Online Content Moderation and Post Conflict Peacebuilding: A Review to the Regulatory Framework in Colombia

Juan Sebastián Salamanca Calle et al.

Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP);UNESCO (2023), 83 pp.

"This text is divided into four chapters. The first chapter describes the characteristics of online public debate in Colombia. It also presents the historical context and details the circumstances in which risky content for democracy and human rights content is published and disseminated in the coun ... more

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Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Marijke de Valck, Antoine Damiens (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 342 pp.

"This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can't happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution ... more

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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

Jane Farmer, Anthony McCosker, Kath Albury, Amir Aryani

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 127 pp.

"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo ... more

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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Case Studies and Options for Addressing Ethical Challenges

Bernd Carsten Stahl, Doris Schroeder, Rowena Rodrigues

Cham: Springer (2023), xii, 116 pp.

"This open access collection of AI ethics case studies is the first book to present real-life case studies combined with commentaries and strategies for overcoming ethical challenges. Case studies are one of the best ways to learn about ethical dilemmas and to achieve insights into various complexit ... more

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Metaverse und Gaming: Potenziale für die Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungspolitik

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 88 pp.

"Diese Studie trägt dazu bei, ein Verständnis für das Thema ,Gaming‘ und seine Derivate zu vermitteln und mithilfe von interdisziplinären, theoriegeleiteten Übersichten, Modellen und Handlungsempfehlungen eine praxisorientierte, qualifizierte Extended Gaming Literacy für Akteur:innen der Aus ... more

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SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda
Key Guidance

Inspiring Practice

ITU;UNDP;Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (2023), 87 pp.

"This Agenda explores how digital technologies are already being used to accelerate progress toward the SDGs, and how inclusive digital transformation can be scaled further. The Agenda also showcases 34 digital solutions, two for each SDG, highlighting the power and potential of digital. The solutio ... more

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Media Wealth Building: The Report of the Local News Plans Project

Jonathan Heawood, Sameer Padania

Public Interest News Foundation;NewsNow (2023), 43 pp.

"Between September 2022 and January 2023, the Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) worked with local communities in Bangor, Bristol, Folkestone, Glasgow, Manchester and Newry, to create ‘Local News Plans’ for their areas. We facilitated discussions between local stakeholders, including news pr ... more

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Vom Problem zur Anwendungsidee: Wie Künstliche Intelligenz gemeinwohlorientierte Organisationen unterstützen kann

Zamina Ahmad, Kassandra Becker, Susanne Bruch, Christoph Hassler

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2023), 74 pp.

"[...] Die Einbeziehung von vulnerablen Gruppen in die Technologieentwicklung ermöglicht es, ihre spezifischen Herausforderungen, Bedenken und Bedürfnisse besser zu verstehen und zu berücksichtigen. Dies sollte bereits bei der Formulierung des zu lösenden Problems geschehen, bevor überhaupt ein ... more

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Hashtag activism: An alternative pathway for the transnationalization of protests a case study of #SaveSheikhJarrah

Nisreen Attaallah

Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2023), pp. 157-177

"Digital media have provided activists with communication and organizational tools that have revolutionized the work of social movements. This article contributes to the literature on the role of digital media in the transnationalization of protests by examining a case study of a digital advocacy ca ... more

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La communication pour le changement social et comportemental

Amel Benkahla, Sophie Renault (eds.)

Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2023), 8 pp.

"La malnutrition résulte en partie de pratiques alimentaires inappropriées : des repas peu diversifiés souvent en raison du manque de disponibilité ou d’accessibilité d’aliments variés et nutritifs, des connaissances insuffisantes ou un manque de temps pour élaborer des repas sains. Des a ... more

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Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age

Birgit Schneider, Beate Löffler, Tino Mager, Carola Hein (eds.)

Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press;transcript (2023), 270 pp.

"The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities and pushing computer science to get involved in new fields. But how can qualitative and quantitative methods be usefully ... more

SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda Key Guidance Inspiring Practice

SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda
Key Guidance

Inspiring Practice