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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Gatekeeping Function of Media
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Media Effects Research
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Rural Issues: Media Representation & Reporting
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Countering Discrimination & Racism
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Sexual Violence & Abuse, Rape
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Dalits
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Technologies, Information & Communication Technologies
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Postcolonial & Decolonial Communication Approaches
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A Gender Analysis of the Media Landscape in Iraq

Washington, DC; London: Internews (2020), 35 pp.
"Corrupt practices, political financing and institutionalised patriarchal systems have seen the media fail to provide equitable coverage of women’s issues or indeed include women as decision-makers organisationally. Both the audience and media stakeholders are acutely aware of the lack of ethical ... more
"When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. 'Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia' becomes one-stop sho ... more
"Journalism in Turkey has an ambivalent characteristic. On the one hand, the social demand for genuine journalism has increased, and on the other hand, news has turned into a tool within the polluted political polarization atmosphere. In the age of fake news and post-truth, practices of journalism i ... more
"Online spaces are being systematically weaponised to exclude women leaders and to undermine the role of women in public life. Attacks on women which use hateful language, rumour and gendered stereotypes combine personal attacks with political motivations, making online spaces dangerous places for w ... more
"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an ... more

Gender and the Media in the Western Balkans

Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 42 pp.
"This rapid literature review explores the role that media in the Western Balkans plays in issues of gender (in)equality. The countries discussed are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia [...] While there is a body of literature that discusses a ... more
"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati ... more
"The study calls for the formal recognition of faith-based media in Senegal and Niger. It also suggests to the different stakeholders such as the Government, regulatory bodies and the civil society, women's rights organizations, to take a series of measures and actions to strengthen the regulation o ... more
"En général, l’étude plaide la reconnaissance formelle des médias confessionnels au Sénégal et au Niger. Elle suggère également aux différents acteurs que sont l’Etat et les organes de régulation et à la société civile notamment aux organisations de défense des droits des femmes, l ... more

6th Global Media Monitoring Project: Highlight of Findings

Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP);World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2020), 4 pp.

Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches

Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.

Expanding Shrinking Communication Spaces

Toronto; Penang: Centre for Communication Rights;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);Southbound (2020), 130 pp.
"All human and social activity depends on communication. No matter the issue — poverty, conflict resolution, self-determination, migration, health, land, housing, the climate crisis — little can be done without effective communication. A framework is needed that enables, empowers, and transforms ... more
"To attain gender equality as a long-term objective, a multi-layered strategy and action is required. In that process, media are a part of the problem, as well as they are a part of the solution. While it has been well established that media organizations can play an influential role in contributing ... more
"As the United States engages with the Taliban in a peace process that might return them to influence within Afghanistan, concerns are rising regarding the future status of Afghan women. In this background, this article returns to the much studied subject of the portrayal of Afghan women in Western ... more

Amplifying Women’s Voices: A Gender Balance Guide for Media

World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA);Women in News (2020), 33 pp.
"This guide aims to equip media organisations and professionals with the necessary tools and insights to increase gender balance in their content. It should help you to: understand the importance of gender balance in content; identify the different ways in which the media gender stereotypes; underst ... more
"Die Befragung hat gezeigt, dass das Thema Gleichberechtigung durchaus etwas ist, mit dem sich fast alle Nutzerinnen und Nutzer grundsätzlich beschäftigen. Sie hat auch einen klaren Zusammenhang zwischen der Nutzung von Social Media und der persönlichen Einstellung der Userinnen und User hinsicht ... more
"This book examines the deeper meaning of the advent of the Al Jazeera Media Network with regard to ongoing debates on global communication ethics, not only in the global public sphere but also in terms of its influence on new non-Western approaches to media ethics. Rather than simply calling for in ... more

Representaciones de género y melodrama televisivo en el Perú: Una mirada al siglo XXI

Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Doctoral Thesis (2019), 242 pp.
"El análisis hecho en esta investigación de los distintos personajes protagónicos femeninos de los cuatro relatos seleccionados [Dina Paucar, la lucho por un sueño; Por la Sarita; Las reinas de las carrefillas; Amor de Madre], me permite señalar que las representaciones femeninas que nos ofrece ... more

The Big Conversation: Handbook to Address Violence Against Women in and Through the Media

Paris: UNESCO;United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2019), 90 pp.
"This handbook provides guidance, tools and promising practices from countries across the globe for those working with and within media. It is our intention that this handbook provides entry points for accelerating progress towards gender equality in the systems and structures of organizations. We h ... more