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Journalism
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Social Movements: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Children: Media Representation & Reporting
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Cinema
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Communicating Development Projects, Media in Development Programmes
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Communication for Social Change
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Development and Media
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Development Journalism & Media Representation of Development Issues
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Rural Radio Programmes, Rural Radios, Rural Development & Radio
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital Platform & Intermediaries Regulation
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Digital Skills, Digital Production Skills
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Internet and Politics
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Internet Shutdowns
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Educación Popular
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Literacy, Literacy Campaigns, Postliteracy, Alphabetisation Policies
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Soap Operas & Telenovelas
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Media Assistance: Evaluation, Monitoring, Impact Assessment
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Feminist Media
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
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Good Practice Examples
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Health Communication
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Slavery, Slaves
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Indigenous Communication
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Glocalization of Media
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World Information and Communication Order
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Journalism Education Curricula
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Poverty & Impoverished People: Reporting & Media Representation
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BBC
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Educación Radiofónica de Bolivia (ERBOL)
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Indymedia
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South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
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Radio Music
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People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
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People with Disabilities: Reporting & Media Representation
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Democracy
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Security
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Public Spheres
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Magazines
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Radio
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Youth Radio Programmes, Youth Radio Stations, School Radios
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Radio Elshinta (Jakarta, Indonesia)
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University Radios
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Comparative Approaches & Methods in Communication Research
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Digital Sources
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Freedom of the Press Index (Freedom House)
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Rohingya
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Society & Media, Media Sociology
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Software
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
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SMS
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Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
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Television
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Rede Globo (Television Network, Brazil)
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Postcolonial & Decolonial Communication Approaches
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Urban Communication, Urban Media
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Illustrations, Pictures, Images
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Visual Representations
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Youth and Media
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Digital Technology and Journalism: An International Comparative Perspective
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xv, 367 pp.
"This edited volume discusses the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding changes in journalism in the digital era. The chapters explore how technological innovations have transformed journalism and how an international comparative perspective can contribute to our understanding
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The Protection of Citizen Journalists During Armed Conflicts
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 267-278
"Digital technologies are changing the way in which journalism is performed. Today, reports by citizen journalists (CJs) are extremely relevant when traditional journalists cannot access hostile and dangerous areas. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 90% of murdered reporters were lo
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Pathways to Engagement: Understanding How Newsrooms are Working with Communities
Democracy Fund (2017), 15 pp.
"In this paper, we have documented a broad spectrum of efforts that help position communities at the center of journalism. Different approaches are outlined, along with useful examples from the field. We don’t seek to prioritize or rank these different models, but rather understand that each meets
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How Safe Is It? Being an activist citizen journalist in Turkey
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 279-288
"This study discusses how and in what ways activist citizen journalists in Turkey develop safety tactics against the repressive strategies of a neoliberal authoritarian government. By drawing on the theories of alternative new media and citizen journalism, we conducted interviews with activist citiz
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Citizen Journalism and Democratisation of Mainstream Media in Rwanda
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 178-197
"This paper explores the role that citizen journalism is playing in democratising the mainstream media in Rwanda. Through in-depth interviews with journalists from two radio stations and by using the public sphere theory as a theoretical framework, this research sought to answer the question as to w
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Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights Practitioners
Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2016), 35 pp.
"This paper examines the role of open source research in human rights fact-finding and seeks to address a gap in the current literature, which lacks a human rights perspective, is dominated by journalistic approaches, or focuses on specific tools. It focuses on citizen media, the visual subset of op
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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
Top Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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Citoyenneté numérique: Ce que l’Afrique prépare. Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, République démocratique du Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Sénégal
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2016), 39 pp.
"L’approfondissement des pratiques démocratiques dans les pays étudiés passe non seulement par le renforcement des capacités des médias et des journalistes, pour qu’ils puissent s’emparer pleinement des outils numériques, mais aussi par la montée en puissance d’un grand nombre de nouv
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Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), xii, 648 pp.
"This book examines the use of “civic media”—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners from a variety of organizations offer analyses and case studies that
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Citizen Media and Public Spaces: Diverse Expressions of Citizenship and Dissent
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 250 pp.
"Citizen Media and Public Spaces presents a pioneering exploration of citizen media as a highly interdisciplinary domain that raises vital political, social and ethical issues relating to conceptions of citizenship and state boundaries, the construction of publics and social imaginaries, processes o
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Democratizing Journalism Through Mobile Media: The Mojo Revolution
New York; London: Routledge (2016), xiv, 213 pp.
"Fuelled by a distrust of big media and the development of mobile technologies, the resulting convergence of journalism praxis (professional to alternative), workflows (analogue to multipoint digital) and platforms (PC to mobile), result in a 24-hour always-on content cycle. The information revoluti
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Digital Humanitarians: Citizen Journalists on the Virtual Front Line of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters
Journalism Practice, volume 11, issue 2-3 (2016), pp. 213-228
"Eyewitness user-generated content has dominated the study of citizen journalism in crisis and conflict zones. However, the convergence of online networked technologies, like social media, collaborative mapping and real-time information management, gives ordinary people the capacity to commit acts o
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African Digital Media Review, Issue 2
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 4 (2016), pp. 1-136
Case Study: Mídia NINJA and the Rise of Citizen Journalism in Brazil
In: Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice
Eric Gordon; Paul Mihailidis (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2016), pp. 527-532
Mojo: The Mobile Journalism Handbook. How to Make Broadcast Videos with an IPhone or IPad
Key Guidance
New York; London: Focal Press (2016), xii, 310 pp.
"Mojo: The Mobile Journalism Handbook is the first book devoted specifically to training citizens, journalism students and media professionals to produce professional-quality videos with only a mobile device. As journalism becomes increasingly competitive, students and emerging professionals need a
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Participation, Citizen Journalism and the Contestations of Identity and National Symbols: A Case of Zimbabwe’s National Heroes and the Heroes’ Acre
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 3 (2016), pp. 85-106
"This article constitutes an examination on how citizen journalism has challenged Robert Mugabe’s authoritarian regime on issues pertaining to national heroes and usages of the Heroes’ Acre as central national identity markers. Under Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, Zimbabwe has seen the public being limited
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Humanitarianism 2.0
Humanitarianism 2.0 Project (2015), 102 pp.
"The five reports that make up this collection are variously concerned with humanitarian aid, social and cultural evolution, crisis response, the mitigation of cultural divides, and political unrest. The themes that bind them are an international movement towards public safety; a trust-based relatio
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Media, Margins and Civic Agency
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiii, 219 pp.
"This collection brings together new research on contemporary media, politics and power. It explores ways and means through which media can and do empower or dis-empower citizens at the margins that is, how they act as vehicles of, or obstacles to, civic agency and social change." (Publisher descrip
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Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81
"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle
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Philippine Community Journalism: Roles, Status and Prospec
Grassroots Editor & Community Journalism, issue Spring (2015), pp. 29-36
"This case study examines the current state of community journalism in the Philippines. This paper builds from previous studies, especially those by Filipino community journalism scholar Crispin Maslog, on the community press in the Philippines. The focus of this paper is the community newspaper and
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