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Governing Digital China
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2026), xx, 273 pp.
"China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlight
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.
"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula
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Collaborative digital regulation country review: South Africa’s digital transformation and collaborative regulation
Geneva: ITU (2024), vii, 43 pp.
"As South Africa adopts reforms to further strengthen its economy across multiple sectors, this country review presents the policy, legislative, and governance frameworks that are enabling South Africa’s digital transformation. It includes a review of key institutions and collaborative digital reg
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Handbook of Media and Communication Governance
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2024), 630 pp.
"This state-of-the-art Handbook provides unique insights into the governance practices and institutions shaping digitalized public spheres. Focusing on the power relations involved, it presents diverse approaches to key debates in media and communication governance, showcasing groundbreaking advance
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Contestations of Internet Governance and Digital Authoritarianism in Pakistan
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society (2024), 23 pp.
"The existing literature on Internet governance offers important insights on the relationship between state and society in China and the West. It is important to explore this relationship in the developing world. This study focuses on Pakistan, exploring the role of relevant legal frameworks, politi
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The emergence of China's smart state
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), ix, 250 pp.
"China’s emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China’s government has reformed laws and policies, drastically increased investment, and become more ass
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Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms: Safeguarding Freedom of Expression and Access to Information Through a Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 58 pp.
"The Guidelines outline a set of duties, responsibilities and roles for States, digital platforms, intergovernmental organizations, civil society, media, academia, the technical community and other stakeholders to enable the environment where freedom of expression and information are in the core of
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Medienpolitik: Grundlagen für Wissenschaft und Praxis
Deep Insights
München: UVK, 3., vollständig überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2023), 366 pp.
"Digitalisierung, Transnationalisierung und Kommerzialisierung stellen die Medienpolitik vor große Herausforderungen. Wie kann sichergestellt werden, dass Medien und Plattformen ihre wichtige Funktion in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft erfüllen? In diese Thematik führt Manuel Puppis systematisc
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Media and power in modern Iran: Mass communication, ideology, and the state
London: Tauris (2023), x, 222 pp.
"Successive Iranian leaders have struggled to navigate the fraught political-cultural space of media in the Islamic Republic-skirting the line between embracing Western communications technologies and rejecting them, between condemning social networking sites as foreign treachery and promoting thems
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The everything everywhere censorship in China: China is exporting its model of Internet governance based on digital repression. The free world must protect our values and take back our Internet
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 51 pp.
"Democracies must say no to the technologies, platforms, standards, and frameworks shrewdly proposed by China in various international fora and technical or standards bodies in order to make our Internet more like the one in China. Internet governance must be kept open and participatory for all stak
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Digital policy in an age of global systemic rivalry: Challenges for liberal democracies
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 30 pp.
"Liberal democracies must continue to consistently stand up for internet freedom, democracy and human rights. Germany and the European Union are regarded as role models. It is imperative therefore that they refrain from presenting legislative initiatives themselves that restrict the human right to p
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"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco
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Stronger Digital Voices from Africa: Building African Digital Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
DiploFoundation (2022), 201 pp.
"As Africa’s digital dynamism grows, its participation in global digital policy must increase. In this transition, African countries have to navigate the geopolitical realities of our times. This study provides a snapshot of Africa’s digital diplomacy by examining the holistic representations of
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Regulating Big Tech: Policy Responses to Digital Dominance
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2022), xii, 368 pp.
"This book has compiled the tech policy debate into a toolkit for policy makers, legal experts, and academics seeking to address platform dominance and its impact on society today. It discusses the global consensus around technology regulation with recommendations of cutting-edge policy innovations
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OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity
Key Guides
Paris: OECD (2022), 38 pp.
"The OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security helps policy makers understand the economic and social dimension of cybersecurity, raises their awareness about the OECD approach to digital security policy, and encourages them to make use of OECD digital security recommendations to develop better poli
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White Paper on Feminist Internet Research
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 72 pp.
"Feminist internet research considers how gender justice can be achieved in the ways we belong, work and make on the internet and shows that this is not possible without considering the economic and environmental dimensions of the internet as well as the intersectionality of discriminations and viol
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"GFMD's core mandate, as agreed in our Strategic Plan (2021-2025), is to promote policies, programmes, strategies and opportunities for the work of the journalism and media support sector to enhance journalism as a public good. To this end our members support small and medium-sized independent publi
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