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Information For All Programme (IFAP/UNESCO)
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Internet and Development
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WeChat (Messaging, Social Media & Mobile Payment App, China)
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Telegram
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Video & Foto Online Communities
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Instagram
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YouTube
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VK (Russian Social Network)
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Ethnic / Minority Online Communities & Websites
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Digital Economies, Digital Societies
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Artificial Intelligence
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ICTs and Development
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ICT Development Assistance
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ICT Development Assistance: Donors
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ICT Industries & Markets
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Diaspora Media
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Earthquakes, Floods, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters
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Deepfakes (Realistic-Looking Media Content that has been Modified, Generated or Falsified Using AI)
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Media Ownership
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Foreign Media Investments, Foreign Media Ownership
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Gaming, Video Games
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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United Nations (UN)
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Media Assistance: Interaction with Foreign Policies
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Law, Legislation, Judiciary (General)
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Politics and Media
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Political Parties: Communication Strategies
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Propaganda
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Media Effects
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Everyday Life
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Uses-And-Gratifications Approach
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Software
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Technology Transfer
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
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Mobile Phone Apps
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State Influence on ICT & Telecommunication Markets
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Telecommunication Companies, Mobile Phone & Fixed Line Operators
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Internet Freedom and Political Space

Santa Monica, Calif. et al.: RAND Corporation;U.S. Department of State (2013), xxiv, 261 pp.
"This report examines whether and how furthering Internet freedom can empower civil society vis-à-vis public officials, make the government more accountable to its citizens, and integrate citizens into the policymaking process. Using case studies of events in 2011 in Egypt, Syria, China, and Russia ... more

Vietnam: Programmed Death of Freedom of Information

Reporters Without Borders (2013), 39 pp.
"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more
"Through the lens of China in Africa, this paper explores the transformations in the relationship between the Internet and the state. China’s economic success, impressive growth of Internet users and relative stability have quietly promoted an example of how the Internet can be deployed within the ... more

The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering ... more

Opening Closed Regimes: Civil Society, Information Infrastructure, and Political Islam

In: Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study
Eva Anduiza Perea; Michael James Jensen; Laia Jorba (eds.)
New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 200-220
"Ruling elites often try to co-opt civil society groups, and in times of political or military crises they can attempt to control the national information infrastructure. But a defining feature of civil society is independence from the authority of the state, even in countries such as Saudi Arabia a ... more

Revolution 2.0? Die Bedeutung digitaler Medien für politische Mobilisierung und Protest

In: Globale Trends 2013: Frieden, Entwicklung, Umwelt
Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden (ed.)
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2012), pp. 157-172
"In China as elsewhere, netizens have made new demands upon government and challenged conventional media to respond to popular concerns. Established approaches to controlling the media may be otiose; Party leaders are stressing the value of cooperation rather than confrontation and calling for a new ... more

The Social Media (R)evolution? Asian Perspectives on New Media

Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Asia (2012), 188 pp.
"A compilation of 13 articles that discuss social media developments and trends in Asia. For this publication we invited eleven alumni from the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines to share their views on social media issues based o ... more

The Medium Versus the Message: U.S. Government Funding for Media in an Age of Disruption

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 28 pp.
"The new priorities include: 1. Expanding the access in developing countries to digital platforms. 2. Devising and promoting uses for new platforms (especially mobile) for functions that occupy a new, poorly defined space between traditional journalism and other modes of information. 3. Contesting o ... more

Syria’s Cyber Wars

Open Society Foundation (2012), 25 pp.
"The government in Syria came to differentiate between political dissent and the civil society activism in which the new generation plays a vital role thanks to the use of social media. Unable to control the burst of online activity, Damascus was forced to focus on monitoring key dissenters and huma ... more

National Web Studies: Mapping Iran Online

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 25 pp.
"Instead of defining a priori the types of websites to be included in a national web, the approach put forward here makes use of web devices (platforms and engines) that purport to provide (ranked) lists of URLs relevant to a particular country. Once gathered in such a manner, the websites are studi ... more
"Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more ef!cient governance. Hundreds of thousands of Turkmen citizens are now online. However, the ... more

The Right to Remain Silent: Freedom of Expression in Azerbaijan Ahead of the 7th Internet Governance Forum

Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS);International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 40 pp.
"This paper reviews recent events and legal developments related to the Internet and social media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. They include legislation extending libel laws to online communications, blocking of oppositional and independent websites, and punishi ... more
"Concerns are growing in Asia about offensive and extremist material on the internet. New laws have been passed to remedy this, but they have collided with the ways that search engines, social networks and internet cafes run their operations. These service providers have therefore been resisting cal ... more
"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more