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Tackling Disinformation, Information Manipulation and Interference in Four African Elections
Deep Insights
"In recent years, electoral disinformation has followed several recurring patterns globally, many of which were observed in the case studies analysed in this report. One prominent tactic is attacks on electoral integrity, where political actors spread false claims about voter registration, election
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Our Media, Our Democracy, Our Future. The Future of the Media in the Western Balkans and Turkey – Facts and Trends. Regional Overview
Deep Insights
Sarajevo; Ljubljana: Mediacentar; Peace Institute; South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2025), 57 pp.
"The results of the research conducted in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey suggest that the key determinants for the future of our media and democracies are the following:
• The poor socio-economic status of journalists and their exposure to
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Big Tech Must Go! Digital Giants are Destroying our Democracies and Economies. We will stop them
Deep Insights
Frankfurt; Chicago: Campus Verlag; University of Chicago Press (2025), 285 pp.
"Digital monopolies shape ever larger parts of our lives. The platforms are increasingly controlling the public formation of political opinion and at the same time abolishing our free market economy. Digital expert Martin Andree shows in detail how far the hostile takeover of our society by the tech
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Mapping of media assistance and journalism support programmes in the Levant region
Deep Insights
Brussels: Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2025), 11 pp.
"Using the OECD Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment as a lens, the GFMD mapping highlights several pressing issues.
1. The dominance of governmental funding, particularly from the United States, underscores the sector’s heavy reliance on a narrow
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The Evaluation Handbook: An Evaluator's Companion
Deep Insights
New York: Guilford Press (2025), xvii, 606 pp.
"This pragmatic evaluator's companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses. With contributions from skilled experts, the Handbook has a unique focus on the c
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Who Makes the News? Progress on a Plateau. Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Special Edition: 30-year Findings on Change in Gender Equality In and Through the World News Media
Deep Insights
Toronto: World Association of Christian Communication (WACC); Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) (2025), 123 pp.
"This report presents the findings of the seventh iteration of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) global snapshot, based on 30,049 news articles containing 58,563 people and 26,708 news personnel in 94 countries on the 7th global monitoring day, May 6, 2025. Key Findings:
1. Thirty years a
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World Bank Open Data: Data 360
Deep Insights
Washington: World Bank (2025)
"Data360 consolidates 300 million data points for more than 200 economies, covering more than 10,000 indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, employment, location, income, education level, and more. It gives users a 360-degree view of development challenges and progress across five focus are
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Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2025), xxx, 337 pp.
"Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categori
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Human Development and the Data Revolution
Deep Insights
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2025), xi, 294 pp.
"Human Development and the Data Revolution tackles a topic that in the age of data and digitalization has become timely in global development: what are the potential uses of large-scale data in the contexts of development, in particular, what techniques, data sources, and possibilities exist for har
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The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
Deep Insights
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xxxiii, 432 pp.
"This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field. The volume brings together peace studies, conflict studies, and communication studies to acknowled
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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
Deep Insights
Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.
"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi
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Rethinking Open Source in the Age of Foundational AI Models
Deep Insights
ICTworks, July 29 (2025)
"As the global artificial intelligence community wrestles with the tension between scale and accessibility, recent work by researchers at Lelapa AI offers a compelling example of what inclusive, efficient AI can look like. Around the world, the push to shrink massive language models into deployable,
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World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2022/2025. Journalism: Shaping a World at Peace
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 216 pp.
"Free, independent, pluralistic, and professional journalism is key for defending human dignity, advancing justice, and sustaining peace. Yet today, freedom of expression is under assault as seldom before. The 2022/2025 World Trends Report, Journalism: Shaping a World at Peace, underscores the profo
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Los YO narrativos: Relatos de poder en Latam-Caribe
Deep Insights
"La gran batalla cultural es entre yopitalismo (libertad total para los negocios y el individuo) y democracia (bienestar social y trabajo por lo colectivo). El debate político es entonces entre un capitalismo que propone un individualismo de tener dinero para consumir y exhibir y una democracia que
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Latin American History Goes to the Movies: Understanding Latin America's Past through Film
Deep Insights
London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2024), xiii, 264 pp.
"This new edition of Latin American History Goes to the Movies uses a variety of feature films as a method of studying key historical themes in Latin America, from pre-Columbian cultures to contemporary debates. The book provides historical context as a way of interpreting Latin American filmography
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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
Deep Insights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.
"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers
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Vibrant Information Barometer: Europe & Eurasia
Deep Insights
"The 2024 Europe and Eurasia Vibrant Information Barometer (VIBE) covers 18 countries throughout Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia. With VIBE, IREX strives to capture a modern and evolving media space where people are simultaneously producers, transmitters, consumers, and actors in the information t
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ICT and Rural Development in the Global South
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 211 pp.
"Drawing on years of experience across 45 countries, as well as extensive original academic research, Willem van Eekelen situates the evolving role of ICT in wider development patterns in the Global South. He discusses the effects of ICT on agriculture, trade, financial flows, resource management an
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Antisemitismus in den Sozialen Medien
Deep Insights
Opladen et al.: Verlag Barbara Budrich (2024), 329 pp.
"Soziale Medien haben die Verbreitung von Antisemitismus revolutioniert. Algorithmisch verstärkt verbreitet sich Antisemitismus auf den Plattformen in Sekundenschnelle, kostenlos und global. Die daraus resultierende Gefahr für Jüdinnen*Juden ist eine große gesellschaftliche Herausforderung. Das
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