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Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media

Bronwyn Carlson, Ryan Frazer

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 259 pp.

"Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes-including identity, community, hate, desire and death-we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indige ... more

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The Platform for the Protection of Journalists: A Mechanism for Cooperation between Non-Governmental Organisations and the Council of Europe

Ana Gascón Marcén

Utrecht Law Review, volume 17, issue 2 (2021), pp. 42-55

"The decrease in journalist safety and media freedom has a negative impact on the rule of law because journalists cannot act as public watchdogs. Its deterioration in Europe during the last decade is a worrying trend for society as a whole. The Council of Europe has tried to fight against it through ... more

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Though Alert to its Dangers, Zimbabweans Embrace Social Media and Demand Unrestricted Access

Stephen Ndoma, Simangele Moyo-Nyede, Jonathan Kugarakuripi

Afrobarometer (2021), 10 pp.

"Eight in 10 adult Zimbabweans (80%) say they have heard about social media. More than four in 10 (42%) citizens say they get news from social media “every day” or “a few times a week.” Among those who have heard about social media the vast majority (91%) say social media helps keep people i ... more

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Unlocking the Investigative Potential of Freedom of Information Acts

Luiz Fernando Toledo

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 27 pp.

"Experts say having a law for access to public information is important to enhance public transparency, but it’s only the starting point in the battle against state secrecy. How can journalists benefit from such laws and why should the news media care about it? This paper is divided into four part ... more

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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History

Nadine Fresco

New York; Oxford: Berghahn;United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), 104 pp.

"Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known image ... more

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Liberians Want a Free Media – Within Limits – and Unrestricted Access to Social Media

Maame Akua Amoah Twum

Afrobarometer (2021), 12 pp.

"Radio is the dominant news source in Liberia, tuned in “every day” or “a few times a week” by 87% of adults. Almost four in 10 citizens (38%) say they regularly get news from the Internet and social media, while only about one in five are regular consumers of news via television (21%) and n ... more

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Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition Project: Reach and Engagement Survey Somalia

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 4 pp.

"BBC Media Action is helping to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus in Somalia by using a media campaign ‘hello hope: bye bye COVID’ to encourage uptake of preventative behaviours. Informed by research we are challenging attitudes and beliefs around coronavirus transmission and encouragin ... more

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Youth and the News in Five Charts

Ayden Férdeline

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2021)

"In the rapidly changing news ecosystems of emerging economies, news outlets are struggling to remain relevant and build loyal relationships with youth audiences (18 to 35 years old). As youth populations continue to grow in low-and-middle income countries, it is critical for independent media organ ... more

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Shaped by Trauma, History and Hope: Audiences’ Perceptions of Social Cohesion Coverage in Ninewah, Iraq

Aida Kaisy

Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2021), 41 pp.

"This research analysis aims to assess perceptions of media coverage of social cohesion in Ninewah and understand how content is consumed and assessed by audiences in the province. What this report has demonstrated is that while there is a distrust of the media at a national level, local media are p ... more

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Tackling Kremlin's Media Capture in Southeast Europe: Shared Patterns, Specific Vulnerabilities and Responses to Russian Disinformation
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Rumena Filipova, Alexander Gerganov, Martin Vladimirov

Sofia: Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) (2021), 124 pp.

"The current report illuminates the scope, means, and reach of Russia’s sharp power influence through the phenomenon of media capture. It traces the regime’s malign impact on good governance and democratic development in eight Southeast European countries (EU members: Bulgaria and Croatia, as we ... more

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Polarized Media – Polarized Audience

Jelena Jovovic, Dubravka Valic Nedeljkovic

Ljubljana: South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) (2021), 30 pp.

"A significant number of the surveyed citizens consider the media in Serbia under the control of political groups at both ends of the spectrum. At the same time, many of the surveyed citizens think that the media is free to collect and publish information on all the relevant issues. These findings r ... more

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External Evaluation of the 'No News is Bad News' Programme: Executive Summary

Mary Myers, Nicola Harford, Soledad Muñiz, Rosie Steward

Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2021), 12 pp.

"No News Is Bad News (NNIBN) was an excellent programme in terms of effort, on the part of Free Press Unlimited (FPU), the European Journalism Centre (EJC) and all their partners. The programme has supported courageous, committed, energetic and initiative-taking partners who have promoted rights to ... more

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Media Influence Matrix: Jordan. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism

Mohammad Abu Hawash, Marius Dragomir

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2021), 28 pp.

"As for internet use, the percentage of the population with access to internet rose to 89% in 2019 from 48% in 2015. Access to a mobile phone and internet in Jordan has become a matter of choice rather than affordability or accessibility. The Syrian refugee crisis explains the overshooting in mobile ... phone penetration in Jordan during the 2010s. During the past decade, the Jordanian telecommunications industry has transformed from duopoly to oligopoly. Jordan’s three major telecommunications companies together worked to protect their positions in the Jordanian telecoms market. The market saw constant growth and a rapid introduction of new media technologies. Due to these technological advancements, the country has become known in the region as an increasingly influential tech hub [...] In the public sphere, Jordan has experienced an unstable legal and regulatory landscape for the media. The government constantly revises its audiovisual media and publications laws. This places those media networks with a proximity to the state at an advantage, since they have deeper insight into the expectations of the state. Independent media, on the other hand, suffers from the successive governments’ meddling in the foundational laws of the media industry. The work of journalists has been often obstructed by the blocking of hundreds of websites for failing to comply with one or another rendition of the publications law. Many journalists found their employers losing investors and/or funding after the state issued a registration requirement for websites publishing content out of Jordan. Due to strong public pressure, this requirement in the publications law was later revised. Jordan’s journalism sphere had a more difficult decade than the technology field. Restrictions on internet access and high taxes on independent media (compared with tax-exemption status for some media agencies that are close to the government) hurt several media organizations. Stagnation and decline in consumption of print media added to the woes. Jordanian newspapers are enjoying higher readership than ever but also the lowest revenues per reader in history. This is due to declining subscription rates. Jordanian journalists were stunned in the first half of the 2010s to see Jordan’s daily newspaper Al-Arab Al-Yawm end print circulation and shut down operations completely a few years later. Subscriptions to daily newspapers declined by 50% compared to their 2000s levels." (Pages 4-5) more

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Ethiopians Support Media’s Watchdog Role But Want Regulated Access to Internet, Social Media

Mulu Teka

Afrobarometer (2021), 13 pp.

"Six in 10 adult Ethiopians (59%) own a mobile phone. But only 16% own a phone with Internet access. One in three (34%) own a radio, while 14% have a television set and only 2 % have a computer. The most common source of regular news (“every day” or “a few times a week”) for Ethiopians is th ... more

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Metamorphosis: Community broadcasting and disaster response

New Delhi: Maraa Media and Arts Collective;UNESCO (2021), 134 pp.

"The book is a collection of perspectives and creative possibilities of programming on CR, not exclusive to disaster. The book is for anyone who believes in employing reflective creative practices as an approach to their work. It proposes a different way of seeing and listening. It also includes exe ... more

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Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa

Sarah Chiumbu, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 286 pp.

"As the most widespread and popular form of communication in the country, radio occupies an essential space in the deliberation and the construction of public opinion in South Africa. From just a few state-controlled stations during the apartheid era, there are now more than 100 radio stations, reac ... more

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Parenting Generation Screen: Guiding Your Kids to Be Wise in a Digital World

Jonathan McKee

Colorado Springs (CO): Focus on the Family Publishing (2021), 196 pp.

"Prioritizing connection over correction, 'Parenting Generation Screen' is a guide for parents that will equip you with key questions and conversations to help you process screen limits with and for your kids. You’ll learn how to dialogue in meaningful ways about social media, entertainment, and s ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies

Frederick Luis Aldama (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxiv, 569 pp.

"A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Essays cover a wide array of intersectional topic ... more

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Papi, Vaticano, comunicazione: Esperienze e riflessioni

Federico Lombardi

Milano: Àncora;La Civiltà Cattolica (2021), 178 pp.

"Qual è lo stile di comunicazione degli ultimi papi? Quali strumenti ha usato il Vaticano per comunicare e quali problemi incontra chi ne è responsabile? P. Federico Lombardi ha passato molti anni in questo servizio e ci racconta la sua esperienza in rapporto ravvicinato con Giovanni Paolo II, Ben ... more

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Looking Back to See Forward: A Case Study Collection on UNICEF’s Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

Hakan Ergül

Dhaka: UNICEF Bangladesh (2020), 32 pp.

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