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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
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Sudeshna Roy (ed.)

Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxvi, 430 pp.

"This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work. Handbook ... more

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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds

Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)

Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.

"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level ... of impact for the communities. Impact was considered across a number of indices. We wanted to show that attitudes have shifted, policies have been rewritten and the life experiences and ranges of possibility for some have changed for the better as a result of women’s work. We hope to show through our stories that film can change lives; that sharing stories matters; and that women are everywhere, using their skills in screen production for the good of many. In her excellent book, Women in the International Film Industry: Policy Practice and Power, Susan Liddy (2020) offers ‘a wide-ranging, critical assessment of practice, policy and progress’ to establish the range and scale of gender inequality that currently exists in the world of screen production. She quotes O’Neill and Domingo (2015) to point out that social, economic and political conditions vary, and ‘combine in different ways to enable or constrain women’s agency and leadership’ in screen production (Liddy 2020: 1). In contrast, our book approaches the same problem from the opposite perspective: we seek to correlate the ‘policy, practice and power’ (Liddy 2020) with the actual work of women screenwriters. Our aim is to point out what women screenwriters, creators and filmmakers are doing in disparate corners of the world, and how their effort is positively impacting communities, shaping culture and creating change. We argue that, despite the fact that women screenwriters are underrepresented in leadership roles in film industries worldwide, the impact of their films remains visible and palpable. We provide evidence that, as women step into the roles of screenwriter, filmmaker and collaborator, using known and emerging technologies, formats and genres under the broad scope of ‘screen production’, they raise the voices of other women and other communities. This volume shows the impact of women’s voices in creating real change for the communities whose stories are told through the topics and themes of these women’s screen works. Not least, this volume seeks to celebrate these women and their communities and bring awareness of that impact to broader communities worldwide." (Introduction, page 1) more

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Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia

Andrew Zi Han Yee (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2025), viii, 235 pp.

"This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context. By studying the impact of mobile media on children and youth in Asia, it focuses on the explosive growth of mobile media among young people and seeks to understand the potential consequences of mobile media use o ... more

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Tobias and Syd: A research-based podcast audio-drama about tobacco

Alice Malpass, Elspeth Penny, Andrew Russell

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 103-126

"We report on an experiment that used podcast audio-drama as a medium to generate impact from academic outputs in a creative, inclusive and collaborative way. Tobias and Syd was a serialized podcast audio-drama published in January 2023 based on ideas contained in the book Anthropology of Tobacco an ... more

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Free Expression Seen as Important Globally, but Not Everyone Thinks Their Country Has Press, Speech and Internet Freedoms: Made-up news and information seen as pervasive across the globe
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Jacob Poushter, Maria Smerkovich, Moira Fagan, Andrew Prozorovsky

Pew Research Center (2025), 71 pp.

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The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
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Stacey L. Connaughton, Stefanie Pukallus (eds.)

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 ... more

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What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role of Conflict Avoidance

Andrew Chadwick, Cristian Vaccari, Nathalie-Anne Hall

Digital Journalism, volume 12, issue 5 (2024), pp. 574-593

"Online personal messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are now hugely popular around the world. Yet their role in the spread and social correction of misinformation remains under-researched. We carried out in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the UK public (N = 102) to exp ... more

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Political Technology: The Globalisation of Political Manipulation

Andrew Wilson

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2024), xii, 486 pp.

"Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consu ... more

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Just what is data-driven campaigning? A systematic review

Katharine Dommett, Andrew Barclay, Rachel Gibson

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 1 (2024), 22 pp.

"Discussions of data-driven campaigning have gained increased prominence in recent years. Often associated with the practices of Cambridge Analytica and linked to debates about the health of modern democracy, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the rise of data-driven politics. However, ... more

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Examining the Safety of Journalists in Benue State, Nigeria

Paul Aondover Igbashangev, Oliver Ayangeaor, Ahangba Andrew Akpam

[author] (2024), 16 pp.

"Journalists play a crucial role in disseminating information and ensuring transparency in society. However, in many regions around the world, journalists face significant risks and threats to their safety, hindering their ability to fulfill their professional duties effectively. This article focuse ... more

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Media and Politics in Post-Authoritarian Mexico: The Continuing Struggle for Democracy

Martin Echeverria, Ruben Arnoldo Gonzalez (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 286 pp.

"This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance o ... more

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Handbook of Media and Communication Governance

Manuel Puppis, Robin Mansell, Hilde Van den Bulck (eds.)

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 ... more

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After Access 2022: Internet Usage Trends in Uganda

Andrew Partridge

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2023), 9 pp.

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The State of Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability in the Horn of Africa Drought Response: A Snapshot Report for Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia

Andrew Nzimbi, Alyssa Thurston

London: CDAC Network (2023), 21 pp.

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The Big Chill? How Journalists and Sources Perceive and Respond to Fake News Laws in Indonesia and Singapore

Andrea Carson, Andrew Gibbons

Journalism Studies, volume 24, issue 14 (2023), pp. 1819-1838

"Media freedom has deteriorated across the world over the past 15 years with populist leaders attacking journalism in both democratic and repressive states. Since the rise of online misinformation and disinformation, concern is growing that governments are using fake news language and related laws t ... more

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Redefining News: A Manifesto for Community-Centered Journalism. From Audience to Partners: Community-Centric Journalism and the Principles That Underpin It

Damian Radcliffe, Andrew DeVigal, Regina Lawrence

University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication (2023), 34 pp.

"In contrast to the top-down approach newsrooms have traditionally deployed, Community-Centered Journalism offers a more people-cen tered approach focused on meeting the demonstrable needs and priorities of communities. Instead of newsrooms assuming they know what information people need, they gathe ... more

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Applying the ‘CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance’ to ecology and biodiversity research

Lydia Jennings, Talia Anderson, Martinez, Andrew, Rogena Sterling, Dominique David Chavez et al.

Nature Ecology & Evolution, volume 7, issue 10 (2023), pp. 1547-1551

"Indigenous Peoples are increasingly being sought out for research partnerships that incorporate Indigenous Knowledges into ecology research. In such research partnerships, it is essential that Indigenous data are cared for ethically and responsibly. Here we outline how the ‘CARE Principles for In ... more

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Threats to Journalists from the Consumer Internet of Things

Anjuli R. K. Shere, Jason R. C. Nurse, Andrew Martin

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Situational Awareness and Social Media

Cyril Onwubiko; Pierangelo Rosati; Aunshul Rege; Arnau Erola; Xavier Bellekens; Hanan Hindy; Martin Gilje Jaatun (eds.)

Singapore: Springer (2023), pp. 303–326

"Threats associated with the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) may particularly inhibit the work and wellbeing of journalists, especially because of the danger of technological surveillance and the imperative to protect confidential sources. These issues may have knock-on effects on societal stabili ... more

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New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

J. P. Messina (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2023), viii, 153 pp.

"This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explo ... more

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Mixing Methods: Practical Insights from the Humanities in the Digital Age

Birgit Schneider, Beate Löffler, Tino Mager, Carola Hein (eds.)

Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press;transcript (2023), 270 pp.

"The digital transformation is accompanied by two simultaneous processes: digital humanities challenging the humanities, their theories, methodologies and disciplinary identities and pushing computer science to get involved in new fields. But how can qualitative and quantitative methods be usefully ... more

The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication Top Insights

Free Expression Seen as Important Globally, but Not Everyone Thinks Their Country Has Press, Speech and Internet Freedoms: Made-up news and information seen as pervasive across the globe Top Insights

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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
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Free Expression Seen as Important Globally, but Not Everyone Thinks Their Country Has Press, Speech and Internet Freedoms: Made-up news and information seen as pervasive across the globe
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The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
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