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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
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Oliver Rowntree

London: GSMA (2018), 28 pp.

"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi ... more

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Legal Standards on Freedom of Expression: Toolkit for the Judiciary in Africa

Avani Singh

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 218 pp.

"The toolkit encompasses a broad variety of issues, which should be considered by judicial actors in the course of their work to protect human rights. It covers legal standards of freedom of expression according to international and regional instruments and core texts and surveys pertinent jurisprud ... more

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Attacks and Harassment: The Impact on Female Journalists and Their Reporting

Michelle Ferrier

International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF);Troll-Busters.com (2018), 50 pp.

"Survey respondents stated that online attacks have become more visible and coordinated in the past five years, particularly with a rise of nationalism around the world and the use of digital networks to thwart political processes. Extremists, online manipulators and antagonists use online channels ... more

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The Mobile Economy 2018

London: GSMA (2018), 56 pp.

"Having surpassed 5 billion people connected to mobile services in 2017, the global mobile industry will reach further milestones over the next eight years. The number of unique mobile subscribers will reach 5.9 billion by 2025, equivalent to 71% of the world’s population. Growth will be driven by ... more

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Recherche/étude comparative sur les grandes écoles de politiques publiques médiatiques

Joan Barata Mir

Programme d’Appui aux Médias en Tunisie Media Up (2018), 41 pp.

"L’objectif de cette étude est de présenter et de décrire les axes et les éléments les plus importants en matière de politiques publiques médiatiques, à partir d’ expériences comparées et des standards consacrés par le droit et les organisations et instances internationales compétent ... more

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Compilation of IPDC Implementation Reports

Paris: International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2018), 92 pp.

"This document presents a compilation of the implementation reports submitted by field offices on the implementation of non-earmarked IPDC projects approved by the 61st IPDC Bureau Meeting in March 2017. During the 61st IPDC Bureau meeting held on 21-22 March 2017 in Paris, 44 projects in 38 countri ... more

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Analytical Overview of Implementation Reports on IPDC-Supported Projects

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2018), 11 pp.

"This document presents an analytical overview of the implementation reports submitted by field offices on the implementation of non-earmarked IPDC projects approved by the 61 st IPDC Bureau meeting in March 2017. This document also includes an analysis of five years of analytical reports based on i ... more

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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
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Richard Heeks

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 410 pp.

"The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social deve ... more

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Journalism Aid: Country of Origin and Influences on Beneficiary Perceptions and Practices

Gilbert K. M. Tietaah, Abena A. Yeboah-Banin, Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo, Fidelis Y. Sesenu

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 90-103

"A sub-text in the discourse on international development assistance is the argument that aid is not necessarily a beneficent, or sustainable, solution to the development needs of African countries. This argument raises a conceptual conundrum with respect to the many training programmes and fellowsh ... more

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Making Human Rights News: Balancing Participation and Professionalism

John C. Pollock, Morton E. Winston (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xii, 140 pp.

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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2018–2022. Trending Now: Convergence, Connections and Trust

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2018), 33 pp.

"In Convergence 3.0, the dynamics of competition are evolving while a cohort of ever-expanding supercompetitors and more focussed players strive to build relevance at the right scale. And business models are being reinvented so all players can tap into new revenue streams, by, for example, targeting ... more

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Was Frieden schafft: Religiöse Friedensarbeit. Akteure - Beispiele - Methoden

Markus A. Weingardt

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 230 pp.

"Markus A. Weingardt hat rund um den Globus Beispiele für religiöse Friedensarbeit zusammengetragen. Er beschreibt die politischen und sozialen Hintergründe schwelender, manifester oder auch überwundener Konflikte und ihre Auswirkungen, stellt die Akteure vor und beleuchtet, mit welcher Methodik ... more

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Global Teamwork: The Rise of Collaboration in Investigative Journalism

Richard Sambrook (ed.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), vi, 107 pp.

"Recent major leaks of documents and data have seen new approaches to investigative journalism develop. Collaboration across countries and across organisations has been necessary to share the scale of the investigation, share expertise, and co-ordinate publication to maximise impact. This new model ... more

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International Communication: Essential Readings

Vandana Pednekar-Magal (ed.)

Cognella, 2nd revised ed. (2018), viii, 228 pp.

"Designed as a text with introductions to each section and chapter, the volume brings together diverse perspectives on globalization and communication and includes significant emerging aspects of International Communication research such as diaspora audience and global publics." (Publisher descripti ... more

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A Global Framework of Reference on Digital Literacy Skills for Indicator 4.4.2

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2018), 146 pp.

"The objective of the Digital Literacy Global Framework (DLGF) project is to develop a methodology that can serve as the foundation for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) thematic Indicator 4.4.2: “Percentage of youth/adults who have achieved at least a minimum level of proficiency in digital lite ... more

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Visual Global Politics
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Roland Bleiker (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xii, 398 pp.

"Images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. Other visual fields, from art and cartoons to maps, monuments an ... more

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Handbuch Evangelikalismus

Frederik Elwert, Martin Radermacher, Jens Schlamelcher (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 447 pp.

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Evaluation of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Seán Ó Siochrú, Geoff Geurts

Paris: UNESCO (2018), 122 pp.

"The evaluation found that IPDC interventions have achieved important outcomes in several key areas. Furthermore, some of the results achieved are directly associated with features that are specific to IPDC and derive from its unique governance structures and instruments. In terms of key challenges, ... more

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The Age Gap in Religion Around the World: By Several Measures, Young Adults Tend to be Less Religious Than Their Elders

Pew Research Center (2018), 96 pp.

"Although the age gap in religious commitment is larger in some nations than in others, it occurs in many different economic and social contexts – in developing countries as well as advanced industrial economies, in Muslim-majority nations as well as predominantly Christian states, and in societie ... more

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2018 Edelman Trust Barometer: Global Report

Edelman (2018), 61 pp.

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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
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Visual Global Politics
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