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Breaking News: The Economic Impact of Covid-19 on the Global News Media Industry

The Economist Impact (2022), 41 pp.

"We found that Covid-19 intensified economic pressures facing the global news media industry. It accelerated the decline of many news publishers’ most profitable revenue stream—printed newspaper advertising and circulation. Outlets in low- and middle-income countries have been the most severely ... more

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Who is Afraid of Fake News? Modeling Risk Perceptions of Misinformation in 142 Countries

Aleksi Knuutila, Lisa-Maria Neudert, Philip N. Howard

Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 3, issue 3 (2022), 13 pp.

"Using survey data from 154,195 respondents in 142 countries, we investigate internet user perceptions of the risks associated with being exposed to misinformation. We find that: 1) The majority of regular internet users globally (58.5%) worry about misinformation, and young and low-income groups ar ... more

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The Global Expression Report 2022: The Intensifying Battle for Narrative Control
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London: Article 19 (2022), 75 pp.

"In 2021, the GxR metric registered two of the most dramatic declines ever seen: both Afghanistan and Myanmar dropped more than 30 points, plummeting two categories, as democratic governments were driven out and people were brutally attacked as they resisted the takeover of their governments. Countr ... more

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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
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Robert Nemeth, Marius Dragomir

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2022), 50 pp.

"The CEU Democracy Institute's Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) embarked in November 2020 on a one-year project aimed at mapping and analyzing the work of the world's fact-checking groups, with a focus on their challenges, needs and successes. The project started with a survey of 30 fact-ch ... more

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Paradigm Changes and New Challenges for Media Education: Review and Science Mapping (2000-2021)

Ignacio Aguaded, Sabina Civila, Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú

Profesional de la Información, volume 31, issue 6: e310606 (2022), 13 pp.

"The aim of this study is to review our understanding of the scientific relevance of the terms “media education” and “educommunication” during the last two decades to describe its evolution on the basis of its terms, locations, thematic stages, and methodological approaches using a systemati ... more

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Radikalisierung im Internet: Ein systematischer Überblick über Forschungsstand, Wirkungsebenen sowie Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis
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Sophia Rothut, Heidi Schulze, Julian Hohner, Simon Greipl, Diana Rieger

Bonn: Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC);CoRE-NRW Netzwerk für Extremismusforschung in Nordrhein-Westfalen (2022), 48 pp.

"Das Internet unterstützt auf vielfältige Weise die Wirkung, Effizienz und Effektivität radikalen und extremistischen Gedankenguts, indem es Austausch, Koordination und Informationsbeschaffung erleichtert und beschleunigt. In Folge der langfristigen, strategischen Nutzung der Gelegenheitsstruktur ... en des Internets durch radikale/extremistische Akteure, haben diese umfangreiche, extremismenspezifische Online-Ökosysteme aufgebaut, die auf verschiedene Plattformen verteilt – je nach Angebotscharakter – alle notwendigen Funktionalitäten zur Verbreitung der eigenen Ideologie bieten: von Rekrutierung über Finanzierung bis zu Anschlagsplanung, und insbesondere auch zur Vernetzung und Mobilisierung. Beispielsweise dienen Foren, Chaträume und Instant Messenger primär dem Austausch mit Gleichgesinnten und zu Rekrutierungszwecken. Webseiten werden als teils themenspezifische Informationssammlungen und zur Bereitstellung von Propagandamaterialien genutzt und soziale Medien ermöglichen die großflächige Verbreitung ideologisch-motivierter Botschaften mit enormer Geschwindigkeit sowie die Vernetzung über regionale Bereiche hinweg. Eigene Nachrichtenwebseiten, sogenannte alternative Nachrichtenmedien, dienen der Verzerrung aktueller Ereignisse ganz im Sinne des ideologisch geprägten Weltbilds. Zum Teil hochgradig spezifische Angebote wie Dating-Websites oder extremistische Online-Games werden entwickelt, um Vernetzung und Gruppenkohäsion zu stärken [...] Die systematische Literaturanalyse hat gezeigt, dass sich das Forschungsfeld Online-Radikalisierung innerhalb der letzten Jahre kontinuierlich vergrößert hat und sich sowohl phänomenologisch als auch methodologisch ausdifferenzierte. Trotzdem besteht gegeben der – vor allem auch aktuell – hohen Relevanz des Themas erheblicher empirischer Forschungsbedarf hinsichtlich des Umfangs, der Wirkung und der tatsächlichen Folgen von Radikalisierung im Internet. Zusätzlich zur Konzentration auf konkrete Angebote wie spezifische Websites ist von zentraler Bedeutung, sich mehr auf die Besonderheiten technischer Architekturen zu konzentrieren. Erst dadurch werden systematische, längerfristig gültige Aussagen ermöglicht und die Identifikation konkreter Problemfelder verbessert. Die Entwicklung und empirische Prüfung von Indikatoren für verschiedene Ausprägungen von Radikalisierungsdynamiken ermöglicht die Beobachtung und langfristiges Monitoring des Geschehens, um frühzeitig mit adäquaten, gezielten Gegenmaßnahmen reagieren zu können." (Fazit, Seite 36) more

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From Mobile Money to Digital Cash: Learnings from Africa’s Experience with Mobile Money for the Introduction of Central Bank Digital Currencies

Bitange Ndemo, Aaron Thegeya

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 25 pp.

"The first adopters of mobile money were economies in sub-Saharan Africa, and over time adoption rates have increased rapidly particularly in Asia and Latin America. As of 2020, there were 1.2 billion mobile money accounts globally, with US$ 767 billion in transactions during the year. Sub-Saharan A ... more

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Wer beherrscht die Medien? Die 50 größten Medien- und Wissenskonzerne der Welt

Lutz Hachmeister, Christian Wagener, Till Wäscher (eds.)

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 2., völlig aktual. Aufl. (2022), 443 pp.

"Der Umsatz der 50 größten Medienkonzerne der Welt hat sich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren verdoppelt. Ihre Macht ist so groß wie nie zuvor: Medienunternehmen beeinflussen politische Berichterstattung und produzieren eine nie dagewesene Fülle von Unterhaltungsformaten; sie bestimmen, was im Radi ... more

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Let it be as Local as Possible: Dismantling Information and Communication Hierarchies in Displacement Settings

Hannah Murphy

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 33 pp.

"This paper serves to explore how we can embrace a more expansive and inclusive view of media by drawing on case studies and examples of good practice, particularly with regards to the COVID-19 response, which necessitated major operational changes and reliance on local partners. By collating and sh ... more

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The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication

Bruno Takahashi, Julia Metag, Jagadish Thaker, Suzannah Evans Comfort (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxv, 514 pp.

"Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories and areas of research. Chapte ... more

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Digital 2022: Global Overview Report

Simon Kemp (ed.)

We Are Social;Hootsuite (2022), 300 slides

"Double-digit annual growth has taken the global social media user figure to 4.62 billion, and current trends indicate that it will equal 60 percent of the world’s total population within the next few months. COVID-19 continues to hamper research into internet adoption though, resulting in reporti ... more

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Les radios communautaires: Canaux d'expression pour une information de proximité

Modeste Munimi Osung

Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 195 pp.

"Les radios communautaires, ces ondes invisibles pleines de voix colorées, sont la grande place du village où on s'écoute et où on partage les nouvelles quotidiennes et importantes de la vie. Leur mission, c'est de se réapproprier le quotidien et de l'élever au rang des choses importantes. Ell ... more

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Killing with Impunity: Vast Majority of Journalists’ Murderers Go Free. 2022 Global Impunity Index

Jennifer Dunham

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2022), 5 pp.

"The 2022 Global Impunity Index found that no one has been held to account for nearly 80% of 263 journalist murders over the past 10 years worldwide. CPJ seeks justice for these slain journalists, including full and timely investigations and the convictions of those who carry out and order the murde ... more

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Determinants of Journalists' Autonomy and Safety: Evidence from the Worlds of Journalism Study

Basyouni Ibrahim Hamada

Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 8 (2022), pp. 1715-1735

"The present study is an attempt to examine how objective structural political forces and subjective perception of political influences determine journalists' autonomy and safety. The evidence is based on responses representing journalists from 65 countries, which adds to the cross-cultural robustne ... more

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Lexicon of Global Melodrama

Heike Paul, Sarah Marak, Katharina Gerund, Marius Henderson (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 400 pp.

"Welcome to the world of melodrama—and to the melodramas of the world. This book introduces nearly one hundred cinematic masterpieces from various periods and different cultural contexts—ranging from early Hollywood to emergent and popular Bollywood, from Latin American and New German Cinema to ... more

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The Global Polarisation of Remote Work

Fabien Braesemann, Fabian Stephany, Ole Teutloff, Otto Kässi, Mark Graham

Plos One, volume 17, issue 10: e0274630 (2022), 22 pp.

"The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of digitally enabled remote work with consequences for the global division of labour. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it might also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited. Specifi ... more

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Democracy Report 2022: Autocratization Changing Nature?

Vanessa A. Boese, Staffan I. Lindberg (eds.)

Gothenburg: V-Dem Institute (2022), 58 pp.

"The level of democracy enjoyed by the average global citizen in 2021 is down to 1989 levels. The last 30 years of democratic advances are now eradicated. Dictatorships are on the rise and harbor 70% of the world population – 5.4 billion people. There are signals that the nature of autocratization ... more

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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2022

Matthew Shanahan et al.

London: GSMA (2022), 68 pp.

"1. Women’s uptake of mobile internet in lowand middle-income countries continues to increase, but the rate of adoption has slowed. Across low- and middle-income countries, 60 per cent of women now use mobile internet. Only 59 million additional women in low-and middle-income countries started usi ... more

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Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic

Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), vi, 242 pp.

"This edited volume focuses on the lived experiences of children during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020, their knowledge and emotional reactions, the adjustments they made in their everyday lives, and the strengths and skills they developed in response. A central theme ... more

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The Return of Digital Authoritarianism: Internet Shutdowns in 2021
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Access Now;KeepItOn (2022), 32 pp.

"With a gradual return to normalcy following the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a dramatic resurgence of internet shutdowns in 2021. During this year, Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented at least 182 internet shutdown incidents around the world in 34 countries, as com ... more

The Global Expression Report 2022: The Intensifying Battle for Narrative Control Top Insights

The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations Inspiring Practice

Radikalisierung im Internet: Ein systematischer Überblick über Forschungsstand, Wirkungsebenen sowie Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis Top Insights

The Return of Digital Authoritarianism: Internet Shutdowns in 2021 Top Insights

The Global Expression Report 2022: The Intensifying Battle for Narrative Control
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The Debunking Effect: Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations
Inspiring Practice

Radikalisierung im Internet: Ein systematischer Überblick über Forschungsstand, Wirkungsebenen sowie Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis
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The Return of Digital Authoritarianism: Internet Shutdowns in 2021
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