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The Trust Gap: How and Why News on Digital Platforms is Viewed More Sceptically Versus News in General

Camila Mont'Alverne, Sumitra Badrinathan, Amy Ross Arguedas et al.

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 71 pp.

"Drawing on an original dataset of survey responses collected in the summer of 2022 across four countries - Brazil, India, the UK, and the US - they examine the relationship between trust in news and how people think about news on digital platforms, especially Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and YouTube ... more

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Understanding the Infodemic of Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories

Daria B. Kazarinova

Russia in Global Affairs, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 83-104

"The article analyzes the QAnon phenomenon and the anti-vaxxer movement of COVID-19 deniers as typological manifestations of conspiratorial “alternative rationality.” A number of hypotheses have been proposed: during a pandemic and a parallel infodemic, conspiracy thinking quickly becomes transb ... more

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Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive
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Alex Veeneman, Shana Black et al.

Philadelphia: Lenfest Institute for Journalism;Center for Cooperative Media (2022), 42 pp.

"What’s working to generate revenue and sustain journalism collaborations, beyond philanthropy? To answer this question, the Center for Cooperative Media, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Solutions Journalism Network conducted a survey, interviewed collaborative project managers, funde ... more

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How We Follow Climate Change: Climate News Use and Attitudes in Eight Countries

Ejaz Waqas, Mitali Mukherjee, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 40 pp.

"In this report, we use online survey data collected in August and September 2022 to document and understand how people in eight countries - Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, the UK, and the USA - access news and information about climate change. A large majority of our respondents ac ... more

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TikTok/Douyin Use and its Influencer Video Use: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Chinese and US Users

Yang Yang

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 339-368

"This cross-cultural comparison study between China and the US aimed to examine the short video-sharing social media platform, TikTok/Douyin, particularly its use in the two countries. Because China and the US have some evident differences in cultural values, they are ideal for cross-cultural compar ... more

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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’

Jacob Copeman, Mascha Schulz (eds.)

London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.

"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part ... more

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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
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Katerina Cizek, William Uricchio et al.

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2022), viii, 385 pp.

"Why co-create—and why now? The many coauthors, drawing on a remarkable array of professional and personal experience, focus on the radical, sustained practices of co-creating media within communities and with social movements. They explore the urgent need for co-creation across disciplines and or ... more

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Spotlighting Domestic Workers: Representation in Film & TV

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project;National Domestic Workers Alliance (2022), 50 pp.

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A Glaring Absence: The Climate Crisis is Virtually Nonexistent in Scripted Entertainment

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project;National Domestic Workers Alliance (2022), 26 pp.

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Change the Narrative, Change the World 2022: The Power of Immigrant Representation on Television

Sarah E. Lowe, Charlene Joy Jimenez

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center;National Domestic Workers Alliance (2022), 45 pp.

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Connections & Accomplishments: A 2021 Pop Culture for Social Change Network Analysis

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, Media Impact Project;National Domestic Workers Alliance (2022), ii; 32 pp.

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Misinformation and disinformation: An international effort using behavioural science to tackle the spread of misinformation

Chiara Varazzani, Michaela Sullivan-Paul, Lauryn Conway, Andrea Colasanti, Nicholas Diamond

Paris: OECD;OPSI (2022), 31 pp.

"The OECD convened a first-of-its kind international partnership on behavioural science and misinformation between the Canadian and the French governments to develop and disseminate behaviourally-informed and evidence-based solutions that can guide government response to misinformation. The study te ... more

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Talking to Trolls—How Users Respond to a Coordinated Information Operation and Why They’re so Supportive

Darren L. Linvill, Patrick L. Warren, Amanda E. Moore

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 27, issue 1, zmab022 (2022), 19 pp.

"Through this research we gained insight into tactics employed by state-backed social media disinformation. With that goal, we explored user interactions with inauthentic Twitter accounts. We used multiple procedures to measure the ways in which users talked with and about the accounts employed by t ... more

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Local Climate Change Reporting: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Journalism Workshops

William A. Yagatich, Eryn Campbell, Amanda C. Borth, Shaelyn M. Patzen, Kristin M. F. Timm et al.

Weather, Climate, and Society, volume 14 (2022), pp. 415-423

"Prior research suggests that climate stories are rarely reported by local news outlets in the United States. As part of the Climate Matters in the Newsroom project}a program for climate-reporting resources designed to help journalists report local climate stories}we conducted a series of local clim ... more

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Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Robert Cox

Thousand Okas et al.: Sage, 6th ed. (2022), xxix, 358 pp.

"The best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Authors Phae ... more

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Building community power: A newsroom’s guide to equitable engagement

Free Press (2022), 20 pp.

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Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling Through Race and Gender

Diana I. Rios, Carolyn A. Lin (eds.)

Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2022), ix, 320 pp.

"This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexua ... more

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Ageing and the Media: International Perspectives

Virpi Ylänne (ed.)

Bristol: Policy Press (2022), 234 pp.

"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions ... more

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Human Rights and Technological Change: Conflicts and Convergences After 1945

Michael Homberg, Benjamin Möckel (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2022), 392 pp.

"The volume analyses the ambivalent relationship between human rights and modern technologies since 1945. Tools of suppression or agents of emancipation? Modern technologies have become a major subject of human rights policy. Surveillance technology, the military use of drones, and the possibilities ... more

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Journalists, harassment, and emotional labor: The case of women in on-air roles at US local television stations

Kaitlin C. Miller, Seth C. Lewis

Journalism, volume 23, issue 1 (2022), pp. 79-97

"At a time of growing threats to the press worldwide, including in supposedly ‘safe’ developed democracies, this article explores the nature of harassment perpetrated by strangers, one-time sources, and viewers against women broadcast journalists working at US local television stations. The stud ... more

Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive Inspiring Practice

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice Inspiring Practice

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere Top Insights

Collaborative Sustainability Guide: How to Earn Revenue to Grow and Thrive
Inspiring Practice

Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice
Inspiring Practice

Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere
Top Insights