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Belt and Road Initiative supported co-production films: Film policy and disoriented remembrance of the Silk Road past

Pengnan Hu
International Communication Gazette, volume 48, issue 62 (2023), pp. 48-62
"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even ... more
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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.
"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, ... more
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Community Radio Compendium 2023: Tools of Community Empowerment

New Delhi: CEMCA (2023), 720 pp.
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Dicing with death: Analyzing the killings of Pakistani journalists with a focus on Arshad Sharif case

Rabia Noor, Noshina Nazir
Journal of ISOSS, volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 631-642
"Journalists in Pakistan are losing their lives during the course of their duty. This study identifies the factors and actors behind the killings of Pakistani journalists and the role of stakeholders and media owners in compromising journalists’ safety, under the lens of social responsibility theo ... more
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Factors Influencing Job Quit Among Newspaper Journalists in Pakistan

Waqas Ali, Muhammad Irfan, Ayaz Ahmed
Pakistan Journal of Social Research, volume 5, issue 2 (2023), pp. 710-717
"A survey was conducted on 446 newspaper journalists working in Karachi, who do journalism in Sindhi, Urdu, and English languages, to understand the reasons for their job quitting. The findings revealed that low salaries, job insecurity, and inconvenient administrative policies are why journalists l ... more
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The Digital Transformation of Small and Micro-Businesses in Bangladesh

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (2023), iii, 43 pp.
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Digital Entrepreneurship in Vietnam’s Green Tech Sector: An Analysis of Challenges and Implications

Pablo Perez Akaki, Mohammad Atif Aleem, Arturo Sánchez Carmona et al.
Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2023), 18 pp.
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Media coverage in question: Shining light in renewables

Abu Siddique, Miraj Ahmed Chowdhury
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2023), 30 pp.
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‘Push-and-pull’ for visibility: How do fans as users negotiate over algorithms with Chinese digital platforms?

Yiyan Zhang, Shengchun Huang, Tong Li
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 321-339
"In the algorithmic era, both users and the platform battle for visibility. Chinese fans are savvy users who explore the hidden algorithms behind platform functions. With the collectively developed algorithmic imaginary, digital fandom communities negotiate with the platform over algorithms to optim ... more
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The Development of Digital Skill Path for MSMEs

Zahra K. N. Murad, Fadhila Maulida, Janaska Nurrachmat et al.
Digital Transformation Center (DTC); Make-IT Indonesia; GIZ Indonesia (2023), xii, 76 pp.
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The Digitization of Harassment: Women Journalists’ Experiences with Online Harassment in the Philippines

Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Karryl Kim Sagun, Katrina Paola Alvarez
Journalism Practice, volume 17, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1198-1213
"Through interviews with women journalists in the Philippines, this study documents and examines their experiences with online harassment. Three main themes stand out. First, we find that online harassment against journalists follows a systematic process that starts from the top, is followed through ... more
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Transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting

Geneva: ITU (2023), 239 pp.
"The purpose of this Report is to help the countries that are in the process of migrating from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting. The Report examines the reasons why this is happening and the technologies involved. It provides an overview of digital terrestrial sound and television broadc ... more
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Does Internet development affect urban-rural income gap in China? An empirical investigation at provincial level

Meiling Wang, Zihui Yin, Silu Pang, Zilian Li
Information Development, volume 39, issue 1 (2023), pp. 107-122
"This study aims to examine the impact of Internet development on the urban-rural income gap in China. By using a provincial level panel dataset comprising 31 of China’s provinces, it analyzes and compares the effects of the eastern, central, and western regions over the period of 2005–2016. The ... more
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Provocative images in contemporary Islam

David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, Mark R. Westmoreland, Bart Barendregt (eds.)
Leiden: Leiden University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s ... more
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai

Xinyuan Wang
London: UCL Press (2023), xviii, 291 pp.
"Based on 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in Shanghai, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China tackles the intersection between the ‘two revolutions’ experienced by the older generation in Shanghai: the contemporary smartphone-based digital revolution and the earlier communist revolutions. We fin ... more
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Gendered Disinformation 2023

Tamar Kintsurashvili
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2023), 51 pp.
"During the six months of the gender-based disinformation study (January 1 – June 30, 2023), the following trends were revealed: A total of 42 cases of gendered disinformation were identified, of which 24 were homophobic and 18 were sexist or attacked women based on moral criteria. In most cases, ... more
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Changing tides in Zambian television broadcasting: Digital migration and Chinese engagement

Elastus Mambwe
Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 3 (2023), pp. 357-371
"This paper examines the recent shifts and debates in the organization of the television landscape following the implementation of digital migration in Zambia. It ponders Zambia’s experience in the digital migration exercise, playing particular attention to the country’s interaction with the Chi ... more
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Workplace Happiness, Journalism and COVID-19 in South Asia

Achala Abeykoon, Archana Kumari, Mohammad Sahid Ullah, Pallavi Majumdar, Sajjad Ali, Mou Mukherjee Das, Santosh Kumar Biswal, M. C. Rasmin, Shilpa Kalyan, Mohd Shahid, Mamunor Rashid
In: Happiness in Journalism
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E. Holton, Mark Deuze, Claudia Mellado (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 166-174
"This chapter explores some of the positive strategies employed by South Asian media institutions to enhance workplace happiness and help journalists to cope with stress and traumatic experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Happiness is crucial for media institutions because journalism is one of t ... more
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China's Cultural Diplomacy in a New Era of Multilateralism: The Case of the China-Community of Latin American & Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum (CCF)

Ximena Zapata
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 195 pp.
"Cultural diplomacy has been one component of China’s foreign policy since its very foundation. However, it is only in recent decades that culture has been wielded as a tool to serve high-reaching goals commensurate with China’s rising superpower status and its capacity to contend for global heg ... more
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Dying to tell a story: The role of Citizen Journalists in Myanmar

Thu Thu Aung
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 32 pp.