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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
Deep Insights
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
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Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), x, 289 pp.
"Screening Precarity explores the role that Hindi films play in how precarity is mediated by film, and what that mediation reveals about both contemporary India and the social life of the movies. This study moves away from the history of Hindi cinema's articulation of precariousness, focusing instea
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How effective are fact-checks in Pakistan and who engages with them?
Information, Communication & Society (2025), 23 pp.
"For fact-checks to be effective, they must first and foremost reach their intended audience. Yet, little is known about what determines engagement with fact-checks and how to enhance their reach. We conducted a pre-registered online survey experiment in Pakistan (N participants = 302, N observation
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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri
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Trotz alledem – Kritischer Journalismus
iz3w, issue 406 (2025), pp. D1- D23
"Was wäre eine Welt ohne kritische und linke Medien? Sie treten Staat und Kapital auf die Füße und schauen auf unterbelichtete Themen – auch wenn es weh tut. Doch die Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenkrise, der digitale Wandel sowie Einschränkungen der Pressefreiheit stellen den kritischen Journali
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Dekolonisation: Das Ende der Imperien
München: C.H.Beck, 2., vollst. überarb. und aktualisierte Aufl. (2025), 144 pp.
"Kaum ein Vorgang veränderte die Welt im 20. Jahrhundert so sehr wie das Ende kolonialer Herrschaft in Asien und Afrika. In systematischen und chronologischen Kapiteln beschreibt das Buch diesen Prozess mit seinen weiten Ausläufern im gesamten Jahrhundert und bietet lokale, imperiale und globale E
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Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation
New York; London: Routledge (2025), viii, 205 pp.
"First, the book looks at media and propaganda through the lens of different disciplines, ranging across communication and media studies, journalism studies, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, history, gender studies, information and library science, literature, and platform studies. Recognizing t
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Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo
Seattle: University of Washington Press (2025), 238 pp.
"What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail? Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles for religious freedom and cultural preservation, comedians, hip-hop artists, and other creatives
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Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's cybercrime compounds
London: Verso Books (2025), 215 pp.
"Running the gamut from the infamous ‘pig butchering’ romance con to sophisticated online extortion and investment fraud, Southeast Asia has emerged as the global hub for cybercrime. Based on years of field research, Scam takes an in-depth look at the history and inner dynamics of the region’s
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Political Deification and Religious Populism in Modi’s India
Populism, volume 8 (2025), 28 pp.
"The article explores the phenomenon of political deification within the framework of religious populism, focusing on the leadership of Narendra Modi in India. Drawing on discourse theory, religious studies, and critical media studies, the paper examines how Modi’s image is sacralized, positioning
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Community Airwaves for Dialogue: Stories of Change
Kathmandu: AMARC Asia-Pacific (2025), iv, 24 pp.
"As highlighted through the stories in this publication, the role of community radio extends beyond information dissemination; it is a catalyst for constructive dialogue and a beacon of hope for conflict resolution. These narratives highlight how community radio acts as a bridge, bringing together d
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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds
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
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The State of Media Development: Asia-Pacific
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2025), 23 pp.
"Amid the Asia-Pacific region’s complex political and media landscape — marked by authoritarian regression, shrinking civic space, digital surveillance, funding shortfalls, and gender inequality — this study has explored the current status of media development in the region vis à vis the OECD
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"This mapping, conducted by CFI as part of the EU-funded AGILE project, examines how communities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan access and use information in difficult and fast-changing media environments. It identifies five structural challenges: barriers to practical informa
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Harassment of Journalists and Its Aftermath: Anti-Press Violence, Psychological Suffering, and an Internal Chilling Effect
Digital Journalism, volume 13, issue 2 (2025), pp. 232-248
"Anti-press sentiment based on negative emotions of disgust and hatred has prevailed in Korea since the mid-2010s. Through in-depth interviews with ten journalists working for Korean news organizations, supplemented with an analysis of self-reflective articles, this study investigates how journalist
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Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China
New York: New York University Press (2025), viii, 285 pp.
"Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foregrou
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), x, 344 pp.
"This first handbook on North Korean cinema contests the assumption that North Korean film is “unwatchable,” in terms of both quality and accessibility, refusing to reduce North Korean cinema to political propaganda and focusing on its aesthetic forms and cultural meanings. Since its founding in
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A Figured World Study of the Online Faith Discourse of a Philippine Catholic Parish Facebook Page
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 347-374
"This sociolinguistic study examines the Facebook page of a Catholic parish in the Philippines as a figured world. The figured world framework is a way of viewing a particular locus of interaction as a product of social and cultural construction. This lens, which has been widely used to examine educ
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Amplifying voices, fostering resilience: The radio listener clubs and Rohingya refugee adolescents in Cox’s Bazar
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 3-23
"This article explores the role of the radio listener clubs in the Rohingya refugee response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The article demonstrates the unique potential of radio in reducing the challenges relevant to the lives of crisis-affected adolescents since the influx in 2017. Adolescents are
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