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Digital trends in the Commonwealth of Independent States region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the CIS region, 2017-2020

Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 47 pp.

"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, access and use in the CIS region, which includes 9 Member States and is home to a population of 240 million people. The report highlights changes in ICT adoption since the l ... more

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Afghanistan Media Landscape: Key Results

London: BBC Media Action (2021), 1 p.

"TV is the most popular media platform. Majority of TV viewers and radio listeners watch and listen to those media weekly. Urban, educated and younger people watch TV more than rural, less educated and older people. Men listen to radio and use internet more than women [...] A nationally representati ... more

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FM radio and the Malayali diaspora in Qatar: At home overseas

Irene Ann Promodh

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, volume 47, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1957-1975

"Recent scholarship on trans-oceanic exchanges between the Persian Gulf and South Asia has delved into previously neglected minutiae of everyday migrant life beyond labour. Combining ethnographic research and media content analyses, I build on this scholarship through a novel study of vernacular rad ... more

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Regulating Social Media in Sri Lanka: An Analysis of the Legal and Non-Legal Regulatory Frameworks in the Context of Hate Speech and Disinformation

Colombo: Verité Research (2021), 40 pp.

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Online Survey on Youth, Social Media, and Violence in Sri Lanka

Prasanna Perera, Malini Balamayuran, Tania Alahendra, Srimal Bandara

London: British Council (2021), 103 pp.

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Digital tools and strategies in COVID-19 infodemic response: Case studies and discussion

Roman Chestnov et al.

Geneva: ITU (2021), 60 pp.

"Digital technology, while an important enabler of many COVID-19 mitigation measures, has also contributed to the rise of misinformation and disinformation surrounding the pandemic. The circulation of rumours, conspiracy theories, false claims and misconceptions about the novel coronavirus has had a ... more

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How to cover hate crimes and violence when government sources fail

Rachel Chitra

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 22 pp.

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“Fake News”, Religion, and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Rubal Kanozia, Ritu Arya

Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 313-321

"Salali and Uysal (2020) found in their study that vaccine acceptance significantly increased when people believe in the natural origin of the virus. Therefore, mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories about how the virus started need to be debunked, especially in countries having high vaccine hes ... more

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How Does the Political Enter the Newsroom? The Representation of the Kurdish ‘Other’ in Turkish Journalism

Ozan Asik

Journalism, volume 23, issue 11 (2021), pp. 2434-2451

"In this article, I examine how journalists working for the Turkish national mainstream televisual media represent Kurds – a significant national ‘Other’ of Turkish society – in the process of news production. My research is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 20 ... more

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Le récit politique chinois: Soft power, communication, influence

Olivier Arifon

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 145 pp.

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A Qualitative Examination of Alcohol Use and IPV Among Nepali Couples in a Violence Prevention Intervention

Terah Kalk, Binita Shrestha, Prabin Nanicha Shrestha, Gemma Ferguson, Irina Bergenfeld, Zoe Robbin

Global Public Health, volume 16, issue 4 (2021), pp. 597-609

"Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts the physical and mental health of one in three women globally, with equally high rates in rural Nepal. The risk of physical violence, stalking, harassment, and homicide between intimate partners increases when alcohol is used by the perpetrator. This study ev ... more

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Traditional Folk Media in India: Jathara as a Mode of Communication for Development and Social Change

Srinivas Panthukala

White Falcon Publishing (2021), xxii, 153 pp.

"The contents of this book deals with an overview of traditional folk media, characteristic elements of the study, empirical data of Jathara, Importance of Jathara as a medium of communication for the development of society. The analyzed the role of Jathara as a local and traditional mode of communi ... more

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Polyphony: Listening to the Listeners of Community Radio

Bridget Backhaus

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), 187 pp.

"The book discusses the socio-historical contexts which allowed community radio to thrive in India. It highlights its potential to create alternative spaces of representation, and opportunity and its importance in preserving and disseminating local knowledge and traditions. The author weaves togethe ... more

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Best Practices of Community Radio and Sustainable Development Goals: A Handbook
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D. Rukmini Vemraju (comp.)

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA);UNESCO (2021), 429 pp.

"The two objectives that this compilation set for itself were documenting community radio best practices and creating a robust sector through knowledge sharing and collaborative learning. The 96 stories [from Bangladesh, India and Nepal] included in the compilation capture the various ways in which ... more

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Community Radio Stations’ Production Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Kaifia Ancer Laskar, Biswadeep Bhattacharyya

Media Asia, volume 48, issue 4 (2021), pp. 243-257

"The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown have made community radio broadcasting more important than before. Using case studies and interviews, we explored the kind of programming adopted by selected community radio (CR) stations in India during the pandemic and how they fight fake news. We ... more

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Slowing Transmission: Language Challenges in Community Radio Relay of COVID-19 Risk Communication in Afghanistan

Translators Without Borders (2021), 16 pp.

"In 2020 Internews launched the Rooted in Trust project to counter rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. They commissioned Translators without Borders (TWB) to map community radio stations and investigate the language and translation challenges community radio broadcasters face when relaying off ... icial COVID-19 risk communication to their audience. To better understand these challenges, TWB conducted a survey and interviews with 65 community radio broadcasters, representing a quarter of all community radio stations across Afghanistan. Based on our survey, we mapped community radio stations and the reach of each radio signal to estimate overall radio coverage across the country. Where possible, we triangulated our findings with data from Internews’ Information Ecosystem Assessment in Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat. Community radio stations remain an important source of information, especially for rural populations, less literate individuals, and in remote provinces. During public health emergencies, broadcasters can turn into health communicators and support the relay of risk communication, but they face several challenges. • Radio signals don’t cover all provinces: Based on the radio signals we were able to map, radio coverage doesn’t reach people equally across the country. Speakers of marginalized languages have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. Relative to population density, speakers of Turkmeni, Brahui, Balochi, and Uzbeki have especially limited access to radio broadcasts. • Few broadcasts are in languages other than Dari and Pashto: Dari and Pashto are the main broadcasting languages, but not everyone understands them. Broadcasts in other languages are largely limited to adverts, short audio clips, and sporadic language mixing in talk shows and call-in shows. Dedicated programs providing in-depth information in another language are rare. • Language barriers reduce the quality and timeliness of broadcasts: Community radio stations lack resources and translation capacity to broadcast in languages other than Dari or Pashto. As a result, some important information is delayed, and some is never broadcast at all. The quality and level of detail of broadcasts in other languages is also reduced. • Broadcasters face difficulties accessing available information: Most community radio stations have limited access to the internet and experience electricity failures. This makes accessing and validating available information on COVID 19 extremely difficult. Also, background information is often passed to broadcasters in English, but with limited internet access this information can’t readily be translated. • Information needs to be provided in plain language: Broadcasters don’t relay information that uses complicated language or technical and medical terms. New terms and complex new information around medical issues need to be rewritten and presented in plain language for a general audience. Yet community radio stations often can’t provide plain-language editing, so don’t relay more complex information." (Overview, page 1) more

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China’s Cyber Vision: How the Cyberspace Administration of China is Building a New Consensus on Global Internet Governance

Nathan Attrill, Audrey Fritz

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2021), 19 pp.

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Internet Freedoms in Cambodia: A Gateway to Control

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 32 pp.

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Dealing With Sexual Harassment: Are Women Journalists Silenced at Work?

Janess Ann J. Ellao, Evelyn F. Roxas, Therese Patricia S. Torres

In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism

Sadia Jamil; Baris Çoban; Bora Ataman; Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 24-42

"In the Philippines, sexual harassment is among the threats and attacks women in media face. While Filipino women journalists experience being sexually harassed by colleagues and sources, several have opted not to report such incidents for fear of being blamed and fear of retaliation from the accuse ... more

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Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 and Media Consumption Among Vulnerable Communities in Central Asia

Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, Shairbek Dzhuraev, Andreas Marazis

European Neigbourhood Council;Internews (2021), 44 pp.

"Social media (Instagram, Facebook, Telegram followed by Twitter) are the biggest information channels in general, but especially for youth, with preference for visual content (short videos, reels, pictures with quotes, little text). For example, in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan between 50% and 63% of l ... more

Best Practices of Community Radio and Sustainable Development Goals: A Handbook Inspiring Practice

Best Practices of Community Radio and Sustainable Development Goals: A Handbook
Inspiring Practice