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Psychological Defence and Information Influence: A Textbook on Theory and Practice

Jesper Falkheimer, James Pamment (eds.)
Karlstad: Psychological Defence Agency (2025), 257 pp.
"In an age defined by rapid information flows and shifting security landscapes, the resilience of societies rests not only on military strength or technological capacity, but equally on the ability of individuals and institutions to withstand psychological influence and manipulation. Psychological d ... more
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Climate Disinformation in Thailand: Negating Indigenous Peoples’ Identity

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2025), viii, 60 pp.
"This report examines how climate disinformation reinforces the systemic negation of Indigenous People's (IP) identity, undermining traditional practices, weakening advocacy for rights and obstructing inclusive climate and forest governance by making three key contributions. First, it identifies fou ... more
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Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power
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Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, Fiona Wright (eds.)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2025), 479 pp.
"Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; ... more
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Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia

Andrew Zi Han Yee (ed.)
Dordrecht: Springer (2025), viii, 235 pp.
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The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

Lucy Soutter, Duncan Wooldridge (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xxiii, 419 pp.
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Talking Images: The Interface between Drawing and Writing

Silvia Ferrara, Mattia Cartolano, Ludovica Ottaviano (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2025), xiv, 250 pp.
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Community Airwaves for Dialogue: Stories of Change

Suman Basnet (ed.)
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 ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Amjad Mohamed-Saleem (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2025), xxi, 446 pp.
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Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)
Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.
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Voice of the Indigenous Community Nudging Development: Case of Asur Community Radio

Swetabh Pandey, Munmun Ghosh
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"This research explores the significance of local radio in preserving and assisting indigenous communities and languages in the tribal region of Jharkhand, India. The study highlights the involvement and engagements of “Asur Radio,” a community radio in the interest of the tribal community named ... more
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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Opportunities, Challenges and the Mitigation Strategies of the Young Indigenous Social Media Users of the Chitagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

Ishmam Bin Rofi et al.
Yokohama, Japan: CHI ’25, April 26–May 01, 2025 (2025), 22 pp.
"The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh is home to numerous Indigenous ethnic communities, and their languages, rituals, and values are distinct from those of the mainstream population. These diferences, coupled with the past eight decades of turbulent political history, have contributed to ... more
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As USAID dies, many of Georgia's "vibrant" CSOs face extinction

Jaba Devdariani
GEOpolitics, issue 16 (2025), 6 pp.
"For decades, Georgia has been one of the largest per capita recipients of U.S. assistance. In 2012-2023, the years in which the Georgian Dream has been in power, total U.S. overseas development assistance (ODA) stands at USD 1 billion 920 mil lion, according to official data. Of course, the lion’ ... more
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Amplifying voices, fostering resilience: The radio listener clubs and Rohingya refugee adolescents in Cox’s Bazar

Hakan Ergül
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 ... more
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The AI Policy Playbook: Navigating AI Policy Development through an African and Asian Lens

Aubra Anthony, Deshni Govender, Nadine Dammaschk, Golo Rademacher, Kim Willet, Gustavo Fonseca Ribeiro, Sheila Kibughi
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) FAIR Forward; AI Policymaker Network (2025), 70 pp.
"The AI Policy Playbook offers a practical guide for governments in Africa and Asia to develop responsible and context-specific AI policies. Drawing from real-world policymaking experiences in seven countries, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, India, and Indonesia, the playbook shares less ... more
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Building AI-based advisory services for smallholder farmers: Technical learnings from the AIEP Initiative

Stewart Collis, Florence Kinyua, Vikram Kumar, Howard Lakougna, Christian Merz, Kirti Pandey, Christian Resch
AIEP Initiative; Gates Foundation; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internat (2025), 18 pp.
"We report technical learnings from five AI agricultural advisory minimum viable products (MVPs) deployed in Kenya and Bihar under the AIEP Initiative. A 800-farmer study found high user satisfaction (net promoter score ∼60). All solutions implement a modular two-part architecture: (i) an interfac ... more
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
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Sahana Udupa, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e ... more
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The Platform Question: Power, Accountability, and the Global South. An Anthology

Raina Ghosh, Maitri Singh, Arpita Kanjilal (eds.)
Centre for Development Policy and Practice; ARISE Community and Digital Empowerment Foundation (2025), 159 pp.
"This anthology is the result of a global collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and activists who come together to reflect on the expanding role of platforms in an increasingly digitized world. As platformization reshapes economies, politics, and everyday interactions, it brings with it new f ... more
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Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India

Megha Anwer, Anupama Arora
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 ... more
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Digital Communication for Agricultural and Rural Development: Participatory Practices in a Post-COVID Age

Ataharul Chowdhury, Gordon A. Gow (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xx, 293 pp.
"This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that digital technology and mediated participation is more important and essential in managing ongoing communication for development p ... more
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Inheritance and Inhabitants: The Material Place-Making Practices of Community Radio

Bridget Backhaus
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 1 (2025), pp. 66-81
"Community radio, a “third space” outside of commercial and state-based broadcasting, contributes to democratizing media access. Physical space plays a key role in this, yet the materiality of community radio stations is often liminal and precarious. DIY place-making practices are vital in estab ... more