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Hate Speech in Southeast Asia: New Forms, Old Rules

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2020), 40 pp.
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The Contagion of Hate in India

Laxmi Murthy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 23 pp.
"This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon of hate speech and its potential to legitimise discrimination and promote violence against its targets. It lays out the interconnections between Islamophobia, hate speech and acts of physical violence against Muslims. The role of social media, especi ... more
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Contando colombianos: Medición comercial, métricas de audiencias y biopolítica

Juan Carlos Valencia Rincón (ed.)
Bogotá: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020), 442 pp.
"La tiranía del rating se ha convertido en los últimos años en una expresión muy utilizada por diferentes actores de la industria de los medios de comunicación, que desconfían de la forma en la que las métricas miden el comportamiento de las audiencias. Los compradores, los periodistas, los a ... more
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Afghanistan

Karl-Heinz Lutz (ed.)
Paderborn; Potsdam: Schöningh; Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr (ZMSBw), 4., aktual. und veränd. Aufl. (2020), 272 pp.
"Der »Wegweiser zur Geschichte: Afghanistan« erschien erstmals 2006. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt kämpften die US-Streitkräfte und ihre Verbündeten im Rahmen der Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) bereits mehrere Jahre auch auf afghanischem Boden gegen den internationalen Terroris mus. Die Kräfte der Int ... more
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Culturally Inclusive Online Learning for Capacity Development: Projects in International Contexts

Charlotte Nirmalani Gunawardena
Journal of Learning for Development, volume 7, issue 1 (2020), pp. 5-30
"This paper explores cultural inclusivity in online learning design by discussing two international capacity development projects: an online tutor mentor development programme in Sri Lanka and a hybrid physician assistant training programme in Ghana. Inclusivity involves establishing partnerships an ... more
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Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

Tripta Chandola
Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.
"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of ... more
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Situation Analysis of Community Media Sustainability in Myanmar

Suman Basnet
Yangon: UNESCO (2020), 32 pp.
"The potential role of community radio in Myanmar cannot be over-emphasized. Myanmar expands along a rich diversity of geography, populations, cultures, and languages. The people of Myanmar speak different languages and express in different cultural contexts. In this regard, community radio can in a ... more
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Behind Closed Curtains: Disinformation on Messenger Services

Ann Cathrin Riedel
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2020), 30 pp.
"Several studies analysed in this paper show that messenger services facilitate and exacerbate the spread of disinformation. Any solution must make allowances for the complexity with which information spreads. The case studies show that a lack of trust in government is a key factor in the proliferat ... more
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The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

Lee Wilkins, Clifford G. Christians (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2020), xv, 534 pp.
"This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social sci ... more
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Policy Paper on Draft Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Bill, 2020

Toby Mandel, Sana Ali
Karachi: Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) (2020), 46 pp.
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Independent Filmmaking Across Borders in Contemporary Asia

Ran Ma
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 278 pp.
"Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant ye ... more
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Media and Conflict in the Social Media Era in China

Shixin Ivy Zhang
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 160 pp.
"This book explores the media and conflict relationship in the age of social media through the lens of China. Inspired by the concepts of medialization of conflict and actor-network theory, this book centers on four main actors in wars and conflicts: social media platform, mainstream news organizati ... more
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DEF’s Covid-19 Relief Initiatives as a Digitally-Enabled Humanitarian Organisation

Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) (2020), 42 pp.
"Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) launched the Digital Emergency Relief Programme through its Community Information Resource Centers (CIRC) across 600+ locations in India who have been rigorously responding to the crisis by reaching out to the most vulnerable communities. The CIRC centres with t ... more
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Media Convergence and the Development Strategies of Radio and Television in China

Peng Duan
Singapore: Springer (2020), viii, 166 pp.
"This book discusses the development strategies of Chinese media convergence in the current, fast-changing communication environment. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical data and based on the author's observations, focus groups, and in-depth analyses of selected Chinese radio and TV networks, ... more
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What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know: Perspectives on Trust in News in a Changing World

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nelsen
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 26 pp.
"Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten people (38%) across 40 markets say they typically trust most news. While trust has fallen by double digit margins in recent years in many places, including Brazil and the Unit ... more
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"Big Changes Start Small": Stories of People Making a Difference. An Impact Report

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.
"DW Akademie collects and documents the impacts of its projects through a range of methods. There are three approaches that are currently standard in development cooperation: Applied studies, which enable new insights on impacts, impact-oriented monitoring performed with local partners in the course ... more
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Media Consumption Report: Platforms and Tools for Reaching and Engaging Urban and Rural Youth

Washington, DC: USAID Cambodia Green Future Activity (2020), iii, 22 pp.
"This report provides an overview of media consumption from the perspectives of selected media practitioners in Cambodia and highlights some of the key communication tools, products, materials, and platforms they have used to reach their respective target audiences. This report maps trends across bo ... more
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Resource Materials on Data Privacy Laws in the Asia and the Pacific: Webinar on Data Privacy Laws in ASEAN

Emmanuel C. Lallana
Incheon: Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT-ESCAP) (2020), 60 pp.
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Public Trust in the Media During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Media Matters for Democracy (2020), 34 pp.
"The public generally approved of the Pakistani news media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. A majority of the respondents agreed that the Covid news coverage had provided them the information they needed, provided largely accurate information, worked for the benefit of the public, and helped th ... more
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Track, Trace, Expel: Reporting on China Amid a Pandemic

Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (2020), 18 pp.