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India's State-Run Media: Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative

Sanjay Asthana

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2019), xiii, 210 pp.

"India's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together two neglected areas of research in media studies in India - the intertwined genealogies of sovereignty, public, religion, and nation in radio and television, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of broadcasting into ... more

State of Media and Digital Freedoms Report in Pakistan 2018

Salwa Rana, Talal Raza, Waqas Naeem

Media Matters for Democracy (2019), 37 pp.

Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and Structure of Disconnected Protest in India

Jan Rydzak

[author] (2019), 54 pp.

"State governments in India have executed approximately half of the world’s known network shutdowns – large-scale, deliberate disruptions of Internet connectivity, cell phone service, or social media. India is also a hotbed of collective action with widely varying degrees of organization and coo ... more

China’s Digital Silk Road: Strategic Technological Competition and Exporting Political Illiberalism

Clayton Cheney

Pacific Forum (2019), iv, 23 pp.

"The Digital Silk Road is the component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative that aims to establish China as the global technological superpower. While the Belt and Road Initiative is generally understood to be a foreign policy initiative, it is important to view the Digital Silk Road as both a for ... eign and domestically focused aspect of the initiative. The first step to analyzing this component of the Belt and Road Initiative is to create a conceptual roadmap to understand the components of the Digital Silk Road. This paper argues that it comprises four interrelated, technologically focused initiatives. First, China is investing abroad in digital infrastructure, including next generation cellular networks, fiberoptic cables and data centers. Second, it contains a domestic focus on developing advanced technologies that will be essential to global economic and military power. These advanced technologies include satellite navigation systems, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Third, because China recognizes the importance of economic interdependence to international influence, the Digital Silk Road promotes e-commerce through digital free trade zones. Last, digital diplomacy and governance, including through multilateral institutions, are key to China creating its ideal international digital environment. After outlining a broad conceptual map of the Digital Silk Road, this paper focuses on how China’s investment in digital infrastructure and the strategic technological competition between China and the United States will shape the international orders in the Asia-Pacific region and globally. It argues that China perceives technological advancement as the sphere in which it can most adequately challenge the United States’ global power without creating direct confrontation, including possible military confrontation. Second, the United States seeks to constrain the Digital Silk Road and China’s technological ascendancy by presenting Chinese technology corporations as posing an unacceptable risk to international security. Third, China does not want to replace the current international order that has persisted since the end of the Second World War. Rather, it would like to maintain the liberal economic order that has permitted its economic rise and export its form of digital authoritarianism to create an illiberal political international order. Finally, through investing in data centers and pursuing data localization policies, China aims to achieve strategic geopolitical objectives by projecting sharp power abroad, which will be facilitated by big data." (Executive Summary) more

Towards a Safer Cyberzone: A Study on Gender and Online Violence in Tamil Nadu

Geeta Ramaseshan, Sudaroli Ramasamy et al.

IT for Change (2019), 21 pp.

Walking on Eggshells: A Study on Gender Justice and Women's Struggles in Malayali Cyberspace

J. Devika, Chithira Vijayakumar et al.

IT for Change (2019), 39 pp.

Getting it Right Online: Young Women's Negotiations in the Face of Cyberviolence in Karnataka

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan et al.

IT for Change (2019), 52 pp.

Born Digital, Born Free? A Socio-Legal Study on Young Women’s Experiences of Online Violence in South India

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan, Nandini Chami

IT for Change (2019), 49 pp.

Hostile Bytes: A Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists

Hija Kamran

Media Matters for Democracy (2019), 50 pp.

From Western TV Sets to Chinese Online Streaming Services: English Language TV Series in Mainland China

Xiaoran Zhang

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2019), pp. 220-242

"In the age of multiple screens, online streaming has in the 2010s become the most significant way of consuming overseas television programs in Mainland China. Due to rather strict government policy and censorship, foreign television series are presently only legally distributed and circulated on li ... more

Harmful Disinformation in Southeast Asia: “Negative Campaigning”, “Information Operations” and “Racist Propaganda” – Three Forms of Manipulative Political Communication in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand

Melanie Radue

Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, volume 18, issue 2 (2019), pp. 68-89

"When comparing media freedom in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand, so-called “fake news” appears as threats to a deliberative (online) public sphere in these three diverse contexts. However, “racist propaganda”, “information operations” and “negative campaigning” might be more accurat ... more

Collaborating with Refugees: Power, Ethics and Reciprocity in Documentary Filmmaking

Mandy Hughes

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 160-174

"Representing stories through documentary film can offer a means to convey multilayered and sensory accounts of the lived experiences of people in extreme transition, especially former refugees. However, along with the potential of this medium comes the responsibility to engage with participants in ... more

Who's Listening? From Centre to Periphery. Understanding Narratives on Interethnic Sentiment at the Cambodian Border Through Facilitative Listening Design

Melissa Martin, Karen Simbulan (eds.)

Phnom Penh: Women Peace Makers (2019), 112 pp.

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When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Markus Mobius, Benjamin A. Olken, Cindy Paladines

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (2019), 55 pp.

"Celebrity endorsements are often sought to influence public opinion. We ask whether celebrity endorsement per se has an effect beyond the fact that their statements are seen by many, and whether on net their statements actually lead people to change their beliefs. To do so, we conducted a nationwid ... more

Facebook India. Towards the Tipping Point of Violence: Caste and Religious Hate Speech

Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Abishek Kumar, Priya Nair, Josh Greely

Equality Labs (2019), 65 pp.

Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture in the People's Republic of China

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2019), xii, 67 pp.

Female Journalists in New Media: Experiences, Challenges and a Gendered Approach

Maham Javaid

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2019), 23 pp.

Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University;ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.

"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more

International Conference on Fake News and Elections in Asia. Conference Proceedings

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2019), 22 pp.

Digital Media and Information Literacy Framework

Singapore: Ministry of Communications and Information (2019), 73 pp.