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Celebrating the Past, Innovating the Next ... 50 Years

Manila: Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) (2018), 72 pp.

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Amplifying the People's Voices: The Philippine Community Radio Experience and Challenges

International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), Philippine Chapter (2018), 52 pp.

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Anti-Western Propaganda

Tamar Kintsurashvili

Tblisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF);UN Association of Georgia;USAID (2018), 38 pp.

"As many as 1,967 anti-Western comments were detected in the 17 monitored media outlets in 2017. In contrast to 2016 and 2015, when negative messages targeted human identity and rights, in 2017, a dominant topic was the foreign policy with the messages aimed at increasing the polarization on the for ... eign policy orientation of the country. This change in the strategic communication of pro-Kremlin actors shows that “loss of identity” was a rather tactical message that prepared the ground, while the messaging aimed at demonizing Georgia’s strategic partners (USA, NATO, EU) is of strategic nature. The United States of America accounted for the highest share of negative comments (25.9%), up by almost three times as compared to the previous year, followed by NATO (18,4%) and the West (14,1%). Compared to 2016, messages against the European Union have almost doubled (13.4%) whereas the comments about the loss of identity and human rights in anti-Western context have almost halved (12.9%). Comments against nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and the US philanthropist George Soros have trebled, as compared to 2016, and comprised 7.3%; this increase can be explained by a stepped up activity of far-right groups and their campaign to smear Open Society Georgia Foundation. Yet another change as compared to the previous years were clearer messages showcasing Russia as an alternative to the West and idealizing the Soviet system (7.2%). Comments against Great Britain (0,8%) have been mainly detected in two pro-Kremlin online media outlets – Georgia and the World, and Sakinformi. Alike previous years, the main source of anti-Western messages was media (827), followed by politicians (463), society (411), civil organizations (230) and the clergy (37). The structure of the Kremlin narrative in the Georgian discourse consists of three stages and aims at: 1. Creating threats; 2. Sowing distrust towards partners and Western institutions; 3. Ingraining a belief that Russia is the only option in fighting against the threats and that authoritative/Soviet-style governance is necessary. Four major threats were emphasized by pro-Kremlin actors: threat of war; threat of loss of territories; threat of bio subversion; threat of loss of identity." (Key findings, page 7) more

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No Place for Criticism: Bangladesh Crackdown on Social Media

David Bergman et al.

Human Rights Watch (2018), 89 pp.

"Since 2013, Bangladesh authorities have used draconian provisions in the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) to arrest scores of people for political and social commentary critical of the current Awami League government or its leaders. Those targeted have also included journalist ... more

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Experiences of ICT Use in Shared, Public Access Settings in Philippine Slums

Cheryll Ruth Soriano, Ruepert Jiel Cao, Marianne Sison

Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 358-373

"This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information and communication technology (ICT) in slum communities in the Philippines. In the context of shared and public access arrangements prevalent in many low-income communities in the Global South, the a ... more

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Online Activism in Politically Restricted Central Asia: A Comparative Review of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan

Bahtiyar Kurambayev

In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), pp. 961-976

"This comparative study examined the Internet’s role and wider social media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, three Central Asian countries in the democratization process. Specifically, this work aims to discuss how the Internet and social media are allowing Internet users wider opportuni ... more

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Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice

Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, Eric Morgan (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xxi, 277 pp.

"The book brings together international educators working from a variety of perspectives to engage both theory and application. Contributors address how pedagogy can stimulate ecological wakefulness, support diverse and praxis-based ways of learning, and nurture environmental change agents. Addition ... more

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Blasphemy and Apostasy “Laws” in the Muslim World: A Critical Analysis

Valparaiso, Indiana (US): Valparaiso University School of Law (2018), 40 pp.

"This chapter reviews the laws of apostasy and blasphemy in the Muslim world, by looking particularly at Pakistani and Malaysian cases. It strongly argues that the death penalty in the laws of apostasy and blasphemy is untenable in the modern period. The chapter demonstrates that these laws conflict ... more

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Transnationalisierte Öffentlichkeit und Klimapolitik: Akteursensembles in der Medienberichterstattung von 15 Ländern

Mike S. Schäfer, Senja Post, Rafel Schwab, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw

Publizistik, volume 63, issue 2 (2018), pp. 207-244

"Die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsforschung hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt mit transnationalisierten Formen von Öffentlichkeit beschäftigt. Allerdings gehen nur wenige empirische Arbeiten über die (mögliche) Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit hinaus. ... more

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Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, But Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver: Deep Political Divides in Many Nations on Satisfaction with News Media

Amy Mitchell, Katy Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa, Laura Silver

Pew Research Center (2018), 54 pp.

"Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far mo ... more

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Report on the Feature Documentary Film 'The Opium War': Focusing on the Director's Point of View

John La Raw

Seoul: Chung-Ang University, Gradutate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, Master Thesis (2018), xi, 82 pp.

"The main purpose of this report is to analyze the documentary feature film called 'The Opium War' based on the civilians' antidrug movement in the author's home place, Myanmar's Kachin state. The film mainly focuses on the antidrug movement 'Pat Jasan' organized by Myanmar civilians and which liter ... more

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Cyber-Spaces

Gerard McCarthy

In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar

Adam Simpson; Nicholas Farrelly; Ian Holliday (eds.)

London: Routledge (2018), pp. 92-105

"This chapter focuses on the role of Myanmar's fastest growing form of media—social media—in formulating notions of citizenship and nation amid Myanmar's transition. It begins with an overview of the history of mobile and internet access in Myanmar. The chapter explores the new social and politi ... more

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A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India
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Sirpa Tenhunen

New York: Oxford University Press (2018), ix, 200 pp.

"In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the ... more

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Philippines: Ignatian Pedagogy and Mindful Communication

Evans Rosauro I. Yonson

In: Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia

Kalinga Seneviratne (ed.)

New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), pp. 150-160

"This chapter will look into the Ignatian Pedagogy as it is applied in the education and practice of development communication in Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan, in the Mindanao island of the Philippines, I will try to relate how this pedagogy is related to mindful communication in the contex ... more

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Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation

Paul Clemens Murschetz, Roland Teichmann, Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2018), xxx, 666 pp.

"This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the film industry such as industry ... more

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Digital Blooms: Social Media and Violence in Sri Lanka

Sanjana Hattotuwa

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute;Alliance for Peacebuilding (2018), 12 pp.

"The policy brief outlines key snapshots of Sri Lanka’s social media landscape as it stood at the time of writing, in early August 2018, and offers some recommendations aimed at civil society’s use of social media for conflict transformation." (Abstract)

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Mapping Media Development in Myanmar

Jane Madlyn McElhone et al.

Yangon: UNESCO;International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2018), viii, 49 pp.

"This mapping of the Myanmar media development sector is informed by three activities: a status update of the recommendations in the 2016 Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar report based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators, an online survey conducted in March and April 2018, and a seri ... more

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A Study on the State of Investigative Journalism in Nepal

Prabin Dhungel

Kathmandu University, Bachelor Thesis (2018), viii, 78 pp.

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Disinformation Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe

Kyiv: Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” (Prismua);Eurasian States in Transition Research Center (EAST Center) (2018), 335 pp.

"This research is aimed at assessing national vulnerabilities and preparedness to counteract foreign-led disinformation in 14 countries of Eastern and Central Europe. The Visegrad states (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), Eastern Partnership countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia ... more

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How Influential are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales

International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231

"The increased presence of Chinese media in Africa has been the focus of much debate since the early 2010s. Discussions tend to revolve around issues of production and content, providing little evidence on the way audiences decode media messages aimed at extending China’s “soft power.” This ar ... more

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