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Chinese Media Engagement with Africa and the Role of African Agency: The Cases of Kenya and Ethiopia

Hangwei Li
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP); German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS); IfW Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2024), 8 pp.
"This policy brief reveals the complexity of Chinese media engagement with African countries, highlighting involvement from both state and private actors through a variety of forms. At its core, China aims to champion its development paradigm as a viable alternative to Western models, augment its so ... more
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‘Living in a post-truth era’? Online misinformation in everyday life in rural and urban China

Pu Yan, Ralph Schroeder
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 21 pp.
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Edtech platforms from below: A family ethnography of marginalized communities and their digital learning post-pandemic

Kiran Vinod Bhatia, Payal Arora, Siddhi Gupta
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Privacy cynicism and diminishing utility of state surveillance: A natural experiment of mandatory location disclosure on China’s Weibo

Yuner Zhu
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 17 pp.
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Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan’s open government data policy in the 2010s

Terrence Ting-Yen Chen
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 12 pp.
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China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda

Richard Heeks, Angelica Valeria Ospina, Christopher Foster, Pin Gao, Xia Han et al.
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"At the intersection of China’s growing global presence and growing digital power lies its digital expansion in the low- and middle-income countries of the Global South. Worth billions of US$ annually in trade and investment, and having a significant impact on these countries’social and economic ... more
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Strukturwandel der (massenmedialen) Öffentlichkeit in Afghanistan 2001–2021

Kefa Hamidi
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Matthew Abud, Zevonia Vieira
ABC International Development; Asia Foundation (2024), 77 pp.
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Coping with Hate: Exploring Indian Journalists’ Responses to Online Harassment

Prashanth Bhat
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 2 (2024), pp. 337-355
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The Routledge companion to freedom of expression and censorship

John Steel, Julian Petley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xvi, 420 pp.
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Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice

Henning Melber, Uma Kothari, Laura Camfield, Kees Biekart (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 260 pp.
"This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice. Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can b ... more
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Media Market Analysis: Armenia

Internews; Zinc Network; USAID (2024), 42 pp.
"●The Armenian media market is defined by diversity, polarization and the struggle between financial stability and editorial independence. ● Greater understanding of Armenian media audiences and where they can be reached will strengthen independent media’s ability to achieve impact. The tran ... more
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Intercultural communication competence and classroom interaction among teachers and students in a tertiary institution in Timor Leste: Building an enhanced model and policy framenwork

Kasmir Nema
Los Baños: University of the Philippines Los Baños, Doctoral Thesis (2024), xiii, 391 pp.
"This study examined the Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) of teachers and students at a Catholic school in Timor Leste using Zhong et al.'s (2013) developmental model. Employing a mixed-methods design, data were collected via the ICC Self-Rating Scale (ICCRS) survey, focus group discussi ... more
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Decoding Social Media’s Role in Taliban 2.0 and its Implications for Afghan Youth

Muhammad Akram, Asim Nasar, Shama Perveen
Honolulu: East-West Center (2024), 8 pp.
"The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021 after two decades of fighting on the ground and manipulating narratives online, particularly on social media. Their tactical use of social media was more evident in 2021 when they were advancing their territorial gains and posting on social ... more
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Challenges and choices: Afghan women's media use and preferences amidst restrictions

London: BBC Media Action (2024), 2 pp.
"While most adult Afghans have access to some form of media platform, only around one in three have access to internet, with less than half of mobile users owning a smartphone. Men exhibit higher usage of radio and internet compared to women (52% male vs 43% female for radio and 36% vs 29% for inter ... more
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Die Frau, die Frauen eine Stimme gibt

Katja Hanke
welt-sichten, issue 3 (2024), pp. 64-65
"Sie stammt aus einfachen Verhältnissen vom Land, doch heute ist die gerade mal 24 Jahre alte Noeun Sreynoch Moderatorin und Programmmacherin beim Sender „Women‘s Radio“ in Phnom Penh. In ihren Sendungen geht es vor allem um die Anliegen von Frauen und soziale Themen." (Einleitung)
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Intimidation, Repression and Censorship: The Status of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression in Afghanistan

Rawadari (2024), 26 pp.
"The Taliban have revoked and suspended laws that included the right to access information and freedom of expression, and currently there is no effective legal mechanism to protect media outlets and journalists against interference and intimidation. This has led to widespread violation of the right ... more
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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Heidi Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag ... more
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A Dalit religion online: Clashing sensoryscapes and remote ethnographies behind the screen

Carola Erika Lorea, Aditi Mukherjee, Dishani Roy
Dialectical Anthropology, volume 48 (2024), pp. 83-112
"A Bengali Dalit religion called Matua emerged in the nineteenth century in East Bengal. It counts tens of millions of followers across the Bay of Bengal and the Indo–Bangladesh border. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Matua religious gatherings were shifted online. This paper asks what happened to mul ... more
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AI Adopition in Bangladeshi Newsrooms 2024

Maliha Tabassum
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI); Asia Foundation (2024), 40 pp.