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The State of Humanitarian Journalism

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.
"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not ... more
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Social Media as a Gateway for Young Feminists: Lessons from the #IWillGoOut Campaign in India

Divya Titus
Gender & Development, volume 26, issue 2 (2018), pp. 231-248
"Over New Year’s Eve in 2016, a slew of sexual assault cases against women came to light in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru. Four years prior, against the backdrop of a violent rape in the nation’s capital of Delhi, prominent feminists and activists took to the streets as part of mass public pro ... 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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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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Internationalisation of China’s Television: History, Development and New Trends

Junhao Hong, Youling Liu
In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 427-445
"In general, the internationalisation of China's television in the past several decades can be divided into four intertwined paths. The first is importing media and cultural products from other countries, which initiated the exchange of China's television with the outside world, and so far is still ... more
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Democracy Disconnected: Social Media's Caustic Influence on Southeast Asia's Fragile Republics

Brandon Paladino
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2018), 23 pp.
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Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News Production in the Philippines
Deep Insights

Jonathan Corpus Ong, Jason Vincent A. Cabañes
Newton Tech4Dev Network; University of Leeds; British Council (2018), 74 pp.
"The study explains how strategists set campaign objectives based on input from their political clients, then delegate political marketing responsibility to a team of digital influencers and fake account operators. These operators infiltrate online communities, artificially trend hashtags to hijack ... more
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Journalisme pour la paix et résolution de conflit dans les médias, tome 2 = Peace journalism and conflict resolution in the media = Periodismo de paz y resolución de conflictos en medios

Andi Faisal Bakti, Pierre Gigùere, Yves Théorêt (eds.)
Paris: Les Editions de l'Immatériel; ORBICOM (2018), 296 pp.
"Nouvel ouvrage de la collection Ecritures du Monde, cet ouvrage a été réalisé dans le cadre des rencontres annuelles des Chaires UNESCO en communication ORBICOM. Les objectifs de la rencontre annuelle étaient les suivants : 1) Identifier et analyser les conflits culturels et communicationnels ... more
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Human Rights Impact Assessment: Facebook in Myanmar

BSR (2018), 60 pp.
"Facebook commissioned BSR to undertake a human rights impact assessment (HRIA) of the company’s presence in Myanmar. BSR undertook this HRIA between May and September 2018, using a methodology based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). This assessment identifies and ... 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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Chinese International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy and Soft Power

Gary D. Rawnsley
In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 460-475
"There are five key reasons why China encounters problems in trying to manage the global conversation. First, the power and scope of conversation is not under China's control, but rather resides in the audience [...] Second, the audience's image of China is conditioned by the politics of the country ... more
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A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance

Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson
In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 217-238
"This chapter employs the cyberconflict perspective (Karatzogianni 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012a: 52-73, 2012b: 221-46; Karatzogianni and Robinson 2010) to offer an in-depth analysis of Chinese dissidents in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focusing particularly on the 2000s. A distinction is drawn ... more
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No News is Bad News Programme: Internal Mid-Term Evaluation Nepal

Free Press Unlimited (2018), 77 pp.
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New Fronts, Brave Voices: Press Freedom in South Asia 2016-17

Laxmi Murthy (ed.)
New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific; South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2017), 113 pp.
"South Asia is a region of enormous contrasts, but from the vastness of India to tiny and placid Bhutan, journalism faces several problems in common. The safety situation has improved in some of the countries that were racked by internal strife, but journalists remain at acute risk in India and Paki ... more
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The Political Economy of Media Capture: What Influences Media Capture in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and How Does This Present Opportunities and Challenges for Progress in Achieving Key Components of SDG 16?

Pamela Jiménez Cárdenas, Antony Declercq, Mandy Shi Lai, Nathan Rasquinet
London: London School of Economics (LSE), Capstone Project (2017), vii, 75 pp.
"In South Sudan, media capture, media market and audience segmentation are driven by: the ongoing civil conflict (since 2013), ethnic and linguistic divisions, a lack of rule of law, the legacy of clientelistic networks in the media and the government, a stark urban-rural divide, and a lack of infra ... more
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Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development in the Republic of Korea: Empowering Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Jobs and Sustainable Development

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2017), 58 pp.
"The Republic of Korea has been successful in investing in its people and its talents. It is now investing in the potential for the youth to be great entrepreneurs. We hope that this report will be useful to developing countries and encourage them to look into new growth opportunities and sustainabl ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.
"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more
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Media Freedom Report 2016

Khashkhuu Naranjargal, Tumurbaatar Ayushjav, Dash Munkhburen
Ulaanbaatar: Globe International Center (2017), 20 pp.
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Conflict, Trauma and the Media: A Collection of Essays

Guy Hodgson (ed.)
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017), vi, 168 pp.
"This collection of essays explores the complicated relationship between the messengers bringing news of catastrophic upheaval and the recipients of that message. It concentrates on the journalists, photographers and film-makers, reflecting not only the motivations behind their work, but also the ps ... more
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Journalists in Thailand

Yubol Benjarongkij, Smith Boonchutima
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 5 pp.
"A majority of Thai journalists viewed all roles listed in the questionnaire as very or extremely important. The roles that ranked highest included to report things as they are (88.7%), to provide analysis of current affairs (85.5%), and to be a detached observer (82.1%) (see Table 1). There was lit ... more