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Fake News, Information Disorder in the Digital Age

Dren Gërguri

Prishtina: [author] (2023), 140 pp.

"The book is organized into four parts. Part I presents the phenomenon of information disorder, as well as explains why the term “fake news” should be replaced with adequate terms, depending on the method and type of manipulation. Also, there are pieces focusing on ChatGPT and the possible impac ... more

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Persuasive COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns on Facebook and Nationwide Vaccination Coverage in Ukraine, India, and Pakistan

Maike Winters, Sarah Christie, Chelsey Lepage et al.

Plos Global Public Health, volume 3, issue 9 (2023), 18 pp.

"Social media platforms have a wide and influential reach, and as such provide anopportunity to increase vaccine uptake. To date, there is no large-scale, robust evidence on the offline effects of online messaging campaigns. We aimed to test whether pre-tested, persuasive messaging campaigns from UN ... more

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio

Kathryn McDonald, Hugh Chignell (eds.)

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2023), xiv, 554 pp.

"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio presents exciting new research on radio and audio, including broadcasting and podcasting. Since the birth of radio studies as a distinct subject in the 1990s, it has matured into a second wave of inquiry and scholarship. As broadcast radio has partly given way to po ... more

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Structural Racism in UK Newsrooms

Aida Al-Kaisy

Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2023), 35 pp.

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Talking about poverty: Lessons learnt

York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF);Rights Evaluation Studio (2023), ii, 98 pp.

"The Talking about Poverty (TaP) project, which ran from 2016 to 2021, aimed to develop a more effective way of communicating about UK poverty through ‘framing’ – an evidence-based communications strategy. For this project, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) worked with the FrameWorks Instit ... ute, which is a not-for-profit communications research organisation based in the United States. In 2021, a sister organisation, FrameWorks UK, was established in the United Kingdom (UK), which focuses on supporting mission-driven organisations to apply strategic communications research in practice. The TaP project set out to understand the public’s attitudes to poverty in the UK and used insight from research with 20,000 people (Volmert et al, 2016) to develop ways to talk about poverty in a more effective way. To challenge the unhelpful narratives identified in the research, the project developed an evidence-based communications strategy (‘poverty framing’) to increase the public’s understanding of UK poverty and provide support for measures to address it. [...] There are some key development areas for future framing projects such as stronger project planning and management, monitoring and evaluation, and sustainability planning. However, the TaP project made PWLE who were engaged in the project feel more hopeful about the future and confident that the project would have a positive, accumulative effect on how poverty is being talked about in public discourse, with some indications that the project may have had some influence in the media and the House of Commons. The TaP project created a buzz in the third sector and was credited with helping to build a movement, leading to a more co-ordinated sector. While we identified a need and desire to engage the third sector and PWLE earlier on in the project, the vast majority of third sector partners and allies who were engaged in our evaluation both valued and used the framing in their work, crediting the framing with adding more dignity, positivity and effectiveness to their communications. The TaP project brought hundreds of organisations together for the Keep the Lifeline campaign and provided a robust and evidence-based communications strategy for their internal staff and external allies." (Executive summary, pages 3-6) more

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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2022: Transformations in the Seriality of Ibero-American Television Fiction in Times of Streaming
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Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Juan Piñon, Catarina Duff Burnay, Rosario Sánchez Vilela (eds.)

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2022), 382 pp.

"In some of the countries, to a greater extent Spain and the Hispanic USA, fiction consistently occupies at least 40% of the programming time. This occurs in countries that, due to income levels, should be those with a higher degree of access to other sources of fiction audiovisual content, such as ... more

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Investigativ-Medien in Rumänien

Karin Finkenzeller

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Medienprogramm Südosteuropa (2022), 5 pp.

"Als Fazit ist festzuhalten, dass Investigativ-Journalisten in Rumänien mit großem Elan und Engagement bei der Arbeit sind. Sie erzählten in den Gesprächen immer wieder, dass sie die beste und sinnvollste Arbeit ihres Lebens machten. Es besteht ein großes Bedürfnis, die Dinge zum Besseren zu w ... more

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Medienumgang von Menschen ab 60 Jahren: Ergebnisse der SIM-Studie 2021

Thomas Rathgeb, Michael Doh, Florian Tremmel, Mario Jokisch, Ann-Kathrin Groß

Media Perspektiven, issue 7-8 (2022), pp. 389-402

"Die Generation der ab 60-Jährigen weist eine sehr heterogene Mediennutzung auf. Höchste Alltagsrelevanz besitzt das lineare Fernsehen. Während ein Großteil der Senioren regelmäßig online ist, zählt rund jeder Fünfte zu den Offlinern. Es zeigen sich starke Zusammenhänge zwischen soziodemogr ... more

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Communicating the Sacred: Varieties of Religious Marketing

Milos Hubina, Francis S. M. Chan (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2022), xi, 286 pp.

"This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early Christian writings, and 9th CE Cambodian inscriptions, right down ... more

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Freedom of Expression and Media Freedoms on the Eve of the Pandemic

Neven Andjelic

In: Covid-19, State-Power and Society in Europe

Neven Andjelic

Cham: Springer (2022), pp. 117-135

"The diversity of the state of media freedoms in Europe is reflected in its geography, where more liberal regimes are to be found in the north and the west of the continent where the freedoms are secured firmer in countries’ legislations, governments’ practices, and citizens’ behaviours. Some ... more

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"Liebe Liste" oder doch "bitte abmelden?" Rückblick auf 20 Jahre ib-liste als digitale (Wissenschafts-)Community

Mathis Lohaus, Michael Giesen

Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, volume 29, issue 2 (2022), pp. 40-65

"Vor etwas mehr als 20 Jahren gründeten Mitglieder der DVPW-Sektion Internationale Beziehungen eine Mailingliste. Seitdem haben Generationen von Forschenden und Studierenden die ib-liste abonniert (und sicher oft auch wieder abbestellt). Dieser Beitrag nimmt das kürzliche Jubiläum zum Anlass, die ... more

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Iron Net: Digital Repression in the Middle East and North Africa

James Lynch

London: European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (2022), 25 pp.

"Saudi Arabia and the UAE are the leading exponents of digital authoritarianism in the Middle East. The two states have intensified their collaboration with China and Israel to gain greater access to advanced technologies. The EU has responded to concerns about the risks of new technologies with a r ... more

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CANnual Report 2022: Trend Radar. The Latest in Advertising, Media and Consumer Behavior in Central and Eastern Europe

WeCAN Communications (2022), 125 pp.

"The CANnual Report 2022 follows a slightly different editorial concept than before. Since 2016, the publication featured one central topic which all creative agencies wrote about. This year however, weCAN experts write about twelve of the hottest topics in communication across the region. Five of t ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty

Sandra L. Borden (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 478 pp.

"The book is divided into five sections that examine philosophical principles for reporting on poverty, the history and nature of poverty coverage, problematic representations of people experiencing poverty, poverty coverage as part of reporting on public policy, and positive possibilities for pover ... more

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The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Bartlomiej Lódzki (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xvi, 238 pp.

"The book answers two interrelated questions: how media and communication reality changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how media and communication were effectively studied during this time. The book presents changes in media and communication in three areas: media production, ... more

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Owning the Conversation: Assessing Responses to Russian and Chinese Information Operations Around COVID-19

Vera Zakem, Edward Lucas, James Lamond

Washington, DC: Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) (2022), 32 pp.

"Russia and China have created and amplified disinformation and propaganda about COVID-19 worldwide to sow distrust and confusion and to reduce social cohesion among targeted audiences. The United States government, the European Union, and multinational organizations have developed a series of inter ... ventions in response. These include exposing disinformation, providing credible and authoritative public health information, imposing sanctions, investing in democratic resilience measures, setting up COVID-19 disinformation task forces, addressing disinformation through regulatory measures, countering emerging threat narratives from Russia and China, and addressing the vulnerabilities in the information and media environment. Digital platforms, including Twitter, Meta, YouTube, and TikTok, have stepped up to counter COVID-19 disinformation and misinformation via policy procedures, takedowns of inauthentic content, addition of new product features, and partner with civil society and multinational organizations to provide credible and reliable information to global audiences. In addition, digital platforms are addressing COVID-19-related disinformation and misinformation stemming from a variety of state and non-state actors, including China and Russia. Several of these initiatives have proven to be effective, including cross-sectoral collaboration to facilitate identification of the threat; enforcement actions between civil society, governments, and digital platforms; and investment in resilience mechanisms, including media literacy and online games to address disinformation. Despite some meaningful progress, gaps in countering COVID-19 disinformation and propaganda stemming from Russia and China and unintentional misinformation spread by everyday citizens still exist. Closing these gaps will require gaining a deeper understanding of how adversaries think; aligning and refining transatlantic regulatory approaches; building coordination and whole-of- society information-sharing mechanisms; expanding the use of sanctions to counter disinformation; localizing and contextualizing programs and technological solutions; strengthening societal resilience through media, digital literacy, and by addressing digital authoritarianism; and building and rebuilding trust in democratic institutions." (Executive summary) more

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Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights

Carlo Carvajal, José Ignacio Michaus (eds.)

New York: Columbia University, Global Freedom of Expression (2022), 25 pp.

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Nachhaltigkeit: Bericht 2022

Johannes Hoffmann, Thilo Pommerening, Benjamin Rietdorf (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle (2022), 79 pp.

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Online Russian-Language Hate and Discrimination Against Central Asian Migrants: Challenges and Ways Forward

Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2022), 16 pp.

"The Strong Cities Network (SCN) conducted an online investigation into the scale and scope of Russian-language stigmatisation and abuse of Central Asian labour migrants. Through a mixed-methods approach that combined natural-language processing technology with manual qualitative research, the SCN w ... more

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Éducation aux médias en Europe : Histoire, enjeux et perspectives

Laurence Corroy-Labardens (ed.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 214 pp.

"L'éducation aux médias apparaît comme une des clés indispensables pour comprendre nos sociétés dont les usages numériques sont devenus prépondérants. Elle intéresse le monde de l'éducation, les familles et les politiques. L'Union européenne a, ces dernières années, fortement encourag� ... more

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