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Ukraine Media Landscape Guide

CDAC Network;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 39 pp.

"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the current media in Ukraine, including the historical background to the media, media trends and freedoms, languages in the different media, media access and barriers for different groups in the community, audiences and their preferences. It conside ... more

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Russian and African Media: Exercising Soft Power

Cayley Clifford, Steven Gruzd

Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2022), 18 pp.

"[...] in recent years – particularly since the 2014 Ukraine conflict – Russia’s use of media to leverage broader influence campaigns has gained notoriety, both domestically and internationally. Russia’s state-owned media outlets are central to the Kremlin’s strategy and are drivers of its ... more

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Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change

Giuliana Sorce (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2022), vi, 205 pp.

"An international line-up of authors first discuss communication practices, strategies, and media uses by NGOs, providing insights into the specifics of NGO programs for social change goals and reveal particular sets of tactics NGOs commonly employ. The book then presents a set of case studies of NG ... more

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The Unfreedom Monitor: A Methodology for Tracking Digital Authoritarianism Around the World

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 71 pp.

"This briefing document provides an overview of key developments in digital authoritarianism in 11 countries and explains the theoretical framework and methodology behind The Unfreedom Monitor project. The document also provides a basis for expanding this research to other countries to deepen our un ... more

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Media Capture in Bulgaria: Hidden Alliances and Vested Interests

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2022), 30 pp.

"This report was commissioned to examine the situation of media capture in Bulgaria. It is part of a series of reports produced by the International Press Institute (IPI) looking into this phenomenon in Central Europe." (Page 4)

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Understanding RT’s Audiences: Exposure Not Endorsement for Twitter Followers of Russian State-Sponsored Media

Rhys Crilley, Marie Gillespie, Bertie Vidgen, Alistair Willis

International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 27, issue 1 (2022), pp. 220-242

"The Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) has attracted much attention as a purveyor of Russian propaganda. To date, most studies of RT have focused on its broadcast, website, and social media content, with little research on its audiences. Through a data-driven ... more

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Atlas der digitalen Arbeit: Daten und Fakten über die Beschäftigung der Zukunft

Berlin; Düsseldorf: Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund;Hans-Böckler-Stiftung (2022), 54 pp.

"Der Atlas der digitalen Arbeit blickt auf viele verschiedene Branchen: Auto, Chemie und Pharma, aber auch die Pflege und die öffentliche Hand. Es geht um grundlegende Fragen: Wie weit sind smarte Computer und Roboter in diesen Bereichen auf dem Vormarsch? Welche Folgen hat das für die Beschäftig ... more

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Diversität in Bibliotheken: Theorien, Strategien und Praxisbeispiele

Julia Hauck, Sylvia Linneberg (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), xvi, 305 pp.

"Der Vielfalt der Gesellschaft gerecht zu werden, stellt öffentliche Bibliotheken vor Herausforderungen. Der Band gibt einen Überblick zur strategischen und diskriminierungskritischen Organisationsentwicklung sowie zur Veranstaltungs- und Bestandsarbeit für diversitätssensible Öffnung. Eine Vie ... more

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Content Moderation and Local Stakeholders in Bosnia and Herzegovina

UNESCO (2022), 82 pp.

"This report explores the local-specific contextual concerns stemming from global, non-transparent, and profit-driven content moderation processes of social media. The report analyses what happens when certain local communities and countries are 'invisible' to social media platforms and illustrates ... more

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Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression: Bridging the Gap Between Social Media and Local Civil Society

Article 19;UNESCO (2022), 46 pp.

"This report presents a summary analysis of research on current practices of content moderation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Kenya, with a specific focus on 'harmful content' such as 'hate speech' and disinformation. The methodology combined desk research with qualitative interviews wit ... more

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Covid-19, Communication and Religion

Norberto González Gaitano (ed.)

Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-263

"The contributions of this special issue are grouped in three sections: context, theoretical framework and empirical research. The first articles set up two important dimensions of the context we are living in that have to be definitely improved if we want to take advantage of the positive sides of ... more

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Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists: Quadriennial Report 2018-2021

Ma’aly Hazzaz, Elisa Kirkland, Olivier Van Bockstael

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 316 pp.

"Since it first began substantial implementation in 2018, the MDP has enabled UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector to immediately respond to emerging priorities and needs affecting freedom of expression, the safety of journalists, access to information, and community media. Before its cre ... more

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The Law of Global Digitality

Matthias C. Kettemann, Alexander Peukert, Indra Spiecker (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiii, 258 pp.

"The book compares six different areas of law that have been particularly exposed to global digitality, namely laws regulating consumer contracts, data protection, the media, fnancial markets, criminal activity and intellectual property law. Comparing how these very different areas of law have evolv ... more

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The Unfreedom Monitor: Russia Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 28 pp.

"The internet gained centrality as a space of public opinion and political activity that became important for the Russian state to co-opt and control as part of the broader push for control of political elites and public perceptions as Putin and his ruling party pushed to eliminate any functioning o ... more

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Navigating Copyright for Libraries: Purpose and Scope

Jessica Coates, Victoria Owen, Susan Reilly (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), vii, 547 pp.

"This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the sign ... more

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Éducation aux médias et à l’information

Paris: Ministère de l'Eduation Nationale, de la Jenuesse et des Sports (2022), 89 pp.

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Types of Information Orientation and Information Levels Among Young and Old News Audiences

Leonie Wunderlich, Sascha Hölig

Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 3 (2022), 14 pp.

"By adapting Giddens’s structuration approach, this study aims to assess audience behavior and its relationship with journalism by comparing the use behavior and attitudes of three age groups—adolescents, young adults, and adults—as characterized by distinct media socialization and use pattern ... more

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A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation

Minna Horowitz, Stephen Cushion, Marius Dragomir, Sergio Gutiérrez, Manjón Pantti, Mervi Pantti

Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 5 (2022), pp. 843-865

"Public service media (PSM) are widely acknowledged as part of the variety of solutions to disinformation. The remit of PSM, formed around values of universality, equality, diversity, accuracy and quality, implies a responsibility to fight disinformation by producing fact-based news content and find ... more

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Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

Weertje Willms (ed.)

Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2022), x, 527 pp.

"Der vorliegende Band stellt erstmals die deutschsprachige Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in ihrer diachronen Entwicklung vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart unter Genderaspekten dar. Die Kapitel zu den einzelnen Epochen geben dabei jeweils Überblicke über die relevanten Diskurse der Zeit und stellen e ... more

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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today

Eveline G. Bouwers, David Nash (eds.)

Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), x, 303 pp.

"Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing ... more