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Food, Nutrition and the Media

Valentina Marinescu (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 323 pp.

"Placed at the crossroads of diverse disciplines – medical sciences, information and communication science, sociology of food, agricultural sciences – this book focuses on media, food and nutrition. Contributors to this volume come from different countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, ... more

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The Media of Memory

Marusa Pusnik, Oto Luthar (eds.)

Paderborn: Schöningh (2020), x, 245 pp.

"This book explores the nexus of media and memory practices in contemporary Slovenia. In the age of mediatised societies, the country’s post-socialist, post-Yugoslav present has become saturated with historical revisionism and various nostalgic framings of the past. Pušnik and Luthar have collect ... more

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Pillars of Russia's Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State (2020), 76 pp.

"Russia has operationalized the concept of perpetual adversarial competition in the information environment by encouraging the development of a disinformation and propaganda ecosystem that allows for varied and overlapping approaches that reinforce each other even when individual messages within the ... system appear contradictory. This ecosystem reflects both the sources of disinformation and propaganda—official government statements, state-funded media outlets, proxy websites, bots, false social media personas, cyber-enabled disinformation operations, etc.—and the different tactics that these channels use. Russia’s willingness to employ this approach provides it with three perceived advantages. First, it allows for the introduction of numerous variations of the same false narratives. This allows for the different pillars of the ecosystem to fine tune their disinformation narratives to suit different target audiences because there is no need for consistency, as there would be with attributed government communications. Second, it provides plausible deniability for Kremlin officials when proxy sites peddle blatant and dangerous disinformation, allowing them to deflect criticism while still introducing pernicious information. Third, it creates a media multiplier effect among the different pillars of the ecosystem that boost their reach and resonance. The media multiplier effect can, at times, create disinformation storms with potentially dangerous effects for those Russia perceives as adversaries at the international, national, and local level. In the past, Russia has leveraged this dynamic to shield itself from criticism for its involvement in malign activity. This approach also allows Russia to be opportunistic, such as with COVID-19, where it has used the global pandemic as a hook to push longstanding disinformation and propaganda narratives [...] This report provides a visual representation of the ecosystem described above, as well as an example of the media multiplier effect it enables. This serves to demonstrate how the different pillars of the ecosystem play distinct roles and feed off of and bolster each other. The report also includes brief profiles of select proxy sites and organizations that occupy an intermediate role between the pillars of the ecosystem with clear links to Russia and those that are meant to be fully deniable." (Pages 5-7) more

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Media Literacy in a Disruptive Media Environment

William G. Christie, Belinha S. De Abreu (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2020), 338 pp.

"This book, part of the BEA Electronic Media Research Series, brings together top scholars researching media literacy and lays out the current state of the field in areas such as propaganda, news, participatory culture, representation, education, social/environmental justice, and civic engagement. T ... more

Russian Dominance on Moldovan Media Market Prevails

Hendrik Sittig, Darija Fabijanic

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 3 pp.

"Due to its Soviet past, the Russian influence in the Republic of Moldova is still very significant. The country is divided between European integration and Russian convergence. After the government of the pro-European coalition ACUM leaded by Maia Sandu and the pro-Russian Party of Socialists (PSRM ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism

David B. Sachsman, JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp.

"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism
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Agnes Gulyas, David Baines (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xxiii, 497 pp.

"Offering a collection of invited contributions from scholars across the world, the volume is structured in seven parts, each exploring a particular aspect of local media and journalism that provide the framework to bring together and consolidate the latest research and theorisations from the field, ... more

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Migration Coverage in Europe’s Media: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage in 17 Countries

Susanne Fengler, Marcus Kreutler

Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2020), 56 pp.

"Our analysis shows that the mediated debates about migration in Western and Eastern Europe are more differentiated, and less stereotypical, as often assumed. Indeed, coverage in media outlets in Western Europe feature more positive aspects and speakers compared to the outlets in Central and Eastern ... more

Communication publique, espace et citoyennete

Catherine Ghosn, Mohamed Bendahan, Aissa Merah (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 290 pp.

El tratamiento informativo de la trata de niñas y niños con fines de explotación sexual: Decálogo de buenas prácticas para medios de comunicación

Jessica Rodríguez García, Selma Fernández Vergara

FAPMI;ECPAT (2020), 39 pp.

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Evaluación de las competencias digitales de estudiantes de educación obligatoria: Diseño, validación y presentación de la prueba Ecodies

Ana Iglesias Rodríguez, Azucena Hernández Martín (eds.)

Barcelona: Octaedro (2020), 232 pp.

"El imparable progreso tecnológico, los nuevos dispositivos electrónicos que se van incorporando al mercado, a la sociedad y a los centros educativos, demandan la adquisición y desarrollo de competencias digitales sólidas entre los ciudadanos. Dado que es en la etapa de Educación Obligatoria cu ... more

Los desafíos de la cobertura ambiental en tiempos de crisis
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Chasqui: Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación (Quito), volume 144 (2020), pp. 11-238

The state of the media in the Visegrad countries

Dániel Mikecz (ed.)

Republikon Institute (2020), 47 pp.