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Collective Trauma

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31
"If a society does not come to terms with horrific atrocities of the past, tensions may fast escalate into new strife. People must know the truth. The causes of violence must be spelt out and the perpetrators must be named. Otherwise, a new sense of mutual trust cannot grow. Such trust is needed for ... more
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Governing the Interlinkages Between the SDGs: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges

Anita Breuer, Daniele Malerba, Srinivasa Srigiri, Pooja Balasubramanian (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 247 pp.
"The book [...] examines the dedicated policies targeting the SDGs, as well as political and institutional drivers of synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs in selected key areas – both cross-nationally and in specific country contexts. Their analysis moves beyond the focus on links between SDG ... more
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Media Capture Strategies in an Islamic Authoritarian Context: The Case of the Taliban

Faisal Karimi
Human Rights Institute (2023), 43 pp.
"This paper explores the Taliban government's media capture strategies since retaking the country on August 15, 2021, and how journalists and media outlets have responded to these strategies. In particular, it focuses on the Taliban government's approach to the media, given the recent political tran ... more
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‘No difference between journalism and suicide’: Challenges for journalists covering conflict in Balochistan

Sidra Agha, Márton Demeter
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 3 (2023), pp. 344-363
"The safety of journalists reporting from conflict zones is a complex issue as they are exposed to a variety of challenges on a daily basis. This research aims to identify those multi-dimensional challenges that make Balochistan one of the world’s riskiest places for journalists. Based on 30 in-de ... more
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Deep Dive: How The Hindu Built its Subscription Business

Neha Gupta
World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), August 2 (2023)
"The Hindu Group (THG), a 143-year-old old legacy news brand, dove into subscriptions in 2019. The Hindu approached subscriptions with the mindset of revenue optimisation while being agnostic to the source." (Summary)
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Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital

Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer, Koonal (eds.) Duggal
London: UCL Press (2023), xvii, 452 pp.
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Impacts of Social Media on Public Policy Development in pre-Taliban Afghanistan

Hazrat Bahar
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 13, issue 2 (2023), 19 pp.
"The impacts of media, mainly social media, have attracted greater scholarly attention. However, their effects on public policy development and the decision-making procedure of a government have not been examined so far. Thus, this study examines such effects in pre-Taliban Afghanistan before August ... more
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The Digital Transformation of Small and Micro-Businesses in Bangladesh

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (2023), iii, 43 pp.
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Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to Covid-19

Nils Ringe, Lucio Renno (eds.)
London; New York, NY: Routledge (2023), xx, 299 pp.
"Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the Covid-19 pandemic, in terms of their attitudes, rhetoric, mobilization repertoires, and policy proposals. The responses of some populist leaders have received much publ ... more
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Bangladesh

Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, Raiyan Kabir, Connor Mackenzie, Olga Morawczynski
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 116 pp.
"The Bangladesh Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the Bangladesh DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Bangladesh's digital ecosystem and provides 10 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by ... more
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Media coverage in question: Shining light in renewables

Abu Siddique, Miraj Ahmed Chowdhury
Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2023), 30 pp.
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Early Radio in Late Colonial India: Historiography, Geography, Audiences

Vebhuti Duggal, Christin Hoene
In: Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn David Smith (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 199-219
"Tracing the institutional history of the radio allowed scholars in the past to analyse the radio as an instrument of the colonial government in India and to show, for example, how the radio in the Indian subcontinent was deployed as part of the British Empire’s propaganda in the colony. As Gupta ... more
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Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Marijke de Valck, Antoine Damiens (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 342 pp.
"This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can't happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution ... more
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Nielsen BookScan Internacional - Informe trimestral, T5 2022

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2023), 27 pp.
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Monetizing Misogyny: Gendered Disinformation and the Undermining of Women’s Rights and Democracy Globally

Lucina Di Meco
#ShePersisted (2023), 34 pp.
"This research aims to understand the patterns, impact and modus operandi of gendered disinformation campaigns against women in politics in Brazil, Hungary, India, Italy and Tunisia. The case studies explore how gendered disinformation has been used by political movements, and at times the governmen ... more
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Pressure & Polarisation: Powering Media Resistance in South Asia

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2023), 23 pp.
"In this report we explore the complex interface between power and the fundamental human rights of press freedom and freedom of expression. We also document the challenges for media and attacks to journalists in this time, including at least 140 violations, including killings, jailings, legal harass ... more
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Pandemic, politics, and the safety of journalists: Downward spiral of press freedom in India

Sanviti Iyer, Mochish KS
Review of Communication, volume 23, issue 3 (2023), pp. 210-227
"According to the 2023 World Press Freedom Index rankings by the RSF, India ranks 161 out of 180 countries. One of the important indicators that the index bases the ranking on is the level of violence against the journalists and their overall safety. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian governme ... more
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"No Internet Means no Work, no Pay, no Food": Internet Shutdowns Deny Access to Basic Rights in "Digital India"

Human Rights Watch (2023), 109 pp.
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Community Radio in Bhutan

Urszula Doliwa, Szymon Zylinski
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 227-251
"We look at community media in Bhutan from three important perspectives – the concept of community media in general, a modified self-evaluation tool developed by UNESCO Chair on Community Media, Vinod Pavarala, and the Gross National Happiness index where we show in what way community media may co ... more
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Reporting on Sexual Violence in the #MeToo Era

Andrea Baker, Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 207 pp.
"Bringing together 15 journalism scholars from around the world, this book explores and offers solutions to the common issues and inadequacies of reporting on sexual violence in the media. Presenting a range of conceptual, methodological, and empirical chapters, the book tackles issues related to, o ... more