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Combating Bullets With a Pen: The Importance of Free Media and the Safety of Journalists for Building a Public Sphere for Democracy in Pakistan

Fahad Mahmood
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 54-71
"Journalists have always faced restrictions on their freedom of speech and threats to their security in Pakistan. During Pakistan's 2018 general elections, the country's media was also managed and controlled to create a maligned public-sphere to misguide the Pakistani voters. Public sphere was malig ... more
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Bangladesh Right to Information (RTI) Survey 2019

Washington, DC: World Bank (2020), viii, 123 pp.
"The Right to Information (RTI) Survey was conducted between January and March of 2019. The survey was split into five segments: a) a survey among 768 Designated Officers (DOs) in 64 districts, b) a survey among 768 Heads of Office covering both government and non-government organizations (NGOs) in ... more
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The Contagion of Hate in India

Laxmi Murthy
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 23 pp.
"This paper attempts to understand the phenomenon of hate speech and its potential to legitimise discrimination and promote violence against its targets. It lays out the interconnections between Islamophobia, hate speech and acts of physical violence against Muslims. The role of social media, especi ... more
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Murders, Harassment and Assault: The Tough Wages of Journalism in Pakistan. Pakistan Press Freedom Report 2019-20

Freedom Network (2020), 15 pp.
"At least 91 cases of attacks and violations against media and its practitioners, including journalists, took place in Pakistan over the course of one year — between May 2019 and April 2020 — signifying a worryingly escalating climate of intimidation and harassment that is adversely affecting th ... more
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Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia

Markus Schleiter, Erik de Maaker (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xiv, 281 pp.
"How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous c ... more
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Digital Hinduism

Xenia Zeiler (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), 283 pp.
"Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how Hi ... more
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Understanding Misinformation on Mobile Instant Messengers (MIMs) in Developing Countries
Deep Insights

Irene V. Pasquetto, Eaman Jahani, Alla Baranovsky, Matthew A. Baum
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2020), 27 pp.
"We conducted a mixed-methods research project in Nigeria, India, and Pakistan consisting of surveys, survey experiments, and semi-structured interviews, to better understand the spread and impact of misinformation, and in particular of misinformation on mobile messaging apps (MIMs). One of our goal ... more
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MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
Deep Insights

Ke Zhang, Curtis J. Bonk, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2020), xxx, 358 pp.
"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveragi ... more
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Missing in action: Experiences of women with climate journalism

Zofeen Ebrahim
Oxfam Pakistan (2020), 20 pp.
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Female Journalists’ Experience of Online Harassment: A Case Study of Nepal

Samiksha Koirala
Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 47-56
"This study examines the experiences of female journalists in Nepal in the context of rapidly growing expansion of broadband Internet. By examining the findings of the qualitative in-depth interview of 48 female journalists, it argues that online platforms are threatening press freedom in Nepal, mai ... more
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Fact-Checking and Source Verification Manual in Times of COVID-19: Journalists and Media Organizations

Maryam Saeed, Seerat Khan, Muhammad Usman
Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2020), 50 pp.
"Without proper training in digital news verification, the dissemination of misinformation is both rapid and disastrous. Journalists are often processing a massive amount of information through social media with very little time to verify it--this presents unique challenges for journalists working w ... more
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Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage

Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship ... more
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Peace Journalism for Conflict Reporting: Insights from Pakistan

Shabir Hussain
Journalism Practice, volume 14, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-16
"This study proposes a classification framework for conflict journalism with respect to its potential for conflict escalation and de-escalation in Pakistan—a country marred by a number of deadly conflicts. While building on the existing literature, the study proposes the varying levels of intensit ... more
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Ideological Shift, Public Support and Social Media: The 'new' in Kashmir's 'new Militancy'

Khalid Shah
New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (2020), 42 pp.
"The new militant movement in Kashmir, which began with Burhan Wani in the southern areas, has escalated the conflict in the Valley. While militancy is not new in Kashmir, the Pulwama attack put the conflict back on the radar of the international community. This paper examines the changing nature of ... more
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Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

Tripta Chandola
Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.
"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of ... more
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In Full View: Creatively Tackling Sanitation in India

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 14 pp.
"Navrangi Re! (Nine To A Shade), a 26–episode television drama series was created to take the discussion on e Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) to mainstream audiences, beyond the domain of infrastructure and technology. It was the result of a unique partnership between a donor (the Bill & Melinda Ga ... more
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Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach

Preeti Raghunath
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 382 pp.
"The book draws on critical media policy studies, to study the principles and performances of policies and policymaking for community radio in four countries of South Asia---Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. It focuses on the processes and practices of deliberation that go into policymaking, ... more
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Digital Citizenship Toolkit
Key Guides

Nalaka Gunawardene (ed.)
MinorMatters; National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (2020), xiv, 185 pp.
"This Digital Citizenship Toolkit (DCT) is an attempt to introduce key concepts related to digital citizenship while taking into account the local socio-economic realities, technology adoption patterns, societal actions and other considerations. For young people, in particular, the demarcation betwe ... more
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A Study on Open Voice Data in Indian Languages

BizAugmentor Global Services
Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 56 pp.
"This research aims at finding the current state of (open) voice datasets in Indian languages, including information about their volume, quality, mode of collection, and availability. The present research also explores the challenges for the creation and maintenance of open voice datasets in India. ... more
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Farmers' Protest: Digital Activism on Facebook

Beulah Rachel Rajarathnamani
Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 47-54
"This study analyses the content of the messages on the Facebook Page 'Support for Farmers' from the premise of Habermas's 'Public Sphere'. The results show that the discussions in support of the farmers' protest on Facebook galvanized the public interest on the problematic issues faced by farmers a ... more