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Digital Economies at Global Margins
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Mark Graham (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London; Ottawa: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), x, 378 pp.

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Media Influence Matrix: Pakistan. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism

Ifra Asad, Mackenzie Nelson

Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.

"With particularly low internet penetration rates, intense state censorship and heavy Chinese investment, Pakistan presents elements of an authoritarian internet culture where surveillance is a barely-questioned norm, unless probed by civil society organizations or journalists. Social media giants s ... more

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Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
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Julie Posetti, Felix Simon, Nabeelah Shabbir

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 41 pp.

"This report examines how digital-born news media in the Global South have developed innovative reporting and storytelling practices in response to growing disinformation problems. Based on field observation and interviews at Rappler in the Philippines, Daily Maverick in South Africa, and The Quint ... more

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Social Media and Political Behaviour

Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) (2019), 70 pp.

"This collaborative report between the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung analyzes the growth of online social networking sites and apps in India and their role in shaping political preferences and attitudes in the recently concluded 20 ... more

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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Afghanistan: An Assessment Based on UNESCO's Journalists' Safety Indicators

Ilias Alami, Nangyalay Tanai, Mahmood Mobarez

Paris: UNESCO;International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019), 129 pp.

"This report maps threats against journalists in Afghanistan between January and December 2017. Divided into five key indicator categories, the report first provides an overview of the safety situation of journalists in Afghanistan; followed by the discussion of the roles and responses of State and ... more

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Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
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Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare Orgeret, Nil Mutluer (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), 332 pp.

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Community Radio and Crisis Communication: A Study on the Reach and Effectiveness of Peridar Kaala Vaanoli 107.8 MHz

Mahalakshmi Selvaraj, Sunitha Kuppuswamy

Media Asia, volume 46, issue 3-4 (2019), pp. 102-116

"A community radio (CR) station stands as a lifeline for information and communication to the remote, marginalized and the most vulnerable during natural disasters like the Tamil Nadu Floods in 2015. As a result of this, a license was granted to allow the operation of an emergency community radio st ... more

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Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies: Publics See Mobile Phones and Social Media Bringing Certain Benefits to Them and Their Societies. But These Views Are Paired with Widespread Concerns About Their Impact on Children

Laura Silver, Aaron Smith, Courtney Johnson, Kyle Taylor, Jingjing Jinag, Monica Anderson, Lee Rainie

Pew Research Center (2019), 92 pp.

"Surveys conducted in 11 emerging and developing countries across four global regions [Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia; South Africa and Kenya; India, Vietnam and the Philippines; and Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon] find that the vast majority of adults in these countries own – or have access to – a ... more

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Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
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Greta Gober

International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), 2nd ed. (2019), 110 pp.

"The Handbook showcases IAWRT members’ experiences and best practices for working towards advancing gender equality in and on the media in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, India and Uganda." (Publisher description)

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The Evolving Indian Media Market: Succeeding Through Localisation

Chanpreet Arora

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 44 pp.

"India, with about 1.3 billion people, has a teledensity of 91% with 1.7 billion mobile connections and 700 million unique subscribers. There are 525 million internet users led by mobile internet. Mobile, therefore, is now the primary screen in India. It is disrupting media consumption patterns as i ... more

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Between the White House and the Kremlin: A Comparative Analysis of Afghan and Tajik Media

Wazhmah Osman

International Journal of Communication, volume 13 (2019), pp. 619-641

"In their postwar, postindependence, and post-Soviet moments, why did two neighbors, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, who share cultural, linguistic, and historical similarities, take radically divergent paths in the development of their mass media, public sphere, and democracy? In this article, I argue ... more

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Exploring Feminist Public Sphere Through Henvalvani Community Radio: An Empowerment Through Communication Approach

Shweta Anand, Archna Kumar

Media Asia, volume 46, issue 3-4 (2019), pp. 91-101

"Identification of specific contributions made by community radio for translating the rhetoric of participation and empowerment into practice requires more attention. There is also a need to conduct more theoretical and empirical studies on “women and community radio.” The study attempts to fulf ... more

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Vulnerable Landscapes: Case Studies of Violence and Disinformation

Megan Ward, Jessica L. Beyer

Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2019), 19 pp.

"Disinformation existed in the past, but the growing ubiquity of social media grants political actors increasing capacity to spread dangerous rhetoric and imagery in their pursuit of power. Incendiary content has the potential to catalyze mob violence, riots, and vigilantes taking the law into their ... more

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Recognition and Transformation: Beyond Media Discourses on the BRICS

Tom Dwyer, Olivier Arifon

Global Media and Communication, volume 15, issue 1 (2019), pp. 27-47

"Based on literature review and interviews with journalists, we argue that the BRICS countries are constructing a collective vision, guided by logics of recognition and of transformation. The production of discourse reaches its high point during the BRICS leaders’ summits. To go beyond analysis of ... more

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Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
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Beatrice Dernbach, Beate Illg (eds.)

Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.

"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of ... more

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Community Radio as Amplification of Rural Knowledge Sharing

Bridget Backhaus

Asia Pacific Media Educator, volume 29, issue 2 (2019), pp. 137-150

"Community radio’s relationship with the farming communities has a long history in India. The earliest successful experiments in community broadcasting involved both farmers and agriculture. In terms of development communication, community radio in India represents a confluence of somewhat conflic ... more

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Safety of Journalists Covering Conflict & Sensitive Issues

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Roy Krøvel (eds.)

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 103 pp.

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"Owned and conducted entirely by the native Christian community": Der "Christian Patriot" und die indigen-christliche Presse im kolonialen Indien um 1900

Klaus Koschorke

Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2019), viii, 303 pp.

"Der ‚Christian Patriot. A Journal of Social and Religious Progress‘ existierte von 1890 bis 1929 und verstand sich als „Sprachrohr“ der indisch-protestantischen Gemeinschaft Südindiens. Das Blatt befand sich in „alleinigem“ Besitz indischer Christen. Als solches eröffnet es ganz neue ... more

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Truth Vs Misinformation: The Collective Push Back. South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-19

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2019), 83 pp.

"In 2018, South Asia was declared by the IFJ as the most deadly region in the world for media workers, which most brutally demonstrates the reality faced by far too many in the industry. Nowhere was this more acutely felt than Afghanistan with eight journalists and four other media workers killed, a ... more

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Environmental Communication Among Minority Populations

Bruno Takahashi, Sonny Rosenthal (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xi, 120 pp.

Digital Economies at Global Margins Top Insights

Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism Inspiring Practice

Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression Top Insights

Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media Inspiring Practice

Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries Top Insights

Digital Economies at Global Margins
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Lessons in Innovation: How International News Organisations Combat Disinformation Through Mission-Driven Journalism
Inspiring Practice

Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
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Handbook on Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media
Inspiring Practice

Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
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