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State of Media and Digital Freedoms Report in Pakistan 2018

Salwa Rana, Talal Raza, Waqas Naeem

Media Matters for Democracy (2019), 37 pp.

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Of Blackouts and Bandhs: The Strategy and Structure of Disconnected Protest in India

Jan Rydzak

[author] (2019), 54 pp.

"State governments in India have executed approximately half of the world’s known network shutdowns – large-scale, deliberate disruptions of Internet connectivity, cell phone service, or social media. India is also a hotbed of collective action with widely varying degrees of organization and coo ... more

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Towards a Safer Cyberzone: A Study on Gender and Online Violence in Tamil Nadu

Geeta Ramaseshan, Sudaroli Ramasamy et al.

IT for Change (2019), 21 pp.

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Walking on Eggshells: A Study on Gender Justice and Women's Struggles in Malayali Cyberspace

J. Devika, Chithira Vijayakumar et al.

IT for Change (2019), 39 pp.

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Getting it Right Online: Young Women's Negotiations in the Face of Cyberviolence in Karnataka

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan et al.

IT for Change (2019), 52 pp.

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Born Digital, Born Free? A Socio-Legal Study on Young Women’s Experiences of Online Violence in South India

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan, Nandini Chami

IT for Change (2019), 49 pp.

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Hostile Bytes: A Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists

Hija Kamran

Media Matters for Democracy (2019), 50 pp.

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Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia

Aswin Punathambekar, Sriram Mohan (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2019), viii, 317 pp.

"Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping ho ... more

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Facebook India. Towards the Tipping Point of Violence: Caste and Religious Hate Speech

Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Abishek Kumar, Priya Nair, Josh Greely

Equality Labs (2019), 65 pp.

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Female Journalists in New Media: Experiences, Challenges and a Gendered Approach

Maham Javaid

Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) (2019), 23 pp.

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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University;ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.

"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more

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Mapping Digital Disinformation Around Elections: A Case Study of Pakistan’s 2018 General Elections

Talal Raza

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)

"The 2018 general election represented one of the first times digital disinformation occurred on a massive scale in Pakistan. This report examines different forms of disinformation that circulated online in the lead up to the 2018 elections and its impact on the country’s political discourse, and ... more

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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases

Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley (2019), ix, 246 pp.

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa ... more

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#journodefender: Turning Trolling Against Journalists on its Head

Marika Griehsel, Christer L. Pettersson et al.

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2019), 83 pp.

"This report describes and analyses how online propaganda against journalists across the world - through hate, harassment, threats and fabricated news – undermines independent reporting, sows doubt among the public and makes journalists, in particular female journalists, open for online attacks an ... more

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Afghan journalists in a balancing act: Coping with deteriorating safety

Elisabeth Eide, Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, Hasina Shirzad

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 16 pp.

"Afghan journalists have been experiencing a deteriorating situation, due to a multitude of threats. They operate in a situation of low popular literacy, as well as low media literacy. Threats from Taliban and other insurgents cause many journalists to live in constant fear. This article is based on ... more

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Safety culture changing visual representations of wars? The case of Afghanistan

Saumava Mitra

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 13 pp.

"In international conflict correspondence safety mechanisms are unequally employed to protect local news-staffs in contrast to international staffs. Arguably, this has had the greatest impact on image production from war zones, exposing local photojournalists to increased dangers. But it also raises ... more

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The Awareness of Personal and Family Security in the Crisis Reporting and Performance of Journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Sajjad Ali, Noshina Saleem, Khalid Sultan

Gomal University Journal of Research, volume 35, issue 2 (2019), pp. 13-22

"Pakistan has been declared as most dangerous country for media professionals all over the world, like, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is the riskiest place due to militancy and insurgency. For this purpose, this research has been conducted to investigate the phenomenon. The research has been conducted thr ... more

Culture of impunity and safety of journalists: Is safe journalism a distant dream in Pakistan?

Sadia Jamil

Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 1 (2019), pp. 51-66

"Pakistan’s journalists confront fatal safety risks in the line of their duty and are at the mercy of various types of pressure and extremist groups that threaten, kidnap and even murder them with almost total impunity. Despite the growing violence against journalists in Pakistan, there is a deart ... more

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Media Representations and Refugees Crises: Framing of Afghan Refugees in Mainstream Print Media of Pakistan

Sumera Batool

Pakistan Social Sciences Review, volume 3, issue 1 (2019), pp. 461-473

"The main objective of the study is to analyze the framing of Afghan refugees in print media of Pakistan and attempts to generate a substantial body of information about the role of Pakistani media in this regard and presents the issues and problems of afghan refugees after the operation of Zarb-e- ... more

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The False Information Ecosystem in India

Spandana Singh

Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 20 pp.

"Over the past few years, internet access and adoption in India has grown tremendously, giving Indians more access to the online information ecosystem than ever before. Today, India is one of the largest markets for technology platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook. However, the adoption of these t ... more