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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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TikTok and WeChat: Curating and Controlling Global Information Flows

Fergus Ryan, Audrey Fritz, Daria Impiombato
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 68 pp.
"The Chinese state has demonstrated a propensity for controlling and shaping the information environment of the Chinese diaspora—including via WeChat. The meteoric growth of TikTok has now put the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a position from which it can shape the information environment on a ... more
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Beijing’s Global Megaphone: The Expansion of Chinese Communist Party Media Influence Since 2017

Sarah Cook
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 29 pp.
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A digital scramble for Africa: US, EU and Chinese influences on internet regulation in Africa and their effects on freedom of expression and the right to privacy

David Fischer
Coimbra: University of Coimbra, European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, Master Thesis (2020), 91 pp.
"Divisive Internet regulation is fragmenting the formerly worldwide web into numerous shards that follow their own rules. The US, the EU and China are influential in shaping regulation even beyond their own jurisdictions, with consequences for human rights, particularly in Africa. This paper argues ... more
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China’s Digital Silk Road: Strategic Implications for the EU and India

Richard Ghiasy, Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy
New Delhi: Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) (2020), 25 pp.
"This paper offers a big-picture analysis of the Chinese Digital Silk Road’s (DSR) three most strategically pressing implications for the EU and India. It does so by analysing the DSR’s global progress and specific impacts in Europe and South Asia. The three implications are: a) the creation of ... more
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Whose Voices? How Media Policy Shapes Minority Language Radio in Taiwan

Ya-Chi Chen
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 40-56
"This article explores the interaction between media policy and the development of minority language media, in this case, Hakka language radio stations. It examines how media policy has been caught between neo-liberal economic development and election politics and delineates the extent to which medi ... more
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The lesser evil? Public opinion towards regulating fake news in three Asian countries

John W. Cheng, Hitoshi Mitomo, Youngkyoung Seo, Artima Kamplean
Paper presented at ITS Online Event, 14-17 June 2020, International Telecommunications Society (ITS) (2020), 15 pp.
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ICT Aid Flows from China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective

Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25
"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014 ... more
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Communicating Science: A Global Perspective
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Toss Gascoigne, Bernard Schiele, Joan Leach, Michelle Riedlinger, Bruce V. Lewenstein, Luisa Massarani, Peter Broks (eds.)
Canberra: Australian National University (ANU) Press (2020), xi, 982 pp.
"This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did ... more
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Communication, Development and Social Participation in China

Yuezhi Zhao, Jing Wu (eds.)
Javnost: The Public, volume 27, issue 2 (2020), pp. 97-209
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The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics

Lee Wilkins, Clifford G. Christians (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2020), xv, 534 pp.
"This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social sci ... more
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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: How People in Six Countries Access and Rate News and Information About Coronavirus

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher, Nic Newman, J. Scott Brennen, Philip N. Howard
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 34 pp.
"In this report, we use survey data collected in late March and early April 2020 to document and understand how people in six countries (Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 in the early stages of the global pandemic, how they rate ... more
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COVID-19 Foreign Influence Campaigns: Europe and the Global Battle of Narratives

Naja Bentzen
Brussels: European Parliament (2020), 8 pp.
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initially concealed information about the spread of the virus. Research suggests that they thereby delayed measures to alleviate the spread of the disease. At the same time, the CCP launched far-reaching efforts to silence domestic criticism. The CCP's efforts to r ... more
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National Environmental Education and Communication Strategy for the Protected Areas System in Mongolia

Manfred Oepen
ACT Assist; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 24 pp.
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Gesandt, um zu kommunizieren: Ein Medien-Priester funkt in Asien. Interview

John Mishen, Marita Wagner
Forum Weltkirche, volume 139, issue 4 (2020), pp. 24-29
"Bereits in jungen Jahren konnte sich John Mishen für die Medien begeistern und hörte sich gemeinsam mit seinen Großeltern die täglichen Radiosendungen von Radio Veritas Asia an, bis er als Seminarist dann selbst vor dem Mikrofon des großen katholischen Radiosenders in Asien stand. Als Dozent f ... more
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Digital Democracy

International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 36, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-68
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Rethinking China’s Global ‘Propaganda’ Blitz

Falk Hartig
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3-18
"China’s global communication activities are mainly perceived as sinister propaganda to mislead international audiences, and related discussions exemplify Western unease about China’s global communication efforts. While not trivializing these efforts, this article objects to some of the assessme ... more
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Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences

Hyejung Ju
Lanham, MD et al.: Lexington Books (2020), vii, 131 pp.
"Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audience provides previously absent analyses of Korean TV dramas' transnational influences, peculiar production features, distribution, and consumption to enrich the contextual understanding of Korean TV's transcultural mobility. Ev ... more
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Retweeting Through the Great Firewall: A Persistent and Undeterred Threat Actor

Jacob Wallis, Tom Uren, Elise Thomas, Albert Zhang, Samantha Hoffman, Lin Li, Alex Pascoe, Danielle Cave
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2020), 56 pp.
"This report analyses a persistent, large-scale influence campaign linked to Chinese state actors on Twitter and Facebook. This activity largely targeted Chinese-speaking audiences outside of the Chinese mainland (where Twitter is blocked) with the intention of influencing perceptions on key issues, ... more
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De-Westernizing Visual Communication and Cultures: Perspectives from the Global South

Thomas Herdin, Maria Faust, Guo-Ming Chen (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020), 225 pp.
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ... more