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Surveillance Infrastructure in China: Key Concepts and Mechanisms Enhancing the Party-State’s Governance Ambitions

Susan Trevaskes, Ausma Bernot

Global Media and China, volume 8, issue 3 (2023), pp. 327-342

"Surveillance infrastructure in China monitors and enables authorities to react to potential risky, miscreant or criminal behaviour. What type of behaviours are perceived to be so, is determined in large part by ideology. Therefore, surveillance infrastructure relies on the machinery of ideology to ... more

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Huawei Knowledge Transfer in Africa: Corporate Communication and Users’ Responses on Social Networks

Stefano Calzati

Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 1 (2023), pp. 77-99

"This article focuses on the launch by the Chinese company Huawei of ICT academies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and Kenya especially. Existing literature shows contrasting findings concerning the impact of such formation and recruitment centres. Through high-level thematic and sentiment analyses, th ... more

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1st EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Threats: Towards a Framework for Networked Defence
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European Union (2023), 35 pp.

"Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine dominates observed Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) activity. Ukraine and its representatives have been the direct target of 33 incidents. In 60 out of 100 incidents, supporting the invasion was the main motivation behind the attack. D ... more

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China's Institutionalised Cultural Presence in Africa: Cultural Investments, Perceptions and Implications for China-Africa Cultural Relations

Avril Joffe

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 120 pp.

"This study looks at the effects of Chinese cultural diplomacy on the African continent. While for a long time China's investments in large infrastructure projects were viewed positively, Joffe now notes a growing awareness both in civil society and in government agencies of ambivalent consequences. ... more

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China's Cultural Diplomacy in a New Era of Multilateralism: The Case of the China-Community of Latin American & Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum (CCF)

Ximena Zapata

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 195 pp.

"Cultural diplomacy has been one component of China’s foreign policy since its very foundation. However, it is only in recent decades that culture has been wielded as a tool to serve high-reaching goals commensurate with China’s rising superpower status and its capacity to contend for global heg ... more

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The Unfreedom Monitor: Hong Kong Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2023), 22 pp.

"In the global context of digital authoritarianism, Hong Kong may become an important reference for a region in which currently the legal groundwork is laid for what may be more stringent tools of oppression. We can witness a rationalisation and legalisation of this process, where any form of critic ... more

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Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives

Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Nicoletta Mandolini (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii 314 pp.

"This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the ... more

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Mundo China: The media partnership reframing China’s image in Brazil

Pablo Sebastian Morales, Paulo Menechelli

International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 63-79

"This paper explores China’s increasing media engagement with Latin American partners. It examines the case of Mundo China (MC), a China-news segment broadcast by the Brazilian news channel BandNews TV and co-produced in partnership with CCTV. By conducting content analysis, we assess how China is ... more

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Belt and Road Initiative supported co-production films: Film policy and disoriented remembrance of the Silk Road past

Pengnan Hu

International Communication Gazette, volume 48, issue 62 (2023), pp. 48-62

"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even ... more

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Communications, media and internet concentration in South Korea, 2019-2021

Dal Yong Jin, Seoyeon Park

Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMIC);Carleton University (2023), 27 pp.

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Digital Transformation in the East Asia and Pacific Region

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region (2023), 35 pp.

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China’s Media Propaganda in Africa: A Strategic Assessment

Joshua Eisenman

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2023), 23 pp.

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Politicizing for the idol: China’s idol fandom nationalism in pandemic

Yan Wang, Ting Luo

Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 2 (2023), pp. 304-320

"Chinese idol fans have been identified among the main forces in cyber nationalist activisms in recent years, acting as the nationalist fans protecting the state as an idol in response to external political shocks. Their skills in acknowledging, involving, and even reinventing the image of the state ... more

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China's Approach to Foreign Policy Gets Largely Negative Reviews in 24-Country Survey

Laura Silver, Christine Huang, Laura Clancy

Pew Research Center (2023), 66 pp.

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Changing tides in Zambian television broadcasting: Digital migration and Chinese engagement

Elastus Mambwe

Global Media and Communication, volume 19, issue 3 (2023), pp. 357-371

"This paper examines the recent shifts and debates in the organization of the television landscape following the implementation of digital migration in Zambia. It ponders Zambia’s experience in the digital migration exercise, playing particular attention to the country’s interaction with the Chi ... more

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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.

"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, ... more

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The Global Battle of Narratives: China’s Media Influence in Thailand

Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Thanapat Pekanan

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 14 pp.

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The everything everywhere censorship in China: China is exporting its model of Internet governance based on digital repression. The free world must protect our values and take back our Internet

Charles Mok

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 51 pp.

"Democracies must say no to the technologies, platforms, standards, and frameworks shrewdly proposed by China in various international fora and technical or standards bodies in order to make our Internet more like the one in China. Internet governance must be kept open and participatory for all stak ... more

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Beyond Self-Censorship: Hong Kong’s Journalistic Risk Culture under the National Security Law

Francis Lee

China Journal, volume 90 (2023), pp. 129-153

"Professional and liberal-oriented news media in Hong Kong have been under severe political pressure since the establishment of the National Security Law in 2020. Journalists now have to navigate a more dense and uncertain legal minefield. Self-censorship has intensified. This article argues that se ... more

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India: Trailblazer in Tech-Emancipation from China

Nikhil Pahwa

New Delhi: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2023), 39 pp.

"Over the past few years, India has taken decisive steps to reduce its dependence on Chinese technology and investments. This was triggered by border skirmishes with China in 2020, but built on longstanding national security concerns about China, given the history of conflict between the two countri ... more

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