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Provocative images in contemporary Islam

David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt, Mark R. Westmoreland, Bart Barendregt (eds.)
Leiden: Leiden University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s ... more
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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India

Ihsan Yilmaz (ed.)
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.
"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ ... more
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People vs. ‘god of plague’: Socialist China’s anti-zoonotic campaign media as environmental media

Yiman Wang
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 4, issue 1 (2023), pp. 147-166
"This article cross-pollinates environmental media studies with socialist China’s anti-snail fever campaign media, including two 1965 science education films, a 1961 song book, all entitled ‘Song wensheng’ (‘Sending away god of plague’), and a 1970 'Chijiao yisheng shouce' (‘The handbook ... more
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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South

Margit van Wessel, Tiina Kontinen, Justice Nyigmah Bawole (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.
"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci ... more
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Mobile internet and income improvement: Evidence from Vietnam

Trang Thi Pham
Maastricht: Maastricht Economic and social Research institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT) (2023), 49 pp.
"Focusing on the arrival of mobile Internet in the early 2010s in developing countries, we identified significant positive effects of mobile Internet on provinces’ average household income in Vietnam. The effect sizes are larger for lower-income quintiles groups and for rural areas, suggesting the ... more
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Staatliche Cyberkonflikte: Proxy-Strategien von Autokratien und Demokratien im Vergleich

Kerstin Zettl-Schabath
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 424 pp.
"Welche Rolle spielen nichtstaatliche Akteure, sogenannte "Proxys", in staatlichen Cyberkonflikten? Und wie unterscheidet sich regimetypenspezifisch das (De-)Eskalationsmanagement? Kerstin Zettl-Schabath vergleicht mithilfe eines umfassenden Datensatzes für die Jahre 2000-2019 die staatlichen Cyber ... more
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Dying to tell a story: The role of Citizen Journalists in Myanmar

Thu Thu Aung
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 32 pp.
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Digital Entrepreneurship in Vietnam’s Green Tech Sector: An Analysis of Challenges and Implications

Pablo Perez Akaki, Mohammad Atif Aleem, Arturo Sánchez Carmona et al.
Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2023), 18 pp.
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Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

Joshua Kurlantzick
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), 561 pp.
"Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizi ... more
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Fairwork Indonesia Ratings 2023: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
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The Development of Digital Skill Path for MSMEs

Zahra K. N. Murad, Fadhila Maulida, Janaska Nurrachmat et al.
Digital Transformation Center (DTC); Make-IT Indonesia; GIZ Indonesia (2023), xii, 76 pp.
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Regional Action Plan: Improving gender sensitivity approaches for media stakeholders Southeast Asia

Public Media Alliance (2023), 12 pp.
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The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2023), xxx, 522 pp.
"The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field. Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edit ... 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 Discourse Power: Capabilities and Impact

Kenton Thibaut
Washington, DC: Atlantic Council (2023), 40 pp.
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The Representation of Rural Christianity in the Films of Gan Xiao’er

Jing Li
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 101-125
"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t ... 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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The Unfreedom Monitor: Myanmar Country Report

Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2023), 18 pp.
"By learning about both the repression and resistance sides of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, it is evident that digital technology is playing a critical role in this revolution. The military is using every possible technology to repress people, inject fear into society and manipulate it. The revolu ... more
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Histories of Children's Television Around the World
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Yuval Gozansky (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2023), viii, 288 pp.
"This edited book based on a collective effort of researchers and professionals dedicated to compile the stories of children's television around the world. With 12 national chapters, the book includes historical accounts of children's television from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canad ... more
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Tweeting for Religion: How Indonesian Islamic Fundamentalist Organizations Use Twitter

Achmad Sulfikar, Peter Kerkhof, Martin Tanis
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 1-16
"This study investigates how Islamic fundamentalists groups in Indonesia use Twitter to communicate with their stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. Based on previous work, three main functions of the use of social media by organizations were examined: spreading information, building and mai ... more