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Labelling Fake News: The Politics of Regulating Disinformation in Thailand

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Perspective (ISEAS), issue 34 (2022), 14 pp.

"In Thailand, determining what news is true or fake appears to be a political matter. The Thai authorities associate "fake news" with public harm and as a national threat, giving rise to stringent regulatory responses. Official hostility toward "fake news" is influenced by virulent political conflic ... more

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Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media

Jennifer Pan

China Leadership Monitor, issue 72 (2022), 10 pp.

"Nowhere is the effort to control the flow of digital information more extensive and sustained than it is in China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses a wide range of tools and strategies to achieve two related, but distinct, goals of digital information control: to shape public knowledge and to ... more

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Their Story. Research: How Indonesian Media Views Non-Normative Sexuality and Genders (LGBT)

Widia Primastika, Nurhajati Lestari, Dina Listiorini, Marina Nasution, Luviana, Reka Kajaksana

Jakarta: Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI);USAID (2022), 134 pp.

"This study by Konde.co with the support of Internews was conducted with the objective of uncovering Indonesian media newsroom policies with regards to issues related to individuals or groups with diverse gender expression and non-normative sexuality, which are collectively labeled as "LGBT". In thi ... more

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Chinese Crisis Communication in the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discourse Analysis of 'People’s Daily' News Articles in Response to Threatening International News Coverage

Maximilian Ernst, Cesare Scartozzi, Ceinwen Thomas, Wang Yigong

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 169-193

"This paper examines China’s international communication strategy during the initial phase of the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the spring of 2020, Western governments and media began criticising the systematic lack of transparency and accountability in the Chinese political system in relation to t ... more

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China's Propaganda on the War in Ukraine

Maria Repnikova

China Leadership Monitor, issue 22 (2022), 13 pp.

"Although China's official position on the war has been that of neutrality-not aligning with the West against Russia and not directly supporting Russia's war in Ukraine-its communications about the war, in particular its propaganda via state media and Foreign Ministry spokespeople have carried a mor ... more

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The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People’s Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis

Isabella Jackson, Siyi Du

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 194-218

"History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people’s understanding of their nation’s modern history, as revealed on the popular microblogging site SinaWeibo. We analysed ... more

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Comparing Impacts on Media Freedom in Southeast Asia: Connotative Context Factors in Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand

Melanie Radue

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 2 (2022), pp. 157-179

"Cross-national media freedom comparison is often based on Western-biased indices published by organizations such as Freedom House or Reporters Without Borders. Additionally, Eurocentric analysis and comparison are endorsed by the application of hegemonic media systems models to compare media enviro ... more

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Counter-Hegemonic Collaborations or Alliances of the Underdogs? The Case of TeleSUR with Al-Mayadeen, RT and CGTN

Pablo Sebastian Morales

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 365-382

"This study explores how news channels from the Global South challenge western narratives by co-producing TV programmes. It focuses on Telesur (Venezuela) and its collaborations with RT (Russia), Al-Mayadeen (Lebanon) and CCTV/CGTN (China). By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this pap ... more

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Media Usage and Political Trust Among Young Adults in China: The Role of Media Credibility, Trust in Sources and Political Membership

Qiong Gong, Marc Verboord, Yijing Wang

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 301-321

"On the basis of an online survey conducted among young Chinese adults, this study examines how the association between media usage and political trust can be explained by three factors: the mediating roles of the perceived credibility of traditional and social media; the moderating roles of trust i ... more

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Digital Nationalism Versus Gender Politics in Post-Reform China: Gender-Issue Debates on Zhihu

Altman Yuzhu Peng

Global Media and Communication, volume 18, issue 3 (2022), pp. 281-299

"This article aims to determine how digital nationalism influences gender politics in the context of gender-issue debates on Chinese social media platforms. To this end, I present an original case study, collecting empirical data from the most popular Chinese community question-answering (CQA) websi ... more

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TikTok/Douyin Use and its Influencer Video Use: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Chinese and US Users

Yang Yang

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 2 (2022), pp. 339-368

"This cross-cultural comparison study between China and the US aimed to examine the short video-sharing social media platform, TikTok/Douyin, particularly its use in the two countries. Because China and the US have some evident differences in cultural values, they are ideal for cross-cultural compar ... more

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Misinformation, infighting, backlash, and an ‘endless’ recovery: Policymakers recount challenges and mitigating measures after a vaccine scare in the Philippines

Mark Donald C. Reñosa et al.

Global Health Action, volume 15, issue 2077536 (2022), 14 pp.

"This study aims to explore the perspectives of policymakers involved in ongoing efforts to boost vaccine confidence in the Philippines following a 2017 Dengvaxia scare and the current COVID-19 pandemic. Between August and November 2020, we conducted 19 semi-structured narrative interviews with purp ... more

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Media Freedom in Southeast Asia: Repeal Restrictive Laws, Strengthen Quality Journalism

Bangkok: Asia Centre;Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 41 pp.

"This report proposes solutions on how best to equip journalists and other key actors to fulfil their vital role in a changing landscape. While censorship is an alluring option in the face of disinformation over the internet, it is important to find avenues to facilitate the responsible and ethical ... more

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Harnessing the Potential of Big Data in Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), 44 pp.

"This publication is the last of four reports from a regional study completed in 2021 and funded by the technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Policy Advice for COVID-19 Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia. The project supports the recovery efforts of Southeast Asian countries t ... more

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Mapping the Public Voice for Development: Natural Language Processing of Social Media Text Data

Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), xi, 114 pp.

"This report aims to introduce techniques and procedures of NLP (Natural Language Processing), the computational preparation and analysis of text data, to map the public voice and aid development. First, the report introduces essential concepts of communication and elaborates on the theoretical foun ... more

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Some Pastoral Challenges and Perspectives on Shrines and Pilgrimages in the Philippines in Light of the 500 Years of Christianity Celebration and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kendrick Ivan B. Panganiban

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 397-417

"A momentous occasion during the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines (2021-2022) was the opening of the doors of churches around the country for the Jubilee. It featured the country’s pilgrimage sites as dynamic sources of Catholicism. However, the pilgrims faced two challenges: t ... more

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Communication Leading to Communion: Social Communications in the Digital Culture Through the Catholic Church’s Engagement in Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Roderick Evans M. Bartolome

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 369-396

"With the prohibition of religious gatherings by the Philippine government to help curb the spread of the COVID-19, the Catholic Church had to close its doors to the public and instead hold masses and other activities online, primarily utilizing the livestreaming features of Facebook. The study prob ... more

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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power

Andreas Hepp, Juliane Jarke, Leif Kramp (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.

"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the reso ... more

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Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences

Gerlov van Engelenhoven

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 161 pp.

"This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is si ... more

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Indonesia: Submission to the 41st Session of the UPR Working Groups, November 2022

Amnesty International;Alliance of Independent Journalists (2022), 3 pp.

"This joint submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Indonesia in November 2022. In it, Amnesty International and the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) evaluate the implementation of recommendations made to Indonesia in its previous UPR, including in relation to hum ... more