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Countering Beijing’s Media Manipulation

Sarah Cook

Journal of Democracy, volume 33, issue 1 (2022), pp. 116-130

"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long sought to influence media coverage about China in other countries. Over the past decade, this campaign has accelerated, reaching new world regions and topics. This article examines how CCP-linked actors seek to manipulate foreign information environments i ... more

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Weibo Feminism: Expression, Activism, and Social Media in China

Aviva Wei Xue, Kate Rose

London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 215 pp.

"On China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speec ... more

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Ageing and the Media: International Perspectives

Virpi Ylänne (ed.)

Bristol: Policy Press (2022), 234 pp.

"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions ... more

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Verification, monitoring and responsible reporting in an age of information disorder: A guide for practitioners in Southeast Asia

Anne Kruger, Esther Chan, Stevie Zhang

UNESCO International Programme for the Development of Communications (IPDC) (2022), 41 pp.

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What is Next for Media Development?

Nicholas Benequista, Susan Abbott, Tawana Kupe, Fatima El-Issawi

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 135-140

"What comes next for media development? Though the contributors to this volume [i.e., the special issue focusing on international media development] provide answers from diverse perspectives, they each touch upon questions of agency and localization. The contributors investigate major issues with a ... more

Hearing the Voices of Journalists in Surigao City, Mindanao, Philippines

Kristopher M. Ngilangil

Asian Journal of Research in Education and Social Sciences, volume 4, issue 1 (2022), pp. 33-43

"The Philippine media presented itself as the vanguard of the Filipino people’s basic freedoms, especially the freedom of speech and expression. However, as with any responsibility that pertains to that freedom, the news media had its laws that may result in persecution. This study was aimed at in ... more

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Kirsten Eddy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.

"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr ... more

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Suppressing the Truth and Spreading Lies: How the CCP is Influencing Solomon Islands’ Information Environment

Blake Johnson

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2022), 24 pp.

"This report highlights an emerging and continuously developing Chinese state information capability in Solomon Islands. That capability can be deployed to support the CCP’s objectives, which include undermining Solomon Islands’ existing relationships with foreign partners, particularly Australi ... more

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Supply Chain Analysis: Cambodia

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance;Education Development Center (EDC);USAID (2022), vii, 88 pp.

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The social atrocity: Meta and the right to remedy for the Rohingya

London: Amnesty International (2022), 72 pp.

"Beginning in August 2017, the Myanmar security forces undertook a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State. A UN investigation found that the role of Facebook in the violence was “significant”. This report is based on an in-depth investi ... more

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China's Digital Economy: Development, Impacts, and Policies

Shaoyan Sun

China Institute University of Alberta (2022), 14 pp.

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China’s Digital Power: Assessing the Implications for the EU

Brigitte Dekker, Maaike Okano-Heijmans

Digital Power China Research Consortium (2022), 103 pp.

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WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora: Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

Wanning Sun, Haiqing Yu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 273 pp.

"WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, en ... more

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Should we fear China’s brave new digital world?

K. Buysse, Dennis Essers

Brussels: National Bank of Belgium (2022), 33 pp.

"This article starts by taking a closer look at the general characteristics of China’s digital economy. Some of its strengths and weaknesses are further illustrated by two relevant case studies. First, we show that China is a front runner in the digitalisation of financial services (digital paymen ... more

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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.

"The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote or discourage, and how media serve as instruments of social control and resistance, or of cooperation and representation. These chapters raise sign ... more

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Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects

Andreas Mattsson

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 227-247

"In this article, I examine the development of journalism in Vietnam by exploring documentation from two media aid projects carried out by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) from 1993 until 2007. The project documents contain fieldnotes, evaluations and reflections from ... more

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Typhoon Rai Response: The Role of the Mobile Industry

Zoe Hamilton, Clara Aranda

GSMA (2022), 8 pp.

"Typhoon Rai has proven to be one of the most damaging disasters to have hit the Philippines. However, around 400 lives were lost due to Typhoon Rai compared to disasters like Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, when 6,300 people died. The significantly lower number of deaths highlights the country’s experien ... more

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Buchmarkt China 2022

Deutsches Buchinformationszentrum Peking (2022), 15, 21 pp.

"Dem im Januar 2023 von OpenBook veröffentlichten 2022 Annual Report of China Book Market ist zu entnehmen, dass der chinesische Bucheinzelhandelsmarkt im Jahr 2022 im Vergleich zu 2021 um 11,77 % zurückging, wobei das Mayang insgesamt ein Volumen von 87,1 Milliarden CNY erreichte. In den fünf Ja ... more

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Media Assistance in Burma’s Reform Decade

Jane Madlyn McElhone

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 35 pp.

"Using the coup as a vantage point, interviewees for this report were asked to reflect on three main questions: What have we learned about past media reform efforts? With hindsight, what are the legacies, best practices, and lessons learned? With a view to the future, what does the media’s respons ... more

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Radio Broadcasting and Indonesian Nationalism: During the Last Decade of Dutch Colonialism

Darmanto, Masduki, Hari Wiryawan

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 104-119

"This paper discusses how radio during the last decade of Dutch colonial era had served as an agent of nationalism in Indonesia. This paper applies a literature study using a historical approach that focused on Soloche Radio Vereeniging (SRV) and the Eastern Radio network, which were operational fro ... more

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